Adam @adam@librem.one

If WhatsApp infrastructure were owned by users, not Facebook, then #FacebookDown could only affect one household at a time. Communicating with family and work is too important to be the job of one company. Decentralize now! #EmailFTW

The talk “Diving deep into Briar - a closer look at its internals” is now online.

"After shortly introducing Briar and talking about the features it offers, I showed how Briar works on the lower levels and how it makes use of the Bramble Protocols."
It's available on #peertube and youtube.

more here:
https://nico.dorfbrunnen.eu/posts/2021/diving-at-xmpp/

Mobilizon is a free open source Fediverse events platform, a privacy-friendly alternative to Facebook Events. You can follow their official account at:

➡️ @mobilizon

Its official websites are at:

https://joinmobilizon.org/en

and

https://mobilizon.org/en

You can follow Mobilizon accounts from Mastodon etc. because it uses the same ActivityPub federation standard as the rest of the Fediverse.

#Mobilizon #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Activism #SelfHosting #FOSS #Libre #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Events

RT @ReedSavory@twitter.com

The ENTIRE FUCKING DOMAIN FOR FACEBOOK NO LONGER EXISTS:

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ReedSavory/status/1445066528601387018

New pictures #shotonpinephone with the latest #megapixels from #debian #bookworm running on the #pinephone with #mobian.
Thanks to all who make this possible!

https://petrisch2.duckdns.org/apps/cms_pico/pico/pinephone/Camera/Bern

If you use #GMail, #Google keeps records of everything you buy, even if you delete the email receipt, and even if you didn't buy the product from them. Here's metadata from my takeout showing price, delivery address, description, vendor, etc. #privacy

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
)

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.

📱

#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. 😊