Charles Stanhope @cstanhope@social.coop

ZTE partners with Nicolas Maduro to control Venezuelan citizens

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/venezuela-zte/

#surveillance #Venezuela

Anyone got a #FLOSS replacement for "Final Draft" ?

My sister and her fiance are both in theater, and theyve got a lot of content locked up in this proprietary thing. She's been gnashing her teeth hard on this for a few days. I'd like to be able to suggest an alternative but don't know enough about script writing workflows or Final Draft to do so intelligently.

Emacs org mode / Vim witchery / my preferred tools are not what they are looking for here.

I know that we've often said we want our lives to be like the movies, I just wish we hadn't picked "They Live" and "Idiocracy".

The Story wandered long in the wildnerness of Ideas before finding its first Teller (and the less said about that tryst, the better). It took time to find one that respected it.
That Teller loved the story, helped it grow strong, then let it go, to find Listeners.
Are you one?
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Pleased to announce that we're welcoming the Houdini Project, fundraising software for non-profits, to the Conservancy. Free-as-in-freedom software is critical for organizations that are changing the world. https://sfconservancy.org/news/2018/nov/14/houdinijoins/

Anyone know if HTTPS everywhere still uses the EFF SSL Observatory to check for man in the middle attacks?

What does that look like in practice, when it detects something?

Anyone know how that plays out with corporate SSL Inspection?

"Since the beginning of Chrome we have worked to provide a solid foundation for modern web applications. Those capabilities have enabled new experiences on the web that were never thought possible."

yeah, like browsers struggling to maintain 24fps when scrolling a web page on a top-of-the-line hardware

https://blog.chromium.org/2018/11/our-commitment-to-more-capable-web.html

Ham Radio has been added to mastodon trunk! :-)

Please all hams and those with an interest please submit yourselves and help new masto users find their fellow hams:

https://communitywiki.org/trunk/grab/Ham%20Radio

Please boost!
@g0cer
@kmj
@vfrmedia
@bcshort
@dokuja
@QBFreak
@bamfic
@tk
@uaa
@ehashman

He made us all heroes.

If we listened.

Malign him not.

Billions wear the cape because of him.

Billions found their strength beyond strength.

Children raise their hand with imaginary powers.

Grown-ups adorn themselves with the shield.

Every time you make a fist, you feel the claws at the back of your hands.

The Helmet, The hammer, The Armor, The Anger, mutant, mutate, alien, or god.

Modern mythologies.

Billions are mighty.

Rest well.

Excelsior.

⚡ 🐦 Just posted about reading #blogs using #Mozilla #Thunderbird:

http://andregarzia.com/2018/11/reading-blogs-with-thunderbird.html

Retake control of your online blog reading experience by relying on a Desktop app instead of a SaaS. No mining, no accounts, no ads, no algorithmic timelines...

We're excited to share the first release of 2geom, a C++ library for calculating paths, curves, etc. Read more at:

https://inkscape.org/news/2018/11/11/graphics-math-library-2geoms-first-release-availab/

The Art Institute of Chicago Has Put 50,000 High-Res Images from Their Collection Online https://kottke.org/18/11/the-art-institute-of-chicago-has-put-50000-high-res-images-from-their-collection-online

“What the Chinese have discovered, in other words, is that digital technology – which we once naively believed would be a force for democratisation – is also a perfect tool for social control. It’s the operating system for networked authoritarianism.”

China confounds all that western liberals believed about the net | John Naughton https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/11/the-networker-how-the-new-china-confounds-everything-western-liberals-thought-about-the-internet