roelof @roelofvk@merveilles.town

The 4 stages of music making :

1 - This sounds unexpectedly nice.
2 - This is dope, I love it, everyone will love it, let’s record a 1 hour long track, it’s sheer awesomeness and I feel happy like I never did, I can’t stop headbanging oh wow.
3 - This is shit. I am shit. Everything is shit.
4 - This could be nice, but it’s too much effort to fix, let’s make a new track instead.

Nazis on Reddit having second thoughts installing the Parler web app because it’s a “progressive” web app.

No, Cellebrite cannot 'break #Signal encryption.' https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-and-clickbait/

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Reminder that there's a Neuvoids Discord server, I want to make it more active, so if you're up to post on it, follow this link => https://discord.gg/eKXGkna

(boots allowed)

Finally some positive news out of the White House.

I will not be putting the Elon Musk coin in my head

"I will not use Firefox anymore, I will use that other browser that focuses on bitcoin and ads."

So many people saying they're switching from Firefox. Won't this only make the problem worse?

If you're switching to Brave or qutebrowser or UnGoogled Chromium or something, you're only strengthening Google's monopoly. If you're switching to a Webkit-based browser like Epiphany, you're shifting the monopoly towards Safari, whose parent company doesn't consider the Web a priority.

That Mozilla has bad management doesn't change the fact that Firefox is the most viable option for the open web.

Using Discord for your Open Source project. I hate it.

Rent strikes work, and now is the time for one

"EARN IT" act. What a lame and pretentious name to start with.

My TL;DR:
US want to hold content providers legally accountable for the contents their users post, PLUS they want to take away end-to-end encryption to the big companies using it (e.g. whatsapp).

I find it deeply disturbing, especially in times like that.
I hope this will will bring people closer to federated and distributed/decentralized networks.
Which is a good thing on its own, btw.

https://www.theverge.com/interface/2020/3/12/21174815/earn-it-act-encryption-killer-lindsay-graham-match-group

Oleg Vdovenko

Uighurs that were put in concentration camps are now being forced to make products at factories including for Apple, Nike, and Dell...

“The Washington Post visited a factory mentioned in the report , which produces trainers for sports giant Nike. It said it resembled a prison, with barbed wire, watchtowers, cameras and a police station.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51697800