@Gargron Thank you for making Mastodon! Thanks to you I have been given the chance to meet and talk to a lot of friendly people. I have even made new friends because of Mastodon.
This is the first time I feel a social media is truly social. Thank you (and thank you all the contributors to this project) for all your hard work! :)
Is Google evil? Rambling thoughts on privacy and freedom online - Q&A: http://youtu.be/TsXIZK0UN8g?a via @YouTube@twitter.com
Is duckduckgo having issues? Or is it just me? It's randomly taking forever to load.
"E-waste recycler must serve 15-month sentence for selling discs with free Microsoft software"
For distributing freely downloadable rescue disks...
Government of France: Matrix / Riot confirmed as the basis for upcoming official secure messenger.
"France has confirmed it is in the process of deploying a huge private federation of Matrix homeservers spanning the whole government, and developing a fork of Riot.im for use as their official secure communications client!
The goal is to replace usage of WhatsApp or Telegram for official purposes."
Germany went Nextcloud and now this!
---> https://matrix.org/blog/2018/04/26/matrix-and-riot-confirmed-as-the-basis-for-frances-secure-instant-messenger-app/
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#France #Matrix #messenger
I created a monitor page for linuxrocks http://linuxrocks.linux.report
Wouldn't it be great if you could paste code into a Mastodon toot and have it show up in a fixed-width font?
I was never a social media user. I still have 0 tweets after many years. My Facebook data was 4M uncompressed, mostly pictures of Tux the Penguin.
But, the recent outage of LinuxRocks.online revealed I kind of like it here.
My only regret is the random character, stupid username I chose for myself...
It's really annoying when websites automatically default to a language based on your IP location. You will then have to fumble around trying to change it, in a language you may not know...
Even if we ignore the issue of VPNs, some of us live in countries with different languages than our own.
Ironically, Google Maps is the worst in this. An application one is very likely to use in a foreign location...
It's always frustrating to watch colleagues struggle with massive GUI applications like Excel, for basic text manipulation that can be easily done with cut, sed, grep and friends.
I wish I weren't stuck with Windows at work...
I think people jumping and deleting their Facebook accounts, should maybe take a moment first.
Currently, it is not clear how complete the process actually is. Under pressure, and maybe due to the upcoming EU GDPR, Facebook could make the process more thorough or transparent. People who have already deleted will not be able to "delete more".
Just a thought...
What is Google trying to do to email. First AMP, now this gimmick:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/04/gmail-com-redesign-includes-self-destructing-e-mails/
And hangouts still doesn't have end-to-end encryption? Why?
F-Droid is now on Mastodon as well!
It's amazing how much water the bottom of a glass contains... Once it's flooding your desk and keyboard... and floor and chair...
Most online examples and tutorials on web application forms show simple cases, with 2 or 3 fields and a submit button.
But, real business applications may have 20 fields, utilising multiple lookup tables, parent and child relations.
How does one design such a UI that asks for all the required information, but is also simple for the user?
Is there a course somewhere for complex user interface design?
Waiting for the #digitalocean block storage issue to be resolved.
Looks like even personal servers need redundancy across data centres and providers...
I should start over with #ansible this time.
The EFF's series on #secure #messaging captures the issues and dilemmas of choosing messengers perfectly.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/03/secure-messaging-more-secure-mess
