@bender@twtxt.net That is a noble goal. We can talk about that – as long as it doesn’t mean giving up essential freedoms like choosing which software you can run on your device (without having to ask someone for permission).

Israel deports Thunberg after boarding Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla ship
Greta Thunberg is en route to Sweden after she and other activist were detained aboard a charity boat nearing Gaza. ⌘ Read more

The “interception, carried out outside Israeli territorial waters, constitutes a blatant violation of international law, including maritime and humanitarian law.”

“Co-Chair of The Left, Manon Aubry (La France Insoumise, France) said: “Netanyahu’s army has intercepted the Freedom Flotilla against a backdrop of deafening silence from political leaders in Europe and the world. History is watching them. Their inaction to end the genocide is nothing more than complicity. We demand immediate action from European authorities to guarantee the safety of the crew and allow humanitarian aid to enter.”

The Left calls upon states, the European Union, the United Nations, and the entire international community to strongly condemn this illegal detention, demand the immediate and unconditional release of all crew members, and urge Israeli authorities to allow immediate and unimpeded entry of humanitarian aid to Gaza, in full compliance with international law and the orders imposed on Israel by the International Court of Justice.

#Solidarity is not a crime, €genocide is. Free the #FreedomFlotilla crew.”

#madleen

https://left.eu/freedom-flotilla-intercepted-as-gaza-starves/

Breaking: Israeli army ‘boards’ Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s Gaza-bound ship, group says
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition says the Israeli military has “boarded” the Gaza-bound charity ship the Madleen, after the Israeli foreign ministry earlier said it had told the ship to change course. ⌘ Read more

Leanne Castley’s plea to outlaw coercive control is painfully personal
The Canberra Liberals leader says coercive control stripped power, freedom and independence from the two women closest to her. ⌘ Read more

golang 每日一庫之 DDD 框架 freedo
Freedom：自由不是亂來，而是架構有道———————你是不是寫 Go 寫得挺開心的，直到有一天產品說： “這個業務流程以後會變、會拆、可能還會上天。”於是你開始發愁：怎麼寫纔不會三個月後改到哭？ 怎麼解耦、怎麼擴展、怎麼不踩坑？ 這時候，Freedom 躍馬而來，大喊一句： “用我！讓你寫得自由、改得瀟灑、跑得像風！”什麼是 Freedom—– ⌘ Read more

golang 每日一庫之 DDD 框架 freedo
Freedom：自由不是亂來，而是架構有道———————你是不是寫 Go 寫得挺開心的，直到有一天產品說： “這個業務流程以後會變、會拆、可能還會上天。”於是你開始發愁：怎麼寫纔不會三個月後改到哭？ 怎麼解耦、怎麼擴展、怎麼不踩坑？ 這時候，Freedom 躍馬而來，大喊一句： “用我！讓你寫得自由、改得瀟灑、跑得像風！”什麼是 Freedom—– ⌘ Read more

[$] The importance of free software to science
Free software plays a critical role in science, both in research and in
disseminating it. Aspects of software freedom are directly relevant to
simulation, analysis, document preparation and preservation, security,
reproducibility, and usability. Free software brings practical and specific
advantages, beyond just its ideological roots, to science, while
proprietary software comes with equally specific risks. As a practicing
scientist, I would like to help others—scientists or not—see the … ⌘ Read more

Aisla finds ‘freedom’ under water. Now the NDIS is pulling the plug
Research on injured ex-service personnel before and after scuba diving exercise show improvements, but NDIS clients are no longer able to access funding for similar therapies. ⌘ Read more

Ex-crew member says Gaza-bound ship faces difficult journey
Climate campaigner Greta Thunberg and other 11 activists set sail on Sunday afternoon for Gaza on a ship aimed at “breaking Israel’s siege” of the territory. ⌘ Read more

[$] Making the OpenWrt One
In a keynote on the final day of SCALE 22x, Denver
Gingerich said that he wanted to talk “a little bit about a router and
also the big picture around that router”. Gingerich is the director of
compliance at the Software Freedom\
Conservancy (SFC), which is the organization behind the OpenWrt One router that
LWN looked at back in November. The
router is, of cour … ⌘ Read more

[ANN] MoneroTop - Spasm-powered XMR forum

Most Monero-related discussions happen on slave tech platforms, which are vulnerable to censorship and surveillance. It’s time to embrace freedom tech. You can now sign messages with your private keys and submit them to different networks at MoneroTop forum, which is powered by Spasm - the future of social media.

