Leetaur @leetaur@librem.one

If want to get rid of Google in your life, @kyle's post is what you need to read! Purism is a sound alternative to Big Tech!
https://puri.sm/posts/i-finally-fired-google/

Did you know this #libreplanet 2022 will be the fourteenth edition? Time flies, but the fight for freedom is forever. Join us for the 2022 conference on March 19-20 at https://libreplanet.org/2022

Thank everyone for making this year's FOSDEM event a great success and (most importantly) a lot of fun!
Read more about the experience: https://puri.sm/posts/our-experiences-hosting-the-foss-on-mobile-devices-devroom-at-fosdem-2022/

We have a new podcast episode out! 🎙️ It's eeh... long.. so if you have an hour to spare and want to learn a bunch about the following, have a listen:

* PinePhone modem updates w/ fwupd
* mainline.space, cross-distro mainlining efforts
* OnePlus 9 (again, close to mainline!)
* Minimalist DHCPD written from scratch for initrd
* wpa_supplicant -> iwd

https://cast.postmarketos.org/episode/13-EG25G-fwupd-unudhcpd-mainline.space-OP9-iwd/

How much of the technology that you own is actually under your control? Asks @kyle in his new thought provoking piece. https://puri.sm/posts/you-should-be-in-control-of-your-tech/

The Small Web isn’t about going back to the days of GeoCities. It’s about going forward differently, using modern tech in a non-colonial manner.

It’s not about building clones of Twitter, YouTube, etc. There’s no way anyone can self-host a dozen different services. Instead, it’s about having a single-tenant place on the Web that you own and control without technical knowhow; a place you can add Twitter, YouTube, etc., *features* to.

https://small-tech.org/research-and-development/

#SmallWeb #SmallTech #SingleTenant

If you just want to post long text articles on the Fediverse, a good option is @writefreely which has an official website at:

https://writefreely.org

It features a minimalist interface to avoid distracting from the text itself, and is sort of like a Fediverse alternative to Medium.

Because it's part of the Fediverse, you can follow WriteFreely accounts from Mastodon etc.

You can find sites to sign up on at:

https://writefreely.org/instances

It works entirely through your web browser, or you can use an app from https://writefreely.org/apps

You can also create your own instance without technical knowledge through a managed hosting service such https://writefreely.host or https://cloud68.co/instances.html

#WriteFreely #Fediverse #FediTips #Medium #Alternatives

Do you have strong opinions on #FreeSoftware in education? Are you interested in learning more about copyleft licensing? Are you keen to chat with others about free software? Join us at #LibrePlanet 2022: Living Liberation March 19-20 libreplanet.org/2022

The best place to watch and share videos on the Fediverse is @peertube

You can find out more including places to sign up at:

https://joinpeertube.org

Just like the rest of the Fediverse, PeerTube uses ActivityPub protocols, so you can follow and interact with PeerTube from Mastodon etc.

For example, you could follow @craftykat or @chriswere or @mrfunkedude and interact with their videos entirely from within Mastodon.

Good instances to explore include:

https://tilvids.com
https://share.tube
https://greatview.video
https://vidcommons.org
https://diode.zone
https://tube.tchncs.de
https://video.blender.org
https://media.privacyinternational.org
http://conf.tube
https://video-cave-v2.de

You can create your own PeerTube site without tech knowledge through managed hosting services like https://federation.spacebear.ee and https://cloud68.co/instances.html

There's a dedicated free open source PeerTube app called TubeLab available through @fdroidorg and Google Play.

#PeerTube #Fediverse #FediTips

If you love books, the best part of the Fediverse is probably @bookwyrm, a GoodReads-style social reading network.

More info and sites to sign up on are at:

https://joinbookwyrm.com

Because it uses the same ActivityPub protocol that powers the rest of the Fediverse, you can follow BookWyrm accounts from Mastodon etc.

For example, the lead developer of BookWyrm has an account at @mouse

#Fediverse #FediTips #BookWyrm #Books #Book #Literature #Novels #Fiction #NonFiction #Reading #GoodReads #Alternatives

#GNU Emacs is so much more than a text editor -- it's an entire workflow environment, loved by free software supporters around the world. Get the new GNU Emacs Manual, Nineteenth edition, for Emacs 27.2, at the GNU Press Shop: https://u.fsf.org/3ff

Too many have been content to accept the US government’s determination that what should properly be the highest purpose of the media — the uncovering of truth, in the face of attempts to hide it — is suddenly in doubt and quite possibly illegal.

https://t.co/9mjHwP88CD

The first wave of EVs are old enough their batteries are starting to fail. People tend to repair old ICE cars, but at a $22k price tag to replace batteries that will inevitably fail, it seems like older EVs will be thrown away instead of repaired. https://gizmodo.com/finnish-man-passes-on-paying-22-600-to-replace-his-tes-1848268874

Need a simple way to explain to your loved ones why they should support the Free Software Foundation during the holidays? Show them "Shoetool": https://u.fsf.org/shoetool And help us reach our goal of 500 new members by 12/31!

CBP abused intelligence databases to trawl through the private lives of 15-20 American journalists in a manner that the Inspector General reported it to the Justice Department as a criminal conspiracy.

But the government refused to prosecute.

https://t.co/eVGvh6QFIW

Security companies sometimes use "we're in Switzerland" to imply that makes them more secure or private. But better protection from government compulsion doesn't do much good if the company itself decides to collect and sell your location data. #privacy https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-06/this-swiss-tech-exec-is-said-to-have-operated-a-secret-surveillance-operation

For those of you who have been considering a Librem 14 laptop of your own, good news! We are almost caught up on all Librem 14 orders and have taken measures to ensure we maintain greater stock. Read more ➡️ https://puri.sm/posts/taking-stock-of-librem-14/

Before splurging for a new tech present on #CyberMonday, be sure that that gift doesn't deprive your friend or loved one of their freedom: https://u.fsf.org/gg21

Trump's social network (Truth Social) is now open source due to pressure from the maintainers of Mastodon.

I have now mirrored the code on Codeberg and GitHub to keep track of changes, ease public examination, and ensure a copy stays public.

https://codeberg.org/TruthSocial/truth-social
https://github.com/justjosias/truth-social

I have also generated a basic diff between Mastodon v3.4.1 and Truth Social's latest code. https://codeberg.org/TruthSocial/diffs/

#TruthSocial #mastodev

Im surfing on #gemini for the first time and I get a surprising feeling of "calmness", no cookies, no popups, no images, no headers, alles gut 💛