Julien Deswaef @xuv@merveilles.town

"Only attended previous appointment". #GoogleTranslate #fail

It's quite ironic that the whole #whatsapp privacy policy debacle, with users fleeing the app by millions, is mostly fueled by clickbait news articles and disinformation spread through social media.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/12/22226792/whatsapp-privacy-policy-response-signal-telegram-controversy-clarification

#translating #whatsapp "The pill was too big to swallow at once. We're planning to break it down and dilute it in water over the next few months"

https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/15/whatsapp-delays-new-data-sharing-policy-enforcement-to-may-15/

For those who are looking for a chat system these days to move away from #Whatsapp and think #Signal is still too centralized. I recommend #Deltachat over #xmpp based approaches.

The advantages of Deltachat are that everyone has already an account (their email address). And encryption (privacy) wize, it's probably equivalent to xmpp #OTR.

Just deleted my account on #Whatsapp. After months of work, convincing family members and friends to move to #Signal, it finally pays off. December really helped me get over the fence when, out of the blue, ~30 of my contacts decided to install Signal.

Good luck to all in the same process at the moment. It's hard to tell how long these things can take. But if you keep the goal in sight, you'll get there.

(Screenshot of Whatsapp telling me the account can't be deleted. Second time, it worked.)

#Mastodon 😉

"Alcaldessa" is an awarded #documentary #film on the journey of Ada Colau, how she went from activist to mayor of #Barcelona.

Must watch.

license: CC-By-NC-ND

Free download: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:f08361e58a3c89285c885e716211b0b178fe4ced&dn=Alcaldessa.Alcaldesa.Ada%20for%20Mayor%20%282016%29%20DVDRip.576p.Subs.spa.eng.mkv&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80%2Fannounce

#torrent #magnet

Pay per view: http://alcaldessa.com

Any copyright lawyer around? Can a #CreativeCommons license be limited in time?

Here is an example of a license mention in a #catalan documentary. Says the CC-By-NC-ND 3.0 license is valid until january 2021.

For the catalan speakers, in your opinion, does it include January or not?

From a home timeline on #Facebook, it takes 9 clicks, and entering the user password, to trigger an account deletion. Facebook asks you to confirm 4 times that you want to delete the account. #metrics #deletefacebook

My wife is in the process of deleting her #facebook account. So, she downloaded an archive of all her activity there.

The scariest part is the "ads_and_businesses" folder. It contains all the businesses that uploaded data about her on FB. A list of all the websites visited, outside of Facebook, and when they were last visited.

Lastly, a list of all the ads she clicked on. Funny thing, she doesn't remember clicking any of those. But I can see why she might have ;)

#DeleteFacebook

UK residents with an .eu domain name have to hand it over or register it with a european address.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/81000-uk-owned-eu-domains-suspended-as-brexit-transition-ends/

#brexit #tld #eu

The thing with running #pihole at home is, when you're updating the thing, everyone in the house is complaining that the Internet is down. Any good strategy to avoid this? Update when everyone's asleep?