Notices by Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺 (bjoern@mastodon.social), page 2

@fedilab That's really sad 😥 Fedilab is the best Mastodon/Friendica client I ever used. I really love your quick response to feature requests & bug reports. The fediverse has developed some really bad attitude where people prefer to fight their ally's because of disagreement on details or individual features instead of building something great together. I hope this attitude will change before everything is destroyed and that we can welcome you back soon!

Open Document Format (ODF) is LibreOffice's native file format for storing documents. But how is it developed – and how can we all help to improve it? Regina Henschel explains all: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2019/07/11/what-is-the-open-document-format-odf-and-how-is-it-developed/

While #Twitter is down the #fediverse continues happily. 😀

@juliobiason you can use the search on the top to search for users, e.g. try to search for "@bjoern @mastodon.social" (without the space) and you should find me.

@juliobiason you can use the search on the top to search for users, e.g. try to search for "@bjoern" and you should find me.

@juliobiason you can use the search on the top to search for users, e.g. try to search for @bjoern and you should find me.

@tomkuenstler du kannst das mit https://moa.party/ machen.

Finally I can follow the Open Source Observatory (#OSOR) from #JoinUp again via RSS, thanks a lot! https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor

@b90g On the desktop I run sid as well, for the server I prefer stable. 😉

@wromey Today we have libraries hundreds or thousand years old. Some of the oldest books are more then 2.000 years old. Do you think any of today's ebooks will still exist in 2.000 years? I doubt it, even without DRM this is a tough challenge. Many DRM-broken books will probably disappear within less then 100 years.

#Debian #Buster was released. 🎉 This means upgrade time... 😀 https://www.debian.org/News/2019/20190706 #GNU #Linux

When I go to my parents home I see hundreds of books in their shelves and I can discover many interesting topics. Without this opportunity I would never have read many interesting books. Did you already realised that the next generation will no longer have the same possibilities? These days most parents only "buy" eBook which can disappear at any time? What does this mean for our children and our cultural heritage? https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-ebook-apocalypse-drm/ #books #children #education #culturalHeritage

Unser Stand auf dem #Tuebix, es ist noch genug Zeit um vorbei zu schauen... #FSFE

Jetzt geht es dann gleich los zum #Tuebix. Ich freue mich auf eine tolle Veranstaltung mit vielen spannenden Diskussionen Rund um #FreieSoftware. Wenn du auch dort bist, dann schau doch mal am #FSFE Stand vorbei... https://www.tuebix.org/

@wnymathguy
I expect that it is the same. If google decides at some point in time that they don't want to continue the ebook business they will shutdown their servers and all DRM limited books will be gone.

@sergiusens I like to buy books from bookzilla.de for example, they donate 5% of the price you pay to FSFE. If I don't find the book at bookzilla I try beam-shop.de which sells DRM-free books only.

The day has come, #Microsoft will shutdown their #DRM servers which means that all #ebook bought in their store will be gone. Books bought by people under the impression that they will own them like they own their physical books, forever. That's why I only buy DRM-free or watermarked books where I really own the epub files. https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-ebook-apocalypse-drm #freeCulture #culture #books

@NeoTheThird really nice talk, thanks for sharing! Personally I'm looking pretty much forward to the Librem5, it seems like they will be able to bring all important parts together.