Notices by Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺 (bjoern@mastodon.social), page 10

@botherder nice, I do this at the moment with LeechBlock where you can configure your own rules. Also nice to break old and bad habits.

@HerraBRE
I can recommend to try different distributions as well, not only desktops. I have here Ubuntu Gnome in parallel to Debian (my main system) and test regularly Fedora and openSuSE. Ubuntu has by far the most buggy GNOME in my experience.

@bob and where do I get decent mobile clients for IRC with push notifications, history sync across devices, e2e encryption,... Don't get me wrong, nothing against IRC in general but there are many areas we can improve so I appreciate every effort.

@Kelvino
Das heißt mein Smartphone meldet sich jetzt täglich das es eine neue Version gibt? Ist das wirklich sinnvoll? Ich habe mich schon bei den wöchentlichen Updates gefragt wie oft ich eigentlich die identische Software wieder und wieder installiere bis mal wirklich was neues kommt.

@hugo @HerraBRE ... I use only the Mastodon API for it, it is no ActivityPub involved at all. So maybe not exactly what you are looking for. For me it was a pragmatic way to solve my problem which I defined as "get a social component on my otherwise static blog and don't use any central service but do it in a way which is also some advertisement for the fediverse"

@hugo @HerraBRE Yes, I use this on my static blog (generated with Hugo). You can see an example here if you scroll down: https://www.schiessle.org/articles/2018/11/01/keep-yourself-organized/ It is basically a little bit of JS and PHP which searched my Mastodon account for the URL and then fetches all likes, re-shares and replies. With a little bit more work you could probably also integrate a "add comment" feature more tightly but for me the current state was "good enough" so far. The code can be found here https://gitlab.com/BeS/hugo-sustain-ng/tree/master/static/mastodon.comments

@peter These days privacy, security and freedom respecting software/services are way to important in order not to care about the 99%. We should aim to bring freedom, privacy and security without surrendering convenience to as much people as possible. Not for money, not for fame and not to dominate the market but because we can make the world a little bit better this way (2/2)

@peter Great article I agree with all your arguments on a higher level. But I think it sounds a bit to much like "we don't care about user adoption". I think we should care, for complete different reasons then VC startups. I see here a pattern I know quite well from the Free Software world, where people also felt comfortable in their 1% niche for a long time. Way to long if you ask me. (1/2)

We finally have a #Nextcloud org at #OpenHub! Do you work on a cool Nextcloud app (server, mobile, desktop,...)? Make sure to add it to OpenHub, let me know about it and affiliate yourself with Nextcloud if you wish. https://www.openhub.net/orgs/nextcloud

The #FSF updated their "License Compatibility and Relicensing" article recently. A great article for every software engineer who has to deal with various #FreeSoftware licenses. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-compatibility.html

@amolith
Fdroid is the only app store on my mobile phone.

#FSFE released its annual report "Software freedom in #Europe 2018" https://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20181105-01 Read what we achieved in 2018 and what's ahead of us. Join us in fostering #FreeSoftware either as a supporter or volunteer. #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS

Next week I'm at #Bolzano at the #SFScon together with the FSFE crew. Looking forward to a interesting week! 🙂 Let me know if you want to meet and talk about #FreeSoftware, #FSFE or #Nextcloud. https://www.sfscon.it

@duncanmid looks really nice! 😃

@kuketzblog
Ich habe das bisher nur von Facebook gesehen. Es stimmt mich aber positiv, dass vielleicht doch eine relevante Masse anfängt langsam um zu denken... Warum sonst sollten sich Facebook & Google genötigt fühlen so viel in Eigenwerbung zu investieren?

@tbernard thanks for posting it. I remember that I used it many years ago, then forgot about it when I moved to LibreOffice to a large extend. Great to see that it is still around. 🙂

@loic
@ghost @aral @indie patents are hostile to software in general, even Bill Gates acknowledged this many years ago. Does Google use their patents against Free Software? I'm not aware of it, they are also a OIN member. Which is no surprise to me, giving the stuff I tried to explain in my previous two toots. Don't get me wrong, I don't want to defend Google or swpats. But as always, it is complex... to complex for 500 chars. 😉