nitrohorse Ⓐ☭🏳️‍🌈☠️🌹 @andreas@nitro.horse

As part of our plan to overhaul our VPN section at privacytools.io, we can now proudly present our now VPN layout: https://www.privacytools.io/providers/vpn/

Note that we can still add a few refinements later on. Also at the end of 2019 we will re investigate all vpns listed, and lock the amount of providers we recommend to 3.
What do you all think?

The fediverse is big. The map of the fediverse is starting to reflect that!

https://www.fediverse.space now includes more server types!

I just call it Microsoft GitHub these days. Does half the job of communicating the risks of it being a hard dependency for FOSS projects in particular.

"the ads don't bother me much. i hardly notice them anymore" is such a cursed thing to hear, every time i hear it

If you're a US citizen, don't forget to collect your $125+ from Equifax's data-breach settlement: https://www.equifaxbreachsettlement.com/

https://slate.com/technology/2019/07/equifax-settlement-money-how-to-claim.html

hey, eric is multiply disabled and needs an electric wheelchair to get around, but the healthcare system being what it is makes it impossible for one person to afford on their own! he's running a campaign to help him afford the wheelchair he needs to continue being a speaker and student and if you can it'd be really good to help him get the accessibility he needs to do the things he wants to do!

https://www.bonfire.com/accessibility-is-a-right/

Hey everyone: be sure to lock your accounts.

Lock your accounts.

Like, I know i'm a widdle snowflake and my list is longer than most, that's my thing. But if your instance has been around for any significant chunk of time and has 50-100 users at least, your blocklist should have something like 50-100 blocks. Your users should be able to report as many instances as they want, with confidence that you'll do something. Other instances need to know that swnding you a report means something. And also? I now know which horrid instances you -choose to federate with- because I have twice as many chuds on my list as you do.
It's just not a good look all around. It might have been fine when the fediverse was smaller and it was harder to run across a new instance. But it has exploded recently, and your instance really needs to compensate for that, even if you're a lasez faire moderator, this is about safety. Not just of your users, hut of the instances that federate with you that you put at risk.
I saw that meme go around of the broken up image. If that's what you're afraid of, go back to centralized services, because you are still in a centralized mindset.

@andreas i'm calling that move 'forced federation' because that's the end result