Why is software created using taxpayers’ money not released as Free Software? Code paid by the people should be available to the people!
Free Software gives everybody the right to use, study, share and improve software. This right helps support other fundamental freedoms like freedom of speech, press and privacy.
- Tax Savings – Similar applications don’t have to be programmed from scratch every time.
- Collaboration – Major projects can share expertise and costs.
- Serving the public – Applications paid by the public should be available for everyone.
- Fostering innovation – With transparent processes, others don’t have to reinvent the wheel.
See publiccode.eu/
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#imagepipe version 0.64 has just been released!
Removes #exif data and modifies images to reduce size before sharing.
Visit the project homepage at #codeberg : codeberg.org/Starfish/Imagepip…
The new version should be available at #fdroid soon: f-droid.org/packages/de.kaffee…
Available at #fdroid only!
Imagepipe
Reduces image size and removes exif-tags when sharing images on android devices.Codeberg.org
Police using cell phone tracking data in popular apps for 'mass surveillance on a budget'
Police have used “Fog Reveal” to search hundreds of billions of records from 250 million mobile devices, and harnessed the data to create location analyses
Police using cell phone tracking data in popular apps for ‘mass surveillance on a budget’
Local law enforcement agencies have been using an obscure cellphone tracking tool that gives them the power to follow people’s movements months back in time.Associated Press (TheGrio)
Microsoft's Github Copilot is disregarding Free Software licenses and will be happily selling parts of your GPL code against your will! Woo!
drewdevault.com/2022/06/23/Cop…
As the author of this article says - free software should be dependant on free software architecture - I recommend codeberg.org as an open-source alternative to Github.
Sadly Github is no longer a platform that can be trusted.
CC: @codeberg
#FOSS #Github #Copilot #Microsoft #GPL #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Codeberg
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Will it do anything? Probably not. Do I care? No. I'll be using Codeberg and supporting them with my money rather than GitHub.
I agree. Also, by nature, open source software becomes better when there is a community around it.
There was a time when Linux gaming was nothing more than a pipe dream. It is now able to thrive because of what community-led projects like WINE, Lutris and quite a few others did to keep it alive.
Alright, the overwhelming positive response has convinced me of my summer project: "tty1", a blog chronicling my journey toward using the terminal only for my computing experience.
It'll likely be mostly a series of articles showing my CLI replacements for different apps, with a *possible* finale where I go a week with only the distro I've customized over the course of the articles.
I'm gonna start by coding the site from the terminal; follow me to get updates. 😀
Boosts welcome! 😄
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A message to our new friends:
1. Don’t use your Twitter password for your #mastodon account. Reusing passwords is always a bad idea. A password manager is your friend here.
2. Set up your 2FA. You can do this from the browser or from within the official mobile app under Settings > Account Settings.
Code github.com/bookwyrm-social/boo…
Docs docs.joinbookwyrm.com/
List of instances docs.joinbookwyrm.com/instance…
GitHub - bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm: Social reading and reviewing, decentralized with ActivityPub
Social reading and reviewing, decentralized with ActivityPub - GitHub - bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm: Social reading and reviewing, decentralized with ActivityPubGitHub
Not getting any coding done because GitHub is down? Why not take the opportunity to check out Codeberg (codeberg.org/), Gitea (gitea.com/) or GitLab (about.gitlab.com/install/)
Social media is toxic ☣️
Twitter and Meta just assume you'll do nothing about it. But they're wrong. We all can do something about it🧵 blog.peerverse.space/what-shou…
What should we do about toxic social media?
Lately, I've been ragging on Twitter – for good reason. Twitter is the last mainstream social network I use on a regular basis. I don't talk about Meta-affiliated networks for good reason.Chris Trottier (Peerverse Blog)
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GNU poke, the free extensible editor for structured binary data
This talk is titled "GNU poke, the free extensible editor for structured binary data," and was presented at LibrePlanet 2022 by José Marchesi.
José is a GNU hacker and maintainer. He is currently employed by Oracle as the Tech Lead of their toolchain/compilers team.
This talk is about GNU poke, which is an interactive editor for binary data. Not limited to editing basic entities such as bits and bytes, it provides a full-fledged procedural, interactive programming language designed to describe data structures and to operate on them. José will discuss these features and more.
