Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

school is really good at teaching you to dread things you could probably enjoy learning if you were genuinely curious about them

Every day I am grateful to the wonderful work that the FOSS world as a whole performs to make my life better.

Thank you to everyone who works to advance the commons. <3

FOSDEM is Europe's largest Free Software conference. This year's it will be held online Feb 5-6. You don't need to register—just show up.

https://fosdem.org/2022/

Work on Gajim 1.4 is making big steps forward! 🚀 After nine months of developing Gajim’s new main window, the code was finally ready to be merged into the master branch. This enables automatic builds of nightlies for Linux and Windows.

#xmpp #chat #foss

https://gajim.org/post/2022-01-22-development-news-december-january/

How can we bring more contributors to the LibreOffice and Document Liberation projects? Ilmari Lauhakangas explains how he mentors newcomers, and helps them to get started: https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/how-i-recruit-and-mentor-contributors-and-how-you-should-too/965

@MMA @pamby1 @Tashakitkat Consider this a predictable Philtoot.

There is a dairy farmer near us that sells milk directly to the public in the old fashioned re-usable glass bottles.

isgoogleanalyticsillegal.com
Is Google Analytics illegal?
Due to recent rulings on the GDPR, Google Analytics users are under fire for transmitting personal data outside of the EU.

Pristine coral reef discovered in deep water off the coast of Tahiti

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2305315-pristine-coral-reef-discovered-in-deep-water-off-the-coast-of-tahiti/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

#NewScientist #RSS #News #Science

Gitea implementará la federación entre instancias y con redes del fediverso [ENG]
https://www.meneame.net/story/gitea-implementara-federacion-entre-instancias-redes-fediverso

@gitea

The new anti-surveillance bill proposed in Congress is amazing in concept---it's a huge step in the right direction.

But I don't like the fact that it's being portrayed on the news as "the democrats are doing this". Surveillance should not be a partisan issue.

Google Analytics declared illegal in the EU

Link: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/google-analytics/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29992741

#google

@reedyn that's why we're working on a directory that showcases honest goods/services without any strings attached (completely void of any trades). If we could amplify those and support these trade-free structures, then we could really change something. www.directory.trade-free.org/

Checklist for Mastodon Admins (1/2)

- Do you have enough free disk space?
- Is the expiration date of the certificate correct?
- Is the backup ...... working properly?
- Does the mail from the server reach you properly?
- Is the scheduler queue working?
- Is streaming working?
- Is the WebUI working?
- Is /api/v1/instance working?
- Are the ca-certificates updated?
- Did you forget to pay the server fee?
- Did you forget to pay the domain fee?
- Is your credit card expired?

(above includes install guide screenshots + video)

Getting started w/#opensnitch #Linux #Firewall
video on #Peertube here:

https://tube.tchncs.de/w/kreFDShcr6yV3TxX4t7H2R
#Odysee here: https://odysee.com/@RTP:9/opensnitch-linux-firewall-detect:b

#Opensnitch #Littlesnitch #infosec #Cybersecurity #Security #FOSS #Linux #LBRY