Esther Payne @onepict@fosstodon.org
Over 10 years happily using ubuntu, well kubuntu. You can take linux away from my cold dead hands. European Scot.
#introduction Techie working in #opensource for a decade. Bringing Open Source to the masses little by little.
Free Software needs many things, such as a focus on diversity, a more deliberate way to fund itself without depending on corporatism, and increased interest in other human factors like accessibility.
I believe that coops can be helpful to deliver improvements on those fronts.
@mako @mike_hales Free Software was built to free people from their shackles. Free Software was almost exclusively built by Free Software people. It would be a good thing if people arrived into the world of Free Software with humble aspirations to learn how the Free Software collaborative mode of production came into being in its 30+ years of existence, and undeniable success.
"It’s actually a big myth that search engines need to track your personal search history to make money or deliver quality search results" - DuckDuckGo's CEO explains how it’s become profitable without gathering user data
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-revenue-generation-model-for-DuckDuckGo/answer/Gabriel-Weinberg
Hellow !
We are desperately looking for persons who have expertize in LDAP for a few ~noobish questions :.
We have a few ideas which might greatly improve UX in YunoHost if only we knew how to implement it 😅.
Feel free to contact us on #yunohost-dev @ freenode (ping Bram / Aleks) 😜
That's also one of the reasons why I like #PrivacyBadger from #EFF more then stupid #Adblocker's. I'm happy to see advertisement if I use journalistic content for free as long as it respects my privacy and isn't a security risk to my computers.
Oof... Indiana University is going to start requiring two factor authentication for sshing onto the compute clusters.
Don't get me wrong, 2fa is good. I just do not like duo (which is the client they chose). It's frequently caused errors when my cell signal or WiFi signal is low where it says the request has timed out in the app but the ldap server is still waiting for a response to its push.
I get in situations often where I have enough service to check my email but not enough to Auth email
The main Google integration is GCM and that only applies if you installed from Google Play.
So basic opsec with the Riot app is to only install it from f-droid and prefer xmpp when possible.
reposting that with the story that goes with it, my #freebsd media box kept mysteriously rebooting, no amount of debugging or tracing seemed to pick up the spurious restarts. It turns out my 2yo "expert" loved the flashing lights as it started up, and found out how to hard reset it. 3 months of wondering wtf was happening until I filmed this.
Well, I don't think I'll be listening to Morrissey anymore. Not that I did much of it anyway. The Smiths were a big influence on my generation though.
There's a lot of things wrong with politics in the UK. I can understand why there are many people who are angry and looking for solutions. But scapegoating minorities, denying that racism exists and supporting vile people who would eagerly take away your freedom if they got into power is not the solution to anything.
I love this project: a riverbed in Amsterdam was drained and the ~700,000 found objects dating from the 1300s to present were photographed and presented online:
🇬🇧 Hey, everyone! As I've been warning for the last two weeks, the option "link-only" for RT/Quote coming from Twitter was retired. Everyone using it is now automatically using "old-style with links" instead.
🇧🇷 Oi, povo! Como eu avisei pelas últimas duas semanas, a opção "só link" para RT/quote vindo do Twitter foi aposentada. Todo mundo que estava usando a opção agora está usando "à moda antiga com links".
-- @renatolond
I’m sick to death of people being precious about #GMO produce. Functionally there is no difference between a grape bred to have little or no seed and a grape that has been modified in a lab for the same thing. Y’all are just scared of science.
You wanna talk about #Monsanto charging for “licenses” for their crops, ok. Talk about agribusiness killing the planet, ok. Talk about corporations copyrighting genetic code, ok. These are all valid concerns.
But the science is sound.
@Algot monoculture is a HUGE problem, not only bc of roundup ready. Capitalism creates the conditions for cash crops like soybeans and corn, which the state subsidizes. What’s the impetus for growing other things when the government pays farmers (independent and corporate) to grow one or two things?
Not to mention the total inefficiency of livestock, which takes massive amounts of energy and water to raise and process. Totally unsustainable.
RT @openculture
Behold an Incredibly Detailed, Handmade Map Of Medieval Trade Routes http://www.openculture.com/2018/06/behold-incredibly-detailed-handmade-map-medieval-trade-routes.html
Original URL: https://twitter.com/openculture/status/1013111447428190209
RT @openculture
The Models for "American Gothic" Pose in Front of the Iconic Painting (1942) http://www.openculture.com/2018/03/the-models-for-american-gothic-pose-in-front-of-the-iconic-painting-1942.html
Original URL: https://twitter.com/openculture/status/1013125264182775808
The book that is mandatory reading at every data collection and aggregation company
Mastometa, GG Show more
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-new-tech-avengers-1530285064
TL;DR Industry insiders aren't going to save anyone from anything. Tweaking around with "screen time" or interface design or adding extra "street cred" from a younger generation doesn't address any of the real problems with Sillicon Valley.
If any of these rich morons were actually sincere they would have to abandon their business models and start again with federated and distributed systems with no data concentration. But of course they're not going to do that.
