Andrew Adams @adamsandy@librem.one
Passionate enthusiasts advocate (not an expert) about privacy and data protection online and offline.
Joined Mar 2023
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Framasoft the company behind Peertube which is a free and open source YouTube alternative is looking for donations to reach their budget for 2025.
Please donate if you can! 
https://soutenir.framasoft.org/en/
#tech #technology #OpenSource #DonateNow #Peertube #degoogle #framasoft
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If you’re looking for an EU alternative to AzireVPN since they’ve now sold to a US company (why, hello, Trump presidency, how goes?), see Mullvad VPN (@mullvadnet).
Does this mean the Star Fighter is now available? But what/why is that wait time so long. @starlabssystems
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NovaCustom chooses not to track its website visitors with third-party scripts. This policy is intended to protect end-user privacy. 🛡️
https://novacustom.com/why-we-dont-use-google-analytics-to-track-you/
@aral I know your not a big fan of System 76. But what do you think about Cosmic as a new Linux DE?
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I know a lot of you use @Vivaldi and would like to help us grow. Here are a few things you can do to help us. Thank you for your support!
1. Recommend @Vivaldi to your friends. Help them install and setup. Show them the features you think they would most like.
2. Follow @Vivaldi here and on other social networks you frequent.
3. Boost articles by @Vivaldi which have a broader appeal here and on other social networks.
4. Invite your friends to join Vivaldi Social. Support the Fediverse.
5. Donate. Many of you asked for it and now you can.
Have a great day!
#Vivaldi #Windows #Mac #Linux #Android #iOS #fediverse #Mastodon
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KDE Neon has been rebased on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS! Find out more about the changes and upgrades: blog.neon.kde.org/2024/10/10/kde-neon-rebased-on-ubuntu-24-04-lts/
@starlabssystems Any plan to bring the Star Fighter back in stock or is it permanently sold out?
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NO.
This is so confusing. There are many free things where you are not "the product". We make many, see tromsite.com and trom.tf.
I wish people would stop saying this about google and the like. There is a simple and to the point way of describing these "free" services. They are TRADE-BASED. You have to trade something to them, in order to use their services.
In the same way that when you go to a supermarket you have to trade your currency for what you grab from it, you have to trade your attention (ads) or data to Google when you go on their platform. Currency, attention, data.
S I M P L E
We live in a TRADE-BASED society where pretty much everything is trade-based. Money is just a currency we invented, but trades go without currency as well.
We spent more than a decade trying to shed some light on this confusion.
Documentary - tromsite.com/documentaries/tro…
Book - tromsite.com/books/#flipbook-t…
So when you create something entirely free, simply call it TRADE-FREE.
S I M P L E :)
#tutanota #free #foss #google #capitalism #trade #trade-based #trade-free #trom #tromsite #privacy #youtube
@aral Have you consider the distro Solus as an replacement for Fedora?
@Solus with @buddiesofbudgie seems like to best combo with @novacustom . For personal privacy and freedom .
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We now have 6 servers dedicated to transcoding/transcribing our Peertube videos videos.trom.tf - thanks to @alexio who is providing 4 of them! Peertube is now a complete replacement for Youtube and I will make sure to push it a lot more in terms of use and promotion! We need to get people to use it, else without content, it won't go anywhere....
Feel free to use our instance!
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You’re not the customer, you’re the data.
#surveillance #capitalism #surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming #BigTech #SiliconValley #VentureCapital #startups #data #humanRights #democracy
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PureOS: Now with optional subscription tiers to accelerate innovation. Support the future of privacy-focused, convergent computing. Your choice, your impact.
https://puri.sm/posts/pureos-optional-subscription-added-to-advance-development/
#PureOS #OpenSourceFunding #Purism
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A BIG monthly THANK YOU to everyone who is supporting TROM financially tromsite.com/donate/ - remember you support a TON of projects. From video/books/documentaries to platforms and what-not. We would need more help so please see our 200 for TROM campaign if you can help out!
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At Purism, we believe your digital life should be yours alone. Our Librem laptops and smartphones are built from the ground up with privacy, security, and freedom in mind. No data collection, no ad tracking, just pure digital independence. #PrivacyMatters #OpenSource #Purism
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Fedora has been shipping with a broken screen reader for NINE YEARS but the real problem is me
#fedora #accessibility #a11y #ableism #RedHat #IBM #Linux #OpenSource
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TROM II: Fixing this society is like fixing aging - videos.trom.tf/w/qrLS7xVhpoKmQ…
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When you hear me talk about Small Tech and Big Tech or Small Web and Big Web, you might think it’s some sort of contest or something.
It’s really not.
Last year, roughly $315,000,000,000 in venture capital was invested in Big Tech.
Roughly €4,764 (€397 monthly donations to Small Technology Foundation × 12) was invested in Small Tech/Small Web.
That’s 0.000001% of venture capital alone invested in Big Tech.
Statistically, we don’t exist.
We’re a rounding error.
Passionate enthusiasts advocate (not an expert) about privacy and data protection online and offline.
Joined Mar 2023
