Geoflly Adonias @gadonias@mastodon.social

Help needed: Please send me your Android debug logs! https://community.signalusers.org/t/help-needed-please-send-me-your-android-debug-logs/23266 // #Signal #SignalApp #SignalDown

ProTip: Remember to check your URLs for "utm_*" parameters

E.G. If I see:
"?utm_source=reddit.com" at the end of the URL you shared, I know you got it from Reddit

Or "utm_campaign=newsletter0120" tells me you probably copied it from an email sent in January of last year

These are never needed to actually reach the page you're sharing. They're just for analytics (UTM tracking modules) and will reveal where you get your information (to us and the site), which may cause privacy issues

#Infosec

Those are two of the best posts I've seen on a social network in a very long time.
Huge respect for the admin of mstdn.io standing up for the users after being asked about blocking an instance.

You other admins can take note, this is the way to go.

Ladies and gents, I'd like to introduce you to Simple.css - a new classless CSS framework built by yours truly.

https://kevq.uk/simple-css-framework/

The web based Mastodon-client @pinafore is just as good on the phone as it is on the computer. It's lightweight, clean and a joy to use.

One of my favourite features with Pinafore must be the wellness settings. I really like that it supports pagination to prevent endless scrolling.

The only thing I miss is support for multiple accounts on the same server. :)

Stop using "Zoom" as a general term for video conferencing.
Stop using "Google" as a general term for searching the web.

Where can you buy DRM-free e-books?

I've added 11 new DRM-free e-books, magazine and comic shops to Libreture's list of bookshops this month alone.

There's more to e-books than just Amazon and Kobo!

https://www.libreture.com/bookshops/

How and why I stopped buying new laptops
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/12/how-and-why-i-stopped-buying-new-laptops.html

#PIM #enviroment #sustainabilty #Lenovo #thinkpad #Apple #backup

@polychrome Nitter rocks. It's also the only way to even use Twitter on a lot of legacy mobile device. There's a similar tool for Instagram called Bibliogram. There's also this handy-dandy browser extension which you can toggle to automatically redirect Twitter, Instagram, Youtube and a bunch of other sites to cleaner/more-lightweight frontends: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-redirect/

This is my first post from #Nextcloud Social :) I'll be testing it for the next few months, but my main #Mastodon account is still @gadonias@mastodon.social 

Umm, what have we on the 'Related awesomeness' section of Awesome Humane Teh curated list to be more independent of #google and other such future #cloud outages?

Let's see..

https://github.com/humanetech-community/awesome-humane-tech

- Awesome Self-hosted
- Awesome Decentralized
- Awesome Peer-to-peer
- Awesome Alternatives
- Awesome Free Software
- Awesome Ad-Free
- degoogle
- switching.software
- ReverseEagle-Developers
- ethical.net
- delightful project

All aggregated lists to improve your situation :)

Free (as in freedom) alternatives to proprietary git services (GitHub, BitBucket, Sourceforge...):
- #Codeberg - https://codeberg.org
- #Gitea - https://gitea.io
- #Notabug - https://notabug.org
- #GNU #Savannah - https://savannah.gnu.org for GNU projects and https://savannah.nongnu.org for non-GNU projects.
- #Launchpad - https://launchpad.net

By the way, in my opinion using proprietary git services to share free software projects is idiotic.

#Git #FreeSoftware

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Your Computer Isn't Yours

https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/

Why you should care about privacy (even if no one else around you does)
https://www.cupwire.com/why-you-should-care/