Eugen RochkoTheresa May wants to ban cryptography https://boingboing.net/2017/06/04/theresa-may-king-canute.html
I'd rather ban Theresa May
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@micahflee how do you feel about proton mail for those with a very small threat model? It's hard to get people in one's life to encrypt their email due to how big of a pain the encryption keys can be.
I know that baseball players are more coordinated than I am, but the idea of blowing a bubble with your gum and having a beard seems like something I wouldn't risk.
Good morning Australia! Having a holiday on a Tuesday is weird. Monday is like Monday and Friday rolled into one, and Wednesday is like the Monday of the 3-day week. I guess Thursday and Friday are normal though.
April post-mortem: The rise and rise of Mastodon https://medium.com/@Gargron/april-post-mortem-12e3d141878c
Micah LeeAccess Now and EFF condemn the arrest of Tor node operator Dmitry Bogatov in Russia https://www.accessnow.org/access-now-eff-condemn-arrest-tor-node-operator-dmitry-bogatov-russia/
He ran a Tor exit from home. “Surveillance footage shows Bogatov and his wife leaving a supermarket four minutes before one of the posts was made on March 29. Given that the supermarket is half a kilometer from their home, it is unlikely that Bogatov could have made it home and posted online within four minutes.”
yan 🐇The Pirate Bay founder has launched a new service to register domain names anonymously: https://njal.la/. You can sign up using XMPP+OTR and pay in BTC. The company buys the domain and then gives you the usage rights.
Seems useful mainly for people worried about content takedowns.
Thoughts?
Yo yo yo! Mastodon fluffy elephant friend stickers are ready!! https://www.stickermule.com/marketplace/17956-mastodon-fluffy-elephant-friend
Hey I got a lot of requests for it so I ordered some stickers with the fluffy elephant friend. I'll get samples from the manufacturer soon. I ordered 100 items, not sure if that's too many or too few.
Registrations are open while I'm having tea / watching the Office. I think we should be able to handle 50k users - somewhere around 44k right now