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  • May 24, 2023 1:09pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    Blocking/Muting extremist or phobic content is not equal to moderation. These are tools to obfuscate content and users without a solution.

    Instead it allows platform’s to retain anyone, including nazi, terfs or phobic individuals that cannot imagine letting others love & live.

  • May 23, 2023 10:52pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    A tool to cross-post from your own spot on the internet to #mastodon #Twitter #bluesky and yes #lInkedin?

    It’s called micro.blog and it’s just a pleasure to use!

  • May 23, 2023 8:20pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    With skyfeed.app UI and Custom feeds I can see the power of #bluesky at work, this is like the power of Hashtags and Lists on steroids !

  • Adeptes, de l'emprise à la déprise - Dispo le 14-06

    May 23, 2023 7:30pm
    Reading Time: 2 minutes
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    En matière de dérives sectaires, comment sort-on de l’emprise ? Entre vertigineuse solitude et renaissance, les bouleversants récits croisés de victimes qui témoignent de la descente aux enfers et de la lutte pour s’arracher à la sujétion. www.arte.tv/fr/videos… Impressions à chaud Vraiment bouleversant ce docu ARTE, entendre tous ces témoins faire écho à tellement de chose vécues dans la OKC, par moi ou par d’autres, tellement de mémoires d’abus et situations inhumaines et tous ces mécanismes en commun à travers les différents systèmes. Continue reading →

  • May 23, 2023 6:43pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    Un doc ARTE super intéressant, mais aussi dur à voir : Adeptes, de l’emprise à la déprise - La vie en face ARTE - dérives sectaires uptostream.eu/1kujb8whw…

  • May 23, 2023 6:39pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    This is quite an amazing graph bsky.jazco.dev

  • May 23, 2023 2:42pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    It’s interesting how one can subscribe to shared mute list at #bluesky, it does not block the users (yet?) but at least you can avoid their content, the result is that in a sequence of replies you can see “muted by X or Y list” that you have subscribed to.

  • How to use the bluesky invite code finder ?

    May 23, 2023 2:28pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    All I can say is that, this bluesky-invite-code-finder works ! #bluesky but before using it, apply the pull request to support the new invite format code. Add your twitter bearer token (you need to create a twitter app) Add desired bsky username, make sure it’s available Add your email For some reason I could not, at first, login with the password I had set in the main.js file, so I went to reset my password, got sent an email from bluesky, changed to a new password and voilà ! Continue reading →

  • May 23, 2023 1:45pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    Well I’m on #bluesky bsky.app/profile/r…

  • May 22, 2023 9:58pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    Leaked Government Document Shows #Spain Wants to Ban End-to-End #Encryption

    The file reveals how a proposal to scan private messages for child sexual abuse material is forcing #EU states to defend or deny encryption’s importance. #csam

    archive.is/202305221…

  • May 22, 2023 9:51pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    Protecting #SSH keys with #TPM 2.0, now available on #Debian #infosec

    www.ledger.com/blog/ssh-…

  • May 22, 2023 6:10pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    Why on Earth is #Twitter restoring three-year-old information? And what does it say about the ability of the platform’s users to control their own data? Nothing good, obviously.

    www.theverge.com/2023/5/22…

  • May 22, 2023 5:12pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    Holy Cow 🙄

    VSCode Security: Malicious Extensions Detected- More Than 45,000 Downloads- PII Exposed, and Backdoors Enabled

    blog.checkpoint.com/securing-…

  • May 22, 2023 2:41pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    Would that be enough to deter the predatory behavior of the US in terms of European’s data? #gdpr

    #Meta Fined Record €1.2 Billion in #EU Over US Data Transfers

    ground.news/article/m…

  • Generation X / Millennial Overlap, in between worlds

    May 21, 2023 11:50pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    I was born on October 29, 1980, which technically places me in Generation X, which spans those born from 1965 to 1980. So, while technically I would fall into Generation X, I may identify more with Millennial characteristics, given I’m on the very edge of these generational divisions. This is all very subjective of course but often, I do feel in between two periods while not belonging to any of them for all kinds of reasons. Continue reading →

  • May 21, 2023 11:31pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    J’ai envie de dire: crises des démocraties, (pas que retraites) que nous apprend Machiavel ? www.radiofrance.fr/francecul…

  • May 21, 2023 11:27pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

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    With IndiePass and Micro.blog I’m testing disabling automated cross-posting to different socials silos and instead use case by case basis to send my updates to where I want, while using my blog as the source.

  • May 21, 2023 11:23pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    Le balai libéré ! #UCL

    Ou comment reprendre les choses en mains ! youtu.be/FHEIyTv4S…

    lebalailibere.be

  • Book extract: Cultish, the language of fanaticism by Amanda Montell

    May 21, 2023 12:51pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    I keep coming back to this book because, it’s literally a gem everyone should read and I think parents should give it to their teenagers and friends to their friends in any obvious spiritual quest of their own. This book is like a detoxification manual for the internet age and the era of shared delusions amplified by influencers and gurus 2.0 It’s a must read to, actually stay grounded, and navigate what’s inevitably around us with a working BS detector. Continue reading →

  • May 21, 2023 8:37am
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

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    40 years later… The MIDI 2.0 code for the Linux kernel is now under review and if all goes well could potentially be mainlined for the v6.5 cycle this summer.

    www.phoronix.com/news/MIDI…

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