dbread @dbread@social.cleverlibre.org

This glorious sound interrupted so many lectures when I was at university #ubuntu

The #BBC has set up their own Mastodon instance! 🤯

https://social.bbc/about

cc @gbhnews

Organizing a FSFE booth is a great experience and a fun way to spread the word about #FreeSoftware!

Read this blog post about a FSFE info booth in Vienna at Veganmania:
https://blogs.fsfe.org/franz.gratzer/2023/06/07/veganmania-mq-vienna-2023/

#SoftwareFreedom #vienna

@dbread I use it! Decent amount of customizability, I just use most of the defaults I think. Does what I need it to, prevent my eyes from melting, and not much more which is great.

When an app asks for permissions, the OS should not only let you answer yes or no. Every category should havev a "yes, but feed the app fake data" option.

Want my contacts for no reason? Have these generated fake ones! Wanna listen to my microphone? Here's random ambiance sounds! Location? I'm on a tiny 5x5m island!

Hell yeah! Put it all in your databases!

Actively sabotaging and punishing services wins over boycotts any day.

To understand Musk's renewed obsession with X and focus on financial services, you REALLY need to understand the X/Confinity merger that became PayPal.

And, particularly, the Peter Thiel-led coup that kicked Musk out as CEO/Chief Strategist.

Here's how that happened. 1/🧵 #history #technology

I have always wondered where I can find more about our server and other instances. And then I stumbled on FediDB. 😎

https://fedidb.org/network/instance/mapstodon.space

@jeremy Our thumbnail is missing? 😂

Instagram Threads vs Mastodon. Looks like an easy choice.

current absurdity levels are 78%

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