Gordon Freeman 🖲️ @theonefreeman@pixie.town

A few months ago, Microsoft decided to collaborate with Google and drop its web engine in favor of Google's.

Earlier this week, Google blocked all ad blockers, and now Microsoft has de-listed UBlock Origin (a powerful ad-blocker). Without real choice, monopolies will dictate what you see and do on the Internet.

Real choice comes with Free/Open Source Software.

I'm pretty sure just throwing up your statically generated site on a random provider would be more energy efficient because it doesn't have to go through #Cloudflare's surveillance apparatus....

what the fuck lowtechmagazine, you pull your fancy schmancy "oh were all low-bandwith and solar powered", but then you're behind FUCKING Cloudflare, banning ips (not even a captcha).
Where's the low tech solarpunk shit huh, liberal hippie garbage

US State Department is demanding of nearly all visa applicants their social media user names, current and prior email addresses, and current and prior telephone numbers https://www.cbsnews.com/news/state-department-now-requires-us-visa-applicants-to-share-social-media-accounts-2019-06-01/

This is the most Canadian vandalism I've seen in America

me: hm, I wonder if gimp's layer masking feature is what I want
me: googles "gimp mask" like a dipshit