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Computers should belong to you, the people. We develop and fund technology to give them back.

Austin, TX
Joined April 2022
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@FUTO_Tech
FUTO
1 year
Concerned about the unprecedented power of the big tech oligopoly? There's no better place for you than FUTO. Applications for the Summer 2023 FUTO Fellows class are now open!
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FUTO
2 years
Come build your dream anti-establishment project - Apply for the 2023 FUTO Fellows Program today!
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FUTO
10 months
Imagine that🤔, Louis Rossmann's excellent videos explaining how FUTO's Grayjay lets you follow creators instead of platforms are...how should we put this?...abruptly unavailable on a certain trillion dollar company's video platform.🧵
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FUTO
10 months
We've been getting a lot of questions about our new app Grayjay. Tutorials for a video app are naturally best done with video, so grab the popcorn! 🧵 We'll be adding to and updating this list of Grayjay tutorials soon
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2 months
Announcing our $200k grant to the Ladybird Browser!
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FUTO
11 months
It's finally time to put the FUTO philosophy into practice. Stop following platforms! Just follow the creators! Grayjay from FUTO lets you do it.
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FUTO
10 months
As long as users and creators are reliant on any platform to connect, they'll never be free. Throw off the chains! Break out of the silos! Take back control of the Internet! Get Grayjay: Learn more about the FUTO philosophy:
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FUTO
10 months
Don't worry, you can still learn about Grayjay right here on X Formerly Twitter. Not to mention at !
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FUTO
5 months
Casey Muratori ( @cmuratori ) gave the keynote talk at FUTO's Don't Be Evil Summit. He discusses a new way to approach moderation online: Digital Due Process. Give it a watch and let us know what you think. Do you agree/disagree? Tell us why!
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Introducing our July Microgrants recipients: Hyprland, Wine, Exiftool, and Garage!
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FUTO
7 months
Last week, Google sent FUTO a letter demanding we stop offering you @FUTOgrayjay as a better way to connect with your favorite creators. It was wrong, on the facts and the law. We've told them so in no unclear terms. Grayjay is here to stay.
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This is a perfect example of why we need alternatives to Chrome's browser engine. @ladybirdbrowser
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About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported", see
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Louis Rossmann, Casey Muratori, Nick Merrill, and Eron Wolf discuss the burning question: "Why Hasn't Open Source Won?" Let us know what you think about this panel discussion in the replies!
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FUTO
1 month
The media team here has a hard time finding posts about us on here because half of the posts mentioning 'FUTO' are Japanese people posting anime images of a Touhou Project character named Mononobe no Futo.
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touhou figure bot
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「物部 布都」Mononobe no Futo 1/8 (Griffon Enterprises)
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2 years
They always go for the "bad guys" first.
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FUTO
10 months
Here's the second one. Louis really nailing it here!
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FUTO
26 days
maybe don't depend on one company for everything that you do
@disclosetv
Disclose.tv
2 years
JUST IN - Google search engine down for many users.
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FUTO
10 months
If you want to view the video, you can watch it here
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FUTO
10 months
In this century, it's not enough for this to be merely unconstitutional; it already is. We have to make it technically infeasible.
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Reclaim The Net
10 months
NEW: Nikki Haley says if she's made president, every social media user will be "verified by their name" for "national security" purposes.
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7 months
Yes, I promise. A desktop @FUTOgrayjay is coming. Get pumped
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Eron Wolf sits down with Andreas Kling to talk about the Ladybird Browser, to which we recently gave a grant of $200k. Enjoy!
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FUTO
1 month
What other open source projects do you want to see us donate to?
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1 month
Introducing our July Microgrants recipients: Hyprland, Wine, Exiftool, and Garage!
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FUTO
10 months
9 months ago, we hosted a conference for anti-establishment software engineers in which a couple of our engineers gave a talk about how they created Grayjay. We filmed it for educational value. 🧵
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FUTO
10 months
The lesson is that if you used Grayjay, it *wouldn't matter* what platforms do or do not host the content you want. If a creator is anywhere on the Internet, Grayjay can connect you, automatically. What any company or platform thinks of what you want to watch is irrelevant!
