Notices by Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺 (bjoern@mastodon.social), page 9

@skalman
Have a look at Hetzner, they have quite comparable offerings. https://www.hetzner.com/storage/nextcloud

Cc @nextcloud

@strypey @fsfe Yes, many programmers still focus on the code only and don't care about politics, not even about licensing which affects there code even more directly. You probably know this quote from RMS, I use it regularly "Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won’t leave you alone."

@tk But if it is my server, they have to come to me and ask me for a backdoor to spy on me. So at least I know 😉 It is not about "throwing shade on the big biz". Not only since today I'm convinced that Free Software, federation and the possibility to self-host are the pre-condition for freedom and privacy respecting tools.

@z428 The problem, with this laws in place public authorities will demand this backdoors from this organizations as well. And they only have two options: comply or shut the service down. Both options will not give us sustainable freedom and privacy respecting tools.

@strypey Absolutely, that's one of the reasons why I'm active in @fsfe for more then a decade now. Still I think that we also need to build technology in a way that it protects privacy, freedom and security. No matter how good we are on the political/legal level, politics can always change quickly and you face a dictator who doesn't care about existing rules, as history has shown.

... With messaging systems like #WhatsApp, the approach will be slightly different: your user interface will claim you’re in a one-on-one conversation, but behind the scenes, the company will be required to silently switch you into a group chat. Two of the people in the group chat will be you and your friend. The other will be invisible, and will be operated by the government.

This is how it (should) work: In the case of Apple’s #iMessage, #Apple would be compelled to silently add new devices to the list apps think you own: when someone sends you a message, it will no longer just go to, say, your #iPhone, your #iPad, and your #MacBook – it will go to those devices, and a new addition, a spying device owned by the government...

public authorities "can secretly compel tech companies and individual technologists, including network administrators, sysadmins, and open source developers – to re-engineer software and hardware under their control, so that it can be used to spy on their users. Engineers can be penalized for refusing to comply with fines and prison"... sounds like a nightmare but it is reality in the #UK and #Australia https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/new-fight-online-privacy-and-security-australia-falls-what-happens-next #eff #spy #privacy #security

@chimo
I think it should work, according to the screenshots. But I didn't tested it in detail until now. You can check the bug tracker and open a new issue if there is no open report: https://github.com/nextcloud/social

@bob You don't need to download it manually, it should show up in the "Social & communication" category of the app management where yo can simply click on "Download and enable"

@bob
It is in the app store, you should be able to install it via the app management https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/social