Links:

• https://monero.top
  
• https://spasm.network
  

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Monero Observer Artistic Saturday Top 5 - Week 8, 2025
Previous Artistic Saturday weekly reports can be found in the [art] 1 section.

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Freedom for Meow ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Developer Diary, Freedom to Marry Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/02/10/freedom-marry.html #programming #project #devjournal

[ANN] MoneroTalk #336: Unmasking Elon Musk: Derrick Broze on Free Speech and Technocracy

In this episode of MoneroTalk, Douglas Tuman speaks with independent journalist Derrick Broze about Elon Musk’s true intentions, cryptocurrency, and freedom movements.

Links:

• https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=BZyuYRNTN5E
  
• https://www.monerotalk.live/monerotalk-336
  

monerotalk.live ⌘ Read more

[LTH] Monero Talk/MoneroTopia needs your help

We’re looking for a passionate Monero fan to help us find and reach out to guests for Monero Talk and MoneroTopia shows on a weekly basis. This is a small gig (we will tip!), not a full-time job—perfect for someone who knows Monero deeply, values freedom tech, lives the “opt-out” ethos, and is already an avid fan of our shows! We need someone reliable, proactive, and excited about helping us expand the reach of these shows. If this sounds like you, email us with the subject: “Help wi … ⌘ Read more

[LFF] [100 XMR] Ross Ulbricht Freedom Party

After coordinating with @DouglasTuman and @vikrantnyc, we have launched a freedom fund for the release of @RealRossU!

Links:

• https://farside.link/nitter/MgkMshrmBrkfst/status/1857974202072182843
  
• https://kuno.anne.media/fundraiser/olm1/
  

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Unitree G1 and H1 Humanoid Robots Now Available for Ordering
The distributor RobotShop recently featured the Unitree G1 and the more advanced Unitree H1 general-purpose humanoid robots. Both models are equipped with 3D LiDAR and a depth camera for sensing and offer multiple degrees of freedom for mobility. Additionally, the H1 provides an optional upgrade to the Jetson Orin NX for increased computing capabilities. The […] ⌘ Read more

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com This is one of the reasons why yarnd has a couple of settings with some sensible/sane defaults:

I could already imagine a couple of extreme cases where, somewhere, in this peaceful world one’s exercise of freedom of speech could get them in Real trouble (if not danger) if found out, it wouldn’t necessarily have to involve something to do with Law or legal authorities. So, If someone asks, and maybe fearing fearing for… let’s just say ‘Their well being’, would it heart if a pod just purged their content if it’s serving it publicly (maybe relay the info to other pods) and call it a day? It doesn’t have to be about some law/convention somewhere … 🤷 I know! Too extreme, but I’ve seen news of people who’d gone to jail or got their lives ruined for as little as a silly joke. And it doesn’t even have to be about any of this.

There are two settings:

$ ./yarnd --help 2>&1 | grep max-cache
      --max-cache-fetchers int        set maximum numnber of fetchers to use for feed cache updates (default 10)
  -I, --max-cache-items int           maximum cache items (per feed source) of cached twts in memory (default 150)
  -C, --max-cache-ttl duration        maximum cache ttl (time-to-live) of cached twts in memory (default 336h0m0s)

So yarnd pods by default are designed to only keep Twts around publicly visible on either the anonymous Frontpage or Discover View or your Timeline or the feed’s Timeline for up to 2 weeks with a maximum of 150 items, whichever get exceeded first. Any Twts over this are considered “old” and drop off the active cache.

It’s a feature that my old man @off_grid_living@twtxt.net was very strongly in support of, as was I back in the day of yarnd’s design (nothing particularly to do with Twtxt per se) that I’ve to this day stuck by – Even though there are some 😉 that have different views on this 🤣

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @falsifian@www.falsifian.org @prologic@twtxt.net Maybe I don’t know what I’m talking about and You’ve probably already read this: Everything you need to know about the “Right to be forgotten” coming straight out of the EU’s GDPR Website itself. It outlines the specific circumstances under which the right to be forgotten applies as well as reasons that trump the one’s right to erasure …etc.

