Michael Downey 🇺🇳 @downey@floss.social
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A few folks have asked how they can support the expenses of running the FLOSS.social #Mastodon instance. There are not a lot of expenses right now (€10/month) but if you're interested in chipping in, you can now become a FLOSS.social "Monthly Supporter"! Donations accepted via CommitChange, who run the free software Houdini Project to manage transactions. 🙂
Thanks!
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The Community Engagement Challenge deadline is right around the corner. All proposals are officially due by 11:59 p.m. US/Eastern time on July 1 (4:00 UTC on July 2). Make sure to wrap up your applications and hit that submit button! https://www.gnome.org/challenge/
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And this role is open to remote and/or non USA folks.
Our extended UN open source family is growing. Looking for someone with an #OpenSource dev background but it's not a coding role.
If this #job looks interesting to anyone let me know and I can connect you to the right people. Or feel free to share with others.
http://jobs.unicef.org/cw/en-us/job/532044?lApplicationSubSourceID=
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Join us in IRC #conservancy in two hours (2pm ET/6pm UT) for a discussion on, "How is racism a free software issue?" lead by Molly de Blanc. More on how to join us for this conversation here, https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2020/mar/12/virtualchat/
"When we #revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe."
- Frantz Fanon
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"Every model, every config" -- Lenovo brings #Ubuntu to its workstation line
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/06/ubuntu-on-lenovo-laptops
"If you live in this system of white supremacy, you are either fighting the system or you are complicit. There is no neutrality to be had towards systems of injustice, it is not something you can just opt out of."
-- Ijeoma Oluo
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Joomla security breach exposes unencrypted personal data stored on S3 bucket
-Full name
-Business address
-Business email address
-Business phone number
-Company URL
-Nature of business
-Encrypted password (hashed)
-IP address
-Newsletter subscription preferences
Well, unlike yesterday, I didn't wake up with a sore throat and cough from inhaling tear gas from our local police throughout the night while staying inside my apartment.
So maybe today will be a better day.
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#FSFIndia on #AarogyaSetu app release as #FreeSoftware.
It is the first step towards achieving "transparency, privacy, and security" as mentioned by CEO of NITI Aayog, Amitabh Kant as the core values on which the application was designed. However, we stress that, this is only a first step and we hope that the government will follow up with some more actions that further strengthen the commitment made towards transparency, privacy and security.
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Hi Fediverse 👋
to break the quietness of this account, here's a quick news flash:
- We added a list with Zoom alternatives 🤙
https://swiso.org/replace/zoom/
- We replaced some entries on "Bubbling under" 🔧
https://swiso.org/list/bubbling-under/
- We added Cryptpad to the Doodle list as it has a poll feature 🗒️
https://swiso.org/replace/doodle/
- Our DRM article has images now 🙃
https://swiso.org/articles/digital-rights-management/
- We have an Audible list in the pipeline 🎧
https://codeberg.org/swiso/website/pulls/81
Thanks to @uniq for the nudge to write this! 😊👍
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Please get your parents off FaceBook: https://markosaric.com/off-facebook/
(I usually aren't interested in discussing social media, but I like this article)
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A periodic reminder that you should back up your own Masto account by downloading your archive
I'm not posting this for any particular reason other than that it's good to make backups and sometimes servers just go down
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Are you interested in an entirely #FreeSoftware and #FreeHardware laptop? How about if it's meant to be modified and upgraded?
In this episode of Libre Lounge, @emacsen sits down with Lukas Hartmann from @mntmn to talk about his history in Free Software, the MNT Reform project, and the future!
https://librelounge.org/episodes/39-mnt-reform-with-lukas-hartmann.html
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We'll be meeting in IRC this Thursday (2pm ET/6pm UTC) with many of the folks from the #CopyleftConf panel "Copyleft in a Business Context" you can watch the video in before we talk here, https://archive.org/details/copyleftconf2020-business
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"I use Linux less because it’s open source and free software (although that’s a bonus point too), but more because I thinks it’s more user friendly. Installation is fast and simple, updates don’t take ages, I don’t need to crawl the web to find software installers, it isn’t full of bloatware, it runs great on most (even older) hardware etc.
Of course there are use cases where Linux isn’t the best choice (yet)"
Apparently today the US President is threatening to shut down #SocialMedia Companies that don't agree with him.
Fortunately for us, distributed #OpenSource networks like #Mastodon make that pretty difficult for dictators to do.
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FLOSS.social admin. I do open source stuff for multiple organizations and boards; ask for details. :-)
Joined Apr 2018
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