Rune @rune@librem.one

this is what youtube looks like without javascript

please dont be google

Diffu is a Free Software allowing authors to publish all kinds of texts or articles and to aggregate the reactions they generate on social networks, especially through #ActivityPub such as #Mastodon, #PeerTube, #Pleroma, #PixelFed, #Funkwhale, #Hubzilla, #GNUSocial ...

Diffu is a kind of free and federated alternative to #Medium or other applications that are not always easy to install.

More information about @Diffu on the mockup site
https://mockup.diffu.social/?/main/read/art-1

ReToot are welcome 😉 !

KDE has adopted non-proprietary and decentralized instant messaging services and is now running its own community-managed instance of Matrix

KDE is now officially using Matrix for collaboration within KDE! Matrix is an open protocol and network for decentralised communication (which means you can follow and comment from a different instance of Matrix where you already have a presence), backed by an open standard and open source reference implementations for servers, clients, client SDKs, bridges, bots and more. It provides all the features you’d expect from a modern chat system: infinite scrollback, file transfer, typing notifications, read receipts, presence, search, push notifications, stickers, VoIP calling and conferencing, etc. It even provides end-to-end encryption (based on Signal’s double ratchet algorithm) for when you want some privacy. https://squeet.me/objects/962c3e10e38e7cf4ed8190091da003199908b4b6

I love it when people get excited about how their favourite tech and my work might combine and create new things.

I love it a bit less when they e-mail me out of the blue suggesting I rewrite all my code to use $TECH because of $BENEFITS.

I'm sure they mean well, but that's just wrong on so many levels.

If you want to help a project, help the project!

Telling people what to do just isn't helpful: the average value of unsolicited advice is negative. Politely saying no is hard, tiring work.

I'm catching up🏃‍♂️with developments in MATE Desktop after having been away galavanting for a week. @popey@twitter.com and I have claimed to regularly have a large number of browser tabs open. Today I learned we a rank amateurs 😕 https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-desktop/issues/394#issuecomment-501443518

You should convince people of free software values, not to say the right words

@null @lunduke Thats what babies want us to think, one day they will rise up against us.

@lunduke but babies can't even read, they're useless...

I found this overview of free software developers income quite informative: https://staltz.com/software-below-the-poverty-line.html

My personal journey from MIT to GPL

https://drewdevault.com/2019/06/13/My-journey-from-MIT-to-GPL.html

@ischade "I wrote this incantation after being awake for 40 hours straight. I keep re-reading now and by all rights it shouldn't work, but it does. This word here doesn't even seem to serve a purpose, but the spell stops working if I remove it, so..."

GParted 1.0, #AMD Ryzen 3000, Zorin OS, Krita, #HiddenWasp, Google #Stadia | This Week in #Linux 69

https://tuxdigital.com/twinl69

Also on EP69: HerbsluftWM, IceWM, Snap Store, #System76, Dell, PyGamer, Unity Editor, #PopOS, Happy Birthday to #distrowatch & #phoronix

"While the Microsoft Alternatives project is ambitious, it’s also a unique opportunity for CERN to demonstrate that building core services can be done without vendor and data lock-in, that the next generation of services can be tailored to the community’s needs"

Open source everything.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/06/cern-ditch-microsoft-open-source-malt

Hackers, Freedonians and Everyone Else...

You may not know me but I produce and edit a Free Software podcast called Libre Lounge. I want to take the podcast in some new directions, either LL itself, or a new podcast with a similar aim, but to do that, I'm going to need some help- production and editing especially. If you have those kinds of skills and can help, please send me a direct message or email me at emacsen@emacsen.net!

Prison Abolition and dealing with "The Dangerous Few"

https://twitter.com/lackingceremony/status/1132437030774796289

I found this super compelling and it resolves my only holdout argument against prison abolition.

#anarchism #ACAB #abolition

Hackerspaces can and will outlive Maker, and Free Software will outlive Open Source, because ultimately movements built on community, principles and people will always live longer than those built on brands and trends.

Don't be sad about Maker Faire. It's just an opportunity for you to create your own community-driven event in your area.

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Mixed feelings about Maker Faire shutting down. I feel sad because it was a cool event in principle, but the corporate sponsorship and corporatization of it made me uncomfortable in the same way that Hackerspaces became "Maker Spaces".

If that pattern seemed familiar to how Free Software became co-opted to become Open Source, you have the same man to thank, Tim O'Reilly.

But what this shows us is another clear lesson that we can't build community on "benevolent corporations".

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