Notices by Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺 (bjoern@mastodon.social)

Iceland has lost its first glacier to rising temperatures. Now, scientists are planning to install a memorial near the sad pile. https://earther.gizmodo.com/scientists-wrote-a-eulogy-for-icelands-first-glacier-lo-1836542745 #climateChange #ScientistsForFuture #FridaysForFuture

Iceland has lost its first glacier to rising temperatures. Now, scientists are planning to install a memorial near the sad pile. https://earther.gizmodo.com/scientists-wrote-a-eulogy-for-icelands-first-glacier-lo-1836542745 #climateChange Forschenden von #ScientistsForFuture #FridaysForFuture

"Und so sehr, wie unser ganzes Leben verdatet wird, so sehr verlieren wir zunehmend auch die Kontrolle über unsere Daten und somit über unser digitales Leben. Entsprechend wichtig ist es, unsere informationelle Selbstbestimmung und digitale Souveränität aufrecht zu erhalten. Denn wer über unsere Daten verfügt, kann über uns verfügen." Das ist alles richtig, aber bitte nicht die Software vergessen! https://www.gruen-digital.de/2019/07/gruene-nrw-beschliessen-umfassenden-antrag-zur-gestaltung-der-digitalen-transformation-als-chance-fuer-nrw-in-einer-globalisierten-welt/ #Politik #Grüne #NRW #Digitalisierung #FreieSoftware

@downey indeed, often organisations want to "commercially exploit" Free Software if they prefer non-protecting licences. For real commercial use most organisations prefer protecting licenses or other legal constructs like a strong governance body to guarantee a level playing field. But why introduce and maintain another legal layer if the right license choice does already the trick?

@jaywink That's a good idea, having a small homeserver just for the bridge and then connect to it with another server. I'm just looking in the idea of a WhatsApp bridge for the family but would prefer to keep the "main" matrix server hosted somewhere else because afaik a matrix server can quickly need quite some resources if you join big rooms.
cc @AugierLe42e

@jaywink As you know quite a lot about Matrix bridges. Would it be possible to install for example a WhatsApp bridge on a random server and connect to it with a matrix.org account? All instructions for bridges I saw assume that I can make adjustments to the Matrix server itself. The concept of bridges would be really powerful if the bridge would be independent from the Matrix server and I could invite the bridge from any server to a room. cc @AugierLe42e

@jaywink thanks for the background information. Indeed I use Riot and I now enabled bot notifications in the Riot settings. I have to wait now until one of the RSS feeds gets updated but I hope this will solve it.

@springbov Thanks, I didn't knew that and they where indeed disabled. I enabled them now and wait for the next RSS item but I'm sure this fixed it. 😃

I created a #Matrix room with a RSS bot but I don't get a notification when a new RSS item pops up. In the room settings I have enabled notification for all messages. Is it by intention that bot's don't trigger notifications? Sounds odd.

Sweden’s newly created public sector digitalisation hub, has adopted a policy for its use of #OpenSource. “We want to be open and accessible, and make it easy for partners to benefit from the knowledge we build” - That's great. Only the argument for non-protecting licenses is a little bit misguiding. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/news/tax-funded-source-code #publicCode #FreeSoftware #policy

It seems like these days you no longer need a postit on your monitor with the password. Just put all your passwords in your password book. 🤦♂️ #security #passwords

Sehr schön, #D64 fordert umfassende Förderung von Freier Software. https://d-64.org/fuenf-gruende-fuer-open-source-software #FreieSoftware #Politik #Nachhaltigkeit #Innovation & #Sicherheit

@t0rt0i53 Die Alternativen gibt es. Man muss nur mal über den Tellerrand hinaus schauen. Ich habe den Podcast noch nicht gehört aber da es sich um eine Schweizer Lehrerin handelt könnte sie mal nach Bern schauen. #Base4Kids macht es mit #Nextcloud, #Collabora, #Moodle und anderen Komponenten vor. Aber wenn Freie Software nicht unbedingt im Fokus eines Investors stehen würde, würde mich das nicht überraschen. https://www.inside-it.ch/articles/51085
Cc @kuketzblog

Does someone knows a tool which automatically re-toot posts from a specific user depending on hash tags? #Mastodon #nf

Im 21. Jahrhundert müssen wir beim Thema Nachhaltigkeit immer auch unseren digitalen Lebensraum mit berücksichtigen. Deswegen war Bits&Bäume letztes Jahr so wichtig. #Nachhaltigkeit #Digitalisierung #FreieSoftware #Politik