Kevin C. @kcoram@librem.one

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)

If you're looking for an alternative to #PokemonGo, no need to ask @switchingsocial - I have the perfect tip for you.

It is harder, more complex, more fun, doesn't track you and you can play it on any device that has a camera: It's called #WildLifePhotography.

Or if you don't have any such device try WildLifeDrawing instead, which the former is a fork of.

I'm already a Lv 2 #Butterfly catcher. Check out my collection @paulakreuzer

Gotta document them all! #Biodiversity

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/

Nextcloud announces a new collaborative rich text editor called Nextcloud Text, not "a replacement to a full office suite, but rather a distraction-free, focused way of writing rich-text documents alone or together with others."
https://cloud.nextcloud.com/s/4Bi8CMtKLDe2otY

Raspberry Pi 4 is on sale now, starting at $35. This version also comes with different memory options (1GB for $35, 2GB for $45 or 4GB for $55).

https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/ …
#RPI

The new Raspberry Pi 4 is here, and it's a beast! https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/06/raspberry-pi-4-specs-price-buy #RaspberryPi

There are some very good point here on the over-reliance on password managers. https://medium.com/@stuartschechter/before-you-use-a-password-manager-9f5949ccf168