Kyle Piira @kylepiira@librem.one

The New York Times did a piece on smartphone tracking.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/location-tracking-cell-phone.html

New Signal blog post about a new technique that could allow for easier migration between devices and usernames.

#privacy #signal

https://signal.org/blog/secure-value-recovery/

@PINE64 perhaps a PinePhone depending on shipping.

@sir's PinePhone review: https://drewdevault.com/2019/12/18/PinePhone-review.html

#pinephone #pine64

@Krita
Nice. Good on Epic.

I really like the redesigned YaCy website: https://yacy.net/
Looks a lot sleeker.
#yacy

Cloudron is fascinating piece of software I found out a few days ago. It makes it super easy to self-host a bunch of applications like Nextcloud, GitLab, Wallabag, etc.

They all have one-click installers and SSO with your Cloudron user accounts. Also, it supports encrypted backup to various cloud providers like Amazon S3, DigitalOcean Spaces, Google Cloud, etc.

The only two downsides I've found are that it costs $30/mo and isn't FOSS.

https://cloudron.io/

#privacy #selfhosting #tech

If you use a Visa or Mastercard credit/debit card you can opt out of having your transaction data used for "marketing reports" here:

Visa: https://marketingreportoptout.visa.com/OPTOUT/request.do
Mastercard: https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/about-mastercard/what-we-do/privacy/data-analytic-opt-out.html

#privacy

It would be cool if someone made a SoundCloud ActivityPub clone. There's a lot of podcasts being created and no good place to put them on the Fediverse.

#activitypub #fediverse

I just ordered my PinePhone.

#pine64 #pinephone #linux

https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/

@PINE64
Nice! Just bought a Brave Heart PinePhone. I look forward for the full PineTime release.

If anyone is looking for a FOSS and self hostable password manager. I highly recommend Bitwarden.

Well it's done. ISOC sold the .org registry to Ethos Capital for $1.1B
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21667355

I've been trying out Jellyfin today, and I gotta say it's pretty nice. It's a fork of Emby before they went closed source and a good FOSS alternative to Plex.

#jellyfin #plex #emby

http://jellyfin.org/

Here are the excuses of Richard Barnes for why he voted to sell .org to Ethos private equity.

#dotorg #internetsociety

http://www.circleid.com/posts/20191127_why_i_voted_to_sell_org/

Looks like all of Facebook's services are down right now.
What a shame /s
#facebookdown

If we saw more Android phones being sold without Google Play Services I bet this problem would go away pretty quickly.

As much as I dislike China at least Android phones sold there don't have all this Google crapware preinstalled. Although knowing China they probably have something much worse.