[liberationtech] Content liberation on the command line

https://freeyourstuff.cc/ is a Chromium/Chrome browser extension that lets you download your contributions to supported sites, which typically don't provide any facility to do so. This includes IMDB reviews and ratings, Yelp reviews, Quora answers, and more. The extension can also publish datasets

Re: [liberationtech] Revealed: Seven years later, how Facebook shuts down free speech in Egypt | Middle East Eye

On 01/28/2018 01:05 AM, aryt alasti wrote: > I didn't realize to what extent activists in the Middle East are relying on > Facebook. > > http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/how-facebook-bans-free-speech-egypt-activist-social-media-april-6th-mubarak-1685366161 There are many parallels to be drawn

Re: [liberationtech] Tool so people might stop doing crazy things with their bitcoins (and stop being robbed)

On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 3:49 AM, Aymeric Vitte wrote: > Please see https://github.com/Ayms/bitcoin-transactions Ok. Why is it not open source though? -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated:

Re: [liberationtech] Tool so people might stop doing crazy things with their bitcoins (and stop being robbed)

This is explained in the repo: " this is the only part of the code that is slightly minified which does not impact anything in terms of security *The rationale for this is that we have noticed that some people are trying to cheat with the dev fees, if you don't like them, don't use this module,

Re: [liberationtech] Revealed: Seven years later, how Facebook shuts down free speech in Egypt | Middle East Eye

True though all of that is, if tens of thousands of people are relying on Facebook for their connectivity to activism and dissident viewpoints, then pressure should be put on Facebook to cease with its blatantly suppressive practices. Aryt On Jan 28, 2018 4:59 AM, "Thomas Delrue"

Re: [liberationtech] Revealed: Seven years later, how Facebook shuts down free speech in Egypt | Middle East Eye

On 28/01/18 08:35, aryt alasti wrote: > True though all of that is, if tens of thousands of people are relying > on Facebook for their connectivity to activism and dissident > viewpoints, then pressure should be put on Facebook to cease with its > blatantly suppressive practices. > >   

Re: [liberationtech] Revealed: Seven years later, how Facebook shuts down free speech in Egypt | Middle East Eye

On 01/28/2018 08:07 AM, Cristina wrote: > I agree on most people is using FB, Telegram, WA, and Google products > to interact and search for information. I agree on Thomas' > observations, but in the middle we have a problem: the vacuum has to > be filled... with education? with what? We do have

Re: [liberationtech] Revealed: Seven years later, how Facebook shuts down free speech in Egypt | Middle East Eye

On 01/28/2018 06:35 AM, aryt alasti wrote: > True though all of that is, if tens of thousands of people are relying on > Facebook for their connectivity to activism and dissident viewpoints, then > pressure should be put on Facebook to cease with its blatantly suppressive > practices. As long as

Re: [liberationtech] Revealed: Seven years later, how Facebook shuts down free speech in Egypt | Middle East Eye

I find it surreal and tragically amusing how articles still speak of companies like people willing to do the right thing, as if the people had any importance in a structure whose only aim is to dominate a market. So here we have yet another political failing from Facebook, as if its influence in

Re: [liberationtech] Tool so people might stop doing crazy things with their bitcoins (and stop being robbed)

On 01/28/2018 06:22 AM, Aymeric Vitte wrote: > People don't estimate the effort to do such tool, which is not > trivial at all given the over complexification of bitcoin stuff, and > are trying to cheat modifying the code to remove the fees (which is a > bit crazy for such a module and could just

Re: [liberationtech] Revealed: Seven years later, how Facebook shuts down free speech in Egypt | Middle East Eye

On 28/01/18 12:10, Thomas Delrue wrote: > On 01/28/2018 08:07 AM, Cristina wrote: >> I agree on most people is using FB, Telegram, WA, and Google products >> to interact and search for information. I agree on Thomas' >> observations, but in the middle we have a problem: the vacuum has to >> be

Re: [liberationtech] Revealed: Seven years later, how Facebook shuts down free speech in Egypt | Middle East Eye

On 01/28/2018 10:53 AM, Cristina wrote: > On 28/01/18 12:10, Thomas Delrue wrote: >> On 01/28/2018 08:07 AM, Cristina wrote: >>> I agree on most people is using FB, Telegram, WA, and Google products >>> to interact and search for information. I agree on Thomas' >>> observations, but in the middle

[liberationtech] Scratch 3.0 preview announced

For those of you doing coding with kids, you might want to take a look at the Scratch 3.0 preview. It currently works with Firefox, but not Google Chrome. https://scratch.mit.edu/preview-faq Scratch 3.0 Preview FAQ Overview What is Scratch 3.0? Scratch 3.0 is the next

Re: [liberationtech] Tool so people might stop doing crazy things with their bitcoins (and stop being robbed)

I'm no longer a list moderator, but I can't help but intervene here. All of you have been and continue to be great contributors to the larger liberationtech community. A longstanding participant has created something to try to advance the public good. There may be differences in terms of how to do

Re: [liberationtech] Scratch 3.0 preview announced

There's also https://code.world/blocks Which is a project similar to scratch but using Haskell and functional programming! https://github.com/google/codeworld On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 10:42 AM, Phil Shapiro wrote: > > For those of you doing coding with kids, you might want to