License note: This work is under a GFDL license. Please see gnu.org/licenses/fdl-1.3.en.ht… for more information.
Slides: media.libreplanet.org/u/librep…
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Linux Mint should ditch Ubuntu and here's why
Website: ChrisWere.wales
Masto: @ChrisWere@linuxrocks.online
Chris Were
Hi, my name's Chris Were and I enjoy making videos about Linux, open source software, Game of Thrones and many other topics. Please feel free to browse my videos.ShareTUBE [a PeerTube Server]
I love PeerTube because you can have a channel for everything that you want to discuss. Many people are multifacited, which is excellent, and the way PeerTube allows for multiple channels, people can subscribe to what they want to, and you get more organic views, not stupid comments. I want to restart my YouTube channel, though I hesitate to do so, because the majority of the comments are people calling me or my friends who feature in my videos sometimes stupid, making fun of my visual impairment and my hand tremors that cause my camera skills to look idiotic, but I don't find that sort of attitude around here on PeerTube.
Either way, I have tried Ubuntu, and I don't much care for it, but that is more because my first Linux experience was OpenSUSE, which looks like Windows back when Windows was cool.
The #XMPP Newsletter for March '22 is out!
Many thanks to all who contributed! Read about last month's activities in the XMPP community and the development of the specifications (#XEP)!
Enjoy reading! 📰 ☕
xmpp.org/2022/04/the-xmpp-news…
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New here? Remember that Twitter is optimized to make you into passive consumers, by en(r/g)aging you with content that you don't choose yourself.
Here, that doesn't happen. But it also means you're responsible to find people to follow.
It will take some work.
If you're willing to put that in, you'll find a wide variety of friendly people that will be happy to have meaningful conversions and laugh and cry together with you.
Start by searching and looking at who other people follow.
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Hi there #Fediverse 👋
Today a very simple question for y'all fine fedizens to ponder if you like:
"What is the Vision of the Fediverse?"
(Try to stick within the char limit)
Social media done right:
* Loosely coupled communities, each enforcing its own policies.
* Interoperation between micro-blogs, blogs, photo collections, and all other types of social media.
* Timelines free of ads and spam.
* First class privacy.
* First class blocking and filtering. You see only what you want to.
* Users pay for service rather than being monetised.
Lib.reviews is a free open source platform for reviewing anything, using data from libre sources such as wikidata. You can follow at:
➡️ @lib_reviews
The site is at lib.reviews
At bloody last
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The Fediverse: Decentralized Social Media for Human Beings
For the last two decades, social media has been the arena into which thoughts are thrown — open to inspection by friends, family, colleagues, and theDavid Rutland (PIA VPN Blog)
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LVL004: Friendica - A Review
This is my review of the Friendica social network, and a follow-up to a previous video I did about the Fediverse. Friendica is my new favourite way to interact with social media, and in this video, I explain why.
As always, my current social media contacts are always on my web site.
For more information about Friendica, see their website.
For more information on the Fediverse in general, this site gives a nice overview.
LVL002: Experimenting with the Fediverse
Detailing my experiments with the fediverse. You can join the services I mentioned using the links below: PeerTube, Mastodon, Diaspora, PixelFed, Also, my current accounts on these services can be found on my personal web site.tchncs
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Hey Jonathan, thanks for the video about Friendica 😃 Glad to hear, that you experience it as light-weight running it from you home-server former notebook.
I have some additional piece of information about the video 😉
You mentioned the fact that one needs to add an abstract with BBCode to get a content warning. Which surely can be done differently in the UI, no question about that. The roots of the "abstract" lies in the projects history. Friendica can be used as a Twitter client of some sorts. Among other things this makes it possible that your postings on Friendica may directly posted on Twitter as well. While Friendica has some restriction to the length of a posting, it is far above the 280 character limit used on Twitter. So Friendica does some semi-intelligent automatic shortening of postings that are too long and adds a link back to the original posting on Friendica. But not everybody is happy with the outcome of the shortening, so the "abstract" BBCode was added to the BBCode tags Friendica supports, allowing everybody to control the short snippet to advertise for their posting on Twitter. Later on Activity Pub got the "summary" field in the meta-information of a posting and as the abstract is kind of equivalent of a summary, Friendica puts the content of the abstract into this field of the meta-information. Which is used as "content warning" by other projects in the Fediverse.
