Notices by Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺 (bjoern@mastodon.social), page 23

Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺 (bjoern@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2017 12:14:46 EST Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺
- Adam ❎
- Piotr Kubaj
@supercowpowers @pkubaj You can check this comparison https://nextcloud.com/compare/ if you are interested. Also if you have a look at the feature list you will find stuff which is either not available at all at ownCloud or only as part of the proprietary version.
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Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺 (bjoern@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2017 12:10:35 EST Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺
- Adam ❎
- Piotr Kubaj
@pkubaj @supercowpowers Exactly, in case you (or someone else reading this) consider to migrate, here is everything you need to know: https://nextcloud.com/migration/
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  Migration: ownCloud vs Nextcloud
  
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Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺 (bjoern@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2017 10:10:47 EST Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺
in reply to
- St John's Evil Twin
@stjohn
I don't think it is necessarily a problem of the subscription model. Thanks to the Internet I have access to a unlimited number of publications national and international. I love to visit them from time to time and read interesting articles. But I can't buy a subscription from all of them, so I'm happy to pay by seeing some advertisement. Having freely available information is important, but it need to be financed, non-tracking and non-obstructive ads are a valid option.

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Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺 (bjoern@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2017 09:51:29 EST Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺
- St John's Evil Twin
@stjohn
Personally I think ads are fine if they don't contain any tracking code and if they are non obtrusive. I can't buy a subscription for every news site I visit. So I consider it a fair deal to "pay" by seeing some advertisement, as long as they meet the criteria mentioned above.

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Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺 (bjoern@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2017 02:35:47 EST Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺
- squaregoldfish
@squaregoldfish I think Spiegel.de is such a example if I remember correctly

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Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺 (bjoern@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2017 02:03:08 EST Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺

These days I tried to switch from uBlock to Privacy Badger because I like the idea not to block advertisement in general but only the harmful stuff. But now it happens quite often that websites detect Privacy Badger and show a pop-up every few seconds. So I'm back from blocking some advertisement to blocking all advertisement. Don't think it is better, but it seems like this is what publishers prefer these days. #adblocker #Web #privacy

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Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺 (bjoern@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2017 06:36:00 EST Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺
- Simon Phipps
"Public domain is a local conclusion, not a global license" - Some good reasons why Free Software projects should be careful with public domain code. https://meshedinsights.com/2017/03/16/public-domain-is-not-open-source/ by @webmink #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #PublicDomain
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  Public Domain Is Not Open Source
  
  By Simon Phipps from Meshed Insights Ltd
  Open Source and Public Domain are frequently confused. Here’s why it’s a mistake to treat the two terms as synonyms.
  
  Plenty of people assume that public domain software must be open source. While it may be free software within your specific context, it is incorrect to treat public domain software as open source or indeed as globally free software. That’s not a legal opinion (I’m not a lawyer so only entitled to layman’s opinions) but rather an observation that an open source user or developer cannot safely include public domain source code in a project.
  
  First let’s look at the two terms and what they mean to individuals.
  
  “Open Source” describes a subset of free software that is made available under a copyright license approved by the Open Source Initiative as conforming with the Open Source Definition. Having a standards body for licenses — one which ratifies the consensus of an open community of license reviewers — saves individuals from needing to each seek out a legal advisor to tell them whether a given license does in fact give them the rights they need to build or deploy the software they want. By providing easy certainty, open source gives people permission in advance to meet their own needs and innovate with technology.
  
  “Public Domain” means software (or indeed anything else that could be copyrighted) that is not restricted by copyright. It may be this way because the copyright has expired, or because the person entitled to control the copyright has disclaimed that right. Disclaiming copyright is only possible in some countries, and copyright expiration happens at different times in different jurisdictions (and usually after such a long time as to be irrelevant for software). As a consequence, it’s impossible to make a globally applicable statement that a certain piece of software is in the public domain. Public domain is a local conclusion, not a global license.
  
  The community goes to great efforts to ensure things called “open source” are under an OSI-approved copyright license even though some regard it as obstructive bureaucracy. Many would prefer to simply say their code is “public domain” but that doesn’t deliver the key benefit open source offers: certainty over the core freedoms of free software. That leaves doubts about there being sufficient permission-in-advance for some collaborators.
  
  It’s easy to get overwhelmed by all the details of the many open source licenses, losing sight of the reason they are important. They’re important because every open source license guarantees the freedom to innovate without seeking permission first. OSI approval means you have the unconditional right to use the software in question for any purpose (sometimes called “freedom zero”). You also have an unconditional right to make new software based on that software for your own use, and a conditional right to share the software — modified or not — with other people. That final case comes with some complexities, but they are considered elsewhere.
  
  Public Domain software may come with the rights delivered by those “four freedoms”, but you can’t be sure. It will depend where the software was written, where you are located, who the author is and where the people you are sharing the software with are located. A deployer or developer will need to at very least ask for advice before proceeding, and most likely will need to secure the services of a legal professional with experience in copyright law in each affected country. Even asking the author is unlikely to be conclusive. That’s why public domain software may be free software but is not certain to be.
  