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FUTO
4 months
Louis Rossmann recounts our latest correspondence with Google
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FUTO
2 months
lots of buzz around FUTO Keyboard the last few days. Here’s the kicker: it really is that good. Find out for yourself!
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FUTO
11 months
Thank you The Quartering for covering our new app! Grayjay only exists because of creators, so we want to make this an app that every creator and viewer wants to use. Thread
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FUTO
10 months
Today, Youtube took down the video and gave us a warning, informing us that this powerpoint presentation violated their Harmful and Dangerous Acts policy.
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FUTO
2 months
The GREAT Vsauce2 called into our show to discuss the soft censorship of educational videos on Youtube with The Kino Corner. Watch the video to hear what they have to say!
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FUTO
2 years
There are so many people like Bill Gates in tech
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FUTO
7 months
Yeah, that kinda sucks doesn't it? Someone should do something about that 😉
@StephenKing
Stephen King
7 months
Just because you bought it doesn't mean you own it.
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FUTO
2 months
This is why FUTO exists. Lawfare and the Supreme Court aren't a silver bullet. We can't just sue our way into a censorship-free internet. As long as ultra-centralized levers of power over public discourse exist, those in power will be tempted to pull on them. The key is to
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10 months
We wouldn't want Grayjay's success to overshadow FUTO's other fantastic projects. For example, if you ever wanted totally local voice-to-text -- no calling home to Google! -- we quietly solved that problem.
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FUTO
11 months
Check out Louis Rossmann's in-depth video about the whole Grayjay project on YouTube...or better yet, get Grayjay first, then follow Louis and watch it on there!
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FUTO
2 months
Now is a great time to try Grayjay if you haven't already. More and more people are refusing to be locked into one little silo of online content!
@FUTOgrayjay
Grayjay
9 months
Are you interested in using Grayjay? Here are some quick video tutorials to help you get started so that you can start enjoying content across the whole internet in one place! 🧵 1/ How do you install Grayjay?
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FUTO
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Wait, FUTO has an official blog now?! And there’s a first post by our founder, Eron Wolf?! No way!
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FUTO
3 months
Louis Rossmann sat down with Eron Wolf to discuss FUTO's new license. Watch the video to learn more.
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FUTO
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Louis went down to the Houston Abilities Expo to discuss wheelchair repair issues with grant recipient Thomas of the Mobility Independence Foundation. Watch the video!
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FUTO
6 months
Heads up FUTO Fans - over the next day or two we'll be dropping hours of fresh new content. All the presentations and panels from both tracks of our "Don't Be Evil" Summit earlier this month will be available through Grayjay and some other, less notable video apps
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FUTO
11 months
We're hiring a Software Engineer for Grayjay to help us bring creator platform flexibility to everyone. Please share this with anyone you think would be a great fit:
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FUTO
2 years
Return to Tradition
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FUTO
7 months
If you're interested, Louis Rossmann has taken the time to read both their letter and our response. Enjoy. Better yet, follow Louis on @FUTOgrayjay and enjoy it there.
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FUTO
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I'm sure its a nice place but we are not the Federal University of Technology Owerri in Nigeria. Please stop @'ing us😭
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4 months
Big announcement today in FUTOland! We're proud to reveal that immich, the most sovereign (not to mention best!) photo and video hosting solution we've come across, is officially joining FUTO
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FUTO
6 months
Good question. A better one is "are you sure you have?"
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Brave
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What made you ditch Google?
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FUTO
10 months
If you want to learn more about our app Grayjay, then follow us on Rumble. Or, you know, install the Rumble plugin on Grayjay. Link in reply
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FUTO
5 months
Enjoying the start of the eclipse at FUTO HQ yesterday!
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10 months
But what's the real lesson from this? It's not that you should look for your favorite content on different platforms. It's not even *just* that you should check out Grayjay (although you should!)
