Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

For people wanting some more information on NGI's involvement with #ActivityPub, this is a good starter: https://www.ngi.eu/blog/2022/11/24/how-ngi-supports-open-interoperable-decentralised-and-trust-based-internet-applications-through-fediverse-projects-like-mastodon/

Do you have an interesting ActivityPub-related project? The next deadline to submit proposals is December 1st - that is next week. And the best thing is: you can submit today!

We're thankful for secure end-to-end encryption 🔐 , but...

How long is your current phone in service?

#FDroidUserSurvey

@fdroidorg Installing #postmarketOS helps 😉

@postmarketOS @fdroidorg if only more OEMs would bother to add mainline support for their phones...

Pinafore's wellness settings are pretty awesome. No for-profit social media site would ever have the balls to do something like this.

@eighthave @fdroidorg That's typically the reason why I can't support open source anymore. The freedom to do anything you want means the freedom to build the biggest capitalist company in the history of humanity and making money off of whatever your software can do.

I actually believe Open Source has done more harm than good, but it's just a gut feeling. Only Libre Software can be beneficial for humanity.

@matthew_d_green Now that they have gotten heavier into the advertising business, and have successfully pushed competitors out of their space, they have business reasons too.

When I hear them talk about privacy it's the same definition as when Google or others say it. They mean protecting your data from third parties or competitors, but not themselves.

So when Apple does things that harm privacy, you know it’s a choice — not some business exigency. Not that the latter is an excuse.

Will We Learn From Twitter's Collapse?
https://vsquare.org/will-we-learn-from-twitters-collapse/

My piece got published by #VSquare.

> Even as we watch in disbelief as #Twitter goes down in flames, we continue to put all our digital eggs in the baskets of Google Docs or Microsoft Office 365. We continue to host our services on Amazon AWS, behind CloudFlare. We continue to tie our businesses and public debate and our digital lives to Facebook. Because it’s easier that way.
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> Until it’s not. But by then it’ll be too late.

Just hard-deleted my @legind@twitter.com account. Bye bye, birdie. #twitterexodus

Imagine you could install any software on any device. The devices you own that don't receive updates anymore, or where you found out that the software is full of ads/tracking. You could replace it, maybe with a Linux distro like postmarketOS running mainline. These devices wouldn't need to be electronic waste. We signed @fsfe's #openletter to the EU to make this happen.

You can sign it, too!

https://fsfe.org/activities/upcyclingandroid/openletter.html

#Ecodesign #RightToRepair #EWWR #FreeSoftware #LinuxMobile #UpcyclingAndroid

@eighthave

Closed source code will always have possibility for surveillance regardless of business model.

Interesting thread on Apple Analytics’ ability to identify you. https://twitter.com/mysk_co/status/1594515229915979776?s=46&t=ypH4xGEMqh_GZTOt0vx1OQ

If some rich dude can buy the public square, then it wasn't the public square.