Kea Wijkstra 🐝 @KeaW@mastodon.social
Dutch, married,3children,2British grandchildren.Topics: human rights, green, tech & society.
Rest In Pieces, general-purpose computing.
While I wasn’t watching (because, seriously, life’s too short to care about the train-wreck of an operating system that is Windows), Microsoft apparently outdid Apple last year by releasing an app-store-only flavour of its desktop OS & now it’s expanding that as an option to its other versions (Home and Pro).
Soon devs may be left as a special privileged class able to use Windows machines as general-purpose computers.
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/03/07/windows-10-s-mode-coming-soon-editions-windows-10/
.@mhall119 is developing an ethical alternative to #MeetUp called #GetTogether.
There's already a flagship site up and running:
https://gettogether.community/
The dev is working on #ActivityPub support and is requesting feedback on what more needs to be done:
https://github.com/GetTogetherComm/GetTogether/issues/60
If you're interested in helping federate GetTogether, join the discussion at the link above.
⚠️ « Ce sont les grandes plateformes qui exposeraient le plus les enfants à des contenus non appropriés pour leurs âges »
Qwant Junior est le seul moteur de recherche qui exclut les résultats pouvant être choquants ou inadaptés pour les plus jeunes 😉 http://www.fredzone.org/facebook-et-youtube-seraient-les-deux-services-qui-exposent-le-plus-les-enfants-au-sexe-a-la-violence-et-aux-suicides-665
What is PureOS? How it's built and our goals for it, in a great article by @zlatandebian
If you haven't done anything about trying to stop the new #EU #CopyrightDirective, here's your opportunity...
An easy form and sample texts for writing your EU MEP.
https://www.indexoncensorship.org/2018/06/say-no-to-article-13s-censorship-machine/
Act in the next 7 days or forever keep quiet about it.
Hidden writing in ancient desert monastery manuscripts http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44144527
The big Coöp supermarket in Italy has a self scan machine. It is programmed with a plastic bag for every item. Costs 1 cent extra. Is this progress? No, for we have to get rid of single-use plastics a.s.a.p. !
Do you know that when you share your pics you also share so much more? #Metadata can contain the location where the picture was shot, the date and time of shooting, your phone model, aperture, exposure time, etc... Why sharing all this private info with the internetz and #surveillance capitalism when there's no need to?
Scrambled #Exif is a #FOSS app that removes metadata from your pics before sharing. With one click they're all gone.
https://f-droid.org/app/com.jarsilio.android.scrambledeggsif
#AntibioticResistance could be countered by #anti-bacterial #viruses | Society | The Guardian
Brussels criticised for delays in banning #toxic #chemicals | #Environment | The Guardian
Playing with Pop!_OS 18.04 LTS on my MacBook in VMWare and I'm in love.
This is a developer's dream operating system. System76 have crafted – standing on the shoulders of Gnome Shell, Ubuntu, and countless others – a more minimalist experience than Apple. It’s delightful. Huge respect!
#PeerTube is free/libre software alternative to YouTube
-- federated (uses ActivityPub)
-- peer2peer streaming
-- currently in beta
non-profit @Framasoft is crowdfunding its development
https://www.kisskissbankbank.com/en/projects/peertube-a-free-and-federated-video-platform
this project is already usable (more than 50 instances)
and can be a game-changer.
Boost its development and give it more visibility.
Our #plastic #pollution #crisis is too big for #recycling to fix | Annie Leonard | Opinion | The Guardian
Please refuse plastic bottles from now on. There are several brands of rvs water bottles for sale
. 24Bottles is one if them. Light weight, many colours.
