Masoud Abkenar @masoud@aleph.land

Host your own cloud with Raspberry Pi NAS https://opensource.com/article/18/9/host-cloud-nas-raspberry-pi

I actually built a little toy service (that I will also eventually open source) which converts any RSS feed to an ActivityPub actor that you can subscribe to in Mastodon (or any other AP-compatible client).

Play with it if you like! It is SUPER rough and most feeds end up horribly rendered in Mastodon but it's still kinda cool to see it work: https://bots.tinysubversions.com/convert/

ZDNet: Nextcloud 14 rolls out with two major security features https://www.zdnet.com/article/nextcloud-14-rolls-out-with-two-major-security-features/

Iceweasel: "I can't stand just sitting," she muttered, looking at the worknots, proudly lazing. "I need to do something."
Dis: "We also serve, who sit and fart." It made Iceweasel smile.
- "Of all the things I thought when I went walkaway, I never anticipated chatting with a potty-mouthed simulated neuroscientist."
- "I'm a real neuroscientist."
- "You know what I mean."

#walkaway #کتاب_نگاری

عکس یادگاری #دورهمی_گنو به مناسبت #روز_آزادی_نرم_افزار
#TehSFD2018 #SFD2018

Video explaining why the EU's Article 13 about copyright changes is a bad idea. (Warning: nsfw language.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89ZkydX0FPw
I wrote to one of my MEPs to outline my problems with Article 13 (basically, it defends big copyright holders but not small ones, and it completely screws small websites to stop big ones like YouTube from violating; it's a good goal but a bad implementation) and my letter is at https://www.kryogenix.org/days/2018/07/03/article-13-mep/ if you'd like to write your own.

What is a #FreedomBox? A multipurpose privacy appliance, powered by #Debian.

What do you need to make one? Not much.

Who is it designed for? You.

We're serious about this. Give us a chance. Try it out. Free yourself.
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Download the software today: https://freedombox.org/

Ditching Windows: 2 Weeks with Ubuntu Linux on the Dell XPS
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2018/07/19/ditching-windows-2-weeks-with-ubuntu-linux-on-the-dell-xps-13/#56a840d41836

(submitted by humility)

The inconvenient truth about cancer and mobile phones
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/14/mobile-phones-cancer-inconvenient-truths

(submitted by jrwan)

Carsten Rieger continues his streak of excellent guides on a variety of #Nextcloud subjects. His latest and greatest is all about #loadbalancing
https://www.c-rieger.de/lab-loadbalancing-for-nextcloud/

The Github issue tracker is open to everyone, if you can't code or can't contribute for whatever reason please feel free to open an issue and voice your feedback, idea, suggestion. I will do my best!

I want to make this project accessible and welcoming to everyone. My 8 year old niece has even given me some feedback.

https://github.com/dansup/pixelfed/issues/

Ich will einmal ein großes Lob und Danke an @milan aussprechen, der mit viel Einsatz und Mühe in seiner Freizeit diesen Mastodon Server, sowie auch andere Server wie Matrix wartet und instand hält. Du machst eine super Arbeit :)

#mastodon #matrix #thx

Draft: Why ActivityPub is the future https://source.joinmastodon.org/mastodon/blog/blob/master/content/posts/2018-06-27_Why-ActivityPub-is-the-future/index.md

Let me know if you think it's convincing!

@hollyjahangiri but theft and copyright infringement *are* different beasts. And this difference *is* important to how we deal with it in law, and in practice.

When somebody samples a 2s of a music track, and then uses it somewhere in the background of their DJ set to create a whole new song, how exactly did they "steal" anything from anyone?

Is the original author worse off because of the 2s sample?

Does the 2s sample influence the market for the original work?

A timely reminder.

#Art13 #Art11 #saveyourinternet

Reclaiming RSS

“Before Twitter, before algorithmic timelines filtered our reality for us, before surveillance capitalism, there was RSS: Really Simple Syndication … As we move away from the centralised web to the peer web, it’s time to rediscover, re-embrace, and reclaim RSS.”

https://ar.al/2018/06/29/reclaiming-rss/

#ethicaltechnology