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FUTO
11 months
We appreciate all of your support for GrayJay and open source software! So much support, in fact, that y’all hug of death’d our gitlab instance. Working on getting that back up! - engineer in charge of the gitlab instance
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The Kino Corner sat down with Ross Scott to discuss his Stop Killing Games campaign. Watch the video to learn more about this campaign to protect consumer rights.
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FUTO
7 months
If you prefer reading yourself, here are the letters themselves:
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FUTO
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Our statement on what we'll do to comply with the law while also protecting our users
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If anyone in tech wants to be in one of our videos to discuss tech news, projects, tech freedom, or any other FUTO-aligned topics, please DM us or send an email to peter @futo .org.
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7 months
We have a new app in beta that you can try out right now! Circles is like Facebook but with the privacy of Signal. Download it from the Play Store or Testflight today! Thank you @thekinocorner for shouting it out in your latest video! If you like films, join his film group!
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Here is our new video introducing the new purchasing options we have just rolled out to support Immich and our response to some community feedback we have received.
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Immich has joined FUTO! Watch our stream highlights video to learn more about this exciting partnership.
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Announcing our August Microgrant recipients: Suckless, Whonix, Dear Imgui, and Nest.
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FUTO
4 months
Reject Slack Embrace Zulip
@QuinnyPig
Corey Quinn
4 months
I'm sorry Slack, you're doing fucking WHAT with user DMs, messages, files, etc? I'm positive I'm not reading this correctly.
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Another example of why you should get @FUTOgrayjay installed ASAP! Follow creators, not "channels" and no one will be able to decide a video on Lysenkoism is "too shocking" for you to see in your feed.
@VsauceTwo
Vsauce2
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I have no words for what @teamyoutube just told me. They've accused Vsauce2 of contributing 'shock content' that is vulgar and in violation of age guidelines. I've made 500+ educational videos over 10 years without ANY problem at all. I don't know what to do.
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It is with much embarrassment that I report we started a TikTok
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We perhaps need to do a better job explaining it to the public. It’s really really cool. Watch this space
@real3eyedLion
3EyedLion
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@FUTO_Tech Grayjay is hard to understand conceptionally at first for many people. I'm having some problems convincing people. Still would recommend. Daily driver on my phone. I'd really love a cooperation with SmartTubeTv 🤩
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2 years
Glenn Greenwald on the importance of anonymity on the internet
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FUTO
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Most swipe datasets are locked inside corporations and generated by spying on users. This has made it hard to improve swiping on our keyboard. So, we're reaching out to the community to help construct an open swipe dataset. Learn how to participate here:
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FUTO
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We have more content from the conference and for all of you who don't use Peertube (that's almost everyone - we can see the view count), we're putting all the videos up here on Twitter. 1) Eron Wolf gives a brief introduction; discussing his past, the state of Big Tech nowadays,
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FUTO
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New FUTO statement on "open source"
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FUTO
10 months
Due to recent actions by an exceedingly large Silicon Valley corporation, we can't guarantee they'll be available on *every* platform. But we *can* guarantee they'll be on Grayjay. How? Because with Grayjay, if it's available ANYWHERE, it's available to you!
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FUTO
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This is going to be incredibly cool...and not just because it includes FUTO's vision for sovereign identity as a plot element.
@thekinocorner
The Kino Corner
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New short coming soon
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FUTO
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We were honored last weekend to host a hackathon at our FUTO campus in collaboration with @hackclub , the Girl Scouts of Central Texas, Girls Who Code, and We Rise and Inspire!
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10 months
How do I search on Grayjay?
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FUTO
11 months
Nope! Even better, the complete source code for the app is public so anyone can verify this: Same for our initial plugins here:
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EmpireSec
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@FUTO_Tech Do you route the video traffic through your server?
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FUTO
9 months
Love this energy. We've gotten a few like this for @FUTOgrayjay and FUTO Voice Input purchases. That's how we know we're appealing to the right audience.
@signalapp
Signal
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We are touched by and grateful for every donation, including the occasional envelope of cash.
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Who’s ready for some “Don’t Be Evil” Summit videos?
