Jeremiah C. Foster @jeremiah_@mastodon.social

Don't discount the idea of using stable distros like Debian or Ubuntu, I know that in the Linux community there's a lot of status associated with using "complex" distros like Arch, but you still shouldn't let that influence your choice of OS

Some people claim that instance-blocking weakens the fediverse, and undermines the point of federation.

This is the opposite of the truth.

The point of federation is that it limits the accumulation of power: no single instance can control fedi, because users can always switch instances without leaving fedi.

This is why fedi and fascism are fundamentally opposed -- and why the ability to block fascist/abusive instances is the very heart of federation's power to serve its users.

Stop Using Cloudflare

1. It is a GIANT man in the middle - MITM.
2. Their DDOS protection is not that good.
3. You are contributing to a centralized Internet.

We're excited to announce that we are participating in Google Summer of Code again this year under the umbrella of DIAL Community. 🎉

You have now until April 13 to register and submit your application! Here is all the info you need to apply:
https://hub.osc.dial.community/t/gsoc-2021-dial-open-source-center/2134

In May and June 2020 we found and removed a group of Tor exit relays that were messing with exit traffic. They left almost all exit traffic alone, and we don't know whether any users were successfully attacked.
https://blog.torproject.org/bad-exit-relays-may-june-2020

remote code execution? I can't even get my code to work locally :((

@gnome resolves the patent suit brought against it by Rothschild Patent Imaging and scores a win for all Free Software communities. Congratulations @gnome !

https://www.gnome.org/news/2020/05/patent-case-against-gnome-resolved/

Oh god, I did it again. I looked at the comments on a HN post.

ActivityPub can be confusing and/or hard to test or develop against.

I started a new side project called FediDB to help Pixelfed and other implementations debug federation issues.

It will be launching soon, need to test DMs and Federated Stories in Pixelfed 😅

I'm eager to work with other projects on this!

#activitypub #federation #pixeldev #fediverse #mastodon #pleroma #anfora #peertube #pixelfed #funkwhale #honk #gnusocial

The excellent talk by Simon Painter about #functionalprogramming using #javascript is available on YouTube now: https://youtu.be/mLSNxtFPVlg .

#fp #js #monads

In our special episode of the Software Freedom Podcast we talk about some of the advantages of @gnuhealth and how as a Free health and hospital information system it can and already does help with the current Covid-19 pandemic.

https://fsfe.org/news/podcast/episode-special-1.html

In an open letter to the Parliament, the #Dutch #minister for internal affairs Raymond Knops commits to a "#FreeSoftware by default" #policy and underlines its benefits for society. Current market regulations shall be reworded to allow publishing Free Software by the government.:

https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20200424-01.html

March #librem5 software progress: https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-march-2020-software-update/

Announcing airbreak, a toolkit to jailbreak inexpensive CPAP machines to turn them into emergency #COVID19 ventilators by unlocking all operational modes and allowing custom software extensions. https://airbreak.dev/

Working from home - here's what we use:

Email - @Tutanota
Chat - @signalapp
Office - @libreoffice

Browser - Firefox
Browser Plugins - Privacy Badger
Password Manager - KeePass

#COVID19 #coronavirus #HomeOffice

We are thrilled to announce we've been awarded a grant by NLnet!

https://nlnet.nl/project/Pixelfed/

#pixelfed #NLnet #ngizero