🦄 Unicorn Farts @unicornfarts@fosstodon.org

#linuxrocks #fosstodon

@fosstodon
@kev pointed out how close linuxrocks and fosstodon are in users and toots and I been getting such a kick out of watching us both grow together.

Currently
Linuxrocks 1,708 users and 70,125 toots

fosstodon 1,767 users and 69,609 toots.

In October 11 we had the exact same amount of users.

Glad to see our Mastodon Family grow and with great instances like ours with awesome users.

The Baby Dome! Two babies enter, only one baby leaves!

Since we seem to be in the middle of (another) user influx, I'm reposting some getting started resources:

*Blog posts*
https://www.codesections.com/blog/mastodon-elevator-pitch/ (me)
https://kevq.uk/how-does-mastodon-work/
https://kevq.uk/getting-started-with-mastodon/ (both @kev https://nolanlawson.com/2018/08/31/mastodon-and-the-challenges-of-abuse-in-a-federated-system/ @nolan

*Alternative front-ends*
https://pinafore.social/
https://brutaldon.online/
https://halcyon.cybre.space/

*Tool for finding people to follow*
https://communitywiki.org/trunk

*issue tracker for software bugs*
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon

Let me know what I've forgotten!

A project manager is a person who thinks nine women can deliver a baby in one month.

Well, here is some good news. The Municipality of Tirana moves to FLOSS and open standards. After succesfull migrating to NextCloud the capital will now migrate to LibreOffice.

I hope other cities will follow and also avoid proprietary lock-in.

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2018/11/22/municipality-of-tirana/

#SolarpunkReporting

In 2014, when Sierra Leone was hit by the Ebola outbreak, three local software developers kept the country's infrastructure working by rewriting it to #FLOSS. They saved hundreds of thousands lives when companies like Google and IBM backed off, calling the project too risky.

https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7561-how_open_source_software_second_hand_laptops_and_hackers_helped_stop_ebola_and_stopped_an_apocalypse

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/30/software-developers-helped-end-ebola-epidemic-sierra-leone

And their own recollection of the events with some technical descriptions:

https://medium.com/idtlabs/how-open-source-software-helped-in-the-fight-against-ebola-788bb3ca2bf0

Do you ever miss the days of old when the internet was young, and you thought it was scandalous and cool to do something like download a txt file of the anarchist cookbook to a floppy drive?

Or you thought you were a hardcore hacker because you read about phone phreaking?

I would spend HOURS (mostly due to low bandwidth 28.8 baud modems) poring over a website like this:

http://www.textfiles.com/anarchy/

Idea: script/program you can bind to a keyboard shortcut that disables all key presses, mouse movements and clicks until a secret key combo is hit to cancel the script. When I see my toddler coming a quick shortcut and he can pound away without worry.

@unicornfarts as a plasma user w/ global menu turned on... OMG yes. Please get rid of the stupid hamburger menus, or at least make them optional!

Traditional menu bars and toolbars work just fine. They might have been useful when the standard desktop resolution was 1024x768 or below, but not now!

Even my beloved Firefox, which still lets you expose the menu bar, won't let you hide the damn menu button.

Finally got around to making this account. If I send follow requests, it's because I like the content you post.
#NewHere