When I announced I would be closing my communities earlier this year, a curious thing happened: a surprising number of regulars replied with some variation of “I think this is my exit.” While some were specifically talking about Matrix, claiming that mine was the only room they were really active in and therefore they saw no...
I think most FOSS zealots simply despise capitalism in general, they want everyone else to be poor like them. Kinda like socialism.
One well known exception to your comment is Linus Torvalds. He didn't mind moving to the USA to make some good money after being a student who could afford a whopping 386! And unlike some people believe, the GPL does not restrict a programmer to make money.
This brings back some memories from years ago. Enlightenment was fairly popular at some point and I think the author "Rasterman" was employed at RedHat. Some Linux distribution may even have had it as the default ?
That is a question that deserves its own thread. Just today I got again annoyed seeing how often mainstream press is using Twitter tweets and Twitter videos in their articles :( Good thing is that a significant amount of journalists got off Twitter and moved to Mastodon or something else. What does it take to get lots of open source projects, politicians and public services also move away from Twitter ? Should a new non-profit organization be created to promote leaving Twitter and help people choose for the Fediverse ?
With etherpad-lite the default is guest mode and no protection at all (but I've seen that with plugins user accounts can be made). With Hedgedoc and Cryptpad user accounts can be made and I think with that "private" protected pads are possible.
I have my personal blog, made with Hugo and hosted on GitHub pages. Initially I did not turn on any kind of web tracking / web analytics, because I do not like tracking at all. But I want to make my blog better and to achieve it, I need a feedback loop about traffic. For example, what are the most popular publications, or how...
I miss the days of VHS and DVD shelfs in homes, for example. If you bought the tapes and had them in your home, no corporate entity could alter those tapes without your consent, monitor how many times you watch them, sell your data to whomever they please without your knowledge, roll out new mandatory conditions to a 'user...
Many people probably won’t be bothered by these things, but I am. I don’t want to pay full price for something that I don’t truly own. I miss the familiarity. I miss the reliability. I miss feeling like it’s mine. Dependable. Trustworthy.
Picking my old guitar up again has never looked so appealing. I think I want to go back to investing more time, money, and energy into things that aren’t connected to the internet
Sometimes you post on Lemmy and it gets a level of traction that you were unprepared for. Right now, that just ends up filling your inbox. It would be nice if we could mute posts and then no responses would be sent to the inbox and everyone else can continue their discussions.
Muting posts and comments is possible with PieFed https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi
For Lemmy I guess you or others can check Lemmy's GitHub issues to see whether this feature has been requested already.
Suggested to OP and others that self-hosting email is easy and reliable is a bad idea in my opinion.
Instead I suggest the OP to let go of the "free" requirement. There are at least three email providers that provide email for 1 Euro a month including a few email aliases.
Another option is to find a web hosting company that also provides email with web hosting. For example Gandi used to do that though I read they made some changes with their hosting options.
I have been pro privacy and anti data harvesting for many years now, however it is becoming increasingly more difficult staying off some platforms. Mostly Meta....
I saddens me that it feels like the multi-billion dollar data harvesting companies are winning, but I no longer know if this is a hill that I’m willing to die on.
It is a very sad thing indeed :(
What are your thoughts on what we have to give up in our lives just to stay in control of our personal information?
I guess it depends whether you want to be reachable 24/7 on mobile or not.
With Signal and with things like WhatsApp and for that matter Telegram a phone number
is only required to sign up. And you do not have to restrict yourself to one phone number.
Actually that is not correct because contacts syncing is another thing.
If you are willing to have a private life without Meta and a second life which includes Meta Zuck it is technically possible. Buy a cheap smartphone with another SIM card for signing up and for syncing contacts and then link it to desktop apps that you can check a few times a day to check in with your friends via the Meta Zuck channels. The cheap smartphone can stay off unless you need to sync contacts.
A marketer I know has a mantra, that successful sales are all about dissatisfaction - making people aware just how their situation sucks, and then offering a way to relieve the pain.
I've been feeling uneasy about the privacy implications of using Lemmy and similar platforms. The ability for anyone to view your entire posting history feels to me like publicly sharing my browser history. In contrast, most other social media platforms allow you to limit your feed visibility to just friends or followers....
