HI @Horizon_Innovations@fosstodon.org

Our CEO just referred to SaaS as "Software as a hostage" and I think that's pretty spot on.

Hello world! This is the mastodon account for #Mobian, a Debian customized for mobile phones/tablets. Here, we will comment, respond and report on the development. It will also contain quite some redundancy to our content on twitter (I guess). Welcome!

Alright good folks of Mastodon and Twitter - I’m look­ing for a sim­ple-look­ing logo for Celestial. If any­one would like to vol­un­teer, please mes­sage me.

Your work will have full at­tri­bu­tion with a linkback on the site’s footer as well as the pro­jec­t’s readme.

Link to the pro­ject: https://​mi­cropub-ce­les­tial.herokuapp.com/ (https://rusingh.com/notes/2020/08/01/celestial-logo-volunteer/)

So you have a server at home, and you're on the road. You find that your server is offline, but nobody is at home to troubleshoot. Your modem, router, or server probably just need to be rebooted, but because your server is down, you can't remote in to trigger a reboot.

How do people solve this problem?

Repeating my call for help from emacs plugin writers

Why the GRUB2 Secure Boot Flaw Doesn’t Affect Purism Computers

https://puri.sm/posts/why-the-grub2-secure-boot-flaw-doesnt-affect-purism-computers/

"...even though we use GRUB2 in PureOS, Purism hardware is unaffected by the vulnerability."

#grub2 #security #privacy

I was made redundant this week, so I'm looking for a new job.

I have a Masters degree in International Marketing and 6 years experience in marketing, social media & customer service.

Would prefer remote working, but will consider Manchester area.

Email: siobhandockerty@hotmail.com

so lets say systemd did something so bad you could not feel right using any systemd distro anymore

which non systemd distro would you use and why?

I just saw this. Their website host shut down their website.

@drsimonegold

“ WOW: Our website host @Squarespace has just completely and arbitrarily shut down our website, claiming a violation of their terms of service.

We are a group of physicians advocating for a better understanding of COVID-19 and its available treatment options.

This is outrageous.”

https://twitter.com/drsimonegold/status/1288178446569545734?s=21

“We examined more than 15,000 recent popular queries and found that Google devoted 41 percent of the first page of search results on mobile devices to its own properties and what it calls ‘direct answers,’ which are populated with information copied from other sources, sometimes without their knowledge or consent.”

https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2020/07/28/google-search-results-prioritize-google-products-over-competitors

I've been using ProXPN for a couple years now because I picked up a lifetime subscription for pretty cheap. Today when I went to connect it just flat out didn't work. I tried to check their site to see if there was some issue with the service I didn't already know about (I already know about a LOT of them since their service is pretty much garbage), and I find their "knowledge base" is erroring out and their Twitter account has been suspended.

Short story long, any recommendations on a VPN?

New day, more trouble for Google

"Google misled consumers to obtain their consent to expand the scope of personal information that Google could collect and combine about consumers’ internet activity, for use by Google, including for targeted advertising"

https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/accc-alleges-google-misled-consumers-about-expanded-use-of-personal-data