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@f00fc7c8@kind.social Very interesting history. Did Diaspora have any further influence? Maybe their code?
I remember being hopeful about it... but it never seemed to gather traction.
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@murshedz@mstdn.social Some of his long-term critics are still banned. I guess this was a selective response to his own poll result.
#Wikipedia rabbit hole: False Dimitri I - Tsar of Russia from 1605.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_Dmitry_I
Claimed to be the son of Ivan the Terrible, who disappeared at age 8. His mother went: "Sure, seems legit".
9 days into his reign: "His body was hacked to pieces, burned, and then the ashes fired from a cannon towards Poland."
But wait... a couple years after, Tsar False Dimitri II enters the scene.
A useful talk about privacy on the internet.
It starts with good reasons why it matters. Then gives some basic tips and ends with some more radical tactics to avoid tracking... which I'm not sure are necessary in the EU.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0IfCfhOHN4
#Privacy #Tracking #VPN #Cookies #DigitalPrivacy #Cybersecurity #OpSec
How to Hide in Plain Sight: Next-Level Digital Privacy | Ivan Banov at BSidesCache 2025
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@Tibor@mastodon.social I see benefit in having a distinction between noteworthy accounts and "paid $8" accounts. Though so far, they are still all blue.
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@claesdevreese@mastodon.social omg, looks like they wanna extend to #Dresden. It's like this is a Christmas present specifically for me.
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@boby_biq@toot.community And that images are high quality. It's bizarre how the mega-corporations that dominate the market can't manage to deliver clean high res images in free formats.