On Mastodon (and maybe also Akkoma/Pleroma/Misskey/firefish and so on) there is an option in the settings to auto delete your posts (formerly known as toots) with fine tune options if you for instance want to delete your posts but save your favorites and boosts. Several people have their toots older than one month automatically deleted. Before this was an option in Mastodon, people already did this with help of other software.
Lemmy is not very similar as StackExchange/SuperUser/Quora but in some threads Lemmy resembles a Q&A site so it makes sense to leave the conversations as is.
Regarding the most private social media question I'd think of Friendica, Hubzilla, and Pixelfed as best.
That is true to some extend (Though search engines would afaik correct 404 pages and delete the old fetched data), but the automatic deletion does stop part of the audience of having a lot of data to create a fingerprint.
Sure, but what random psycho would go through all your comments collecting data like weather on a specific day, car, job, etc… just to mess with you in real life. That’s like one in a billion unless you specifically seek out those kind of people.
Scraping experiments have been done in the Fediverse several times and with the booming A.I. such an action does not seem very unlikely to me.
Not happy with Firefox ? For a more privacy friendly Firefox fork check LibreWolf : https://librewolf.net You don't have to remove Firefox, you can run both at the same time.
Now anyone can be made mod/admin without their consent . A yes or no option would be much appreciated so someone can't abuse it and make innocent people mod/admin of troubling instances or communities .
Glad to hear this. I get very sad about the increasing popularity of GitHub for new projects and the huge "importance" of GitHub stars :( It's like YouTube videos with "Hi! First : Don't forget to like and subscribe!" and now "Hi! We're on GitHub! Stars will motivate us to spend more time coding". Yeah right, how about a no nonsense approach ? And on the way there boycott big tech surveillance capitalism like Micros~t.sft [8.3]
I wanted to degoogle since Google has been most annoying so far with S21FE. Was thinking of getting Pixel 8a but due to mixed reivews I was looking for other phones. Thoughts on this? Would be also nice if I can get some opinions from people who have the phone as well.
There has been a lot of talk about companies and individuals adopting licenses that aren't OSI opensource to protect themselves from mega-corp leechers. Developers have also been condemned who put donation notices in the command-line or during package installation. Projects with opensource cores and paid extensions have also...
Okay. Got a source for that ? I had the impression from the SerenityOS developer that the donations came because of the videos that Andreas is making but I could be wrong.
If you’re in the US, now’s a great time to contact your Senators. You can either call the Congressional switchboard at (202) 224-3121 or use the Senate directory to look up your legislators’ contact info....
Is Privacy Worth It? ( blog.thenewoil.org )
When I announced I would be closing my communities earlier this year, a curious thing happened: a surprising number of regulars replied with some variation of “I think this is my exit.” While some were specifically talking about Matrix, claiming that mine was the only room they were really active in and therefore they saw no...
Fediverse turns 16 tomorrow ( cosocial.ca )
OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts ( www.theverge.com )
Reddit’s deal with OpenAI will plug its posts into “ChatGPT and new products” ( www.theverge.com )
Slack is now using all content, including DMs, to train LLMs ( mastodon.sdf.org )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15741608...
Twitter/x.com is now forcing you to disable Firefox's Enhance Tracking Protection. ( lemmy.world )
Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection (Strict Mode) is known to cause issues on x.com...
Looking for a collaborative notes app
Hi all, I need your expertise please :)...
Entering a New Phase of the Web, with Citation Needed’s Molly White ( flipboard.video )
https://flipboard.social/@mike/112452374982317735
Mobilizon flies out of Framasoft's nest ( joinmobilizon.org )
What is the most appropriate way of tracking web traffic?
I have my personal blog, made with Hugo and hosted on GitHub pages. Initially I did not turn on any kind of web tracking / web analytics, because I do not like tracking at all. But I want to make my blog better and to achieve it, I need a feedback loop about traffic. For example, what are the most popular publications, or how...
Linux maintainers were infected for 2 years by SSH-dwelling backdoor with huge reach ( arstechnica.com )
Ada goes to the set: let’s make an animated movie - FSFE - Help us make a film of this story to spark more kids’ interest in coding and tinkering! ( fsfe.org )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15670510...