I’m no lawyer, but my uneducated guess would be that:

A) twts are already publicly available/public knowledge and such… just don’t process children’s personal data and MAYBE you’re good? Since there’s this:

… an organization’s right to process someone’s data might override their right to be forgotten. Here are the reasons cited in the GDPR that trump the right to erasure:

• The data is being used to exercise the right of freedom of expression and information.
  
• The data is being used to perform a task that is being carried out in the public interest or when exercising an organization’s official authority.
  
• The data represents important information that serves the public interest, scientific research, historical research, or statistical purposes and where erasure of the data would likely to impair or halt progress towards the achievement that was the goal of the processing.
  

B) What I love about the TWTXT sphere is it’s Human/Humane element! No deceptive algorithms, no Corpo B.S …etc. Just Humans. So maybe … If we thought about it in this way, it wouldn’t heart to be even nicer to others/offering strangers an even safer space.
I could already imagine a couple of extreme cases where, somewhere, in this peaceful world one’s exercise of freedom of speech could get them in Real trouble (if not danger) if found out, it wouldn’t necessarily have to involve something to do with Law or legal authorities. So, If someone asks, and maybe fearing fearing for… let’s just say ‘Their well being’, would it heart if a pod just purged their content if it’s serving it publicly (maybe relay the info to other pods) and call it a day? It doesn’t have to be about some law/convention somewhere … 🤷 I know! Too extreme, but I’ve seen news of people who’d gone to jail or got their lives ruined for as little as a silly joke. And it doesn’t even have to be about any of this.

P.S: Maybe make X tool check out robots.txt? Or maybe make long-term archives Opt-in? Opt-out?
P.P.S: Already Way too many MAYBE’s in a single twt! So I’ll just shut up. 😅

(Updated) HiFive Unmatched SBC showcases new FU740 RISC-V SoC
SiFive has opened $665 pre-orders on a “HiFive Unmatched” Mini-ITX dev board that can power a PC. The SBC runs Linux on a penta-core, 64-bit SiFive FU740 SoC and offers 2x M.2 and PCIe x16 for graphics. In September when SiFive announced its FU740 (Freedom U740) SoC, the RISC-V chip designer said it would soon […] ⌘ Read more

Liberals table long-awaited online harms legislation
Justice Minister Arif Virani tabled the Online Harms Act, promising the bill would respect freedom of expression while protecting children against online harm. The mother of a sexual abuse victim shared her story as Virani gave a press conference about the legislation. NDP House leader Peter Julian said the bill requires web giants to be more transparent. (Feb. 26, 2024) ⌘ Read more

Billionaire-backed Koch network drops funding for Nikki Haley after South Carolina loss
Americans for Prosperity, the organization backed by conservative billionaire Charles Koch has revealed it will suspend funding for Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley’s campaign after her loss in South Carolina.

Haley’s campaign thanked the group for being an “ally in the fight for freedom and conservative govern … ⌘ Read more

An official FBI document dated January 2021, obtained by the American association “Property of People” through the Freedom of Information Act.

This document summarizes the possibilities for legal access to data from nine instant messaging services: iMessage, Line, Signal, Telegram, Threema, Viber, WeChat, WhatsApp and Wickr. For each software, different judicial methods are explored, such as subpoena, search warrant, active collection of communications metadata (“Pen Register”) or connection data retention law (“18 USC§2703”). Here, in essence, is the information the FBI says it can retrieve:

• Apple iMessage: basic subscriber data; in the case of an iPhone user, investigators may be able to get their hands on message content if the user uses iCloud to synchronize iMessage messages or to back up data on their phone.

• Line: account data (image, username, e-mail address, phone number, Line ID, creation date, usage data, etc.); if the user has not activated end-to-end encryption, investigators can retrieve the texts of exchanges over a seven-day period, but not other data (audio, video, images, location).

• Signal: date and time of account creation and date of last connection.

• Telegram: IP address and phone number for investigations into confirmed terrorists, otherwise nothing.

• Threema: cryptographic fingerprint of phone number and e-mail address, push service tokens if used, public key, account creation date, last connection date.

• Viber: account data and IP address used to create the account; investigators can also access message history (date, time, source, destination).

• WeChat: basic data such as name, phone number, e-mail and IP address, but only for non-Chinese users.

