Kevin C. @kcoram@librem.one

@aral on freedom and the Internet, Facebook & Google, their business model & the silion valley surveillance capitalism model.
Listen to him, now with French, English & German subtitles

https://video.lqdn.fr/videos/watch/861c07f7-7e9b-4e64-9765-cf1de592c8a0

RT @Dailybits
Small tech demo from @aral with his personal portable webserver that's in the public and is serving a public chatroom. See his blog https://ar.al/2019/11/11/small-technology-foundation-personal-web-prototype-01-a-mobile-portable-personal-web-server/ #CreativeVille2019

NEWS: Eben Moglen Delivers “FreedomBox Turns Ten” Speech

To commemorate the ten-year anniversary of #FreedomBox's birth, Eben Moglen delivered a speech. He stressed this idea: regular people can change the web through collective social action.

Details: http://softwarefreedom.org/news/2019/nov/19/freedombox-turns-ten/

Check out this blog post by @bob titled, "FreedomBox at Ten."

Bob Mottram: "If the last decade was the birth phase I hope that the 2020s will be the time when running your own internet services, individually or in small groups, becomes quite normal."

Read his full post here: https://blog.freedombone.net/freedombox-at-ten

NEWS: #FreedomBox has been added to the DistroWatch database!🎉🎉🎉

This means that our operating system has received official recognition by DistroWatch and is listed alongside the world's major Linux and BSD distributions.

Our page on DistroWatch:
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=freedombox

If you haven't seen it, my latest video is live on LBRY! https://beta.lbry.tv/what-s-holding-linux-back/5ef0176f63c9fdcd3f351bbb0348a7ce36c0674e

I was interviewed for Marketplace today about running your own social network site! You can catch me on NPR stations today or just listen/read here:

https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/diy-build-your-own-social-media-site-guide/

⚠️ WE SHIPPED IT! 🎉

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

1. Search the full url (ie: https://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

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: https://medium.com/@dkisaway/four-questions-about-online-hate-speech-ae3e0a134472

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)

Some insights on where the web has gone from the founder of Drupal. https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/19/perspectives/internet-privacy-hate-speech/index.html

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

#art #mastoart #fediverse #inkscape

you can totally just tell your browser to lie about your current location!

in firefox, visit about:config and set geo.wifi.uri to a json blob containing whatever location you want to report

example: data:application/json,{"location": {"lat": 40.1234, "lng": -60.4321}, "accuracy": 27000.0}

yep. that is definitely where we live.

enjoy that delicious, definitely-not-fake data, Nosy Website!

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:
https://github.com/writeas/writefreely/releases/tag/v0.10.0

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:
https://freedomboxfoundation.org/donate/

I finished my stint as a Mozilla Fellow and now I'm relaunching my Patreon with a focus on, well, fixing social media.

This means I'm going to continue my concerted work trying to make the fediverse a better place, in the form of best practice guides for running instances, external advocacy, and technical tutorials and training so that more people can contribute software to the fediverse at large.

You can read a partial summary of my work so far at my new Patreon page!

https://www.patreon.com/tinysubversions

This is pretty bad. If you use PGP you probably need to stop using the source of the certificates you have been checking. https://gist.github.com/rjhansen/67ab921ffb4084c865b3618d6955275f

Happy to announce that my RSS-to-ActivityPub converter now detects MP3s from podcast feeds and makes them into attachments that render directly in Mastodon 2.9.2+

https://bots.tinysubversions.com/convert/