FreedomBox @freedomboxfndn@mastodon.social

☎️ HAPPENING TOMORROW: #FreedomBox conference call on Sunday! ☎️

WHEN: Saturday, November 10th at 14:00 UTC

HOW TO JOIN: Using a Mumble voice over IP application, connect to server <http://fbx.freedomboxfoundation.org> using port 64738.

WHO: Anyone is welcome!

Details here: https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/ProgressCalls

🦋SOFTWARE UPDATE🦋

#FreedomBox software version 0.42.0 has been released to Debian unstable! It may take a few days for your version to auto-update to the newest release.

Highlights:
- Update mobile menu
- Enable backup/restore for 5 additional apps and features
- Update Monkeysphere and Udiskie
- Updated translations for 3 languages
-6 people contributed

💻Download: https://freedombox.org/download/

“Social media companies have created, allowed and enabled extremists to move their message from the margins to the mainstream"

When companies prioritize profit and disregard social outcomes, they design platforms that blindly increase the virality of posts.

That's why we need federated services. #FreedomBox

Full article about extremism on social media: https://nyti.ms/2yEtpIk

“I am convinced the devil lives in our phones and is wreaking havoc on our children," says a former Facebook employee.

Users want clean technology that respects their cognitive wellbeing. That's why #FreedomBox is designed to clean up the internet. And unlike mainstream platforms, #FreedomBox is not addictive-by-design.
https://nyti.ms/2JkjOdJ

☎️ HAPPENING TOMORROW: #FreedomBox conference call on Sunday! ☎️

WHEN: Sunday, October 28th at 17:00 UTC

HOW TO JOIN: Using a Mumble voice over IP application, connect to server <http://fbx.freedomboxfoundation.org> using port 64738.

WHO: Anyone is welcome!

Details here: https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/ProgressCalls

☎️ REMINDER: #FreedomBox conference call this weekend! ☎️

WHEN: Sunday, October 28th at 17:00 UTC

HOW TO JOIN: Using a Mumble voice over IP application, connect to server <http://fbx.freedomboxfoundation.org> using port 64738.

WHO: Anyone is welcome!

Details here: https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/ProgressCalls

🦋SOFTWARE UPDATE🦋

#FreedomBox software version 0.41.0 has been released to Debian unstable! It may take a few days for your version to auto-update to the newest release.

Highlights:
-Enabled backup/restore for 13 features
-Improved Backups usability
-Updated translations for 4 languages
-6 people contributed

💻Download: https://freedombox.org/download/

🆘WE NEED YOUR HELP🆘

We submitted the #FreedomBox software system to DistroWatch, the main catalog of #Linux distributions.

But DistroWatch won't add us to their catalog until we get enough votes!

Please vote for us! Just click "Recommend."

🗳️VOTE: https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=submit#waiting

Tech writers are slowly coming to a consensus: the best solution to #data scandals is to leave the platforms that enable them.

What do you do after that? Use decentralized platforms, like #FreedomBox!

New York Times writer explains how to #DeleteFacebook & Instagram:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/10/technology/personaltech/how-to-delete-facebook-instagram-account.html?module=inline

Major win for @nextcloud: they earn 250 new users per day!

In 2010, we said that your freedom depends on your ability to escape centralized cloud servers owned by tech giants.

Back then, that sounded impossible.

Now, it's a realistic option--and people are taking advantage!

#FreedomBox | #BeYourOwnHost🦋

🤔#DidYouKnow...

The #FreedomBox project was announced by Eben Moglen in a speech at ISOC-NY in 2010 titled, "Freedom in the Cloud."

It inspired our first developers and countless #privacy activists.

📜Speech Transcript: https://www.softwarefreedom.org/events/2010/isoc-ny/FreedomInTheCloud-transcript.html

📺Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOEMv0S8AcA

Check out our updated user interface! Released in #FreedomBox v0.40.

Highlights:
-The app logos are all blue, but you can see their original colors when hover over them. Notice how Coquelicot's logo becomes red when you hover over it!
-The logos on the "System" page are now gray

Credit to our talented UI designer @mray!

#UI #UX #Art

We advise our users to put their single-board computers in cases. It's not safe to have a bare board out in the open!

But sometimes, it's fun to watch a bare computer board turn into a private server!

Here are some pictures of an Olimex LIME2 during a #FreedomBox first boot.😎

#DidYouKnow you can host your own website on a private server powered by a solar panel!

This article explains: all you need is an Olimex Lime 2 single-board computer + a solar panel.

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/09/how-to-build-a-lowtech-website/

Would you want to host a #FreedomBox using solar power? Let us know!