Ada goes to the set: let’s make an animated movie - FSFE - Help us make a film of this story to spark more kids’ interest in coding and tinkering! ( fsfe.org )
https://mastodon.social/@fsfe/112444907254210958...
Coming to terms with no longer having privacy and control over my technology
I miss the days of VHS and DVD shelfs in homes, for example. If you bought the tapes and had them in your home, no corporate entity could alter those tapes without your consent, monitor how many times you watch them, sell your data to whomever they please without your knowledge, roll out new mandatory conditions to a 'user...
Cyber Security: A Pre-War Reality Check - Bert Hubert's writings ( berthub.eu )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15662912...
Cyber Security: A Pre-War Reality Check - Bert Hubert's writings ( berthub.eu )
https://fosstodon.org/@bert_hubert/112444298499426055
The Ability To Mute A Post/Thread
Sometimes you post on Lemmy and it gets a level of traction that you were unprepared for. Right now, that just ends up filling your inbox. It would be nice if we could mute posts and then no responses would be sent to the inbox and everyone else can continue their discussions.
BBC World Service - lite ( mastodon.social )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15637085...
BBC World Service - lite ( mastodon.social )
My pals in BBC World Service have been doing some awesome work on "lite" versions of their news articles (other page types to follow)....
Bye Opam, Hello Nix ( priver.dev )
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Pi-C.A.R.D, a Raspberry Pi Voice Assistant (github.com/nkasmanoff) ( github.com )
https://github.com/nkasmanoff/pi-card...
What is the cost of privacy?
I have been pro privacy and anti data harvesting for many years now, however it is becoming increasingly more difficult staying off some platforms. Mostly Meta....
Advertising is a cancer on society ( jacek.zlydach.pl )
Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain ( restoreprivacy.com )
Weird ( s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com )
It’s weird how when the Department of Transportation is using the bike lane, they give themselves an entire car lane for protection....
What are the most private social media platforms?
I've been feeling uneasy about the privacy implications of using Lemmy and similar platforms. The ability for anyone to view your entire posting history feels to me like publicly sharing my browser history. In contrast, most other social media platforms allow you to limit your feed visibility to just friends or followers....
Get Ready to 2024 Linux Display Next Hackfest in A Coruña! - Hosted by Igalia - May 14th to 16th. ( melissawen.github.io )
https://www.igalia.com/about...
High availability in Keycloak 24 - Keycloak [slides][video] ( www.keycloak.org )
Installing TrueType font files in Lubuntu 22.04 - Fitzcarraldo's Blog ( fitzcarraldoblog.wordpress.com )
What open-source software would you like more people to know about?
Hey can we get a function that asks the user in question if they want to be mod/admin ?
Now anyone can be made mod/admin without their consent . A yes or no option would be much appreciated so someone can't abuse it and make innocent people mod/admin of troubling instances or communities .
Extremely positive experience with Waydroid
I used to hate android emulators, since the ones I'd tested on Windows were ad-ridden, slow bloatware....
Thoughts on Nothing Phone 2 running with e/os?
I wanted to degoogle since Google has been most annoying so far with S21FE. Was thinking of getting Pixel 8a but due to mixed reivews I was looking for other phones. Thoughts on this? Would be also nice if I can get some opinions from people who have the phone as well.
superfile - A pretty fancy and modern terminal file manager ( raw.githubusercontent.com )
https://github.com/MHNightCat/superfile
How are companies or developers supposed to make a full time living with OSI opensourced projects? ( opensource.org )
There has been a lot of talk about companies and individuals adopting licenses that aren't OSI opensource to protect themselves from mega-corp leechers. Developers have also been condemned who put donation notices in the command-line or during package installation. Projects with opensource cores and paid extensions have also...
US Senate to Vote on a Wiretap Bill That Critics Call ‘Stasi-Like’ ( www.wired.com )
If you’re in the US, now’s a great time to contact your Senators. You can either call the Congressional switchboard at (202) 224-3121 or use the Senate directory to look up your legislators’ contact info....