Notices by Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al), page 16

In summary, no one gets to ask you to be cannon fodder, and those who were silent during the last 8 years and who have undertaken no meaningful resistance themselves should probably not be the ones to chart your course. Resistance is needed, and you will assuredly do some. But this is not the beginning of a new game. It's end stage Monopoly, but militarized.

It's interesting to note, in fact, from this vantage point, that the 1A incursions that were made under the previous administration (during the George Floyd protests in particular, where we saw physical attacks on journalists, and arrests of the press, with a martial impunity not previously documented in this country) were never walked back during the Biden administration.

In fact, we lost even more rights ground, not to the administration itself, but to an aggressive and capital-captured right-wing judiciary.

You have MANY fewer freedoms and are MUCH closer to the margin of harm for resisting than was the case in 2016 or even 2020. Covid probably obscured the very real losses of the later era- guess what, suckers: the freedom you lost had nothing to do with public health precautions. In fact, aggressively rolling back those precautions and ensuring they will never be deployed again is, counterintuitively, part of further erosion of meaningful liberties- it's an assault on bodies.

@azirevpn Hi, I’m trying to remove my account but getting an error message. My username is aral and the email address you have is aral@ind.ie.

Can you please completely delete my account from your service.

Thanks.

@rooneymcnibnug @mullvadnet Yep

@iamsaman Thank you so much for the kind words, Saman.

Please do let me know when it’s live.

:hearts:

If you’re looking for an EU alternative to AzireVPN since they’ve now sold to a US company (why, hello, Trump presidency, how goes?), see Mullvad VPN (@mullvadnet).

https://mullvad.net

#privacy #security #VPN #AzireVPN #MullvadVPN

@ljmc Indeed. Although Mullvad is not on there under VPNs? Odd. @mullvadnet

US-based Malwarebytes acquires Swedish AzireVPN.

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/personal/2024/11/malwarebytes-acquires-azirevpn-to-fuel-additional-vpn-features-and-functionalities

FFS, EU companies, can you please, for the love of fuck, stop selling out to US corporations? We just lost a reputable EU-based VPN To the US right as Trump is about to take office.

Congratulations. Take fucking bow.

#AzireVPN #EU #US #VPN

@nullagent @foufoutos Alt text: Still of news report by young white kid wearing a hoodie and white beanie with a capital B on his yellow microphone.

Overlaid text: ISRAELISCHE HOOLIGANS ZETTEN AMSTERDAM OP ZIJN KOP (ENG SUB)

Subtitle: They also told me to stop filming. They told me: "for your own safety, turn off your camera right now!"

@ErickaSimone One of those things there’s absolutely no pleasure in being right about.

Gosh I do love how elegant Playwright + my little Kitten¹ process helper makes it to write end-to-end tests.

Check out the tests for the peer-to-peer web (Small Web) end-to-end encrypted chat example²:

https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/src/branch/main/tests/end-to-end/peer-to-peer.spec.js

That handles the setting up of two instances (place1.localhost:498 and place2.localhost:499) and tests the sending of end-to-end encrypted messages between them.

:kitten:💕

¹ https://kitten.small-web.org
² https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/src/branch/main/examples/streaming-html/kitten-chat/animated-end-to-end-encrypted

#Kitten #SmallWeb #peerToPeer #web #dev #JS

Looks like Code Club has finally shed any connection it had to what we started and is well on its way to teaching kids that surveillance is fine, actually.

Good job, Raspberry Pi Foundation/Broadcom, Inc.

(I helped set it up, wrote one of the first lessons in Scratch for the curriculum, and was on the board but resigned, along with one of the co-founders, when the other co-founder courted Google. We’d already had disagreements as we didn’t want Prince Andrew as a patron…) 🤷♂️

Just finished The Plucky Squire; what a piece of art. Had a smile on my face the whole way through. They truly managed to capture the wonder of childhood and play.

https://thepluckysquire.com

#thePluckySquire #game #allPossibleFutures

@rad 💕

Neoliberal man shocked neighbour prefers full-fat fascism to fascism lite.

@urlyman @aral

This might be the stupidest sentence I read today, but it’s not 9am yet.

It’s by Keir Starmer:

“Both artificial intelligence and the creative industries – which include news media – are central to this government’s driving mission on economic growth.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/28/keir-starmer-journalism-lifeblood-british-democracy-labour

Don’t worry folks, the neoliberals are just playing 4D chess. (You have to in order to somehow separate the financial inequality you benefit from personally from the social inequality you purport to oppose.)

@smallcircles @GeePawHill @jenniferplusplus I do, yes.

But you see my point? Doesn’t matter what we say when the sheep themselves proclaim the wolf a partner and not a threat.

@smallcircles @GeePawHill @jenniferplusplus I’m so confused, I thought corporate social media were part of the decentralised social web and were our friends. Look at how Meta and Mastodon are partners in the Social Web Foundation. Are you saying there’s something wrong with corporate social media? If so, you must be mistaken because if there was I’m sure Mastodon, Pixelfed, etc., wouldn’t partner with them… Am I missing something?

https://socialwebfoundation.org