#Blender gets all their videos blocked worldwide by #YouTube. #Armory3D has their #Patreon page closed down and their backers refunded without any notice as to why. All the #FOSS projects hosted by #GitHub now have their hosting at the mercy of #Microsoft.
And this is just a few of the recent examples.
When is the #FOSS community going to learn that we need to create and run our own infrastructure as well as apps?
Support #decentralised #FOSS infrastructure! (eg #PeerTube, #tilt, #Gitea etc)
HEY YALL
the 500px archiving project is done! we got everything! you can find it here. https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_500px
thanks again for all the people that lent us bandwidth!
Morning all. This essentially sums up what today looks like for me:
https://zenhabits.net/clearing/
Hope everyone is having a good day 😀
Thanks to the sprint, KDE Connect now shows music album covers in you phone's lock screens, has a new plugin for Nautilus, supports more SMS features, and does many more things. Read all about it at:
https://dot.kde.org/2018/05/28/2018-kde-connect-development-sprint
“The first time I saw Peertube and Mastodon federating I was nearly hopping up and down with excitement. ”
— @cwebber in interview made by @deadsuperhero
Plasma 5.13 – Amazing Tux, How Sweet Plasma
http://www.ocsmag.com/2018/05/26/plasma-5-13-amazing-tux-how-sweet-plasma/
This is also interesting from the article.
"Facebook has not fully disclosed the manner in which it pre-processes photos on the iOS camera roll, meaning if a user has any Facebook app installed on their iPhone, then Facebook accesses and analyses the photos the user takes and/or stores on the iPhone, the complainant alleges."
Sounds like FB is in some way processing camera roll images to extract data (location, time, maybe even contents) even when sync is switched off
If you're interested in trying a new search engine, Qwant is pretty nice. No cookies or user tracking.
Currently listening:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrymp56Fpg0
A fantastic #House mix perfect for this summer evening 🏖
A fun night playing Super Mario Odyssey. Such a well-designed game!
Why did I put off gaming for the best part of a decade? #Nintendo
#Mastodon v2.4.0 is 🎉 finally out! 🎉
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v2.4.0
The changelog is long, but here are some highlights:
- Better offline support
- DMs column
- New profile options
- Hide who you follow if you want
- 120% better report UI for mods
- Narrower privacy policy!
- High contrast theme
- Web Push API opened up to app developers! Easy push notifications possible in all apps now
- Performance improvements
- Various fixes and improvements 😋
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