grin @grin@mastodon.grin.hu

+10 points to the designer of this direct mailer. To help sell a “handwritten note” eyecatch, they printed fake “pen bleed” on the back! It looks super authentic!

But... halftone dots never lie

What is your principle Fediverse stream?

How do you follow / use The Fediverse / Mastodon?

Boosts appreciated.

Blacklight: a nice new privacy inspector from Surya Mattu at The Markup.

Try it with cryptpad.fr 😉
https://themarkup.org/blacklight/?url=cryptpad.fr

I can finally share what I worked on last year!

I was extremely lucky to join the amazing team led by Alberto Mielgo in this incredibly unique looking piece. Watch it with headphones, re-watch it, frame-by-frame it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_V-YQW3Gos #b3d #UbisoftForward #WatchDogsLegion

Fediverse: I (the whitest, cishet-est person imaginable) have been unexpectedly put on the diversity & inclusion team at $dayjob. Our task is to make recommendations to the bosses and the board on how to improve our practices and make our workplace more welcoming for everyone.

I want to use this platform to do an excellent job. So please help me! What resources should I be looking at, what best practices are there, who should I talk with? This is in the UK if this matters at all.

We have published a new funding status on our Open Collective page.
Thanks to all our supporters !
https://opencollective.com/cryptpad/updates/cryptpad-funding-status-july-2020 #privacy #opensourcefinancing #opencollective #encryptedcollaboration

No wonder that big tech companies get interested in OSM. I missed that footnote of the report that tries to value #OpenStrretMap: “Combining the total replacement cost of the OSM database, the value of the software development effort and industry standard maintenance costs yielded a total community replacement cost of $1,672,415,000”.

#DOFH excuse:

Server refuses to accept handshakes due to COVID-19. @dofh_excuses

Someone said "is that still a thing?" when I announced I was on Mastodon. Is it?
Boost this so we actually get a few votes maybe? How far can it go?

Hi folks! 9 years ago (to the day), the late Aaron Swartz made the first commit to SecureDrop, which was then called DeadDrop. Today the project is used by >70 media orgs around the world.

It's an open source whistleblower submission platform that uses the Tor network to protect source anonymity. We're also working on a next-generation integrated workstation for journalists based on Qubes OS:
https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation

We're happy to be here! #introductions

Back in 2016 @OpenTechFund@twitter.com paid for the public security audit of Matrix's E2E encryption by @NCCCrypto@twitter.com: an absolutely critical step for Matrix. Today, OTF is under attack. Please help save them for the sake of the Internet. #SaveInternetFreedom #SaveOTF https://saveinternetfreedom.tech

@fdroidorg @torproject @signalapp here's more backstory https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/935k5p/open-technology-fund-ceo-resigns

There's some crazy internal US politics right now that threatens #OpenTechFund, who funded #LetsEncrypt, #CertBot, @torproject , #NoScript, TLS ESNI/ECH, #DNSPrivacyProj, #ReproducibleBuilds, #Wireguard, #DeltaChat, #OpenKeychain, #pypi, @guardianproject , @signalapp , and more. Looks like a couple proprietary software companies are trying to take over this #FreeSoftware money. Please sign on to the campaign to try to stop it: https://saveinternetfreedom.tech

New post: How to pay your rent with your open source project

Including Ghost, Discourse, Matrix, Gitlab and other great, sustainable open source products.

https://plausible.io/blog/open-source-funding