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Matrix.org mentions (583)

• Discord has been using ML to determine the gender and age of some of its users

  The beginning of enshitification of discord (while 100% expected) for some reason hits harder then any other service I've used throughout all these years. It has entirely replaced social media for me. It just felt more organic to me then anything else. So... Since I've heard about the ads coming to discord, and I have looked into alternatives. They do exist, in varying quality, and there are programs for some of... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Qilin: A Starter Project Template For Every Open Source Project

  GitHub Discussions can also be a great place for support as long as these are regularly monitored. Another option along the same lines is Discourse and the Open Source Matrix which is used by quite a few Open Source and community-based projects. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• A man has been swatted 47 times for making a joke about Norm Macdonald

  Tangential: the article notes that Telegram is an “encrypted messaging app”. While this is technically true, it's worth keeping in mind that it's not end-to-end encrypted, so it's less secure in that regard than, say, Signal or even WhatsApp. Telegram does have opt-in end-to-end encrypted one-on-one chats, but those are very inconvenient to use. For a properly encrypted chat app, including group chats (opt-in),... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Launching Default End-to-End Encryption on Messenger

  I'd love something like the Matrix [0] data model (JSON messages aggregated in an eventually-consistent chatroom CRDT) transmitted over something like simplex for metadata resistance. [0] https://matrix.org. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Meta is pulling the plug on Messenger chats on Instagram

  Trillian mod here. There's this new thing called Beeper, works on matrix.org. It's not as the good old times, but I'm currently using whatsapp, FB messenger, discord, telegram, signal, imessage and a few more. It's not Cerulean experience, but it's... Slowly improving. Source: 7 months ago

Flash Drives for Freedom mentions (41)

• How do the escapees of North Korea know to escape?

  You can help get information about life beyond NK by donating media drives: https://flashdrivesforfreedom.org/. Source: 12 months ago

• Debunking Azerbaijani History Books

  e.g. Dropping flash drives into North Korea. Source: about 1 year ago

• Best Korea 🇰🇵

  There are several media covering this story about the smuggling of USB drives, including Washington Examiner, The Guardian and Buisness Insider just to name few. There's even a website for people who want to participate to that. Source: about 1 year ago

• China declined U.S. request for phone call between defense chiefs -Pentagon

  A similar practice is used today with North Korea, where balloons are floated into the country with SD Cards and USB sticks - which are small enough to break and swallow in a pinch. It is easy to get involved with this through https://flashdrivesforfreedom.org. Source: over 1 year ago

• What can you do with alot of USBs?

  You should check out https://flashdrivesforfreedom.org/ - the load the donated sticks with positive/freedom related content and get them into North Korea to show the people a different way of life exists. Source: over 1 year ago