  A solution would be to create a form of words to be used by the author to dedicate something to the public domain. It could simply disclaim ownership for the jurisdictions where that is possible, and then grant a copyright license that has the same practical effect as a public domain dedication for jurisdictions where ownership of copyright can never be disclaimed. Such a formulation has been published by the Creative Commons. They call it “CC0” and it is widely used and well respected.
  
  There’s an issue though; it has not received OSI approval. Many reviewers believe it should, but its authors withdrew it from the approval process during a complex discussion about patent rights and it remains unapproved. The matter has recently been re-opened; lets hope OSI and CC can work together to bring the certainty on which open source thrives. In the mean time, it’s probably safer to use a license like MIT instead.
  
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Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺 (bjoern@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2017 05:19:58 EST Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺
- Eugen
- caesarologia
@Gargron @caesarologia I think it depends in which direction you want to integrate. I think for most people it would be interesting to forward their toot's via #buffer to #facebook, #twitter, #g+, #linkedin,... This should be possible by using the Buffer API. #Friendica does this as well and it works quite nice. I would love to see a similar integration for Mastodon

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Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺 (bjoern@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2017 03:43:25 EST Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺

Immer wieder spannend zu sehen wie an der CDU alles abprallt. Es wird über alle Parteien geschrieben, was sie falsch gemacht haben oder was sie jetzt machen müssen. Nur über die Verantwortung von CDU/Merkel und was dort falsch gemacht wurde schreibt mal wieder niemand. #Jamaika

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Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺 (bjoern@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2017 03:16:19 EST Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺
- Milan
- jcgruenhage
@jcgruenhage @milan I didn't know the client until now, but the screenshot looks really nice!

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Norbert Tretkowski (nobse@gnusocial.de)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2017 02:32:43 EST Norbert Tretkowski

Heute Abend um 20 Uhr ist wieder Treffen der #FSFE Gruppe !Kiel in den Räumen des Toppoint e.V.
https://wiki.fsfe.org/LocalGroups/Kiel

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Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺 (bjoern@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Nov-2017 17:49:06 EST Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺
- Milan
@milan isn't it similar to matrix's community feature? https://medium.com/@RiotChat/communities-aka-groups-are-here-announcing-riot-web-0-13-riot-ios-0-6-and-riot-android-0-7-4-933cb193a28e
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  Communities (aka Groups) are here!! Announcing Riot/Web 0.13, Riot/iOS 0.6 and Riot/Android 0.7.4
  
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  Hi all,
Javier Bastardo (jbastardov@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Nov-2017 12:41:19 EST Javier Bastardo
A report made by Quartz has brought to light the fact that Google collects Android users’ locations even when location services and GPS are disabled, even with the SIM out of the phone and factory-reseted.
This only shows the need for a truly open option when it comes to mobile systems that respect your privacy, like the Librem 5 project from @Purism supported by @matrix, @gnome, @kde, @nextcloud and @monero
https://qz.com/1131515/google-collects-android-users-locations-even-when-location-services-are-disabled/
#Android #Librem5 #Purism #SurveillanceCapitalism #privacy #data

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Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺 (bjoern@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Nov-2017 10:01:26 EST Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺
- mray
@mray no need to worry, I do the same 😃

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Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺 (bjoern@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Nov-2017 13:09:06 EST Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺
- Free Software Foundation Europe
- Ħannes Ħauswedell
@__h2__ @fsfe If I have to chose I would go for a Nitrokey, seems to be more Free Software friendly :)

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Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺 (bjoern@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2017 05:04:21 EST Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺
@junglestrike @vinzv @phildini @bob at this point I would even be happy to ignore the "average user" for now, if all the people and organisations who know the importance of free and decentralised systems would finally start using them instead of complaining on Twitter & Co that they are not perfect.

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Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺 (bjoern@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2017 11:40:05 EST Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺

People wrote already many good things about Firefox 57 for the desktop. Today I updated Firefox for Android and I have to say that the progress there is at least as impressive as on the Desktop side! I use Firefox on Android for years, but this is by far the best version. For the first time Firefox's look & feel is like a real mobile browser and not like something ported from the desktop to the mobile world. #Firefox #Android #mobile

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Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺 (bjoern@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Nov-2017 04:46:03 EST Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺

I was just pointed to the paradox of tolerance: "Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance I see some similarity to the discussion of protecting vs non-protecting #FreeSoftware licenses. #OpenSource #copyleft #philosophy

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Cryptie** (cryptie@framapiaf.org)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2017 11:55:52 EST Cryptie**
- Free Software Foundation Europe
You <3 Free software?
You are looking for a student internship for 2018? Ask the @fsfe !
While a lot of our interns studied legal or political science, we also had students with a more technical or other social science background.
Read our news item :
"2018 internship positions as student interns"
https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20171114-01.fr.html

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Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺 (bjoern@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2017 11:45:32 EST Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺
- Lars Wirzenius
@liw Thanks, fixed 😃

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