deafboy @[email protected]

nyaa.si, a popular anime-focused torrent tracker, has had its source code removed from GitHub after the MPA filed a DMCA takedown request.

Read their lunacy here if you'd like: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2021/01/2021-01-14-mpa.md

Due to an implementation bug, v3 onion services were experiencing instability earlier today.

A bug fix is on the way.

Everything else in Tor works fine even when the consensus is a few hours old, and v3 onion services should too.

You can learn more here: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/issues/40237

And here: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/network-health/2021-January/000659.html

Reverse-engineering the actual mRNA code of the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, character for character:

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source-code-of-the-biontech-pfizer-vaccine/

Thanks to #FreeSoftware developers, the German #CoronaWarnApp for tracing #COVID19 risk contacts is available on @fdroidorg without any Google dependencies. This not only fosters software freedom, but also sets the ground for innovative features.

https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20201208-01.html

#microg #cctg

Funny thing is that people assume that tracking only happens over the web, in their browsers.

While Microsoft and company have been doing it for ages in their operating systems and office suites, many didn't think that some of the console tools they use did the same.

Whoops.

https://consoledonottrack.com/

Here is why I am very hesitant about adopting new and flashy systems. You can't trust them.

#js #tracking #trust #security #privacy #cli #dnt

https://xkcd.com/1323/

The youtube-dl team backed down, they removed functionality necessary for it to access some videos.
I'm not faulting them, maybe they live in a repressive country where their lives are under threat, they don't owe it to us.
But yesterday youtube-dl was accessible everywhere BUT Github, today partial-youtube-dl is accessible on Github, and from now on the main developed branch will be partial-youtube-dl. That's it, the boogiemen won.

#BigMood

@sir

Very important and serious website that you should carefully research:

https://bongo.cat

#Fennec #FDroid based on #Fenix alias the latest #Firefox for #Android has arrived! Trackers have been removed, "about:config" is available. The version has not been marked as recommended yet, so you have to download and install manually. Thanks to relan, @Bubu and all who have made this possible. 🥳
https://f-droid.org/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/

Google removed K-9 Mail from the Play store with zero notice because the description of the app included alternate spellings of the app name we'd included to work around how bad Play's search is.

"Google is pressing on with new plans to hide all parts of web addresses except the domain name in Chrome 86, this time accompanied by an admittedly hover animation."

https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/08/13/google-resumes-its-senseless-attack-on-the-url-bar-hides-full-addresses-on-chrome-canary/

No, thank you

#openweb #web #url #chrome