wakingrufus @wakingrufus@mastodon.technology

Google has suspended Element (@matrix) from the Play Store for "Sexual Content and Profanity". Basically same story as with Subway Tooter a while back. Element is to Matrix as Chrome is to the web. Curiously, Chrome is still on the Play Store.

Donate to #fdroid today. Destroy google tomorrow.
https://opencollective.com/f-droid

@aral @laura The k-12 fight is the most difficult. If a parent in the US claims that the school forcing #Google usage is a violation of the students #FERPA privacy rights, the school and the dept. of education simply ignores them. Even if they could be convincing, the cost of training teachers to do it right competes for a scarce resource: money.

RISC-V Comes to the BeagleBoard Ecosystem with Upcoming BeagleV SBC

The Beagle V, a RISC-V-based single board computer from a collaboration between BeagleBoard and Seeed Studios aims to be “The First Affordable RISC-V Computer Designed to Run Linux”. RI… https://hackaday.com/2021/01/14/risc-v-comes-to-the-beagleboard-ecosystem-with-upcoming-beaglev-sbc/

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/hackaday/status/1349800055243419649

Grab a Glass, Wine 6.0 Has Been Released

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/01/wine-6-0-released-how-to-install-on-ubuntu

If you need to convince your friends to use Wire or Signal instead of Facebook’s WhatsApp, tell them to watch this talk I gave OVER SIX YEARS AGO:

https://small-tech.org/videos/the-camera-panopticon/

70TB of Parler users’ data leaked by security researchers
https://web.archive.org/web/20210111215852/https://cybernews.com/news/70tb-of-parler-users-messages-videos-and-posts-leaked-by-security-researchers/

@dansup
Why he left:
https://framagit.org/tom79/fedilab/-/issues/498
@mondstern

but seriously, I’m feeling extra special vindicated on having an absolutely-zero-nazis policy on our instance. I’ve been criticized for going too far by not federating with instances who choose to federate with gab, but guess what.

de-platforming fascists is good and it works.

This week in KDE: KDE Plasma improves multi-monitor support, the Dolphin file manager got some cool animations, and Plasma's app launcher makes it easier to reach your favorite programs.

https://pointieststick.com/2021/01/08/this-week-in-kde-new-kwin-compositing-new-kickoff-new-recording-level-visualization/

Ah. You're a programmer and don't like timezones. Yet you still celebrate at your local midnight. I see. Very interesting.

Sengi is a free open source Mastodon desktop app for Linux, Mac and Windows, and there's also a browser version. You can follow at:

➡️ @sengi_app

There's also the developer's blog at:

➡️ @nicolas-constant

You can find out more and download Sengi from its official website at https://nicolasconstant.github.io/sengi

#Sengi #Mastodon #App #Apps #Fediverse #FOSS

Important decision for @kde @plasmamobile project

https://www.plasma-mobile.org/2020/12/14/plasma-mobile-technical-debt.html

@wakingrufus Wow thanks for this! It 100% accurately identifies everything I witnessed going wrong in my last 2 year employment as a developer. I've been saying to myself and to colleagues for the past 4 years or so that asking devs for estimates is senseless conjecture, but always felt a gnawing sense of "what if i'm just too radical with this, or worse, just too inexperienced?" and reading about #noestimates is a relief to say the least. ;) Looking forward to research and pursue the idea of co-ops and VSM in practice!