Eric Buijs @ericbuijs@fosstodon.org
- Website blog
- https://homehack.nl/
free/libre software, open data, open standards activist with a grudge against big tech, big IP holders and authoritarian governments.
In addition I'm also a bicycle enthusiast. A bicycle is one of the most energy efficient way of transportation and as far as I'm concerned the most fun way. On top of that riding a bicycle is an excellent way to lose weight, increase strenght and improve overall health. Now get on your bicycle and have fun.
Joined Oct 2018
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Just finished preparing my presentation for the European Parliament on Tuesday. I’m representing @Mastodon and small technology there on a panel to discuss the future of the Internet and I hope we can get the regulators to at least not fuck things up for our ethical alternatives.
My slides (not hugely meaningful without the narrative but in case you’re curious) are here:
https://small-tech.slides.com/aral/dear-regulators-dont-throw-the-baby-out-with-the-bathwater
Remind me again why I let you talk me into this, @Gargron? ;P
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mastodonten.de/@gemlog/1031534…
♲ @gemlog@mastodonten.de: Mastodon Helps
Lists of Instances:
instances.social/list/old
instances.social/list/advanced…
A site that lets you view any instance live:
www.unmung.com/mastoview?url=m…
Wizard to help you choose an instance:
instances.social/
How Mastodon Works:
kevq.uk/how-does-mastodon-work…
mstdn.social/@jamewils/1031364…
masthead.social/@editor/101689…
Find like-minded people:
communitywiki.org/trunk
Getting off google everything, facebook, twitter, microsoft...
switching.software/
degooglisons-internet.org/en/a…
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The FSFE have a podcast!
https://fsfe.org/news/podcast/episode-1.html starting with Cory Doctorow @fsfe @doctorow
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Eben Moglen: Why Freedom of Thought Requires Attention - PeerTube on Mastodon.host
https://peertube.mastodon.host/videos/watch/6302c556-02d2-4c6a-b566-1423dff24889
#eben-moglen #peertube #privacy #freedomofthought #republica19
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Websites should work without JavaScript. If you disable JavaScript and your site becomes unusable, you need a redesign. It doesn't have to work as well as with JavaScript (if that were the case, you wouldn't use JS at all, right?), but it should still function well enough to read or use.
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ugh i really hope crossposters don't slowly choke mastodon like they did to diaspora*
if you're just crossposting everything you tweet on birdsite then what even is the point of making a mastodon account? that's glorified spam at worst, and a recipe for abandonment.
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Microsoft Advertisement Inc. - https://neil.computer/notes/microsoft-advertisement/ #Adsters #rr #Tracking #Privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism
How did we got ourselfes in a situation where science paid with public funds is behind a paywall and in the hands of a single corperation, Elsevier.
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Just had an _incredible_ #mapathon event for world #GIS day with #OpenStreetMaps hosted by WSP!
For those who wanted to get involved editing the open-source maps https://osm.org/ to help NGOs and other humanitarian organisations respond to disasters, go and check out:
It's easy to get started and anybody can do it! Not just the computer wizards!
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Openstreetmap is reaching the point that it is just more information rich and beautiful than google maps and that is awesome
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Love LibreOffice? Got a spare 30 minutes this weekend? Give the community that makes it a hand! You don't need to be a programmer – there are many ways to help out. And as a bonus, you can claim a cool sticker pack! Learn more here: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2019/11/16/month-of-libreoffice-november-2019-half-way-through/
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All together now...
CARBON
TRADING
DOESN'T
WORK
Carbon trading and consumerist approaches to CO2 pollution reduction just allow the usual suspects to carry on polluting while hiding behind opaque financialized trading schemes where they still externalize the costs onto the environment.
Interestingly just when I was gathering information about PeerTube, PeerTube v2.0 has just been released.
https://framablog.org/2019/11/12/peertube-has-worked-twice-as-hard-to-free-your-videos-from-youtube/
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Control your LibreOffice presentations from your smartphone! Our community has released a new version of the Impress Remote for Android, with various fixes and updates: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2019/11/14/new-version-of-libreoffice-impress-remote-for-android/
Following a discussion here on Fosstodon I want to upload my video content on PeerTube (alongside YouTube for the moment). I have lots of tutorials on FOSS 3DCAD programs. My problem now is how do I choose a good instance. What criteria I look for?
Also I noticed that a search on several instances appears to be local only. The same search gives different results on different instances. Isn't the whole point that all PeerTube instances are federated and should provide the same result?
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The #LibrePlanet 2020 conference call for sessions closes in one week: submit your talk by November 20! This year's theme: "Free the Future": u.fsf.org/2x1
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XMPP Newsletter, 08 Nov 2019, Sprints, IoT, and early Twitter
https://xmpp.org/2019/11/newsletter-08-november/
#XMPP #Jabber #community #decentralisation #opensource #ietf #openstandards
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Small Technology Foundation Personal Web Prototype-01: a mobile personal web server
#SmallTechnologyFoundation #PersonalWeb #Prototype #SiteJS #RaspberryPi
- Website blog
- https://homehack.nl/
free/libre software, open data, open standards activist with a grudge against big tech, big IP holders and authoritarian governments.
In addition I'm also a bicycle enthusiast. A bicycle is one of the most energy efficient way of transportation and as far as I'm concerned the most fun way. On top of that riding a bicycle is an excellent way to lose weight, increase strenght and improve overall health. Now get on your bicycle and have fun.
Joined Oct 2018
