Joshua Crawford has moved @jlcrawf@librem.one

I passed my PhD qualification exam!

Hey infosec tooters, I'm looking to find somebody who can speak frankly and on the record about general user concerns with maybe-burning Twitter. Like does deleting your DMs actually do anything, that sort of topic. Who should I talk to?

100 Mastodon myths:

1. Mastodon is hard.

FALSE. It’s a "soft"ware. Not hardware.

2. You have to use Linux to post on Mastodon.

FALSE. FreeBSD and OpenBSD are also supported.

3. You need to learn to use the Vim editor before posting on Mastodon.

FALSE. There’s also an emacs plugin.

4. Mastodon is only for computer nerds.

FALSE. As you can see, we sometimes try to make jokes that everyone could understand.

The thing about Twitter is that it really lacks a lot of the features you'd expect from a true Mastodon replacement.

For example, there's no way to edit your toots (which they, confusingly call "tweets"—let's face it, it's a bit of a silly name that's difficult to take seriously).

"Tweets" can't be covered by a content warning. There's no way to let the poster know you like their tweet without also sharing it, and no bookmark feature.

There's no way to set up your own instance, and you're basically stuck on a single instance of Twitter. That means there's no community moderators you can reach out to to quickly resolve issues. Also, you can't de-federate instances with a lot of problematic content.

It also doesn't Integrate with other fediverse platforms, and I couldn't find the option to turn the ads off.

Really, Twitter has made a good start, but it will need to add a lot of additional features before it gets to the point where it becomes a true Mastodon replacement for most users.

#twitter #mastodon #twittermigration

Let’s try this again. Where you at #fediverse? Boosts welcome so we can get the best sample size.

Now that most of the conversation (and friends) are here, I wonder at what point I will stop cross posting. I always started posts there because of the lower character limit, but I think starting today new posts will start here and get trimmed if neccessary to cross-post there, second. #TwitterMigration

i posted a while ago about how i wish #libreoffice had a mobile-friendly toolbar option out of the box, but by changing a few options this can be achieved pretty easily. first, i disabled all toolbars except the formattimg one to maximize the space to view the document. second i resized paper (in writer) to A5 and set the view to 'fit to width' so that i don't have to adjust font size constantly to see text. useful for both portrait and landscape

Are you a web developer looking for work? We got a project for you! We need a freedom minded person who can work with us to develop a new ecommerce site for ThinkPenguin. The ideal candidate will be familiar with Drupal and free software tools. We want to retain control over as much of the site as possible and not deal with the BS SaAS that is WordPress and similar solutions. Nor platforms based on Java or Adobe. Just say no to JavaScript overload and ties to social media & Google.

In case gnome-control-center (the settings app) instantly crashes when being started, try:

gsettings reset org.gnome.Settings last-panel

Putting this here, just so we can link to the answer 🤭

This guy gets it!

RT
Just learned a useful Phosh trick on my Pinephone Pro :

Hold the rotate button on the slide-down menu to switch from
auto-rotate on / off to
Portrait/landscape options.

To all of you who have backed the Librem 5 project, however long you have been with us: thank you for joining us. It has been a long and difficult journey to build a freedom- and privacy-respecting phone like the Librem 5. While the end of this journey is in sight, we aren’t quite there yet. Here is more 📱

https://puri.sm/posts/thank-you-for-joining-us?mtm_campaign=status_update&mtm_source=organic&mtm_medium=librem_social&mtm_content=ls-thank-you-for-joining-us

Shape Shifting Computer in your hands, Powered by Convergence and PureOS. Take a look and share!📱 💻

https://puri.sm/posts/shape-shifting-computer-powered-by-convergence/?mtm_campaign=promo&mtm_source=organic&mtm_medium=librem_social&mtm_content=ls-shape-shifting-computer&mtm_group=librem5USA

If you're new on here, there's a thread of useful info on how to use Mastodon and the Fediverse at:

https://mstdn.social/@feditips/108193490622939340

If you can't find what you need, @ me or send a message and I'll try to help.

#Fediverse #Mastodon #Help

When my Librem 5 finally comes, maybe it will be even better, but I got tired of waiting and got a mid tier Pinephone. Flashed Mobian on it right away. It is quite good, easily the best phone I've ever had and fully (maybe with a bluetooth keyboard) a laptop replacement. This is largely thanks to Phosh, but the Pinephone is dutifully supportive if occasionally sluggish

sxmo is in Debian unstable now, with a fresh mobian you can try it with: sudo apt install sxmo-utils; sudo systemctl disable --now phosh (still very fresh, so maybe have a working ssh in place to recover)

Phosh has a new optional feature that uses the light sensor to switch to a high contrast theme whenever it detects you are in direct sunlight. Very cool, especially since it also applies to the lock screen and all GTK apps too. #Librem5