You mentioned the problems with the image upload. True, sadly true. There is an addon called "js_uploader" which allows you to upload more then one image at a time. And, I think especially for the uploading images from an event situation, Friendicas API does support clients that are designed for e.g. Mastodon. So if you have one of these on your smartphone that you've taken to the event and did some photos, you can use that to add the photos to a posting about the event, straight from your phone.
As you don't use the "community stream" feature much yourself, just let me add, that there all the public postings will be shown from either your node (local) or from any other server connected to your Friendica node (global). It makes more sense to have the stream on a node with more then one user, otherwise it basically mirrors that persons network stream.
Introducing seeking-maintainers.net! 🎉
A few days ago, @kev asked the community for help maintaining his side-project, 512kb.club. This got me thinking.
There are loads of maintainers out there feeling burnt out, but they can't abandon their project since people are depending on the project to be maintained.
In an effort to combat this, I built a website that lists projects looking for new maintainers. It's still quite empty and has some rough edges, so any feedback is very welcome.
Seeking Maintainers
A list of open source projects looking for new maintainersseeking-maintainers.net
Don't have room for a physical model train set? OpenTTD is an open source simulation game based upon the popular Microprose game 'Transport Tycoon Deluxe'
OpenTTD is modelled after the original Transport Tycoon game by Chris Sawyer and enhances the game experience dramatically. Many features were inspired by TTDPatch while others are original.
See Play with model trains in OpenTTD
#technology #gaming #trains #openttd #simulation
My father has always been fond of model trains, and I remember watching him building a track around the Christmas tree when I was young. When Lego train sets were released, he and I transitioned to them for their convenience and inherent extensibility. We built and operated Lego trains and monorail tracks over the course of many years. I've often imagined a possible future in which I have a garage or a basement dedicated to miniature landscapes and electric whistling trains.
⚠️ Information for Prosody operators: There has been an OpenSSL security advisory published, which likely affects Prosody and other services you may run - allowing an attacker to trigger an infinite loop in OpenSSL (and any application using it, such as Prosody), causing it to stop responding and use a lot of CPU.
Keep an eye open for OpenSSL updates from your OS distribution. There is no Prosody upgrade needed.
Original advisory here: openssl.org/news/secadv/202203…
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BookWyrm is a Fediverse alternative to Amazon's GoodReads, letting you review books, share reading lists, discover new books and interact with other readers. You can follow at:
➡️ @bookwyrm
The website is at joinbookwyrm.com
There are lists of instances to join at joinbookwyrm.com/instances and fedidb.org/software/bookwyrm
You can follow BookWyrm accounts from Mastodon etc, for example @mouse
#BookWyrm #Fediverse #Books #Book #Reading #Literature #ActivityPub #GoodReads #Alternatives
Join Bookwyrm
BookWyrm is a decentralized social network for tracking your reading, talking about books, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next.joinbookwyrm.com
No no, it doesn't work with Google or Twitter, it is its own thing. The idea is to provide an alternative to all those "big tech" sites!
To use a BookWyrm site, you sign up on that site and log in.
But because BookWyrm is part of the Fediverse, millions of users on Mastodon etc can interact with your BookWyrm account.
For example, you can interact with the BookWyrm account @mouse from the Mastodon account you're posting from right now.
That barcode scanning function is fabulous (a bit finicky but still it is so useful).
Aaaaaand.... #Prosody 0.12.0 is released!
This is an exciting major release which contains loads of new features, fixes and enhancements to improve your experience as an #XMPP admin.
