Helder S Ribeiro @agentofuser@librem.one

when discord asks for your phone number, or facebook wants you to upload a picture of your face, or twitter makes you create an account to view the "tweets and replies" tab...

that's a paywall

you pay with your privacy

Did you know that with the Librem 5 smartphone you can remove the back and have access to :

- the battery
- a removable OpenPGP smart card
- a removable cellular modem
- and a microSD card so you can expand your storage later on

More here:
https://puri.sm/posts/with-purism-products-you-are-in-control/

"Why We’re Relicensing CockroachDB" https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/oss-relicensing-cockroachdb/

Interesting to see this explosion of new open-ish licenses.

A year ago I tried learning ActivityPub, and more or less failed. I was confounded by a spec that was so abstract I couldn't make heads or tails of it. Turns out I was missing some key things.

I have written a guide to learning about ActivityPub that I wish existed a year ago when I first set out to learn how to write social media servers that conform to the spec:

https://tinysubversions.com/notes/reading-activitypub/

I have to say that Rust having a governance page, profiles of people in charge of different aspects of the project, and a RFC process make me lean heavily toward viewing this as an actual language.

Cmpare this with golang that has... um... something?

#golang #rust

Hey, if you're in school and are having trouble paying for your textbooks, search them up on libgen.io to find them for free.

I'm realizing that a lot of people at my college don't know this and are skipping meals to afford overpriced textbooks, so it may help someone on here too. #sharingiscaring

I made this dashboard using the power of #wikidata to help you find people to follow on Mastodon! https://w.wiki/3YG

it's just more worthwhile to write fast code in a functional language than it is to write maintainable code in an imperative language

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Very exciting call for research:

Mozilla has an interest in potentially integrating more of Tor into Firefox 🔥

Tor has never been deployed at this scale, so there are a lot of considerations to research before giving this a try.

Learn more & apply for Mozilla's Research Grant: https://blog.torproject.org/mozilla-research-call-tune-tor-integration-and-scale

Curious about the Librem One moderation policy or code of conduct?

"If you are being harassed, or witness online harassment, block and flag the offending user, and a moderator will take action. We do not tolerate harassment."

More information here:
https://librem.one/stay-safe/

Librem One Code of Conduct:
https://librem.one/conduct/

I woke up to the drama about #LibremOne in the fediverse.

As I said before in [1], while I think removing local and federated timelines from their fork of #Mastodon is a weird (but bold) decision, I think disabling reports is outright problematic for the rest of us in the fediverse.

Now I am glad to see this move 😀. I hope @purism continues to innovate and at the same time, continues to consider feedback from the community.

[1] https://aleph.land/@masoud/102034256618437703

> UPDATE: Version 0.1.4 of #Librem Chat has been released and contains zero trackers.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/05/06/purism-explains-why-there-are-trackers-in-librem-one-chat/

Good news, but @purism need to be more careful about catching privacy vulnerabilities coming in from upstream before #Forbes journalists do!?! This does raise some questions though, about why #Riot has 3 trackers installed in the first place (from #Matomo, gOgle, and Microsoft), and whether they're removed from the @fdroidorg version.