Stefano @returntrip@mastodon.technology

Richard Hughes has been tirelessly working on fwupd and the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) to greatly improve firmware updating on Linux! He is asking for 5 minutes of your time to help with this effort. Please consider his request, if you are able

https://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2019/05/13/donating-5-minutes-of-your-time-to-help-the-lvfs/ …

We reached 6000 followers in the fediverse today! 🎉

Thanks for your support everyone! ❤️

(Meanwhile it's about 2000 on twitter 😃)

Does anyone here know Japanese or Swedish?

I am learning these two languages and I would like to send messages to someone of sentences I come up with or to have small text conversations to practice :)

I know Russian so if anyone wants to practice it with me I will be happy to help.

Does anyone know a good CDN (Content Delivery Network) that is nice, ok price, ethical?

With a one-click activation by the user, Qwant Causes reinforces Qwant's strong engagement for the promotion of a sustainable Internet and world 🌐🌍

→ https://www.qwant.com/causes

#EmpowerYourSearch

Tonight, we will launch a new product.

And this may surprise you 😉.

#EmpowerYourSearch

Are you not feeling motivated to go outside for a healthy walk? How about downloading the application StreetComplete from @fdroidorg and start helping out OpenStreetMap by adding missing data about the places around you!

I started today and it made my daily walks a lot more fun! It also motivates me to walk even more and visit new places that I wouldn't visit otherwise. :)

#OpenStreetMap #OpenData #Fdroid

It's my signature frien

Update: Update available from F-Droid too now.

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🎉 Markor v1.7 update released - Custom Fonts, LinkBox with Markdown

Read the blog post here:
https://gsantner.net/blog/2019/03/11/markor-release-v1.7-custom-fonts-linkbox-markdown.html?source=mastodon

Topics: Custom and bundled Fonts, LinkBox with Markdown, WikiLink syntax, App Shortcuts

What is Markor? Open Source TextEditor for Android, with support for Markdown & todo.txt.

🎂 It's been one year since https://switching.social posted its #Introductions, so cake for everyone! 🍰 🍰 🍰 🎉

Wow. On the one hand it seems like just yesterday, but on the other it feels like a *lot* has happened since then.

Thank you for all the suggestions and feedback, and thank you to those who make #Alternatives that give us back our privacy. You are all heroes 👍

I have started writing an article about XMPP. I will try to keep it as simple, non-technical and short as possible.

Do you have anything you want to see in the article or do you have any questions I should answer in it? Or anything else? Let me know! :)

GNU/Social will support ActivityPub via my plugin before Mastodon and Pleroma deprecate OStatus.

I look forward to helping modernize the GS code base this summer 😄

https://git.gnu.io/dansup/ActivityPub

#gnuSocial #activityPub #fediverse

Very exciting call for research:

Mozilla has an interest in potentially integrating more of Tor into Firefox 🔥

Tor has never been deployed at this scale, so there are a lot of considerations to research before giving this a try.

Learn more & apply for Mozilla's Research Grant: https://blog.torproject.org/mozilla-research-call-tune-tor-integration-and-scale

Interested in a smartphone with /e/?

We have worked on a plan with partners, register now to get yours in June!

Read all the details in our latest newsletter at:
https://e.foundation/register-now-for-your-first-smartphone/
#android #privacy #smartphone #Refurbished

#Tusky 7 tomorrow. Thx for the testing, this could be one of the most stable releases ever 🤞

phew! I did a big update to Medic, my #Rust CLI that checks KeePass databases for breached/weak/duplicate passwords. It's now more of a real CLI!

https://github.com/sts10/medic

big h/t to @bugaevc for tipping me off to structopt (https://github.com/TeXitoi/structopt), which was pretty intuitive!

cc @codesections

In case you missed it, you can follow people across the Fediverse even if you're using a different kind of site.

For example, here's a PixelFed account:

@earth

...here's a PeerTube account...

@documentaries

...here's a WriteFreely account...

@carbontwelve

...here's a Plume account...

@PlumeDev

...here's a Friendica account...

@hypolite

...and you can follow all of them from Mastodon.

Just click on the @ link to see their profile, and then click on Follow.

#Fediverse #Federation

Why I no longer recommend using #AlternativeTo

1) The website hosted on cloudflare and contains some Google trackers.
2) It let's you filter for #FreeSoftware , but doesn't explain the value of it.
3) It mislabels Free Software as "open source" and proprietary freemiums as "free".

Instead I recommend:
@BurungHantu @switchingsocial @Framasoft 's https://degooglisons-internet.org/ and my blog at @paulakreuzer