Craig Cunningham @craigevil@librem.one

#WhatsApp is currently down. This is your regular reminder that centralized platforms are centralized: a single point of failure and control.

Help spread the word about open decentralized networks.

If you want to migrate your family or other social group away from proprietary apps but don't know how, that's what we're here for. You can self-host Snikket or sign up for our hosted platform. After setup, invite your contacts with a simple link and you're done.

https://snikket.org/service/quickstart/

Good luck!

"The Fediverse" is more than just Mastodon. The Fediverse is many platforms that talk to each other using a common technical standard called ActivityPub.

If you're using one Fediverse platform, you can also interact with people on other Fediverse platforms, because ActivityPub connects them together.

Shares, follows, likes, comments... these things federate across the Fediverse from one platform to another. This happens so seamlessly that you may not even realise it is happening!

Try it yourself below:

@amogurumi is on PixelFed, a photo platform

@craftykat is on PeerTube, a video platform

@Jonathan is on WordPress (with WordPress ActivityPub plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub), a blogging platform

If you access these from Mastodon, they look just like Mastodon accounts, and you interact with them in the same way too.

However, if you click on their profile avatar images you will see them on their home platforms.

#FediTips #Fediverse #ActivityPub

OBS Studio 27.1.2 is out: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases/tag/27.1.2 #linux #linuxgaming #release #update #obs #videocapture #foss

Hackaday Remoticon: Tickets and T-Shirts! - Tickets for the Hackaday Remoticon are now available and there’s one big addition ... - https://hackaday.com/2021/10/04/hackaday-remoticon-tickets-and-t-shirts/ #2021hackadayremoticon #cons

How do leaderless legions of ants, birds or fish sometimes seem to function as a singular entity? The answer lies in the idea of emergence, a concept that demonstrates how a whole can be greater than the sum of its parts. https://www.quantamagazine.org/emergence-how-complex-wholes-emerge-from-simple-parts-20181220/ https://twitter.com/QuantaMagazine/status/1445061947657961477/video/1
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Pandora Papers expose how the world's ultra rich hide their money - CNET - Newly published investigation sheds light on secret offshore financial system. - https://www.cnet.com/tech/pandora-papers-expose-how-the-worlds-ultra-rich-hide-their-money/#ftag=CAD590a51e

Facebook and Some of Its Apps Go Down Simultaneously - Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger all showed outage on Monday, accordi... - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/04/technology/facebook-down.html #computersandtheinternet #computernetworkoutages #mobileapplications #instantmessaging #instagraminc #socialmedia #facebookinc #whatsappinc

To Reduce Facebook’s Harms to Teens, Target its Data-Hungry Business Model, we write in @techpolicypress

https://techpolicy.press/insta-toxic-to-reduce-facebooks-harms-to-teens-target-its-data-hungry-business-model/

At the heart of how content is curated and shown to teens and other people on Instagram, is the company’s extensive and invasive data collection.

Distribution Release: 10/02 SystemRescue 8.05 http://distrowatch.com/systemrescue

The beloved Babylon 5 is getting rebooted, and series creator JMS is running the show - In 1994, J. Michael Straczynski (Sense8, Changeling) broug... - https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/27/22696836/babylon-5-reboot-j-michael-straczynski-warner-bros-the-cw

Pulling methane out of the atmosphere could slow global warming—if we can figure out how to do it - Pulling methane out of the atmosphere has the potential to help slow global warming in t... - https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/09/27/1036284/methane-removal-slow-global-warming/ #carbonsequestration #climatechange #cleanenergy

Microsoft’s free course teaches the non-tech skills you missed in school - It’s no secret the tech industry often doesn’t fully represent the people it attem... - https://thenextweb.com/news/microsoft-tech-resilience-amanda-silver #insider #plugged

Package Release: 09/27 inkscape 1.1.1 Inkscape: a drawing tool that uses the W3C standard scalable vector graphics format (SVG) https://www.inkscape.org/

Today we look at the Dialect application on Linux Mint via the Flatpak version. We look at how the application works and how it can help you out.

https://youtu.be/qdg9pQ2XsQ8

NY prepared for tens of thousands of unvaccinated health workers to lose jobs - Enlarge / Demonstrators hold signs during a protest against COVID-19 mandates in ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1798836 #infectiousdisease #publichealth #covid-19 #science #mandate #newyork #vaccine

Ford picks Kentucky and Tennessee for $11.4 billion EV investment - Enlarge / A rendering of the BlueOvalSK campus in Glendale, Kentucky. (credit: F... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1798764 #batteryelectricvehicles #skinnovation #tennessee #kentucky #biz&it #cars #ford

Electronic Frontier Foundation will deprecate HTTPS Everywhere plugin https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/electronic-frontier-foundation-will-deprecate-https-everywhere-plugin/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_source=twitter&utm_social-type=owned&utm_medium=social by @jrssnet
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Digital health ID for every Indian - We explain how it will work
https://web.archive.org/web/20210927184056/https://www.techradar.com/news/digital-health-id-for-every-indian-we-explain-how-it-will-work

Raspberry Pi 4 model Bs arriving with newer 'C0' stepping http://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/raspberry-pi-4-model-bs-arriving-newer-c0-stepping #linux #hardware #raspberrypi #upgrade

Misinformation has pushed American democracy to the brink, former CISA chief says - CNET - Erosion in confidence in democracy could be "potentially catastrophic" - https://www.cnet.com/tech/misinformation-has-pushed-american-democracy-to-the-brink-former-cisa-chief-says/#ftag=CAD590a51e