nitrohorse Ⓐ @andreas@nitro.horse

"I became an Anarchist when I decided to drop the theories and stop seeking power. When I stopped concerning myself with those things I realised that true Anarchy is my nature. It is our nature. It is what we were doing before the theories arrived, it is what we were doing before we were encouraged to be in competition with each other."

- Benjamin Zephaniah, 'Why I Am an Anarchist'

http://dogsection.org/why-i-am-an-anarchist

#anarchism

A work-in-progress site for comparing search engines across data points that interest me 🙂

https://searchengines.netlify.com/

#Privacy

Also TIL ChatSecure isn’t dead 😄

Whoa, NLnet Foundation gave a grant to integrate OTRv4 into the iOS XMPP, ChatSecure:

- https://nitter.snopyta.org/ChatSecure/status/1221528522121834496
- https://nitter.snopyta.org/claucece/status/1231424074552922113
- https://nlnet.nl/project/current.html

#Privacy #XMPP

Updated my open-source Firefox webextension to support quickly scanning a link/current tab in https://observatory.mozilla.org/ as an option 🙂

Try it out: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/qualys-ssl-server-test/

#Privacy #Firefox #WebExtension

Whoa, this is awesome resource 😯 A curated list of technologies by the Humane Tech Community.

“This list focuses on (mostly open-source) projects that are directly related to humane tech topics.”

https://github.com/humanetech-community/awesome-humane-tech/blob/master/README.md

Learn more: https://community.humanetech.com/t/be-a-builder-help-improve-wellbeing-freedom-and-society/3322

Remember in 2018 when Ghostery emailed their users about GDPR privacy policy updates and *forgot to blind carbon copy, exposing all emails in the To: field*?

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/8m45k6/ghostery_have_exposed_everyones_email_address_in/

#Privacy

Some helpful sites to test your adblocker:

- https://canyoublockit.com/
- https://blockads.fivefilters.org/
- https://ads-blocker.com/testing/

#Privacy #AdBlock

Here's a Firefox about:config rule for opening new tabs right next to the current one. Default behavior is appending to the end of the tab bar.

browser.tabs.insertAfterCurrent => true

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1229062

#Firefox

“Local authorities in India-controlled Kashmir have opened a case against hundreds of people who used virtual private networks (VPNs) to circumvent a social media ban in the disputed Himalayan region...”

https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/18/indian-police-open-case-against-hundreds-in-kashmir-for-using-vpn/

#Privacy

“Kickstarter workers are now the first white collar workers at a major tech company to successfully unionize in the United States, sending a message to other tech workers.”

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3a8pp5/kickstarter-employees-win-historic-union-election

Finally made it through the documentary, "A Very Heavy Agenda." Mind blown.

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/averyheavyagendatrilogy

Wire: “...being transparent in the age of privacy concerns.” - https://nitter.snopyta.org/wire/status/1228020709340794881

Yet you *weren’t* transparent when you became a US-based company and tweaked your privacy policy without letting users clearly know. - https://www.thinkprivacy.io/cutting-the-wire

#Privacy

Wow, sounds like CloudFlare’s Customer Strategy and Ops wishes all their employees were veterans 🙄

Vetflare, Cloudflare's Military Veteran Employee Group Launches
https://blog.cloudflare.com/vetflare-cloudflares-veteran-employee-group-launches/

Some #Vaporwave for today ☀️

“Ｓｅｖｅｎ　Ｈｏｕｒｓ　Ｗｉｔｈ　Ｙｏｕ” from Ｂｌｕｅ Ｄｒｅａｍ by 猫 シ Corp.

https://catsystemcorp.bandcamp.com/track/--107