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After removing all Google ads and tracking code from their website, #Techdirt asked their readers to support them with paid adds.

One #FSFE supporter now paid for adds promoting our "Public Money? #PublicCode!" campaign.

More here: techdirt.com/articles/20210825 #nt

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Was also able to use the GPS to record the ride back home and convert the data to a *.gpx file to open in GNOME maps.

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@storm @lorabe @danielst @devinprater @wizzwizz4 @csepp @pvagner I just donated 50 USD to puri.sm/fund-your-app/ to fund "Software Optimizations: Accessibility support/screen reader support with phosh/gtk4" @purism I think we need to find ways to fund a11y support in gtk4, sticking with older unsupported versions is not going to be sustainable for long term.

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@wizzwizz4 @devinprater @csepp @praveen @danielst @lorabe @storm I recall a thread where someone recounted some history behind all this, that there were several projects funded by the (American Council for the Blind?) to improve accessibility, but each time Microsoft (a big ACB funder) threatened to pull funding unless they dropped the projects.

And the reason appears to be: governments require accessibility in their software, so MS et al didn't want any threats to their monopoly over government contracts.

So to accuse OSS community of simply not caring enough to bother isn't really accurate - there is deliberate monopolism at play here. MS and Apple might appear to "care more" but only when it gets them access to tenders, and excludes the communal software from the competition.

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BookWyrm is the Federated GoodReads Replacement I Didn’t Know I Needed

If you aren’t familiar with the concept, #GoodReads is an Amazon-owned social platform that integrates directly with their Kindle offering. #BookWyrm is an #opensource, #federated
alternative designed by Mouse Reeve, and is supported by Patreon donations.

See wedistribute.org/2021/08/bookw?

#books #reading

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Die Instanz hier fragt uns, was es Neues gibt. Machen wir es kurz: uns! Wir sind #neuhier und nutzen die Chance einer #vorstellung
Wir sind der Volksverpetzer, ein Kollektiv von round about 20 Leuten und haben keine Lust auf Fake News, Klimawandel, Hass und Hetzkampagnen.

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Viele haben das mulmige Gefühl, dass sie etwas Falsches tun, wenn sie Facebook, Twitter oder YouTube benutzen.
Stimmt! Es gibt gute Gründe, die Social-Media-Großmächte zu meiden. Aber es gibt gute Alternativen im #Fediverse.

Vortrag in #Bayreuth: digitalcourage.social/@d4m13n/

uAwg /c

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RT @ShannonDowney
Good morning

Please get vaccinated.

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ccc.de/de/updates/2021/ccc-mel
Auf die Meldung mehrerer Schwachstellen in einer Wahlkamp-App reagierte die CDU mit Strafantrag. Der CCC wird CDU-Schwachstellen künftig nicht mehr melden.

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I created a table comparing the specs of 12 phones that can be bought with Linux preinstalled:
amosbbatto.wordpress.com/2020/

It is striking the difference between the amount of information that is publicly available for the PinePhone and Librem 5 compared to all the rest of the Linux phones that use Qualcomm Snapdragon and MediaTek Helio processors, which require NDA's to view their datasheets and don't allow the publication of schematics, because they are based on copyrighted reference designs.

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Oh, hello... could it be that native full-mesh Matrix video conferencing is on the horizon at last?!? featuring a 3x3 matrix of @arobertlong@twitter.com as he demos his brainchild :D
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We are upstreaming our software development for the wider community. Calls will become a part of the @gnome project. Having a dialer application available shows that mobile is an important use case for GNOME. Read more: puri.sm/posts/how-calls-became

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