keverets @keverets@librem.one

Today, #Facebook censored me for mentioning #Mastodon 10 months ago, in a one-off-post. Yeah, I'm not making this up.

https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10285-facebook-censored-me-for-mentioning-open-source-social-network-mastodon

Friend: What’s your new address? I can come pick you up
Me: Thx, but I don’t want my address to end up on #facebook
Friend: What? I’m not giving it to FB. WTH?!
Me: Hum, you’ll probably add it to my contact on your phone. You gave Messenger and Whatsapp access to your contacts. So yeah if I give you my address there’s a good chance it’ll end up in a FB’s database.

Why is it so hard to protect one’s data these days? Is there a way for me to have ppl over without leaking my address?

#privacy

Heard a phrase today that was "anything worth doing is worth doing poorly" and yes.

-NO popups
-NO banners
-NO bars that scroll with you
-NO panels that appear or disappear depending on which direction you're scrolling
-NO misleading cookie consent dialogs
-NO tracking

https://wedistribute.org/2021/08/bookwyrm-is-the-federated-goodreads-replacement-i-didnt-know-i-needed/

Anyone using this?

I know most people here are not into JS libraries and frameworks but we're starting to see super cool projects for progressive enhancement. Things like Alpine (https://alpinejs.dev) or HTMX (https://htmx.org) treat HTML as a first class citizen and source of truth, it's refreshing an unobtrusive.

It's not clear to me whether running a company like Remington makes you into a fucking monster, or whether depraved assholes seek out companies like Remington to work for.

In 2012, a gunman entered Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, CT, and murdered 20 children aged six and seven, and six staff members.

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What's your thoughts on this?

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it: this is a must-read for the Matrix community.

RT @pierce@twitter.com

This is a great dive into how Google botched messaging for 15 years, and the table of contents BY ITSELF is a truly epic burn https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-of-instability-the-history-of-google-messaging-apps/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/pierce/status/1430584264341471236

Making a #sip call from the #calls app on the #librem5 (and yes audio worked ;) ). This is still a development version of gnome-calls. And work still needs to be done to make it more user friendly and integrated with other components. But hey it is progress :D
Credits go out to: @devrtz that has been working to add #sip on gnome-calls. Also the account on the phone is an jmp.chat account, shoutout to them as jmp.chat is an awesome service :D

#introduction

we are a young couple of scientists who moved to the countryside to live in a more sustainable way and to realize our dreams.

We offer beautiful apartments in an historical tower in #Tuscany. We want to avoid platforms like Booking.com, Airbnb or Google for advertising.

We have also a big vegetable garden at guests' disposal where we experiment #permaculture.

Check us out on https://morgiano.it/

@Gargron is this the right way to introduce an isolated instance?

Reminder that public libraries in almost all cases will let you come in and read their books without needing a library card. It's free.

Another lost treasure of the internet is the sci.electronics.repair FAQ.

http://www.walshcomptech.com/repairfaq/REPAIR/F_tshoot.html

Just look at this goddamn thing. Thousands and thousands of words, chock-full of battle tested wisdom, enough to help anyone with some motivation solve their problems. Zero monetization, zero bullshit. What ever happened to that Internet? I sure do miss it.

➡️ @mobian - Mobile version of Debian Linux

➡️ @postmarketOS - Mobile version of Alpine Linux

➡️ @ubports - Mobile version of Ubuntu Linux

➡️ @plasmamobile - FOSS smartphone interface developed by @kde

Probably the easiest option right now is buying a PinePhone or an /e/ degooglised phone, as they have their OSes preinstalled.

However, all these projects deserve support so that alternative phones can become as functional and as easy to use as possible.

(4/4)

➡️ @PINE64 & @pine64tilvids - Creators of the PinePhone, a low price Linux smartphone that lets you install whichever distro you prefer

➡️ @e_mydata - Develops a downloadable de-googlised version of Android, and sells de-googlised Android smartphones

➡️ @fdroidorg - FOSS alternative to Google Play, privacy-friendly app store for Android phones

➡️ @microg - Developing free open source alternatives to Google's proprietary Android services, allows freer versions of Android to be made

(3/4)

The wikipedia page about humans doesn't say anywhere on it that it was written by them, which imo is a conflict of interest

Happy 109 anniversary to this little nugget of an article. We've known what the problem is for over a century.

Debian 11 bullseye has been released! https://bits.debian.org/2021/08/bullseye-released.html

I kinda wish more people would give the android version of Firefox a try. On my phone it actually has better (smoother) scrolling performance than Chrome; and of course the other benefit is you can have a proper ad blocker extension (I use uBlock Origin) installed.