• WhatsApp: the targeted person’s basic data, address book and contacts who have the targeted person in their address book; it is possible to collect message metadata in real time (“Pen Register”); message content can be retrieved via iCloud backups.

• Wickr: Date and time of account creation, types of terminal on which the application is installed, date of last connection, number of messages exchanged, external identifiers associated with the account (e-mail addresses, telephone numbers), avatar image, data linked to adding or deleting.

TL;DR Signal is the messaging system that provides the least information to investigators.

@prologic@twtxt.net it was really nice! But also one of the more stressful walks, I had to turn back, because it was so slick on the rock that it was really hard to walk, and I fell once (that rarely happens), and when the dog was going to jump over a big gap in the rock on the trail he got scared, and pulled himself out of the harness and got some minutes of freedom.
There are sheep there too , so I got lucky that he did not go straight to them. Had some snacks in my pocket and got him back with that.

On my blog: Developer Diary, World Freedom Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/01/23/freedom.html #programming #project #devjournal

GitHub supports internet freedom and global availability in Iran
Access to the open internet is essential to defending human rights, and developers have an important role in promoting freedom of expression and transparency. GitHub is committed to keeping Iranians connected to the global developer community. ⌘ Read more

He loves freedom of speech so much he wants to buy a publicly traded company to stop a 14 yo from posting his private jet flight plans.

@tamer@twtxt.net We’re not trying to compete with anything… If you’ve read About Yarn.social – In a nutshell I want to create an open, transparent social platform that respect’s folks privacy and freedoms. It must also be easy to use and down-to-earth where human interactions actually matter. None of this rubbish of manipulating what you see, driving up engagement numbers to serve your advertisers and all that garbage

Modern “Freedom” Means Being a Slave to Impulses

See this article in video form here.

Which of the following two people is more free:

1. A drug addict.
   
2. A average man who is only not a drug addict because he lives in a country where drugs are regulated or shamed in a way to make them hard to obtain.
   

Most modern people will have a kind of cognitive disson … ⌘ Read more

On the blog: Developer Journal, World Press Freedom Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/05/03/press.html #programming #project #devjournal

Penpot - Design Freedom for Teams - This is quite cool, going to try this out next time I need to design something. ⌘ Read more…

On the blog: Developer Journal, National Freedom Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/02/01/freedom.html #programming #project #devjournal

Advancing developer freedom: GitHub is fully available in Iran ⌘ Read more…

On the blog: The Fight of the Century (and The Last Century) https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/09/06/enlight.html #quora #freedom #philosophy #politics #rant

On the blog: Developer Journal, Culture Freedom Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/05/18/freecul.html #programming #project #devjournal #bicker #uxuyu

Freedom is ________. “ The California Sunday Magazine https://story.californiasunday.com/freedom

Proto-internet trolls’: Johann Friedrich Struensee and freedom of expression in 18th century Denmark - European studies blog https://blogs.bl.uk/european/2018/06/johann-friedrich-struensee.html

Designing Freedom, Regulating a Nation: Socialist Cybernetics in Allende’s Chile https://www.informatics.indiana.edu/edenm/EdenMedinaJLASAugust2006.pdf

The Journal of Controversial Ideas”academic freedom sans responsibility is reckless | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/11/the-journal-of-controversial-ideas-academic-freedom-sans-responsibility-is-reckless/

‘Free your mind and your ass will follow’ is absurdly optimistic. Freedom of mind is necessary but not sufficient for freedom of ass. In the short term, wokeness makes your life harder because you become aware of how bad things are.

Supporting Fast Payments for All “ and Economic Freedom | MetaFilter https://www.metafilter.com/176954/supporting-fast-payments-for-all-and-economic-freedom

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net This is completely contrary to what people want. People don’t care about how something works. They want to use something that’s premade and that they can use without learning anything about it. Decentralization is a technical Detail, nobody cares about. Just like security or freedom. It’s all nice to have if it comes for free, no time investment and no convenience cuts. So the only way to establich decentralization is by making it better, cheaper and easier to use than centralized services. #sadtruth

Footnotes to Plato | Spinoza’s philosophy of freedom – Steven Nadler https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/spinoza-philosophy-freedom/

The modern state, not ideas, brought about religious freedom | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/the-modern-state-not-ideas-brought-about-religious-freedom