Akshay S Dinesh 🏳️‍🌈 أكشي ☂ @akshay@mastodon.technology

#PinePhone running #KDE plasma and Librem 5 running #GNOME at #fosdem. They were on tables next to each other.

A fascinating piece on first #IndiaOS by Akshay S Dinesh.
https://asd.learnlearn.in/indiaos-2020/

@akshay writing about his experience uninstalling #WhatsApp.

https://blog.learnlearn.in/2020/01/good-riddance-whatsapp.html?m=1

Try https://riot.im for a #FreeSoftware and #Federated replacement.

You need to understand what is "Firehosing" the crux of politics in the post truth world 👇

@Deepsealioness and @girishNaught please boost

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nknYtlOvaQ0

@praveen @akshay

A similar improvement was done to #Lyx too, which is a #WYSIWYM (what you see is what you mean) document writing tool.

A very good improvement in the usability of #Linux on the desktop was done by Con Kolivas, an Australian ... dentist (I feel old saying this, as it was so long ago).

I am #newhere . I am a technology entrepreneur based Bangalore. Living & breathing at the intersection of Technology, Feminism and Parenting. #introduction #india

Opinionated, Rants

Facebook fought to keep a trove of thousands of explosive internal documents and emails secret. They were just published online in full. | Business Insider India
https://www.businessinsider.in/finance/news/facebook-fought-to-keep-a-trove-of-thousands-of-explosive-internal-documents-and-emails-secret-they-were-just-published-online-in-full-/articleshow/71943764.cms

I've made a deliberate choice against a quoting feature because it inevitably adds toxicity to people's behaviours. You are tempted to quote when you should be replying, and so you speak at your audience instead of with the person you are talking to. It becomes performative. Even when doing it for "good" like ridiculing awful comments, you are giving awful comments more eyeballs that way. No quote toots. Thank's

For those who are #NewHere, I'd like share another aspect of #mastodon that brought many of us here much before the current wave. Mastodon is Free Software (sometimes called as Open Source or Free and Open Source Software). It means anyone is Free to use, study, modify and share the software. This means we are not dependent on any single entity (person, company, country...) and we can be self-reliant.

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource

People behind this #FreeSoftware migration of #scribus.

Hussain KH (Rachana), Ashok Kumar, @ranjithsiji @mujeebcpy @bady @kannan

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