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anarchogeekon WaterBear – A free library of documentaries and shorts

Yet they don't even SAY that if you're not in one of those countries.

anarchogeekon WaterBear – A free library of documentaries and shorts

"We’re so sorry! Sorry, WaterBear is not available in your country yet but we hope to be there soon!"

I hate region blocking.

anarchogeekon Belarus has temporarily banned most of its citizens from leaving

https://travel-exemptions.homeaffairs.gov.au/tep

They're banning most people from leaving. Before this, Australia for more than a century banned a large portion of the population from even raising their own children.

anarchogeekon Belarus has temporarily banned most of its citizens from leaving

Australia requires people to get a government permit to leave the country and they deny most of the requests! I don't care if they say it's medical, it's a major problem and means Australia has fucked up policies.

anarchogeekon How Does Signal Make Money?

The stock run up was in an unrelated company called signal. People were confused.

anarchogeekon Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech (2019)

This philosophy is whas has been driving our work at planetary.social, building out protocols and tools for public sphere managed by the participants instead of the platforms.

anarchogeekon Heavy social media use associated with lower mental health in adolescents

doubt it.

anarchogeekon Heavy social media use associated with lower mental health in adolescents

just look at how it's been damaging to queer teens... oh wait... not they aren't killing themselves like before... neverind.

anarchogeekon Authoritarianism Through Coding: Signal

This guy is an asshole. If he doesn't like signal is run he should do the work of running an alternative. Do the work of building something or shut the fuckup.

What's more, Moxie, created audio books of many well known anarchists texts, it's not something an authoritarian would do.

https://www.audioanarchy.org/

Moxie made signal work because he chose to ignore all the security 'experts' who keep insisting on unusable software. Use briar or the fully p2p version of matrix if you don't like signal. Or use the code Moxie has given to the public to adapt signal to your needs. He did 99% of the work for you.

anarchogeekon Lufthansa trialing lie-flat Economy seat concept

Air New Zealand has been doing this for a long time, the call it a sky couch.

https://www.airnewzealand.com/economy-skycouch

anarchogeekon What if we had Local-First Software?

We've built a local first social media app, planetary.social, it's in testflight, but go to bit.ly/planetarytesting to join.

anarchogeekon Twttr sketch (2006)

Oh shit, that's my old phone number... before i switched my account to have @rabble. ;-D

anarchogeekon I Was Wrong about Nix

I find it pretty stunning that Nix has decided to drop support for OS X over ideological reasons like this. There are workarounds, but the reality is that they're upset at apple's decision so they just dropped support. We're not close to a year in to this these issue threads. Any software which would be so anti-user does not deserve to be used. Nix might be magical but that sucks.