Notices by Em :official_verified: (em0nm4stodon@infosec.exchange)

Voting in Canada today was a breeze.

There was no line for me, and it took less than 5 minutes!

If you can vote and haven't yet,
there is no reason not to go.

Yes, you still have time! 🗳️🇨🇦

#Canada #CanadaVotes #CanPol #ElbowsUp

If Pierre Poilievre wins tonight,
I might have to start listening to metal music non-stop as a rage-coping mechanism until the situation is resolved.

#Canada #CanadaVotes

Today, vote for Canada to stay Canada 🇨🇦

Vote to keep Universal Healthcare.
Vote to keep guns regulated.
Vote to keep our democracy.

And vote against Pierre Poilievre who would be more than happy to sell us out and abdicate without a fight.

Vote for Canada's sovereignty.
This election is crucial.

#CanadaVotes #Canada #CanPoli #CanPol #USpol #ElbowsUp

If you are voting on Monday April 28th
(and if you are an adult Canadian the answer to this should be YES) 🗳️🇨🇦

Don't forget to bring with you official IDs and some official letters with your current address on it, in case you need to re-register on the voting list. This is especially true if you have not received a voting card in the mail.

For some obscure reason, and despite none of my information changing since the last federal election, I had been removed from my current address and would have not found out before election day if I had not checked and called in advance to correct this.

I find this pretty suspicious by the way,
and I'm afraid it might have happened to others who will only find out on Monday and not have the proper identification with them.

Let's make sure your vote is counted.
This election is crucial 🇨🇦

#Canada #Vote #CanPoli #CanPol

To my American friends,

Know that this Monday we have a very important election in Canada.

We are trying to stop Musk-backed Canadian-Trump Pierre Poilievre from becoming our Prime Minister (President).

We are also trying to stay a country.
Just that.

Wish us luck! 🤞🗳️🇨🇦

#Canada #ElbowsUp #CanPoli #CanPol #USPol

Can you believe that
you are here, and I am here,
and we can share and communicate together,
and no billionaires were involved in this happening or continuing in any ways?

How fraking fantastic is this! :blobcatrainbow: :mastodon:

#Mastodon #Fediverse

I'm in a Fediverse love mood 🥰

Please share your favorite Fediverse moment with me :mastodon: 👀

#Fediverse

@nazokiyoubinbou @moelassus I find it really terrifying how there seem to be no modern alternative at all to spying cars.

I hope this is a market that develops soon. Offline cars with buttons please.

If you could get one piece of tech (gadget, software, etc) from between 1995-2005 to get main stream again today, which one would it be? 👀

Protesting isn't a one-time thing.

To be effective, you need to do it again and again and again, and come with more people each time, and shout even louder each time.

But it does work.
It does change the world.

If you are not publishing a date with
your online articles you are going to a special kind of hell where time is just a sloppy swamp and everything that happened is also happening right now but everything that is happening now happened 20 years ago.

I don't make the rules,
and I don't wish you ill,
but put a freakin date on your articles 😭

If you are still using Google or Facebook services to communicate and store data, the best time to leave was yesterday.

The second best time to leave is right now.

#DeleteFacebook #LeaveGoogle #Meta #Facebook #Google #Privacy

I'm so tired of the world.

I'm so tired of the general lack of empathy.

I'm so tired of the general lack of kindness.

We are entering an era of paywalled news where the poor will only be able to afford reading the headlines, and never the articles.

This isn't gonna help the current state of the world, at all.

Has anyone called it the Department Of Government Enshittification yet?

#DOGE #USpol

Periodic tiny reminder that you do not have to (and actually shouldn't) give your own name to your devices.

Give them their own unique names.

Your privacy will be better for it,
and they'll be happier :neocat_laptop: ✨

#Privacy

People Who Play DnD and Other Table Top RPG :dragon_cool: :d20:✨:

If you do not use it already,
I must tell you how awesome Anytype is for DnD games!

You can use it to:

Create a shared space with your players for documentation and rules :neocat_book:

Create a calendar of your games' schedule to share with your players and keep track of games' summaries and experience points received 📆

Live-share with your players images, names, and other information about the NPCs and creatures they encounter during a game :dragn_head:

Keep a copy of your players' character sheets (or even create one as an object you can update in Anytype) 📜

Create a separate space you keep private for your campaign notes, NPCs, maps, and encounters information and images 🤫

It. Is. AWESOME! :awesome:

All of this while being:

👉 End-to-end encrypted!
👉 Open code!
👉 Available on mobile!
👉 No email nor phone number required!

I also had some interaction with the team and they were absolutely fantastic! 💚

By far the best tool I've ever used for my games as a DM.

I highly recommend it! 👇
https://anytype.io/

#DnD #DungeonsAndDragons #TTRPG #Anytype

New Privacy Guides article 🔐✨
by me:

If you want to keep your password manager local-only, KeePassXC is a great solution!

It's free,
Open-source,
Easy to install and use,
Doesn't require an account,
Works on Linux, macOS, and Windows,
And the team is here! 👉 @keepassxc

Here's how to set it up with a YubiKey: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/03/18/installing-keepassxc-and-yubikey/

#PrivacyGuides #KeePassXC #Privacy #Security #PasswordManager #Passwords #FOSS

In my life, I have personally witnessed the equivalent of a country President getting kicked out of office by the people *twice*. And I'm not even that old.

Do not underestimate the power of large and sustained protests.

You have that power.

#USpol

After Amazon's news this week,
I feel the need to share this advice from my Privacy Guides article again:

Notify guests if you are
using a smart speaker 🔇

If you are using a smart speaker device in your home such as Amazon's Echo (Alexa), Apple's HomePod (Siri), Google's Nest,

Inform your guests about it when they enter your home ⚠️

These devices have the capacity
to record all conversations, and there has already been instances of accidental privacy invasion reported about this 🔓

Even if you don't mind yourself,
offer your guests to UNPLUG your smart speaker while they are visiting you 🔌

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/03/10/the-privacy-of-others/#notify-guests-if-you-are-using-a-smart-speaker

#Privacy #SmartSpeaker #Amazon #Alexa #Echo