Aniket @aniket@linuxrocks.online

We wish happy holidays to all Debian contributors, Open Source enthusiasts and to the rest of the world. Have a few relaxing days.

They say Santa does not exist. But we have all received so many gifts due to this man, from millions of helpful elves working tirelessly all over the world.

#MerryChristmas #gnu #linux #foss #hacking #freeandopensource #freesoftware #freeansopenscience

Merry Christmas everyone! 🎄🎅😁

Today, exactly one year ago, I created my account here on LinuxRocks.Online after the GNU Social server I was using at the time was going to shut down.

Even though both are part of the fediverse, I would have never found so many fun and interesting people if I hadn't joined Mastodon.

A big thanks to all of you for making the Internet a better place! :)

My manager is receiving a promotion, and I will be getting a new one soon. I had a one-on-one with her.

Her lasting advice:

Don't be afraid to ask questions. Better to seek answers, than to do something wrong.

Yaaaa, this happens too much

So I just found this site https://www.privacytools.io/ and wow its great for all things privacy related. There is also prism-break.org. Any others out there that I should know about?

#Mastalab 1.31.0 has been released.

What's new:

- Manage profiles for battery (settings -> optimizations)
- Pick up another language inside the app.
- Toast messages more visible

Fixes:

- Some fixes with the home timeline
- Dashes are no longer included in tags

Call me crazy, but I think #Debian Buster is mature enough to use it full time over Stretch. Even switched back to #KDE #Plasma :)

Need to work on the theming. Its a bit wonky.

"France is ditching Google to reclaim its online independence" - https://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-france-silicon-valley #Privacy

https://digitalcontentnext.org/blog/2018/08/21/google-data-collection-research/

report on android data collection

@aniket I always wondered about that. Microplastics are everywhere anyways. In the far future we will be seen as we now see the ancient Romans who used lead in everything, even edibles.

@aniket @hund I still think that in an ideal world a single identity is better for a lot of people - see the work @manton is doing with regard to this - https://manton.org/2018/11/07/microblog-mastodon.html - facilitating a unified identity that you own, of the type @you@yourdomain.com, where you're not dependant on the continued existence of a particular instance.