LPS @lps@masto.1146.nohost.me

Julian Assange's wife highlights the extremely serious implications for all journalists and human rights his case represents following last week's extradition decision and vows "We are not at the end of the road - we will fight until justice is served" @GBNEWS #FreeAssangeNOW https://t.co/f32RkUAnpR

Readers, use the library instead of returning purchased books at Amazon. There are libraries in the US where you can buy a non resident digital library card, even outside the US. Libraries have Kindle books, eBooks, and audiobooks. https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/amazon-kindle-e-book-returns-tiktok/ #AmazonIsNotALibrary

The Halifax Explosion was the largest man made explosion in recorded history up until that point. Explosives were measured in “Halifaxes” afterward. The first atomic explosion was 10 Halifaxes.
https://www.britannica.com/event/Halifax-explosion

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/tilbots/status/1540824720001597440

French election: Macron loses absolute majority in parliament in 'democratic shock' | Reuters

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/macron-faces-tough-battle-control-parliament-france-votes-2022-06-19/

RT from Blender Artists (@BlenderArtists)

'Forest Spirit' by @galihlugina https://blenderartists.org/t/forest-spirit/1385645 #b3d #blender3d #blenderart #blenderrender #blendercommunity

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/BlenderArtists/status/1539926595691024385

Added audio controls, share button and toasts to the Live app!

Go live and share a public link that anyone can view, shipping soon to a #pixelfed instance near you!

Android + iOS apps are being prepared for release 🚀 #pixelfedLive #liveStreaming

From a little french #robotic company based in Bordeaux (yes like the wine), the « more than #opensource but rather collaborative » #robot REACHY is now mobile 🦿 https://discourse.ros.org/t/reachy-the-open-source-and-ros-based-robot-is-now-mobile/26101

Nos services #Peertube et #Vaultwarden ont été mis à jour aujourd’hui

Nous profitons de ces mises à jour pour féliciter les organisations, entreprises (Vaultwarden est une réécriture partielle de Bitwarden) et individus derrières ces logiciels libres pour le travail 👏

Peertube notamment a évolué tellement en quelques années, tout en gardant une simplicité d’utilisation, on apprécie énormément cette alternative à Youtube

D’ailleurs, n’hésitez pas à soutenir Framasoft !

"Already, 5,000 Londoners are on to it: borrowing anything from sound systems to sewing machines from a catalogue of around 50 items. They are the pioneers of the Library of Things (LoT) model, which helps people to save money and reduce waste by affordably renting out household items. They’ve collectively saved around 50 tonnes of waste from landfill since it all began."

https://www.positive.news/society/the-library-of-things-coming-to-a-town-near-you/

#LibraryOfThings #LOT #London #PositiveNews

Question, please boost: I am looking for accounts to follow which focus on African affairs from an African perspective, whether personal accounts by journalist, activists etc., or news portals, independent news outlets as well as sciency ones, political science ones, think tanks etc.

Germany's new government put in on paper: Everyone has a right to encryption! Now the German government has asked the EU Commission difficult questions on the planned EU surveillance law. Will Germany fight for our right to privacy?
https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/will-germany-fight-for-privacy

New blog post on the upcoming #bonfire beta release: https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/beta_what_to_expect/

"In a few days' time we'd like to invite you to experiment with a 'playground' instance of Bonfire, the federated social networking toolkit for communities. Lots of what you'll see in the Bonfire beta will be recognisable from other social and/or federated apps. There is some functionality that may be a little different with Bonfire as well."

Senator: '#Amazon Ring Audio #Surveillance (25ft) Threatens The Public' (+ Chills Speech + Behavior)

Markey: "individuals may use Ring devices audio recording to facilitate #Blackmail, #Stalking"

#News #Privacy #RingDoorbell #Biometrics #HumanRights
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/senator-declares-concern-about-amazon-rings-audio-surveillance-capabilities

Something a bit different today...

There's a really nice Fediverse admin on here called @stux who provides lots of free decentralised public services (public instances of Mastodon, PeerTube, Pixelfed, Matrix, Nitter, Invidious, Searx etc).

Stux is spending hundreds of euros a month so that these services remain free and operational.

Apparently Stux has had a tough time finding work recently, but has their own small business which provides web hosting.

If you're looking for a small indie hosting provider, this might be a really good choice as the money raised will help keep the Fedi going too:

➡️ https://stuxhost.com

(I'm sorry to embarass you Stux, but I think you deserve a shout-out for the good work you do!)

Just a reminder, UK folks: I run a wiki about places to pass on things that you no longer need. It's called Pass It On.

https://passiton.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page

I'm always looking for SPECIFIC, GENUINE and RECENT examples of charities/other orgs that will take things that might otherwise go to landfill.

Please, no hearsay or vague recommendations. But if YOU PERSONALLY have got a charity to take something IN THE RECENT PAST, I am desperate to hear about it.

Obsttag bei Dohlens und Amselns

Ein paar Makros.

Hello

I'm the maintainer of @feditips, @FediFollows, @FediVideos and @homegrown / https://growyourown.services

If you find these useful, you can make a donation at:

https://ko-fi.com/fedithing

It says euros but any currency will work, and you don't need to register either.

(Alternatively, if you want to be a patron there's https://liberapay.com/FediThing)

Thank you!