luisroca @luisroca@mastodon.social

I have hosting and domains across three different services that go from "May the fire of a thousand suns rain upon you" to "May you have ingrown toe nails for the next season"

Steve Wozniak has deleted his Facebook account. Tim Cook has criticized Facebook and stated that Apple customers are not the product. 🙄

Why is the Facebook app still available in Apple's app store?

Toot Mastodon Monday morning!

SquareSpace is expensive and cumbersome. I never really liked WordPress. While I used and loved the idea of self contained email blog posts, I inconsistently read newsletters /I/ subscribe to so... 🙃

Setting up blog and related topic wiki on Bitbucket in an effort to reduce the number of online accounts/services I currently have and lazy me can update alltehthings via `git push` 🤓

I've been doing my homework on personal privacy and encryption and wanted to share some resources for anyone interested:

via Free Software Foundation:

+ Step by step handout on encryption using Enigmail
<https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/>

+ Recommended email services broken down by use case and state of evaluation <https://www.fsf.org/resources/webmail-systems>

I joined the QA team just as they were testing for this Beta... trial by inferno and an awesome experience 🤓

Announcing the release of Fedora 28 Beta https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-28-beta/

Just a few months ago I was struggling to figure out what FLOSS projects to be a part of and while I never envisioned myself as part of something like Fedora I find myself with SO many options.

It has easily been one of the best decisions I've made in years

To be fair to myself I came on right as testing for final beta of Fedora 28 was happening sooo yeah, trial by Dante's Inferno 🔥

My first few weeks as part of QA for Fedora, GNOME & Firefox have me feeling like Hong Kong Phooey in a paper bag.

Following up: I have not been able to recreate this after numerous tries in both Fedora 27 or Fedora 28... I'm at a loss so will just trust the GNOME team would do the right thing balancing convenience with user privacy.

After a number of recommendations here and from the Fedora community I decided to also evaluate Riot:

1. No need for email or phone 😀
2. Asks for some permissions 😶
3. Blank slate only asking where/who you want to join up and chat with 😀
4. Clearly distinguishes between un/secure messages 🙂

Extra points for not having to log into Slack or Gitter or another irc app 😃

So far I'm happy with Riot. Secure private messaging between my partner and I would put it over the top easily

A few things after a day with Signal:
1. Need for our phone numbers 😑
2. Asks for vast permissions 😑
3. Essentially takes over and encourages invites with each message to every contact 😒
4. Clearly distinguishes between un/secure messages 🙂

❗️ VPN leaking of user IP addresses. Check for your VPN provider

https://voidsec.com/vpn-leak/

Can 🥜 be a thing here on #mastodon to praise, thank others?

Smug, pretentious Ello had/has 🍞 as a way to +1, like etc someone as a sort of thank you or all around praise.

While the peanut has the (incorrect) connection as an elephant snack that came from children's books it's also a humble food.

Though... it also symbolized the peanut gallery where people would throw them and heckle for fun... hmmm maybe should think about this more.

Well I still think it's a nice so 🥜

While testing GNOME Maps through command line debugger I noticed the application pulling contacts and addresses!

Last week I reluctantly imported my #Google calendar to have meetings, meetups etc in Evolution/GNOME Calendar. I didn't think much of it until I saw all of those addresses being pulled into GNOME maps WITHOUT a notification, pop up let alone asking permission.

BAD BAD BAD GNOME! #privacy #data

Partner and I are giving Signal a try though it does ask for All Your Base so that isn't comforting. At a Linux group last night someone mentioned Threemo as a better alternative solely requiring assigned pin numbers to contact peers (like BBM had)

Totem comes with four default channels; all require MPEG-4 (h.264) downloads. Are there no media sources deliviering video with Free/Libre codecs, formats?

This all but forces users to download MPEG-4, H.264 extensions. Would it be better to either eliminate Gnome Video Channels unless sources using FLOSS codecs, formats can be included?