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Kevin C.  

@switchingsocial@mastodon.at @Carnet @joplinapp

+1 for Joplin!

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Kevin C.  

@lunduke Your post inspired me to finally install the client for Linux. Hopefully it will work better than the Android version did . . .

So now I'm following you there :)

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Kevin C.  

@chris Very cool. I hope you keep the fediverse updated with how things go with your blog. If I had more time (and more motivation) to blog, Hugo is what I think I'd be using.

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pixelfed  

⚠️ WE SHIPPED IT! 🎉

You can now follow remote profiles on Pixelfed instances that have enabled the feature.

1. Search the full url (ie: mastodon.social/@pixelfed)

2. Click the follow button on the results page

3. You will start seeing posts from that account on your home timeline

#pixelfed

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Kevin C.  

@linuxjournal This is sad news . . . :(

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Electronic Frontier Foundation  

UN Special Rapporteur David Kaye has a simple response to The New York Times today: “hate speech” does not persist online because of some magical Section 230 shield. Read his explanation here: medium.com/@dkisaway/four-ques

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polymerwitch :blobraccoon:  
i used to be really into having the newest computer gadget. now i use refurbished hardware. it's so much cheaper. it lasts. it reduces landfill waste. it's great, and i don't really feel like i am missing out on much tech-wise.

here are some tips if you need tech stuff but don't want to spend a lot of money, support horrible companies, and such (1/n)
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Chris Wiegman  

Some insights on where the web has gone from the founder of Drupal. cnn.com/2019/07/19/perspective

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Tobias  

Finally, the fediverse icon mosaic is finished - and I love the result :blobheartcat:

#art #mastoart #fediverse #inkscape

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Kevin C.  

@switchingsocial@mastodon.at @wallabag@social.tcit.fr I found I like so much, that I was willing to subscribe to their official instance, even though I could fairly easily self-host it.

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Kevin C.  

@HamDancer @canteen @switchingsocial@mastodon.at Alas, as much as I love my Yubikey, not every sight I want to use 2FA with can work with it, yet.

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chimerical girls  

fun fact about browser location reporting 

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Kevin C.  

@chris At the moment, I think I'm more concerned with the risks of a smaller service being hacked than I am with the risks of the data I have in Google platforms.

While Google likely treats me as the product, it is in their best interests to hold tightly onto the data they have gathered about me. I don't particularly fear that they will share out that data to anyone short of a government subpoena.

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Kevin C.  

@freedomboxfndn Good to know, thanks! I'll impatiently wait for the new features :)

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Kevin C.  

@chris My current nebulous thoughts on it all is that we (the FOSS/Fediverse community sort of people) need to figure out how to basically make it all like appliances that Just Work.

Things like the are in the right direction, but the self-hosted services I'm interested in aren't all on that (yet?).

A more-or-less turnkey + + ___ would almost do it for me. I can roll my own, but it gets tiring.

I haven't a clue how I'd replace Google Maps, though. :/

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Write.as  

We like to talk about how lightweight #WriteFreely is by saying it's "light enough to run on a Raspberry Pi." But to actually do that, you'd need to go through the work of compiling everything yourself.

Well, not anymore. Now we'll be releasing ARMv7 builds that can run on a Raspberry Pi, starting with WriteFreely v0.10.

Download that build here:
github.com/writeas/writefreely

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Kevin C.  

@chris What is it about the FOSS/private solutions that make you feel like being trapped back in 2005?

I've been starting to think that I should spend more of my personal project time in contributing to one or more of the FOSS "de-google" projects. So I am very curious to know what need you are seeing, in case it might line up with my skills/interests as something to invest time in helping improve.

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Kevin C.  

@gudenau@mastodon.technology @chris The short of it, as far as I understand the articles that I've read, is that the problem is based in a feature -- they didn't want people to troll others by being able to delete from the key server records. But it is biting them in the butt now that they have "poisoned" keys that they want to delete spammed signatures from . . . .

They pretty much need to go back to the drawing board for the key server federation protocols :/

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FreedomBox  

In the response to impending #censorship of the internet, Glyn Moody had this to say about #FreedomBox:

"It should become a priority for the Open Source community."

If you agree with him, donate to us so we can keep fighting for your freedom:
freedomboxfoundation.org/donat

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Kevin C.  

@glynmoody That was a good read, thanks for linking it.

There was also a nice mention of freedombox.org/ ( @freedomboxfndn ) at the end of the article, too.

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