Keith Whyte @keith@tic-ac.org

and I said this 2 years ago... “Digital colonialism is fucking dangerous, and we're not even talking about that... The trick is: how can we balance this need for fighting colonization with the tools that it is using to oppress us?”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/k78mnz/spacexs-satellite-megaconstellations-are-astrocolonialism-indigenous-advocates-say

Note that I wrote this 3 years ago: "What’s to stop either SpaceX or the US government from choosing who can be monitored, censured, throttled, or cut-off from service altogether? Will this end up serving as yet another mechanism to erode privacy rights?"
https://animikii.com/insights/digital-divide-spacex-starlink-and-the-indigenous-spaces-between

Mis impresiones de una visita en China, el π-HuB Global Summit & CNHUPO 2023, Sep 2023. https://mexico-pensante.blog/display/eb6814cf-1565-1b1e-fee6-662402275329

For real though

You are not responsible for other people’s failing business models.

Adblockers are a safety measure on the modern internet. Do your part: help everyone get more adblocking.

„Search engines are far from passive components of the web, they construct a selective new reality – and obscure more than they show […]", says Michiel Leenaars, Director of Strategy at @nlnetlabs.

Friday is international #FreeWebSearch Day, an annual day of action to promote free, open and transparent internet search. Join the activities and free webinars: https://freewebsearch.org/en/events/

Project manager: "What's technical debt? Explain it to me like I'm 6 years old"

Devs:

Oh, we have a new home page on https://offdem.net/

It should be contrasted enough.
Some links may be missing still, but we’re working on it…

#OFFDEM

"No one would do anything if they wasn't paid!"

Yesterday 150 locals alongside a variety of public bodies, local orgs and special interest groups cleaned up some 2000 tyres, up to 100 trolleys, and a fridge out of the River Ogmore in Wales.

Anarchism is this, normalised.

RT @BricsCyber@twitter.com

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@sam only $300k?
#ICANN really lowered the prices...

I remember when it was like $1M non-refundable application fee and $100k per year maintenance fee...

who is fucking around with cell broadcast lmao #CCCamp23

Wer noch alte Laptops, Computer oder Smartphones zuhause rumliegen hat kann sie auch spenden.

https://computertruhe.de/

Die Wartelisten sind lang und es sind nur wenige Geräte da.

#computertruhe #boostme