wakingrufus @wakingrufus@mastodon.technology

RSS is still the backbone of podcasts no matter how much Apple likes to make people think any different.

@Gargron KeepassXC + Syncthing = world peace

I recommend Keepass

Akira, The Linux Design Tool

Akira is about giving the freedom to designers who want to use Open Source.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alecaddd/akira-the-linux-design-tool

cc @design_libre

Read about our upcoming PureOS App Store coming to Librem 5 and Librem laptops https://puri.sm/posts/purism-announces-pureos-store/. Exciting times are ahead of us! #DefendFreedom #PrivacySecurityNow

mastodon.technology now has a plan in the event that @ashfurrow is suddenly, permanently rendered unable to administer the instance. As with our other docs, the plan is open: https://github.com/ashfurrow/mastodon/tree/public#handling-the-bus-factor

It's a work-in-progress but this is a good starting point.

Hardware Updates for 2019! 🎉

Today we introduce Version 4 of the Librem laptop line — now with an updated CPU and graphics for all models and a 4k/HiDPI screen for the 15″ model.

https://puri.sm/posts/librem-laptops-now-at-version-4/

Protect your digital life with strong #security and #privacy *and* do so on one of our beautiful, high-end laptops.

A California judge has ruled that American cops can’t force people to unlock a mobile phone with their face or finger. https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/01/14/feds-cant-force-you-to-unlock-your-iphone-with-finger-or-face-judge-rules/#5899df8c42b7

I guess the perfect #programming #language for me at the moment would be the language syntax and features of #Kotlin with a compiler that takes the best of both Kotlin and #Dart (hot reload, cross-compile to #JavaScript, native and #JVM).

What is your perfect language (imaginary or real)?

#dev

if i unzip a file and it contains __MACOSX i immediately delete the zip, the unzipped folder, and i blacklist the website it came from in /etc/hosts

@bamfic

>Some of the most evil corporations on the planet have given back significant open source projects. Hard to say whether they take more than they give.

But that is too narrow of a focus. Giving a 'handful' of developers these tools and frameworks which are in large part the same ones that allow them to roll out ever more extractive business practices to the rest of humanity and increase their dominance.

There is a crisis in (FL)OSS and it needs to be solved.. somehow.

@cwebber @aral

Adblocking isn't unethical. Covering your website in trackers, spying on users, and compromising their security to make a buck is.

You have a limited amount of time in this world. You decide whether to spend it being “neutral” (legitimising trillion-dollar surveillance capitalists) or working with those of us trying to raise awareness about their abuses so we can actually regulate them and get funding for ethical alternatives that don’t rely on them. If you’re doing the former don’t you dare criticise those doing the latter. We’re not the ones punching down and we don’t owe you an explanation for doing the right thing.

Maybe it’s time for some organisations to take a fucking stand. Start calling surveillance capitalists “surveillance capitalists.” Say no to their money. And stop legitimising these bastards.

https://ar.al/2019/01/11/i-was-wrong-about-google-and-facebook-theres-nothing-wrong-with-them-so-say-we-all/

Plasma is the most popular desktop amongst MuyLinux readers according to their 2018 poll. Of the 6,000 votes cast, Plasma received 1,637, that is 27% of the total. This is the third year running Plasma has been chosen best desktop by MuyLinux readers.

https://www.muylinux.com/2019/01/09/escritorios-2018/

I can see why normal people just throw their hands up in the air about data privacy. I've put so much effort into this stuff, but instead of feeling like a super-cool guy in a spy movie, I feel more like a guy with a half-working phone and no decent emoji input

"T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T are selling access to their customers’ location data, and that data is ending up in the hands of bounty hunters and others not authorized to possess it, letting them track most phones in the country." – https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/nepxbz/i-gave-a-bounty-hunter-300-dollars-located-phone-microbilt-zumigo-tmobile #Privacy

GitHub now offers unlimited private repositories on its unpaid, regular accounts: https://blog.github.com/changelog/, https://github.com/pricing

This is nice, sure, but: If at all possible, please consider using other services – your local hackerspace might have a git server, or people around here might open theirs to you if you ask – or you could host it yourself, if you have the capability and resources. #git #github

wow, this is a new one

if you need my “personal data” to pay your staff then you need to find a more ethical fucking business model