Coding Otaku @CodingOtaku@fosstodon.org

@Tutanota describes their notification service, that allows their users to say #nomoregoogle https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/open-source-email-fdroid/

"Chrome for Android may soon send notifications reminding you to use Chrome"

When the 71% total browser market share is not enough and you have to resort to spam and tricks to squeeze a couple percent more...

https://9to5google.com/2020/08/04/chrome-android-notifications-reminding-use-chrome/

Hello all, recently I have started exploring FLOSS and blogging about the same which brought me here.

Hope this will be fun and good learning to know some FLOSS enthusiasts.

#introductions

Day 76 of the #100DaysToOffload Series:

Happy birthday to you!

Belated. Ya, I know. I suck.

https://mikestone.me/fosstodon

NSA: Issues warnings about cellular vulnerabilities, stingrays, etc.
People paying attention: Ironic

Free software is a cornerstone of recent scientific progress, including the first ever photograph of a black hole! Learn about the fight for #UserFreedom and join the movement: https://fsf.org/appeal

Yesterday my room mate got hooked by indian support scam. Luckily for her she is kind soul and decided to warn me about this cyberattack, so I just turned router off for a minute and uninstalled whatever she installed to give them access to her computer.

Everything was as in typical youtube video about scammers - scary netstat with gadzillion lines of output in terminal, whatismyip website in browser.

And that's one more reason why you should use ad blockers.

We reached our summer fundraiser member goal! Thank you so much for helping us to build a fighting movement for #UserFreedom! https://fsf.org/appeal

Don't make more "privacy-respecting" analytics tools. If you actually cared about privacy, you wouldn't fucking track people to begin with.

Contrary to what some may think, there's no contradiction between free software and business. Check out these testimonials from @fkarlitschek, @oydorgtr, and others who support #UserFreedom: https://u.fsf.org/34k

The Marketplace of VS Code extensions is also proprietarily licensed.

https://underjord.io/the-best-parts-of-visual-studio-code-are-proprietary.html

#opensource #vscode

Student and professional developers from India - check this out -
https://fossunited.org/hackathon

Linux is just the kernel of the Emacs operating system.

My GNU/screen #hope talk went off great. People seemed to enjoy it. The pre-recorded part is available here: https://peertube.linuxrocks.online/videos/watch/c1870d86-dbe3-4412-b758-a82b5692217c
#hope2020 #hopeconf