Notices by The Human (blort@social.tchncs.de)

WTF?! My non-rooted phone had #Google Maps pre-installed, but I only use #OSMand for navigation etc.

Yesterday, I walked to a local restaurant, without using my phone, and had lunch there before walking back.

I never opened #GoogleMaps.

Today, I find a notification from Maps:
How was {restaurant name}?
Rate places to get smarter recommendations.

So it tracked and calculated where I ate without even opening my phone or the app.

Definitely time for #Pinephone / #LibreM

#privacy #Android

Kudos to @cwebber and @apconf for putting the #ActivitypubConference (#apconf) videos online on #Peertube.

Peertube already gives us a great alternative to #YouTube, but it's problem is a lack of viewers, because of the lack of content uploaded to the platform (& being new).

That's why it's great to see #Apconf help break the catch 22 by sharing their videos at:

https://conf.tube/accounts/apconf/videos

Here's hoping we see other conferences follow their lead! (#kde #gnome etc. I'm looking at you!)

If you run your own #Nextcloud server, answer this:

Do you have a distributed, #encrypted, automatic, offsite, free #backup solution?

How amazing would it be to install a Nextcloud app and automatically have all your data encrypted, backed up around the world, on other Nextcloud installs rather than some mega-corp, for no cost beyond sharing some of your unused storage space?

Please help make this happen, by boosting and supporting this issue now:
https://github.com/ipfs/integration-mini-projects/issues/7

#FOSS #IPFS

Having fun experimenting with Armory3D , the FOSS, next gen game engine designed to run inside of Blender using all of it's UI / shortcut conventions.

Experimental, early days yet, but I have big ambitions! 😆

#Armory3D #Blender #B3D #Gamedev #FOSS #OpenSource

@dansup

Dansup and the Blort:

Blort: Good morning @dansup ! What are you going to do today?

Dansup: The same thing I do every day, Blort! Try to federate #Pixelfed over the world!

Blort: Narf!

Image courtesy of @doctorow

All the #distributed, #federated #webapps in the world don't matter if they're prohibitively hard for people to run (ie #selfhost!).

That's how most of the world's #email ended up owned by #Google and #Microsoft.

So it's almost criminal that the leading #FOSS #selfhosting platform @yunohost is only getting €9.63 a week from their #Liberapay.

We can do better! Let's make it easy for everyone to host #Mastodon, #Peertube, #Wordpress, #Pixelfed etc!

Go, #Fediverse! Go!

https://liberapay.com/YunoHost

@GeekDaddy Yeah, that's sad. Unfortunately the FOSS, git based code hosting platforms seem to be dragging their feet on federation.

Personally I can't wait for #Gitea or #Gogs or #Gitlab or similar to federate via #ActivityPub. Personally I feel that will be a defining moment for the #FOSS community in taking back out sovereignty from #GitHub / #Microsoft.

#Blender gets all their videos blocked worldwide by #YouTube. #Armory3D has their #Patreon page closed down and their backers refunded without any notice as to why. All the #FOSS projects hosted by #GitHub now have their hosting at the mercy of #Microsoft.

And this is just a few of the recent examples.

When is the #FOSS community going to learn that we need to create and run our own infrastructure as well as apps?

Support #decentralised #FOSS infrastructure! (eg #PeerTube, #tilt, #Gitea etc)

Github is now a fully owned, proprietary tool of Microsoft.

It's time to decide.

Do we as a community allow our future to depend upon commercial interests of a company that to this day spreads FUD and minimizes our impact when it suits their plans?

Or do we step up, do what we do best and take our code to somewhere created by the us for us and the good of the community?

This isn't about hating Microsoft. It's about loving our own sovereignty and controlling our *own* future.

Please Boost.