Notices by the real raccoon Ⓥ Ⓐ (therealraccoon@octodon.social)

Very important resource on vitamin B12:

https://veganhealth.org/vitamin-b12

#Vegan #B12 #Health #JackNorris #VeganHealth

@polymerwitch
Antifascist action saves lives. Period.

If someone disagrees with some antifa group's methods, they're free to organize one with better strategies that are more effective at protecting people from fascist violence.

"Smart" and networked proprietary devices should be very much called what they are: dystopian junk.

If you want a less polemic term, use "automated surveillance devices," but really all of these TVs, home assistants, toasters, fridges, smoke detectors, etc. are dystopian junk.

We need "low tech" appliances, and we need personal computing devices that are, by design, fully controllable by the people using them.

Software of the day:

https://github.com/micahflee/porcupine

Porcupine by @micahflee is awesome and simple!
It is the perfect "default web browser."
I use it for everything handling links, including PasswordSafe.

#porcupine #tor #browser #torbrowser #passwordsafe

@eightbitsamurai

My personal guide to the FediVerse:
- search for cool posts via hashtags
- subscribe to some cool people
- mostly ignore both the local and the federated public feeds
- discover new cool people via boosts and mentions in your home feed
- be grateful to your cool admin, e.g. @CobaltVelvet (if your admin is not a cool admin, find another instance)

https://www.patreon.com/CobaltVelvet
https://en.liberapay.com/CobaltVelvet
https://octodon.social/about/more

Proprietary software is fundamentally unscientific. Using a "black box" as a method violates basic replicability.

The widespread use of STATA, SPSS, and ArcGIS, for example, makes me angry, especially since there is R and QGIS.

The lack of revolutionary potential in most existing co-ops is one of the many reasons why cooperative/collective economic projects should already incorporate an inherently anarchist approach at the founding level, and options for long-term horizontal scalability via federation with politically & structurally compatible projects shouldn't be an afterthought.
Worker co-ops shouldn't be isolated. Instead, they should have the clear potential to be integral parts of a bottom-up needs-based economy.

Camouflage from face detection.

"CV Dazzle explores how fashion can be used as camouflage from face-detection technology, the first step in automated face recognition."

https://cvdazzle.com

Most of Kafka's work is a poignant dissection of modern society and its bourgeois order.

@cwebber
- guillotine jokes are not funny
- actually deploying guillotines would be a mere inversion of power dynamics, not the abolition of rulers
→that's very reactionary and in no way anarchist

Classic writings by anarchist women on syndicalism and/or anarchism:

Conchita Liaño Gil, Sara Berenguer et al.:
Spanish book: https://www.worldcat.org/title/mujeres-libres-luchadoras-libertarias/oclc/803226908
French translation: https://www.worldcat.org/title/mujeres-libres-des-femmes-libertaires-en-lutte-memoire-vive-de-femmes-libertaires-dans-la-revolution-espagnole/oclc/915243594
German translation:
https://www.worldcat.org/title/mujeres-libres-libertare-kampferinnen/oclc/1099692055
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Emma Goldman, of course:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emma-goldman-syndicalism-the-modern-menace-to-capitalism
https://libcom.org/library/red-emma-speaks-emma-goldman-reader-1996
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Milly Witkop:
German booklet: https://www.worldcat.org/title/was-will-der-syndikalistische-frauenbund/oclc/1002308806
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Louise Michel:
https://libcom.org/files/Louise_Michel.pdf
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André Leo, mostly French:
https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/leo-andre-1832-1900

Bunburying.

@rysiek I'm still waiting for a write-up of the Project Raven / Karma piece that highlights the awfulness and hypocrisy of the whole "My spy activities only became evil when I had to target a certain kind of nationals" shtick.

@rysiek Are they going to found some kind of worldwide web? Like some hyperlinked internet thing?

@rysiek @rhiaro @sifr If you have low vitamin D levels, there's mushroom for improvement.

@a_breakin_glass @King XMPP+OMEMO!

Gajim is almost Tor-friendly now, and Chatsecure is slowly catching up with Conversations w.r.t. OMEMO features.

https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim-plugins/tree/master/omemo
https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/issues/8538

https://chatsecure.org/blog/chatsecure-v43-omemo-group-chat-preview/

https://conversations.im/compliance/

#OMEMO #XMPP #Jabber #Gajim #Tor #Chatsecure #Conversations

@cwebber https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=850644