Frank @franknog@mastodon.technology

#Linux Package 📦 Managers: #Flatpak vs #Appimage vs #Snap
Which one do you use ? and why (comment)?

Peter Thiel, the owner of Palantir (the #surveillance capitalist venture) and founder of PayPal, is a Trump fanaticist who wants to use technologies he invented to bring a #totalitarian regime ("national conservatism") in the United States. He is a present danger.
https://reason.com/2019/07/17/peter-thiel-explains-the-new-national-conservatism/

good morning, I performed last night at my workplace's annual art show and it went really well! I think. I haven't listened to the recording yet 🙈

“Have you seen our announcement? We want to make money, so we are selling stuff. If you don’t want to buy our stuff, sign up so we get your info so we can sell it and get money. Oh, and you have to sign up so you can see the stuff we are selling.”

#marketing #truth #failure

German schools can't use Office 365 due to privacy violations: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/07/germany-threatens-to-break-up-with-microsoft-office-again/
Make them switch to Tutanota now: Secure, private, and all data is hosted encrypted on German servers. 😃💪 https://tutanota.com

We provide HTTPS to more than 150M domains. There are many ways to get involved with Let's Encrypt and support a more secure Web! https://letsencrypt.org/getinvolved/

Google admitted that contractors can access recordings made by Assistant, after some of its recordings were leaked.

Been absolutely refusing to use any of these devices for precisely this reason. Google and Amazon have both been very quiet on how data is kept and access to it. The recent NHS direct news, teaming up with amazon to give medical advice, horrified me for exactly this.
Both companies have had data breaches, they should be allowed nowhere near NHS services

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/11/google-home-assistant-listen-recordings-users-privacy

Point Of Sale software / Linux.

FLOREANT is an open source solution for instance Your restaurant business. Effectively make every buck count!

Floreant indeed is a well received open source Point of Sale (POS) system for Linux. Linux usage additionally decreases the cost while increasing the productivity of Your business.

Originally designed for Denny's chain.

==> http://floreant.org/
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#POS #PointOfSale #Linux #business #pointofsalesoftware #Dennys #Floreant #restaurant #bar #cafe

I love how Mastodon is 100% functional and contains zero trackers.

It's almost as if you don't need trackers to make a functioning site and any trackers on other sites are wholly unnecessary and should be fought against on every possible level...

Microsoft loves Linux, but only when they can make money off of it. More than half of the instances on Azure, which makes them about 25 billion US-$ a year, run Linux. They make more money on an Android device than Google does. All in all Microsoft makes more money on Linux than all Linux companies combined.

But when it comes to give something back, e.g. by clearing a few patents so Linux desktop users can mount Windows-formatted USB sticks, the love ends immediately.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-exFAT-2019-Discussion

telnet http://mapscii.me # For maps in your terminal from OpenStreetMap. Use arrow keys to move around and a/z to zoom in/out. Or use your mouse if your terminal supports that.

We do not track, we do not send targeted ads. Instead, we encrypt your entire mailbox automatically. 😎 It is time to leave #Gmail and choose #privacy: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/quit-gmail-free-encrypted-email/

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