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4 months
Our panel talk is now public on Youtube for your viewing pleasure. Let's just hope you're watching it on the Grayjay app! Link in reply
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FUTO
9 months
Wow. Interesting. What if there were an easy way to do this not just for Y*uTube but for every platform and source on the internet, all from one app?? Oh wait. There is.
@bzogrammer
Charles Rosenbauer
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The elites don't want you to know this But the videos on the Internet are free You can download them I have over 40,000 YouTube videos
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FUTO
2 years
The only people moderating content should be parents and consumers on their own devices. Social media with NO political censorship should be the norm.
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1 year
FUTO engineer Harpo Roeder talks about the upcoming FUTO app, Harbor. (Note: At the time of this talk, the working name for this app was Neopass)
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FUTO just did our first ever Costco dogs and pizza lunch in Austin today. Sorely disappointed none of us thought of this.
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Mood
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FUTO
11 months
If you still have questions about Grayjay, check out Louis's second video on this exciting new app from FUTO. Also, stay tuned for video tutorials!
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FUTO
2 years
. @ggreenwald joined us in the FUTO Studio to discuss censorship, the insidious nature of ad networks, and the importance of independent journalism in the online age. Link in reply.
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FUTO
11 months
We’re so back
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FUTO
11 months
We appreciate all of your support for GrayJay and open source software! So much support, in fact, that y’all hug of death’d our gitlab instance. Working on getting that back up! - engineer in charge of the gitlab instance
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wonder if any of them ever wanted to work at *not* a Gibsonian evil megacorporation🤔...like maybe in Austin... jobs @futo .org guys srsly let's talk
@Perpetualmaniac
Zach Vorhies / Google Whistleblower
8 months
Google starts massive layoffs. Just happened 5 hours ago. It's hitting core devs.
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Wherever you work(ed) -- laid off, quit, or just bored -- if you're really an "ace coder," I can promise you one thing: come to FUTO and you'll never work under a "non-coding manager who has no clue what their staff actually does" again
@cliffski
cliffski
8 months
Twitch is firing loads of staff, now so is discord, and many others have done the same. This was all started when twitter laid off a huge number of devs. Everyone at the top knew this needed doing, but were waiting for someone to go first. Where is the outrage now? Are discord
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Louis Rossmann: All The Design Failures of iPhones
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2 years
We have an invitation for you: Come build your dream anti-establishment project without having to give up any equity. Applications open now!
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2 years
Louis Rossmann: The Real Problems With Open Source
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2 years
We've got a couple new videos up for you guys! Links in replies
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Hyprland: Wine: Exiftool: Garage:
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Ian Clarke's full presentation on FREENET at the FUTO Self-Hosted Summit!
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2 years
hello world
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8 months
Play Store : Average Joes :: Side Load : True Pros
@thekinocorner
The Kino Corner
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Side loading gets you a better version of the app. You can get it here:
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FUTO
1 year
> We absolutely will take legal action against those who stole our data Who is “our”?
@elonmusk
Elon Musk
1 year
@TimSweeneyEpic 1. Scraping is already disallowed by T&C. 2. The scraping orgs dgaf & mask their IPs through proxy servers or through orgs that appear legit. For example, a recent massive scraping operation originating from Oracle IP addresses was just using their servers as a laundromat. 3.
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2 years
Last week, Curtis Yarvin joined our founder Eron Wolf to discuss tech freedom. The entire video is a new tech exclusive, so you can only watch it in full on sites like @OdyseeTeam ! We'll post short clips to Youtube in the coming days. Link in reply
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New Video! Pavel joins Eron to discuss how to build your own smart TV without using invasive Big Tech solutions. Link in reply
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Starting class at @UTAustin ? Want FREE Chick-fil-a during orientation on Friday? You're in luck! FUTO is moving Friday lunch back to 2410 San Antonio and we have a special treat this week: @AllumBokhari of @FFO_Freedom will be joining to deliver a talk on the demise of #GARM
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FUTO
9 months
Actually a mandatory educational trip for FUTO employees. They have to learn about the future they're working to save you from.
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The Kino Corner
9 months
My whole office is going to the cinema tomorrow night to watch Brazil
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