Toby Kurien @tobykurien@mastodon.social
Electronics engineer. Programmer. Maker. Digital privacy advocate. Anti-consumerist. #za http://tobykurien.com
If you're concerned about #Microsoft buying #GitHub (and you should be) please do not simply move to GitLab.com (the hosted #GitLab instance), it also runs on MS servers, (Azure) - always self-host GitLab, or if it's too heavy, go with Gitea.
Whatever you do, do not simply move from one silo to another.
Even cooler is this flight simulator you can play from your browser, which uses real-worldterrain and imagery:
Very cool WebGL game you can play right now:
Yes I can confirm, after nearly 2 years of #escooter commuting
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/561440/?single_page=true&__twitter_impression=true
What It’s Like When Elon Musk’s Twitter Mob Comes After You https://www.thedailybeast.com/what-its-like-when-elon-musks-twitter-mob-comes-after-you
F-droid, a FOSS android app store, has released v1.0! All my Android devices have no Google apps or services - I get all the apps I need from F-droid. Proud to have 3 of my apps on F-droid, and I contributed some code to F-droid app itself a few years ago to allow simultaneous app downloads in the background.
Purism Librem Laptops Now Completely Disable Intel’s Management Engine
https://puri.sm/posts/purism-librem-laptops-completely-disable-intel-management-engine/ https://mastodon.social/media/uJkVJ40aW7RO7DvRQJk
So many websites backup their databases into the web server public directory, oh my gawd! Lazy #devops I guess. They probably have a wget cron job on another machine to pull the backup. https://www.google.com/search?q=filetype:sql+backup #infosec
#Shoutout to all South Africans. If you're out there, reply or RT with #SouthAfrica as a tag.
Let's make fun of jz together :) (not that he's even really worth it, but hey - ForTehLulz)
WebAssembly: Mozilla Won - http://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/06/webassembly-mozilla-won.html?m=1
Man sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. Then he is so anxious about the future that he doesn't enjoy the present: the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.
-- Dalai Lama
After a long day of staring at your computer at work nothing beats going home and...staring at your computer some more
Uncensorable Wikipedia on IPFS
https://ipfs.io/blog/24-uncensorable-wikipedia/
(submitted by bpierre)
Aah LineageOS on my Android One phone. Feels like a new phone. Forgot how much missed CyanogenMod.
So who is making decentralized youtube?
Life Pro Tip: don't buy cutlery with heavy handles. They will keep falling off plates. This is a bad decision that will aggravate you for decades.
Mandala Sticker #1 :) I'll be making a few today and they'll be going up on my Redbubble shop at https://www.redbubble.com/people/WelshPixie/portfolio?asc=u ^.^
April post-mortem: The rise and rise of Mastodon https://medium.com/@Gargron/april-post-mortem-12e3d141878c
#TheExpanse season 2 was epic - one of the best shows on TV. Hope there's a season 3 soon.
