Fidel Ramos @fidel@mastodon.social

Linux is Not Free/Libre If DRM is Adopted and Open Source is Meaningless in the Age of Openwashing http://techrights.org/2019/08/31/foss-being-changed-by-monopolies/

#Jellyfin is an amazing FLOSS fork of Emby, a previously open source media server that recently became proprietary. I set it up on a server with 1 GB of RAM and a single-core processor at 3.5 GHz and it runs *beautifully*. In addition to the web UI, there are clients for Android, Android TV, desktop, Kodi, and Mopidy as well as some deprecated apps that need some love 😉

With my quite terrible specs, Jellyfin will even transcode media from one resolution to a lower one in real time if you have bandwidth limits. I am *very* impressed and can't recommend it enough if you're looking for something like this.

Main website:
https://jellyfin.github.io/

Documentation:
https://jellyfin.readthedocs.io

#CoolProjects

ICYMI: #FreeSoftware #Privacy developer Ola Bini, currently a major contributor to the OTR encrypted messaging protocol, has been detained with no or flimsy charges for 4+ days and counting in Ecuador. "Evidence" included having technical books and too many devices. They say he'll be held up to 90 days while they "develop charges" against him.

#FreeOlaBini #OpenSource #FLOSS #FOSS #surveilancecapitalism

https://www.apnews.com/327d2dcbe0f24a2eba839502fbd783cb

Este año no he encontrado tiempo para escribir un análisis de las convocatorias y los manifiestos #HaciaLaHuelgaFeminista #8m. Pero los he leído, y lo que escribí el año pasado (en contra) sigue siendo válido para #HuelgaFeminista2019. Otro año más, esto tiene muy poco que ver con el #feminismo 😕
https://diasp.eu/posts/6839848

Fascinating #culturewars on #YouTube (rabbit hole alert):
https://quillette.com/2018/12/20/pewdiepies-battle-for-the-soul-of-the-internet/

I've made a mock-up to illustrate my ideas about the next-gen terminal experience!

Featuring:
• the pathbar
• username, hostname and git branch displayed in the UI, shrinking the shell prompt back to just a $
• commands as cards
• syntax highlighting, including graying out the output a bit to differentiate it from commands themselves
• autocompletion (displayed in a native widget)
• built-in error handling options
• the time each command took (on the right)

How does #firefox Sync work? It's actually well made and respects your privacy. https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/11/firefox-sync-privacy/

Holy shit

> Canonical Extends Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Linux Support to 10 Years

https://www.serverwatch.com/server-news/canonical-extends-ubuntu-18.04-lts-linux-support-to-10-years.html

Signal is testing out a new feature that encrypts message metadata. Once it's widely deployed, their server will facilitate delivering messages but without having access to who is sending them

https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/

As promised, version 1.0 of #PeerTube, a free and federated video platform, has just been released.

Thanks to all the people who supported this summer's crowdfunding.

This is only the beginning!

https://joinpeertube.org #JoinPeerTube

https://framablog.org/2018/10/15/peertube-1-0-la-plateforme-de-videos-libre-et-federee/ (article in English to come)

Blender is testing PeerTube after YouTube blocks their videos worldwide
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17347560
#hackernews #tech

Some of the coolest decentralization projects ever *EYELIDS WIDEN*

https://protocol.ai/projects/

#decentralization #p2p #IPFS #NoGoogle #NoFacebook

CVE-2018-1111
"A malicious DHCP server, or an attacker on the local network able to spoof DHCP responses, could use this flaw to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges on systems using NetworkManager which is configured to obtain network configuration using the DHCP protocol."

We really need a #FollowFriday meme on Mastodon. Here I go:

@zerohedge , @cypherpunk , @hntooter , @eff , @tripu , @torproject

“Three easy rules that keep ‘smart people from spreading dumb ideas’: don't share #news that doesn't have substantiating links, be wary of stories that perfectly confirm your pre-existing #biases, and (for god's sake!) always ask yourself why you're talking in the first place.”

https://feedpress.me/ReasonAudio ,
“How The Simpsons Fights Fake News”