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Andrew
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Software Engineer by day, aspiring beet farmer by night. ☦️💻⚽🏥📷📈💪☕️🇺🇸🇪🇬 Things I like: - #P2P/#decentralized/#opensource stuff - #History (esp Rome/Greece/Egypt) - #Transit oriented city design - #Gadgets/#ElectricVehicles/#Solar Power - #Space exploration - #Videogames (especially #GTA) Things I've Built: - Agora: Follow your favorite topics across Mastodon, Bluesky, Nostr, and Threads https://agorasocial.app - Chronicl: Decentralized web archiver that distributes archives across Nostr relays https://chronicl.vercel.app/ “Egyptians are twisted and bitter people with a sense of humor” - Roman poet Theocritus

On iOS/Mac, my favorite open source 2FA is Raivo: https://github.com/raivo-otp/ios-application

Open Source 1Password Alternatives, my favorite being Bitwarden

https://alternativeto.net/software/1password/?license=opensource

and I imagine that company leadership catering to internal activist employees is done to prevent bad publicity those activist employees may otherwise attract. That in turn, is just another form of trying to maximize the number of demographics that a company has as customers.

It’s good to remember that when a company tries to appear progressive/“woke”, they’re not aiming to be preachy about a cause, they’re merely trying to capture the business of as many demographics as possible. No publicly traded company has “values”, they have revenue models.

Agreed! I use NextDNS across my devices in addition to in-browser ad/tracker block. Covering all my bases 🙂

Best open source ad-blockers for mobile browsers that I’ve come across:

iOS: http://kablock.com/

Android: https://blokada.org/

Super jealous! If this is how good their first two cars are, I can’t wait to see what the R2S/T and beyond will be like.

Love the new dropdown menus in Snort settings!

That’s amazing! Have a great time in my motherland 🙂

"The Ancient Egyptian classification of ancient peoples (from left to right): a Libyan, a Nubian, an Asiatic, and an Egyptian."

"The Libyan has the lightest complexion, followed by the Asiatic who is yellowish. The Egyptian is reddish-brown, while the Nubian is black."

~ 1200 BC

If i were to live anywhere other than my home of the US, it would probably be Australia.

- No language barrier for me

- Warmer/sunnier weather than other Anglo-sphere countries

- High incomes (not nearly as high as US but higher than Europe)

- Strong social benefits

- Beautiful geography

- Aussies just seem like fun!

So awesome seeing our Mexican neighbors cheering on the #Starship launch! For reference, the launch was from Boca Chica, Texas

https://nostr.build/av/nostr.build_883eb86b7ab3ec3bf25e30e773c9a3b563f5d7954e2d8e899ae774fad5b2fe5f.mp4

To be fair, I think it has mostly to do with them wanting to avoid liability issues if nsfw images of underage people are uploaded to their platforms.