It's time to prepare, without being tragic, but somewhat bleak times are approaching for privacy and the right to privacy. And therefore for freedom. It's time to sharpen the tools: a browser (to move around the web), a messaging system (to communicate) and money. 1. Brave 2. Signal 3. Bitcoin

the Guardian

West Papuan Indigenous people call for KitKat boycott over alleged ecocide

Thousands of acres of rainforest is being cleared to produce palm oil, used in popular Nestlé and Mondelēz brands

- West Papuan Indigenous people call for KitKat boycott over alleged ecocide - Thousands of acres of rainforest is being cleared to produce palm oil, used in popular Nestlé and Mondelēz brands

Electronic Frontier Foundation

In Memoriam: Mark Klein, AT&T Whistleblower Who Revealed NSA Mass Spying

EFF is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Mark Klein, a bona fide hero who risked civil liability and criminal prosecution to help expose a...

- In Memoriam: Mark Klein, AT&T Whistleblower Who Revealed NSA Mass Spying

controlling the content is not as important as having control over connections

"If you find yourself in a situation where you are neither learning nor contributing, go someplace else." https://mcornick.com/posts/2021/12/13/law-of-mobility/

openDemocracy

The Usenet coup: how the USSR discovered the internet in 1991

Twenty five years ago this week, government hardliners attempted to take control of the Soviet Union — but failed. These momentous events were do...

The Usenet coup: how the USSR discovered the internet in 1991

Usenet --> decentralised model still active. Don't abandon it!

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

xorvoid

I received my first Satoshi. Moving moment 😊

Songs on the Security of Networks

Mastodon monoculture problem

Recent moves by Eugen Rochko (known as Gargron on fedi), the CEO of Mastodon-the-non-profit and lead developer of Mastodon-the-software, got some p...

is mastodon.social too big? a bad thing for the fediverse?

I'm not a programmer, but I'm having fun with this

GitHub

nips/01.md at master · nostr-protocol/nips

Nostr Implementation Possibilities. Contribute to nostr-protocol/nips development by creating an account on GitHub.

The N in nostr takes me back to ...