Jamie @jamiem@social.coop

Every time I've tried to be "social" (on Twitter as well as Diaspora, Identi.ca, and Gnu Social...) I've never been able to keep it up, so I started on social.coop with a pessimistic £1/month contribution. But here I am on social.coop for 6 months. Hooray! I just raised my contribution. Thanks everyone for a building a create environment.

Just came across some great sites for helping people be more secure online. The target audience is women's righs and sexual rights activists, but they are broadly useful for everyone: https://safesisters.net/, https://www.digitalsafetea.com/ (it's a game!), https://en.ftx.apc.org/shelves/ftx-safety-reboot.

This isn't good.
Firefox May Have Lost Up To 12% Of Its Users So Far In 2021
https://fosspost.org/firefox-may-have-lost-12-percent-of-users/

Answers a lot of my questions about why ransomware attacks are so successful, most notably: depending on the size of your off site backup it could literally take months or even years to restore.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/07/dont-wanna-pay-ransom-gangs-test-your-backups/

Am I the only person who didn't know sending bit.ly links to Google tanks deliverability?
https://current.workingdirectory.net/posts/2021/google-and-bitly/

In a desperate act of procrastination I have moved my blog from Ikiwiki to Hugo: https://current.workingdirectory.net/

I'm really enjoying https://corecursive.com/ a podcast that tells the story of a lot of the software I use or have used, like SQLite and CVS (remember that one?).

 "A world free of email might sound like bliss, but let’s be more specific: the ideal world is one without work."
In defence of email:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/06/email-inbox-anxiety-work

The Bezos Theory of Value Is Deeply Disturbing
https://jacobinmag.com/2021/06/jeff-bezos-shareholder-letter-amazon-worker-exploitation/

At last tested in a real meeting: jitsi meet with live, simultaneous interpretation:
https://current.workingdirectory.net/posts/2021/jitsi-and-language-justice/

Linda Thurston - Rest in Peace. Radical activist and technologist. You are deeply missed. https://www.warresisters.org/civicrm/mailing/view?reset=1&id=846

If you buy a phone is it yours? Or can Apple use it for other purposes? I like reading about the hacking going in, but it seems like the real story with AirTags is: who can use your phone?
Vice: Hackers Are Having a Field Day With AirTags - https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pkbpa7/hackers-are-having-a-field-day-with-airtags

Basecamp is really stepping in it. Their generous severance package for people who disagree with their politics feels like a real political purge.
https://www.platformer.news/p/-what-really-happened-at-basecamp

Does anyone have experience using https://github.com/renatolond/mastodon-twitter-poster with social.coop? Seems like a well supported cross poster between mastadon and twitter. I'm looking for a way to ween mayfirst from our twitter account but I don't want to run afoul of any social.coop rules against bots.

This twitter thread seems to confirm that the header is needed in case your site pulls in any iframes that have FLoC enabled. https://twitter.com/Log3overLog2/status/1384337637763387394