Adam @adam@librem.one

Weird how "modern" has come to mean "measurably worse in almost every metric" within the scope of software

@herag I'm not going to lie, I've been tempted to switch back to Windows a few times when I've had to use it for work. But then a problem crops up and I remember why I use Linux. Because that way, when a problem comes up, I can actually fix the problems.

I've heard the phrase "Linux is free if you don't value your time" but in my experience, all of the time I've spent on Linux has a real substantial ROI compared to the time I spend on Windows.

Revision 2 of the PinePhone keyboard, this one is actually nice to type on :D

Set up Tailscale (mesh VPN) recently. Super easy! It allowed me to take my Synology off the public internet, yet still sync photos to it from my phone, and without having to run a VPN server and worry about keys and firewalls and stuff. Everything is protected via my GitHub login with MFA required. And all on the free plan... I'm a happy customer. 😊

Reposting because I love this ​

You can download the files at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b9yuhRzysl8JUFjybniQBLqRiKi0hXcV/view?usp=sharing

You'll need PCem v16 to run it (https://pcem-emulator.co.uk/)

Just place the cfg file into PCem's configs folder, and the disk image file into your hdd folder, and configure the machine to use the hdd image.
SYNTH1.gif

It used to be that "If you aren't paying for something, you are the product" but now you are the product regardless. https://puri.sm/posts/data-double-dipping-when-companies-mine-paying-customers/

WriteFreely is a free open federated blogging platform. You can follow the project's brand new main account at:

➡️ @writefreely@writing.exchange

There's also the official blog at:

➡️ @writefreely@blog.writefreely.org

It's designed as an alternative to Medium, more info at the official website https://writefreely.org

WriteFreely is part of the Fediverse, so you can follow WF accounts from Mastodon.

#WriteFreely #Writing #Blog #Blogs #Blogging #Fediverse #ActivityPub #FOSS #FLOSS #Libre #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #SelfHosting

The #Signal messenger has become very problematic lately, and most of its problems come from it being centralised.

You may want to follow and support a decentralised messenger project instead, there are many of them on the Fediverse:

➡️ @snikket_im - New initiative giving XMPP servers & clients a newbie-friendly unified look and feel

➡️ @xmpp - The XMPP standards foundation

➡️ @matrix - Matrix is best known for its Element client

➡️ @delta - Messaging through email

➡️ @briar - P2P messaging

Oh, an interesting take :)

RT @Pocketnow@twitter.com

10 Ways Delta Chat is Better than WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram https://pocketnow.com/10-ways-delta-chat-is-better-than-whatsapp-signal-and-telegram

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Pocketnow/status/1360579013287288838

> Here are a few examples of things you can’t really do well in a web application:
* Create a fast drawing program
* Build a real-time spell checker with wavy red underlines
* Warn users that they are going to lose their work if they hit the close box of the browser
* Update a small part of the display …without a full roundtrip to the server
* Create a fast keyboard-driven interface that doesn’t require the mouse
* Let people continue working when they are not connected to the Internet

(1/2)

You know what they say: mRNA-1273 before tozinameran, you'll have to slay a banshee in a catamaran.

Penpot is out! Your new Open Source design and prototyping platform.

Try it now! #DesignFreedom 🎨 🎉

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How safe it is to use Delta Chat? Nothing has changed about our stance to user data: we don't have it, not even encrypted, and also no traffic data. Nada. Nothing. Nilch. You insist? Please refer to any of the hundreds of thousands of e-mail servers. Cheers to decentralization :)

News Flash... Flash still hasn't died.
Die flash! Die! 💀

South African government releases its own browser just to re-enable Flash support | ZDNet

https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/south-african-government-releases-its-own-browser-just-to-re-enable-flash-support/