Adam @adam@librem.one

title text: Honestly feel a little sheepish about the amount of time and effort I spent confirming "yes, the vaccine helps protect people from getting sick and dying" but I guess everyone needs a hobby.

(https://xkcd.com/2515)
(https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2515
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Familiar with Swift, UIKit, and know your way around XCode? Want to help advance the state of #XMPP on #iOS? 📱 We're looking for developers to help bring our iOS app over the finish line! 🏁

This will be a paid short-term project producing FLOSS. DM or email matthew@snikket.org if you're interested.

Not an iOS dev? That's okay, boosts appreciated too! 🙂

Libre Software Phone (The Article)

https://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2021/09/libre-software-phones.html

This is the long article based upon this Mastodon post above. More links, shops, and information included.

❤️ Thank you very much for everyone who participated in this amazing chance!

📩 Sharing is good.

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#FreeSoftware #Phone #Librem5 #PinePhone #UbuntuTouch #eOS #LineageOS #PlasmaMobile #PostmarketOS

#FollowFriday / #FF recap of this week's recommended follows:

🌟 @cryptomator - FOSS app, adds e2e encrypted folder to NextCloud, DropBox, Google Drive etc

🌟 @iode - Sell de-googlised Android smartphones

🌟 @godotengine - Free open 3D/2D game engine for developers

🌟 @timkrief - Unofficial videos about Godot and game development

🌟 @art - Video blog about FOSS, Linux, PCs etc.

🌟 @alsgeeklab - Videos about the history of PCs

🌟 @kiwix - Free open app for using and distributing websites offline

List Of Ethical Code Hostings by 3rd-Parties

sw=Gitea:

1) PrivacyToolsIO
https://git.privacytools.io

2) Disroot
https://git.disroot.org

3) Libregit
https://libregit.org

4) Codeberg
https://codeberg.org

5) Gitea.com
https://gitea.com

6) Teknik.io
https://git.teknik.io

7) OpenDev
https://opendev.org

Software=others:

8) Notabug (Gogs)
https://notabug.org

9) Framasoft (GitLab)
https://framagit.org

10) Sourcehut (Sourcehut)
https://sourcehut.org

#freesw #GitHub

Cryptomator is a free open app that lets you add an end-to-end encrypted folder to your existing cloud service. You can follow at:

➡️ @cryptomator

Cryptomator works with popular cloud services such as @nextcloud, DropBox, Google Drive, One Drive, iCloud etc.

The app is for Linux, Mac, Windows, Android and iPhone/iPad from https://cryptomator.org

#Cryptomator #Privacy #Apps #FOSS #FLOSS #Libre #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Activism #Linux #Mac #Windows #Android #iPhone #Encryption #Crypto

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