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Whoa. thanks for sharing my content. Let's see if we can get a great speakers lined up, so we can do a small step towards our mission!
Any ideas on how we make the care?
I wish I can promote this to the whole internet. this is not the way to control the internet :)
I am wondering if we will see this applied at all :) Especially for text.
I use wordpress as self-hosted and write.as online
Posted by
bogomil on Sunday August 02, 2026 @03:11AM
from the ask-hn dept.
We made a free, remixable postcard project about noticing the surveillance cameras that blend into everyday life, mapping where they are, and encouraging people to respond creatively to their presence through art, messages, documentation, or other interventions. We have almost no budget, and outreach to similar organizations has led nowhere. What would you try next to get more people to...
Paint the Cameras Dead campaign asks people to notice the surveillance infrastructure disappearing into the background of our cities. Look up. Find the cameras. Ask who placed them there and what they see. Map them, but do not stop there. Respond with something of your own. A drawing. A sticker. A message. An intervention we have not imagined yet.
The postcards are now available.
Ah, this is for Germany mainly :)
We started hacking public space with anti-phone zombie stickers: small interventions designed to break algorithmic hypnosis, disrupt passive scrolling, and force people to look up from their feeds.
if you can send some pictures later, on the page there is a anonymous way to send us stuff
Ah, we did it in plan sight, but I guess in the US is different. I head about people arrested while truing to fix the pothole themselves, but not for painting it, yet.
Posted by
bogomil on Friday May 15, 2026 @08:54AM
from the imagenotfound.writeas.com dept.
Cursing the government does not fix potholes. Spray-painting them does. True story, plus the moment Sofia copied us a year later
Yeah, but is this achievable?
Thanks. This is really useful!
Posted by
bogomil on Friday May 01, 2026 @09:29AM
from the talkweb.eu dept.
Every religion has a messiah. AI has a church, a priesthood, an Inquisition, and billions in donations. The Christ slot is still empty.
it could be. How can you convince more people to use it?
Interesting point. What's hard in PGP? Are you setting up manually or via an app like Thunderbird?
That's a good point. Thanks for sharing. I would not comment on the Telegram's privacy at this moment.
Can you tell more about the project? For a small one launching a complicated docs system could be overhead.
So in this case the trigger is the system is down and we need to understand how do we keep doing what we do as a group. But then when the main system is back, how do we keep them into the new one?
I am working on a new talk about how to convince people to use more privacy-respecting tools like Signal, Briar, Sessions instead of BadApps.
Since I can't edit, I want to mention that I will give you the credit while presenting (if you wish of course). Thank you!
Posted by
bogomil on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @06:52AM
from the ask-hn dept.
I just submitted talk proposals for FOSDEM. It goes beyond my usual ramblings on what privacy foss tools we must use and it covers the "how" to convince people to start using them.If you have encouraged someone to switch to say Signal, or Sessions, or XMPP or some other tool/protocol, please share here.I need as much success stories as possible.-----
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Posted by
bogomil on Monday October 09, 2023 @09:29AM
from the ask-hn dept.
Is it only me who found the idea of #Hacktoberfest ineffective? Encouraging people to have only one month in the year to create and contribute to a movement about freedom is counterproductive.I see many companies doing marketing-fueled efforts to support it and many community members competing with questionable PRs to get a rank or something. I miss the talk about #FOSS's value and how we can...