♲ @frederic@pouet.couchet.org: "Starting this Thanksgiving I am going to write a complete Unix-compatible software system called GNU (for Gnu's Not Unix), and give it away free to everyone who can use it." September 27, 1983 - Richard Stallman. www.gnu.org/gnu/initial-announ…
Happy birthday to GNU \0/
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Tobias (tobias@social.diekershoff.de)'s status on Sunday, 27-Sep-2020 08:07:55 EDT Tobias -
Alexandre Oliva (lxoliva@social.libreplanetbr.org)'s status on Sunday, 27-Sep-2020 11:31:03 EDT Alexandre Oliva happy original software freedom day!
on this day, 37 years ago, Richard Stallman launched the Free Software Movement, and the GNU Project, to build a user-freedom-respecting operating system, so that all users could do their computing in freedom -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Monday, 21-Sep-2020 22:43:54 EDT Bob Jonkman In the Netherlands (which the Dutch call "Nederland") the language is called "Nederlands", so that makes sense. Perhaps English speakers couldn't differentiate between "Nederlands" and "Deutsch", which corrupted to "Dutch".
And why do we call the country "Germany" and the inhabitants "Germans" when they call their country "Deutschland" and themselves "die Deutsche"? -
Erik Moeller (eloquence@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 28-Aug-2020 02:43:31 EDT Erik Moeller Disturbing reports that Google Play is threatening to kick out Mastodon apps. See:
https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/104763960269049818
https://toot.fedilab.app/@fedilab/104765191594914330
App stores have a track record of acting capriciously & are also easy targets for gov't censors (including Trump). This is why alternatives like @fdroidorg are so important for user freedom.
If unfamiliar: F-Droid is a free & open source app you can use to install other Android apps, with focus on free & open source software. Get it here:
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Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Aug-2020 11:24:57 EDT Bob Jonkman I do like the taste of onion bagels. When the other bagels in the bag acquire an onion flavour it's a poor experience at best, almost certainly leading to the purchase of a *real* onion bagel. #AOBFS #AcquiredOnionBagelFlavourSyndrome -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 24-Aug-2020 19:50:58 EDT lnxw48a1 @bobjonkman @blacksam Would that still be true if you actually liked onion bagels?
Asking because, although I don't eat bagels at all, it seems to me that you're probably unusually sensitive to the flavor of onion ... which would likely be the case if you disliked that flavor. -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Monday, 24-Aug-2020 17:18:32 EDT Bob Jonkman If there is one onion bagel in a bag of bagels, they're *all* onion bagels... -
Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Monday, 24-Aug-2020 08:53:16 EDT Brian Ó How come no matter what flavor bagel you buy from the bakery, it's always, to some extent, an onion bagel?
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Free Software Foundation (fsf@status.fsf.org)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2020 13:58:29 EDT Free Software Foundation Remote education has provided an unfortunate opportunity for privacy-invading proprietary software to invade students' lives. Learn how many people are fighting back: https://u.fsf.org/32h -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Apr-2020 22:41:26 EDT Bob Jonkman oh, hang on. That was a ReTweet from @wilkieii@twitter.com But you're still invited to make that presentation!