Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

U.S. vs. Facebook: Inside the tech giant’s behind-the-scenes campaign to battle back antitrust lawsuits https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/22/facebook-antitrust-lobbying-settlement/

In 2021, Google faces renewed battles in labor and antitrust https://www.cnet.com/news/in-2021-google-faces-renewed-battles-in-labor-and-antitrust/

We won't be using electricity to light up Christmas lights in #Kenya. We will watch the lights of the Milky Way! This in the Amboseli, Maasai Mara, Chyulu Hills and Turkana. Photos by Alex Choquette, Joel Neely , Jeremy Goss and Roger Torres Sabaté

Hey everybody, I am preparing a talk about mobile Linux in 2020, #PinePhone, #Librem5, GUIs, distributions, mainline support etc. Anything I must not miss? #boostsappreciated

Stop using "Zoom" as a general term for video conferencing.
Stop using "Google" as a general term for searching the web.

Continuing a tradition started last year, we're doing another sale for the end of the year 🎊

Until December 31, we're offering an extra 25% off our annual and five-year Pro subscriptions!

Get everything on Write.as for $54/year or $180/five years. https://write.as/newyear

WriteFreely iOS app scontata!

E' ora possibile ottenere il 33% di sconto sulla app dedicata a #WriteFreely per iOS - a solo 10,99€ una volta per sempre.

Naturalmente, questa app #FOSS funziona alla grande non solo con https://noblogo.org, ma anche con qualsiasi altra istanza di WriteFreely!

https://apps.apple.com/it/app/writefreely/id1531530896

il ricavato delle vendite andrà interamente agli sviluppatori.

#iOS #Blog #fediverso #iPhone #iPad

My parents are so careless about meeting other people
"We are not meeting anyone!" (currently two neighbor ladies sit in the kitchen)

On MarkDown Learning, Tutorial, and Editors

@joaopinheiro And I came back, on a quiet moment to read your new blog page. Very nice - I really enjoyed it, and think it can be useful to other people as well.

Same as you, I first learned about MarkDown upon getting started with blogging - using the Write.Freely software, which is the free open source version of the Write.as blog.

Both Write.Freely and Write.as are superb tools for writers - as they were designed to simplify things, avoiding the complications and excess luggage that the major blog platforms (WordPress, etc) have.

This is just the Beginning of today's Blog post...

On MarkDown Learning, Tutorial, and Editors

With a little extra for anyone curious or interested in how to install their own private Write.Freely instance - runs here on my Windows 10 laptop.

#FediReporter Tools of the Trade

#MarkDown is love. #Publishing #Blog #writefreely
#BlogResponse to a #friend

Google reportedly tightens grip on research into ‘sensitive topics’ - Google is currently under fire for apparently pushing out a researcher whose work warned of bias in... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/gvyfscBWY4E/ #artificialintelligence #timnitgebru #science #google

Me to people who return to Mastodon whenever Twitter fucks up somehow

I hate when I say something to someone, they fundamentally misunderstand what was said, and they reply to it simply rehashing what I said but pretending I didn't say it, as if *I'm the one who misunderstood* 🙄 Just admit you were wrong, no need to double down when you're not even understanding plain language.