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ActivityPubConf
A yearly online conference with presentations from AP developers and others, hosted on PeerTube and accessible to everyone. I think this will be my next project!
It's #FollowFriday! Here are some #alternatives to follow:
@cloutstream CloutStream: An open source federated alternative to LinkedIn, just launched its new website
@Chocobozzz Chocobozzz: Lead developer of #PeerTube, the ethical alternative to YouTube
@Purism Purism: Makers of privacy-oriented computers and the upcoming Librem5 smartphone
@fdroidorg F-Droid: The open source alternative to Google Play
@krita Krita: Open source painting software aimed at artists and illustrators
Reclaiming RSS
“Before Twitter, before algorithmic timelines filtered our reality for us, before surveillance capitalism, there was RSS: Really Simple Syndication … As we move away from the centralised web to the peer web, it’s time to rediscover, re-embrace, and reclaim RSS.”
Twitter over Twitter
Added #SnipsAI to the "Bubbling Under" page as an upcoming ethical alternative to Alexa, Siri and Google Home:
https://switching.social/bubbling-under/
According to the feedback from yesterday's thread, Snips seems to be the only voice assistant project that works offline and isn't sending your data to someone else's computer.
Currently, Mycroft sends your data to their server for processing, and Gladys sends your data to Google (!) for processing.
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RCE over Doom
The dropdown menu has been tweaked as well. CW, user reports, and mod accounts are almost finished and federation support is about 40% complete!
The worst is yet to come
#GitHub #Microsoft
JULY 7 - Independence Day
https:// iday.im
#DeleteGoogle #DeGoogle #DeleteFacebook #DeleteTwitter #DeleteWhatsapp #DeleteInstagram #spyware #datamining #FuckOffGoogle #FuckOffFacebook #FuckOffTwitter #FuckOffInstagram #FuckOffPalantir #palantir #joinpeertube #fediverse
What you buy a product for and what the product actually does are diverging at an alarming rate 😟
Why is an electric toothbrush demanding access to your phone's microphone and location? Why does a television send data about you to 700 addresses in the first 15 minutes?
These aren't cheap shady no-brand devices, these are expensive products from big consumer companies.
Microsoft has reportedly acquired GitHub
#Microsoft has reportedly acquired GitHub, and could announce the deal as early as Monday. Bloomberg reports that the software giant has agreed to acquire GitHub, and that the company chose Microsoft partly because of CEO Satya Nadella. Business Insider first reported that Microsoft had been in talks with GitHub recently.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/3/17422752/microsoft-github-acquisition-rumors
After: proprietaries service centralizing free software development
Migrating from GitHub to GitLab https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYOXuOg9tQI Uploaded today 😀
📈 This week €2753 and $472 have been donated by 1601 patrons to 481 creators and projects through https://liberapay.com/
Voice over XML
Active Directory over VGA
A bot that takes a dictionary of common words that end with "-a" and are already singular and then posts "Actually, the singular is: [word]-um"
E.g. "Actually, the singular is: chutzpum"
"Actually, the singular is: mozarellum"
Same thing with -i and -us
E.g. "Actually, the singular is: jacuzzus"
"Actually, the singular is: chilus"
