keverets @keverets@librem.one

20 years ago, if you ate dinner under the unblinking eye of a CCTV, it was because you were housed in a supermax prison. Today, it's because you were unwise enough to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars for "home automation" from Google, Apple, Amazon or another "luxury surveillance" vendor.

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RT @BrianRoemmele
It was 1939 and this technology created 3D sculptures. It took decades later to duplicate this lost technology.

The internet: Switch to #firefox for adblocking

Stock firefox:

Our company can be your one-stop shop for decentralization.
https://xkcd.com/2677/

If you speak another #language and have even basic programming skills, consider contributing to #LibreLingo – a promising #free replacement for #Duolingo https://librelingo.app/

#opensource #freesoftware #polyglot #linguistics #coding #programming #volunteer

Specifically the Romans measured things in "libra" (which is why the symbol for Libra is a scale), but people under the Romans who used Proto-Germanic heard the phrase "libra pondo" (Latin for "the weight measured in libra") and just started being like "haha oh yeah this thing is X pondo heavy". So the word "pound" is derived from the Latin word for "weight" ("pondus") but we use "lb" because that's how the Romans abbreviated libra, the actual unit of measurement they used.

Tip #7
Edit your PDFs directly in #libreoffice writer.
When exporting a text document to PDF, tick the "Hybrid PDF" option. This will create a PDF that also contains the .odt file inside. This allows you to either open the PDF in any document viewer as a PDF or in a text editor as an .odt file without any formatting loss. Try it for yourself and never lose the source file to a PDF!

#tips #opentips #pdf #foss #floss

what means something to me is when people actually jump in and say something when the bad thing is happening, instead of remaining silent to avoid personal blowback and then expressing solidarity behind closed doors

Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with a slow Internet connection to see who they really are.

What's cool in the #XMPP community:

It's a community.

Even the vendors or software developers are reboosting the release notifications of new software version from another vendor/developer to make it spread to a wider audience.

I like that community! :-)

Best Aranet4 CO2 Meter Alternatives Under $100?
https://youtu.be/Fo2cZiRyokk

Please RT! 🙏

Instagram and Facebook can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser #deleteInstagram

https://krausefx.com/blog/ios-privacy-instagram-and-facebook-can-track-anything-you-do-on-any-website-in-their-in-app-browser

Cars continue to copy the smartphone business model, now have mandatory pre-installed services and apps (and the tracking that comes with them): #privacy https://www.thedrive.com/news/gm-makes-1500-onstar-subscription-mandatory-on-gmc-buick-cadillac-models

If you work at Facebook, you’re complicit in this.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zevd/this-is-the-data-facebook-gave-police-to-prosecute-a-teenager-for-abortion

You have to hand it to them... #privacy https://www.engadget.com/amazon-one-palm-payment-whole-foods-california-195712253.html

I'm talking about projects like:

* Bibliogram for Instagram
* Imgin & Rimgo for Imgur
* Invidious & Piped for YouTube
* Librarian for LBRY/Odysee
* Libreddit & Teddit for Reddit
* Lingva & SimplyTranslate for Google Translate
* Nitter for Twitter
* Proxitok for Tiktok
* Scribe for Medium
* Whoogle, Searx, & SearxNG for Google, etc
* Wikiless for Wikipedia (though not as needed)

And thanks to https://farside.link/ for loadbalancing instances of these to ensure I don't overload them!

2/2 Fin!

A little tech preview on iOS of a new "setup/link second device" flow ... Delta chat here is using the evolving new Rust implementation of IPFS https://github.com/n0-computer/iroh/ ... and, who knows, a couple of more features might spring from that ;)

To explain why this is cool, a belt 3D printer (I brought one of the first to market with my buddies @wjsteele@twitter.com and @NAK3DDesigns@twitter.com😎) lets you *print things larger than the printer itself*- it's like a Tardis. For now, thermoplastic, but theoretically anything extrudable.

A wonderful write-up about tar file format and why computational complexity matters even in cases you wouldn't think it does!
https://mort.coffee/home/tar/

Let me tell you, don't rely on flash for cold storage of important data. I learned it the hard way, despite knowing better.

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