Anybody wondering how alt-right became such a prominent force in the West in recent years really needs to read up on the rise of fascism during the start of the 20th century.
https://eastsidemarxism.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/michael-parenti-blackshirts-and-reds-rational-fascism-and-the-overthrow-of-communism.pdf

a good summary of some problems with Signal https://dessalines.github.io/essays/why_not_signal.html

Revolt is an open-source alternative to Discord https://itsfoss.com/revolt/

A succinct explanation of ACAB

the most detailed picture of the Sun's surface ever taken http://www.astronomy.com/news/2020/01/see-the-most-detailed-picture-of-the-suns-surface-ever-taken

Three years after the W3C approved a DRM standard, it's no longer possible to make a functional indie browser https://boingboing.net/2020/01/08/rip-open-web-platform.html

TIL