Important notice: Fossil fuel companies have shifted the narrive they push from “climate change isn’t real” to “climate change is real but there’s nothing we can do about it”. We can absolutely do something about it: fight it like the existential threat that it is. Whatever power you can levy in life whether at home, at work, at the voting booth, with your investments, or in the streets: use it.
It can be you. It doesn’t have to be Big Corps or Government. It can be federated instances, it can be self-ownership of data, it can be E2E encrypted.
Pro tip: The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a non-profit which has been defending your right to privacy for many years. If you shop on Amazon, you can give a portion of the purchase price to EFF. You pay the same amount and daddy bezos gets a few less dollars. Use the affiliate link, not the smile link as smile has been sunsetted: www.eff.org/node/58741
It’s real annoying when a post blows up and the little bell icon in the top right keeps adding to its counter well past the time when you care about that post any longer. Is there some way to ignore further updates to a specific post or comment?
use mastadon or nostr, they are actually decentralized. Bluesky is just twitter 2.0 with the same broken incentives and the same broken business model.
Sad news about a pioneer of internet freedom. He has earned his fair share of criticism and detractors, but he has also given a lot to the Linux and free software ecosystem. I personally run !boinc on all my rigs to support open-source cancer research, I hope one day we can finally cross cancer off the list of humankind’s foes.
Reddit is going to have their IPO. Anybody can buy shares. With enough shares, a shareholder resolution could be proposed and passed. Similar shareholder activism has forced Fortune 500 companies to divest from fossil fuels. We could replace corporate execs at will and have major site changes be put to a site-wide vote. This is...
We're doomed (lemmy.world)
🇪🇺 How the EU Feels about (lemmy.ml)
Context: Chat Control 2.0: EU governments set to approve the end of private messaging and secure encryption...
So many people still think its ok for them to do📱 (lemmy.ml)
Always a smokescreen to take away your rights. Epstein plead guilty in 2008 to trafficking children to nobody.
Disable notifications for a certain post?
It’s real annoying when a post blows up and the little bell icon in the top right keeps adding to its counter well past the time when you care about that post any longer. Is there some way to ignore further updates to a specific post or comment?
Chat Control 2.0: EU governments set to approve the end of private messaging and secure encryption (www.patrick-breyer.de)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/6469594...
Business is going well (sh.itjust.works)
Richard Stallman has cancer
From his website stallman.org:...
Modern consumer logic (lemmy.ml)
[US] Congress is trying to pass a number of bills which will restrict online speech, the use of encryption, and online privacy. Make your voice heard! (www.badinternetbills.com)
Why don't we buy reddit?
Reddit is going to have their IPO. Anybody can buy shares. With enough shares, a shareholder resolution could be proposed and passed. Similar shareholder activism has forced Fortune 500 companies to divest from fossil fuels. We could replace corporate execs at will and have major site changes be put to a site-wide vote. This is...