Gabriele Lucci @gabriele@social.lucci.xyz

#Newpipe 0.14.2 can't play YouTube videos anymore. Downgrading to 0.14.1 seems to work for the moment. (Need to uninstall the latest version first.)

The problem is fixed upstream in version 0.15 which will be on fdroid in 1-2 days.

This person found a mysterious Raspberry Pi plugged into a switch in the company's network closet

https://blog.haschek.at/2018/the-curious-case-of-the-RasPi-in-our-network.html

Need to share with someone why HTTPS is important? Here's a fun, animated video on surfing securely with HTTPS Everywhere, in German with English subtitles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW1-CmggG9s

This is a public service announcement: by saying "IT is crap because users still buy it" you are effectively blaming the victim.

There is a huge information and resources asymmetry between large companies creating software and hardware, and regular person who just wants their Internet-connected device to, you know, not do harm. Companies effectively made a business model out of that asymmetry.

We need education and regulation to make IT not crap.

If the public share link url with random characters isn't your thing, install the share renamer app and sent pretty, understandable share names! Just keep in mind that human readable share names can be predicted so protect them with a password.
https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/sharerenamer

2018 was a great year for Purism! 2019 is going to be a great year for those who oppose SurveillanceCapitalism - check out our blog post on what we've been up to for the past 3 months - https://puri.sm/posts/end-of-year-librem-5-update/ #OpposeSurveillanceCapitalism #DefendFreedom

At the end of last year I received my Librem 5 devkit from @Purism, this week I'll play with it and toot about it. For the moment, here are photos of the devkit and what it came with, sizes are in centimeters and impressise because of perspective.

#Librem5 #DevKit

The four eras of digital computing:

① Mainframe (centralised)

② Personal Computing (PC 1.0; decentralised)

③ Web/Cloud (Mainframe 2.0; centralised)

④ Peer Computing (PC 2.0; decentralised)

The PC 2.0 era is what some of us are working to usher in.

(From https://ar.al/2019/01/05/hypha-spike-deployment-1/)

#davdroid is now called #DAVx5, read more about this here: https://www.davx5.com/faq/general/what-does-davx5-stand-for

You'll find it under the new name in #FDroid with the next update.

Sometimes you have to stick a screwdriver in it (or how to liberate a Chromebook in ten easy steps)

https://ar.al/2018/12/31/sometimes-you-have-to-stick-a-screwdriver-in-it/

Blockchain study finds 0.00% success rate and vendors don't call back when asked for evidence

“Though Blockchain has been touted as the answer to everything, a study of 43 solutions advanced in the international development sector has found exactly no evidence of success.”

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/30/blockchain_study_finds_0_per_cent_success_rate/

Man, it seems so bad you’d almost think I’d have a slide warning people about blockchain oil salesmen (they’re almost entirely men) in my talks or something…

#blockchain #bullshit

Still hearing the time-honed bullshit that “nobody cares about their privacy” at #NordicPrivacyArea. Bullshit. People are lied to on a daily basis with billion-dollar budgets.

Research of almost 1m Android apps reveals how data from smartphones are harvested and shared, with nearly 90 per cent of apps set up to transfer information back to Google. Best get all your apps from @fdroidorg - guaranteed no data sharing with Google! 😀
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.03603.pdf

are u vim? because i can't quit you

Hey Mastodon. I'm looking for a #FOSS app for #android to edit photos.

I would like to do basic editing such has cut and paste part of the image, filters ...
Light curve and cloning tool would be a nice extra.

I found nothing on #fdroid but maybe some of you know something !

Boost appreciated 😃

“Moving efficiently in the CLI”

https://clementc.github.io/blog/2018/01/25/moving_cli/

This is a *very* handy graphic. I’m still stuck on arrow keys too because I don’t remember the shortcuts

(Caveat, these do depend on your particular shell and distro so do check that they work the same)

https://mastodon.social/media/K8MxRyVLAukbhwdt4uU