keverets @keverets@librem.one
Joined Jun 2019
@Gina totally get the lazy part. Still haven't been able to consistently blog things for similar reasons.
Maybe a fediverse message of "tried this today and it was terrible/awesome" would be light-weight enough for us to know where the journey is taking you.
@write_as is there any possibility of write.as being a more first-class citizen in the fediverse? That is, I'd like ActivityPub responses to blog posts to appear below the blog post, and able to reply to them from the blog account directly, similar to what most WordPress blogs seem to do, but in a truly federated fashion.
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@newt @amiloradovsky@functional.cafe @sheogorath depends what you mean by "secure" but for privacy focused there's at least @e_mydata
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Security scandal around #WhatsApp shows the need for decentralised #FreeSoftware messengers, #OpenStandards in communication, and digital sovereignty
https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20200228-01.html #publiccode #FreeYourAndroid
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Not being on Facebook doesn't mean that you are free from their surveillance and tracking!
"We could all do with a little less Facebook in our lives"
Read our blog post and share your experience on our forum:
https://community.e.foundation/t/we-could-all-do-with-a-little-facebook-in-our-lives/12462
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Collabora Office is here, and it brings the power LibreOffice to Android & iOS https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/02/collabora-office-libreoffice-for-android-ios
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The Smithsonian announced today that they have released 2.8 million images into the public domain (CC0 license). In celebration of this I made a bot you can follow that will post one random image from the set every 8 hours:
For more on the imageset, see here: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/smithsonian-releases-28-million-images-public-domain-180974263/?no-cache
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The dual boot option for the Cosmo was officially launched yesterday. The Debian distro seems to work, at least up to the point where I try to install anything. Or goes into suspend mode. I'll be able to see what this is capable of Real Soon Now. cc @mhoye
@tfb the people I know turn them down and make them red to not disrupt night vision. Again, the sample group is mainly people interested in photography and astronomy, as well as pilots.
Whether other people get the benefit as a side effect, I find interesting but don't really care that much.
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To all Google UK users, time to switch to ecloud before your user data will be moved to U.S!
At ecloud you get a unique user ID with synced email, calendars, contacts and documents https://mashable.com/article/british-google-data-brexit/?europe=true
@Gina hope you keep us updated on effects (both positive & negative) as you go.
After a few days I go through waves of irritability, inability to focus, headaches, etc. Curious to hear what others experience and coping strategies.
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It's official - @mozilla@twitter.com is fully live on Matrix! http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2020/02/20/synchronous-messaging-were-live/ Helping get Mozilla going has been a lot of fun, and we'll see a lot of improvements to Riot's UX in the coming months based on their feedback (turns out they know quite a lot about FOSS usability :D)
@amiloradovsky@functional.cafe I meant on the mining side, but there is increasing local generation (solar, wind, geothermal) that is a counterpoint to your last sentence.
@amiloradovsky@functional.cafe I agree. Better insulation is definitely the first thing homeowners should do. That can only take them so far, though.
I don't expect homeowners to be buying miners for this purpose en mass anytime soon. The prohibitive expense of miners is mainly due to the constant churn, which has its own negative consequences.
Similar to solar panels, though, there is a business model that could make this attractive to a subset of the population to get some adoption.
@amiloradovsky@functional.cafe here's one such reference:
https://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/cjce-2013-0465#.Xh4AF_5KhQI
6. Find out several instance admins of your followers/followees have previously blocked your new instance for dubious reasons and you can no longer communicate with them, with no indication that the links are broken :(
Joined Jun 2019
