Notices by Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺 (bjoern@mastodon.social), page 5

@kirschwipfel I'm not a friend of demonizing new technologies in general. No matter if it is about smart cities, the cloud, social networks or other innovations. This technologies won't go away, you can't stop technological progress. For me the challenge is to shape technology in a way that it works for society and not against society.

@Bubu @kirschwipfel yes, moa.party works great. Would be great to have something similar for pixelfed and instagram.

Is it possible to cross-post stuff from #pixelfed to #instagram, similar like you can cross-post from Mastodon to Twitter? #nf

@Utzer This tuning and optimization is then also optional and you can do it step by step once your Nextcloud runs. I would only have a close look at the database section in advance and make sure to have the right charset configured right from the beginning because changing charsets later can be tricky.

@Utzer Ok, I did it already often enough so maybe I'm not the right benchmark if I say that it is easy ;). But the general setup is just extracting the zip file, go to the URL and enter you admin username/password and mysql credentials. The other stuff is mostly tuning, but it helps you to get the best out of your Nextcloud. Carsten summarized all this stuff really nice in a step-by-step turorial.

@Utzer I can really recommend the great install guide by Carsten Rieger https://www.c-rieger.de/ This covers all the important stuff and more.

@strypey
I agree that choosing a server and even the right one is not easy. Even for more technical people. Which one can I trust? Which one will be still online tomorrow? All question not easy to answer. That's why I think go-to servers like mastodon.social, matrix.org, etc are important, both for people to know what to chose without having to worry to much and for marketing purpose, even though it's against pure doctrine.

Cc @librelounge

@gdroid
One of the differences you mention is that #fdroid is no longer maintained. How do you come to the conclusion? Last stable release was in January and the last alpha of the next version was released just a few days ago. Doesn't look unmaintained to me.

Cc @JackieLibre @mikefordays @fdroidorg

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@haagen Of course I'm biased, so I wont argue about it. IMHO that's a quite good independent article which tries to compare both https://civihosting.com/blog/nextcloud-vs-owncloud/

I blogged about my first #Nextcloud #workflow script, a really powerful tool https://www.schiessle.org/articles/2019/04/05/the-power-of-workflow-scripts/

"The time has come to make code free"... Another great music video by #SUSE, I really love their #music videos. They should publish all this great songs as a mp3/ogg collection or something similar somewhere! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrohEBlw2nw #FreeSoftware

What happens with books bought in a DRM-locked #eBook store and the store disappears? Your books will disappear as well. That's the fundamental problem of #DRM, for individuals but even more so for our cultural heritage. https://boingboing.net/2019/04/02/burning-libraries.html

@kuketzblog Tolle Initiative! 👍

#Chef goes #OpenSource. Great to see that more projects and companies realize that #OpenCore is a dead end and move to 100% #FreeSoftware. https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/02/chef-goes-100-open-source/

@airjump Nein, gar nicht. Die Frage entstand aus der Sicht eines verzweifelten Endanwenders. 😉