Vishnu @[email protected]

Happy Free Software Day!

I'm accidentally celebrating by just learning about all the cool organizations and people working on free software in India. As in, I learned about FSFI first, and then I pulled on further threads from there and found more orgs, and then I discovered on their news pages that today is FSD. 😀

FSF India fsf.org.in/ @fsfi

Swathanthra Malayalam Computing smc.org.in/ @smc

Software Freedom Law Center, India sflc.in/ @sflcin

Free Software Community of India fsci.org.in/

The FSCI don't seem to have an official account on Fedi or Diaspora, but I'm now following some individuals mentioned on their website, by just searching for their usernames on Fedi and Diaspora.
Free Software Community of India

@Gargron
Yes, Fedilab has also 7 days to bring changes without knowing what exactly.
@tateisu

Current Etherium Network Fees Are Killing CryptoCurrency Tokens Like The #Brave Browsers #BAT Currency. Smaller amount of digital currency tokens on the #Etherium blockchain have become worthless due to the unusually high transaction fees.
https://linuxreviews.org/Current_Etherium_Network_Fees_Are_Killing_CryptoCurrency_Tokens_Like_The_Brave_Browsers_BAT_Currency

📦 libvarnam-ibus now added to #AUR

#Malayalam -> #മലയാളം

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libvarnam-ibus-git

This week in KDE: Elisa displays the progress of the playing song inline and allows you to customize the sidebar, the Disk Usage viewer recovers a classic widget design and KDE's remote desktop session viewer, KRDC, solves its cursor lagging problem.

https://pointieststick.com/2020/07/10/this-week-in-kde-new-features-galore/

Why Mastodon and the fediverse are “doomed to fail”

-> a small rant about how the profit lens distorts our understanding of success vs. failure:

https://write.as/eloquence/why-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-are-doomed-to-fail

Chapter 99 in The Tech Industry Is Broken With Problems It Has No Desire To Fix.

Tech corporations demand "freedom" to exploit the software commons without contributing to it. To use open source communities and their volunteers as unpaid interns, while keeping the platforms they build on top of their work proprietary, and patent-encumbered. To ensure their ability to keep doing this, they run a constant PR offensive against copyleft licenses that oblige reciprocity, framing them as a denial of developer freedom (to prevent users and other developers using their freedoms).

Today, we've unveiled our roadmap to #PeerTube's v3: live streaming, global search, better plugins, playlists and moderation: we will need your help!
▶️ info https://framablog.org/2020/05/26/our-plans-for-peertube-v3-progressive-fundraising-live-streaming-coming-next-fall
▶️ share and support https://joinpeertube.org/roadmap

Implemented a "Play with Random People" feature to Vett, The Dots & Boxes online game : https://vett.space

What started as a hackathon project from @MLHacks Hack-at-Home comes to a finished end 23 days later 🎉

Learnt @vuejs, @WebTorrentApp & more along with @athulcajay

Say yes to #OpenAccess + Peer-Review

https://ashwin.info.tm/open-access-peer-review.html

> a good reminder that none of us is truly isolated in this interconnected world of ours.

Aerosol transport visualization

https://fyfluiddynamics.com/2020/05/aerosol-transport/

#FYFD #fluiddynamics

Great news: KMail finally gets approval to use Google Sign In. You can now access GMail with KDE's powerful email client again, while at the same time keeping your Google account password safe.

https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/gi5bol/mailkontact_oauth_signin_with_gmail_enabled_again/

Qualified appreciation of ProtonMail for finally making their stuff open source

However, I still strongly recommend against them, because basic access to open/standard protocols like IMAP and SMTP should never be locked down as a paid "extra"