Read about the highlights of the new release on our blog:
blog.prosody.im/prosody-0.12.0…
Prosody 0.12.0 released
ÄNTLIGEN! It’s finally here! After 3 years of development and through some chaotic times, Prosody 0.12.0 is released! What’s the significance of this release? Like many software projects, Prosody follows a “branch” development/release model.blog.prosody.im
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VidCommons Animation posts creative commons and public domain animations to the Fediverse. You can follow at:
➡️ @animation
If the videos aren't visible from your instance yet, you can see them all at vidcommons.org/a/animation/vid…
#VidCommons #Animations #Animation #Videos #ShortFilms #Art #PeerTube #CreativeCommons #PublicDomain #CC #PD
Animation
A PeerTube instance dedicated to media licensed under the Creative Commons and Public Domain.The VidCommons Project
Using Your Phone in Times of Crisis
Secure communications are especially important in times of crisis. Just being aware of surveillance has chilling effects in how we exercise speech, which is often under attack by all sorts of actors from criminals to our own governments.Electronic Frontier Foundation
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I think this is worth repeating:
> The mobile network does not encrypt calls or text messages end-to-end, nor does it conceal your location.
It *could* do these things. We have technologies that can do these things. But mobile networks just don't do it.
Wartime Is a Bad Time To Mess With the Internet
Like most people, we at EFF are horrified by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Also like most people, we are not experts on military strategy or international diplomacy.Electronic Frontier Foundation
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#TIL that default #LUKS #encryption of storage media may actually be quite memory-consuming, to the point that lower-end devices will be unable to decrypt them simply because there's not enough memory to process the cipher:
unix.stackexchange.com/questio…
Most modern hardware should not notice this issue, but folks running under sub-Gigabyte RAM beware.
I learned this the hard way when trying to set up an encrypted storage drive for my #RaspberryPi NAS...
Open: cryptsetup out of memory ("Not enough available memory to open a keyslot.")
I am working on my yocto distribution including cryptsetup in the 2.3.2 version I am running such distribution on a board with 1 GB RAM and I am incurring in an "out of memory" error tryi...Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
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Clearview AI (facial recognition tech) is after some popular companies (@Airbnb, @lyft, & more) as commercial business partners & @privacyint is calling on them to pledge to "never work w/Clearview, or use their dodgy database."
privacyinternational.org/call-…
Original tweet : twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/…
Don't get involved with Clearview's dodgy data
Our Open Letter To the company reading this,Privacy International
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We asked some streamers why they choose to self-host their streams and be truly independent. It's great hearing about what they're doing and what they like about #Owncast.
youtube.com/watch?v=wc3spGMq-U…
Live streamers tell their stories about why they made the change to go independent and self-hosted.
Hear live streamers explain why they choose to use Owncast and operate their own, independent live streams instead of handing control over to the centralized...YouTube
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Release Owncast v0.0.11 · owncast/owncast
Welcome to The Fediverse! With Owncast v0.0.11 your server can optionally become a part of the Fediverse, an interconnected, but completely independent network of servers where people can discover ...GitHub
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#twitter 's thoughts about #decentralisation 😉
nytimes.com/2022/03/02/technol…
Twitter Wants to Reinvent Itself, by Merging the Old With the New
The company is undertaking a far-reaching effort to change how it works. For some, it is an echo of their early idealism and a vision for what the internet could have been.Kate Conger (The New York Times)
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Victory! San Francisco Mayor Withdraws Harmful Measure Against Surveillance Oversight Law
San Francisco Mayor London Breed has pulled a harmful ballot initiative that threatened to gut the city’s landmark 2019 surveillance oversight ordinance.Electronic Frontier Foundation
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"Meta has big plans for the future. And they all involve extracting even more data from consumers."
@robshavell on why the "responsible AI" plans outlined in Meta's recent positioning statement are anything but responsible or respectful of consumer data: venturebeat.com/2022/03/02/met…
Original tweet : twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/…
Meta’s latest plans show it’s still missing the point on privacy
Meta’s planned AI assistants and metaverse offering will be yet another land grab for our personal data.Rob Shavell, Abine (VentureBeat)
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Enforcement Overreach Could Turn Out To Be A Real Problem in the EU’s Digital Services Act
Democracies are in many ways like the internet. In both cases, it takes a thousand cuts to demolish their foundation, yet each cut contributes significantly to their erosion.Electronic Frontier Foundation
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#Productivity #Codeberg #Gitea #GameDev
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Takedown Hall of Shame
Bogus copyright and trademark complaints have threatened all kinds of creative expression on the Internet. EFF's Hall Of Shame collects the worst of the worst.Electronic Frontier Foundation
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