Wisellama @Wisellama@mastodon.wisellama.rocks

In 2020 I wrote a post about Searx and I also wrote why I didn't trust Duckduckgo. Now the time is proving I was right.

https://nitter.net/shivan_kaul/status/1528879590772338689

I don't trust in proprietary crap, sooner or later they will betray you.

In 2020 & 2021, the FBI queried the data of more than 3 million people in the U.S. without a warrant in "incidental" capture of conversations through Section 702. With the potential renewal of Section 702 on the horizon, it's time to close this backdoor.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/05/new-surveillance-transparency-report-documents-urgent-need-change

Magnificent. 🧐

I've seen this post about "Google blocking all third party email accounts starting in June" boosted quite a bit lately ( https://mastodon.honeypot.im/@digdeeper/108312690706717846 )

Please stop boosting it: the statement is untrue.

Google will continue supporting app passwords ( https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833 ). Using them requires two-step verification ( https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185839 ) which you can set up with any TOTP application, no phone required.

(Citation: I use this with mutt, soon also mbsync/isync + mu4e.)

Gmail will block all third party mail clients starting from June: http://www.pmail.com/newsflash.htm

That is, unless they pay $4500 minimum for an audit :D

Stop using gmail and enabling their monopolistic practices, if you already haven't.

This list of games is freakin' MASSIVE!
https://trilarion.github.io/opensourcegames/

May the 4th be with you!
星球大战日快乐！

Remember a few years ago when Mastodon was brand new and everyone did this thing about handing out pineapples to newcomers like this

🍍 🍍 🍍 🍍 🍍 🍍

well I guess it's that time again.

I still firmly believe we need to reclaim web 1.0 and the good bits of 2.0; build a website, write a blog, follow each others’ RSS feeds, and help each other to do so

Overgrowth Open Source Announcement
— Wolfire Games Blog

🐰 http://blog.wolfire.com/2022/04/Overgrowth-Open-Source-Announcement

#game #gaming #opensource #foss​

Hosting yourself is so much easier than people say, yet simultaneously infinitely harder then people say...
🖥️

This is a particular dysfunction of American corporate culture that has forgotten the long-term value of R&D, and I'm not sure what incentives there are to fix it so long as "broken" is "good enough to sell" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Thinking of https://danluu.com/nothing-works/

Try the web3 experience now, with this web3 simulator

https://welcome2web3.com/

I've often used the legacy alternativeto.net website - with the open source license filter activated - in order to find software...But just this morning I learned of the following site: https://www.opensourcealternative.to

Clearly, I've been living under a rock, since i never knew of this site. 😃

Does anyone know of other, similar sites?

Compilers are often written in the language they are compiling. This creates a chicken-and-egg problem that leads users and distributors to rely on opaque, pre-built binaries of those compilers that they use to build newer versions of the compiler.

https://bootstrappable.org/

I'm really pissed off about Epic Games buying out Bandcamp.
https://blog.bandcamp.com/2022/03/02/bandcamp-is-joining-epic/

Tor was blocked in Russia leading up to #Ukraine.

Attacks on #privacy are pushes towards #Authoritarianism /#Totalitarianism (no matter where you are, or where you stand).

#PrivacyMatters.

#Tutorial: How to bypass #Tor censorship in #Russia:

#HumanRights #Surveillance #Censorship

https://forum.torproject.net/t/tor-blocked-in-russia-how-to-circumvent-censorship/982