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A tool to create custom smartphone keyboard layouts for languages beyond those typically supported by tech companies https://t.co/UAKoXJCpRl #linguistics

@ademalsasa

Thanks for the kind words!
I just want to point out that I am part of the Librehosters (https://libreho.st/) which is a community of likeminded people like me that also provide free tools, services and communities.

I would rather see that @switchingsoftware promotes Librehosters so people can chose whatever provider that suits them :)

Both @amolith and @perflyst does offer robust services that I really recommend to other people.

@rgggn

@rgggn @selea @switchingsoftware ah, and I just realized what is "Mirror" there, it's a multiple GNU/Linux distros' repository mirrors. Even Trisquel is there. It provides both ISOs and package repositories. This is really amazing.

#FOSS #freesw #switchingsoftware #privacy

@rgggn @selea the services he provide are: disposable email, mastodon instance, privatebin, searx, mirror, freedns, mailing lists, matrix server, etc. Wow. This deserves support. Thanks @rgggn for letting me know.

Hello @switchingsoftware, please consider this for your All-In-One Alternatives page. Thank you.

#FOSS #freesw #switchingsoftware #privacy

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Got a new car. Want to change the radio out and put a car computer in. Looking for a #freesoftware #opensource solution that will be able to do GPS, Reverse cam, and bluetooth audio from phone.

This car has OnStar, and I will be disabling it. Will try to repurpose the microphone, and GPS, and anything else it has built in (think it has a camera in the mirror too... )

I don't have service with OnStar but the light turned green. Does that mean someone was accessing it?

Irony, much?

#GDPRHallOfShame

Current status #jomo

@rgggn
#JOMO

I've tried to restrict myself from accessing endless scrolls. Mastodon is my single exception. Everything else that I use is only upon intention. In other words, I only read/watch things that I decided to go look up.

I noticed when I switched to Newpipe that it lacked the "features" of letting you log in and have recommendations, autoplaying the next video, and reading comments (note that the last two are now optional). This led to a more enjoyable experience that I now seek everywhere.

Folks, the one thing that #meetup solved was not "RSVPs for events", it was getting events in front of a motivated community and promoting them. Rebuilding the RSVP functionality isn't going to wrestle anyone from Meetup's new changes. What we need are folks who are willing to try out alternatives and report back to their community on what works best for them.

http://gettogether.community already exists and has users on it. Try that first and let's get the "community" part of meetup started.

Don't miss #FSFE's software freedom #podcast! The first episode is about the day against #DRM with Cory Doctorow as guest https://fsfe.org/news/podcast/episode-1.html #FreeSoftware

Due to the extreme emergency mode my life is going into, I can no longer afford to host or maintain VidCommons.org. In case you don't recall, VC is a PeerTube instance serving as a library of Public Domain and Creative Commons media for the fediverse, kind of like what Open Audio is for Funkwhale.

If anyone is interested in transferring ownership to continue running the project, please let me know in short order! Otherwise, the instance will be discontinued at the end of next week.

#VidCommons #PeerTube #PublicDomain #Creativecommons

Google is currently on witchhunt for alternative #YouTube frontends: They target the services as well as their users.

In the last week, #Invidious instances first got IP banned, and once that was circumvented stopped via heavy rate limits.

Now they manage to associate #NewPipe users with google accounts somehow, and suspend these accounts:
https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/2723

Now that these frontends got #Google's attention, I don't think we can sustain this cat & mouse game for long. 😔

yesterday was the best day i've had in a long time, and i didn't even go anywhere.

yesterday in our house we started "no electronics saturdays", which we discussed with the kids last sunday.
this basically means no phones, ipads, laptops, tv, nor beeping toys. for all 4 of us. for the entire day. (i went 34 hours).

it went pretty well. the kids didn't whine at all (tho they did drive the spouse nuts a bit). we played some games, read, even found time to clean things and throw out junk!

this was my idea, and spouse eventually agreed to it on the condition that i'd get up by 9am and be ready to do things by 10am, even when nothing is planned.

can't wait to do it again!

@rgggn I did this about a year ago and I can assure you that it really helps.