Michael Downey 🇺🇳 @downey@floss.social
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FLOSS.social admin. Open source person at the United Nations Foundation by day. 🇺🇳
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What free software do you use everyday the most?
Please help share.
#Computer #FreeSoftware #OpenSource
Not a particularly convincing application for an account on this instance:
"looking for alternatives to facebook and twitter that don't ban you on free speech you can say what you want for what our country of the United States is founded for"
🤦♂️ #MastoAdmin
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Jitsi Meet is a free and open source, multi-platform software for secure, simple, and scalable video conferences
Install: PPA repository, Deb, Flatpak and AppImage packages, EXE (Windows), DMG (macOS), Mobile apps: Android, iOS
The planet is warming due to human activities, primarily burning fossil fuels & deforestation.
#ClimateChange is happening here & now, and is already affecting everyone. The consequences will get worse for each bit of further warming.
These are my stripes. Get yours to share at https://showyourstripes.info/
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Switching Software is a beginner's guide to help people switch to privacy-friendly FOSS apps and federated services. You can follow at:
The guide's website is at https://switching.software
Thes a git for the project at https://codeberg.org/swiso/website
#SwitchingSoftware #Privacy #FOSS #FLOSS #Libre #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Computing #Alternatives #Federation #Federated #DeleteFacebook #DeleteGoogle #DeleteMicrosoft #DeleteAmazon
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Some days I have a hard time focusing on doing anything productive because I'm overwhelmed by how all the visible evidence points to almost all world's policy and decision makers being totally inept and/or corrupt.
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Interesting mobile phone history - and now you know https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/first-mobile-phone-call-was-made-75-years-ago-180978003/
@FLOX_advocate @murph When you get one of those, it's because your same account has a new login on a different client somewhere. Verification is a key exchange so you can decrypt your encrypted rooms and conversations for that matrix account, regardless of which client you are using.
@LovesTha It's hard to extrapolate any risk at all, when the total is only one case on either scenario...
@FLOX_advocate 🎉 Recently walked by the venue and recalled many fond memories 😄
@GreenLeaderFanClub @aspie4K "We've moved" means abandoned. Sorry you disagree.
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I am thinking on implementing ticketing system for my office works.
Currently my team gets tasks from slack chat, email, phone from other teams.
Mine is a 2 member team now, doing all the #devops works. Will expand in some 6 months.
Which #opensource #ticketing system is good for a small team?
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Allan Day is working on some exciting updates to the GNOME human interface guidelines, see all the details in his blog post
https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2021/05/20/new-human-interface-guidelines/
@aspie4K You mean cleaning up abandoned channels? That's been a longstanding policy AFAIK.
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Great time to remember that your new #IRC network of choice doesn't have to fall between the #Libera vs #Freenode debate.
In fact, if you represent a project, why not take this opportunity to self-host your own IRC support/development/misc channels? Sounds like a much better way to state your ownership of the project, with much more control as well.
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Can you suggest some good free and open source language learning software? I’m feeling like I need to dust off my Portuguese.
@stsp The topic that had been previously changed sure looks like they had already abandoned the channel: https://colabti.org/irclogger/irclogger_log/git-devel?date=2021-05-26#l7
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Instead of using Calendly to schedule your events and meetings you can switch to the #opensource alternative called #Calendso. It requires #nodejs and #PostgreSQL to get started. Another #selfhost app to try!
Check out the #foss project at https://github.com/calendso/calendso
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