libre rgggn @rgggn@floss.social

Hi Fediverse

it seems to me that switching.social closed down it's services. All social media accounts are deleted and the site is currently offline.

Unfortunately, I have no clue what happened, I'm as surprised as you are. I already contacted the French, Italian and Turkish version of the site.

In case someone knows anything about what happened or has backups of one/multiple pages of the website, I would be very happy to get in touch with you.

#SwitchingSocial #offline

@aaronpk
We prepared your next In-flight Entertainment :
#apconf Intro, 2 keynotes, 9 talks featuring unique delight by @cwebber and others -->

@apconf
https://conf.tube/accounts/apconf/videos

Happy Landing and spread the word.

#ActivityPub Conference #Video
#Federation #awesome

Hello people! You may have noticed that @apconf is now online, and *some* of the videos have started to appear!

So far:
- @mlemweb's introduction to the conference https://conf.tube/videos/watch/ff347f97-eac2-41fa-90fa-74098fcd7029
- My keynote:
"ActivityPub: past, present, future" https://conf.tube/videos/watch/2b9a985b-ccdd-49ce-a81b-ed00d2b47c85
- Mark Miller's keynote: “Architectures of Robust Openness” https://conf.tube/videos/watch/7a772faf-9a32-4692-b5cd-4dbabfdd9797

More are coming... the server is working away at making them available :)

I had to turn today days old to find out that rsync has not only --progress (which is file-based), but also --info=progress2, which is based on total transfer volume.

life hack:

you can just say "websearch" instead of "google"

there is more than one search engine

don't internalize the brands' language

To all GNU project members past and present. I want to hear from you. Please email me.

Yay! @grote has been working on a free software alternative for backups on Android \o/

https://twitter.com/t_grote/status/1173971738734014465

@OCRbot

This also serves as a great example of the reasons why #openbsd developers, unlike #linux developers, will not sign NDAs.

When developers sign NDAs they cannot expose vital details to their fellow developers who are outside the scope of the #NDA. The whole #FOSS ecosystem suffers when developers aren't on equal footing with regards to information available to them.

See also the "responsible" disclosure of #intel CPU bugs. The same problems exist there.

You can:

* Use filters liberally to remove posts that annoys you
* Mute or block other people or bots who get boosted into your timeline if you don't want to see them again
* Try to remember to not click on CW's for stuff that will leave you feeling worse
* Unfollow

And you never have to explain why

You can do so for reasons that are entirely "selfish" or "petty"

E.g. "Their jokes were crass so I muted them"

Make the Fediverse a place that's good for you

Periodic reminder to move your free software projects out of Microsoft GitHub.

Here's my collection of public free software hosting sites.
https://njoseph.me/mediawiki/Free_Software/Hosting

Self-hosting a Gitea instance is also a good option if you have a server.

#MicrosoftGitHub #GitHub #FreeSoftware #Gitea