I’m shutting down this instance today. Thanks to all of you that took part. You can keep following me, if you like, at @aral
See you elsewhere on the fediverse :)
Aral Balkan
- 155 Followers
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- 230 Posts
Helping lead the Internet of People initiative to draft a decentralised & interoperable progressive counter-narrative to Silicon Valley surveillance capitalism.
@kensanata PS. Just used it. It’s awesome! Thank you :)
@kensanata Thanks, Alex, sounds very useful (not that there’s been much interest in the announcement but still).
Hi all,
Just a reminder that 2 weeks ago I announced that d25.community will be shut down today.
In case you haven’t had a chance to backup your followers list, I’m going to give a grace period until end of day (CET) on Sunday (Dec 17th).
To backup your followers, please go to Settings (https://d25.community/settings/preferences) → Data export and use the CSV link to download your followers list. You can then import them into any other Mastodon instance. https://d25.community/media/yx6uKEPN8hKsKMV_Oro https://d25.community/media/JEv215AWyPMIeOPXXNo
jd Ⓐ★😼🚀🌍🇪🇺🇭🇺India’s National ID Program May Be Turning The Country Into A Surveillance State
https://www.buzzfeed.com/pranavdixit/one-id-to-rule-them-all-controversy-plagues-indias-aadhaar
'...In February 2017, Microsoft announced Skype Lite, a brand-new edition of Skype just for India. A more spartan version of Microsoft’s marquee messaging service, Skype Lite is designed to run well on cheap Android phones and to handle calls over flaky 2G data networks — the trappings of an app made by a large, wealthy corporation for a large and largely poor emerging market. But that’s not all it does.
Skype Lite also taps into a giant government-owned database filled with the demographic and biometric records — names, dates of birth, addresses, phone numbers, photographs, iris and fingerprint scans — of more than a billion Indian citizens...'
Hey folks,
As I’m no longer involved with the Internet of People initiative at DiEM25 & since this Mastodon was not adopted by the CC, I’m going to be shutting down d25.community in 2 weeks (December 13, 2017) unless someone else wants to take it over.
It’s hosted on CloudScale, on their smallest instance (1CHF/day). You will also need to be familiar with SSH and Git to carry out regular maintenance tasks like updates, etc.
Email me if interested: [email protected]
@Nezchan Agree. And let’s include homes also (instances of one) :)
Aral Balkan“Women, I will let you in on a male secret. Men know that constantly self-proclaiming male 'feminists' are often predatory sleaze bags … they are viewed to be sex traitors.“—Julian Assange, DiEM25 Advisory Panel
“I am utterly a feminist in my disposition.”—Yanis Varoufakis, DiEM25 Coordinating Collective
These two statements are incompatible. DiEM members have a right to know where DiEM stands on this.
https://mastodon.ar.al/media/MyC8IEQXYw8O4Zi26HQ https://mastodon.ar.al/media/0GlFtjqfsnJMH71OgfI https://mastodon.ar.al/media/_uKEW_AjWOuKVY6N-KY
