Nice read this «Federation doesn’t work anymore» from . If I recap it correctly it says something like using federated social networks (think about OStatus, GNU Social, Mastodon, Diaspora and Matrix ) is no better that staying on Facebook.
I’m starting a new category “osservanda” (i.e. “to be observed”) interesting projects to keep an eye on. Let’s start with an Operative System:
Jehanne a simple operating system.It shows that few orthogonal abstractions can be composed to provide everything you want from modern operating systems.
https://github.com/JehanneOS/jehanne mainly from Giacomo Tesio.
Tutti amano Thunderbird, anche chi lo usa su Windows. Anzi soprattutto chi lo usa sul famigerato sistema operativo proprietario perché l’altrettanto famigerato Outlook sembra rendere impossibili cose che con Thunderbird son semplicissime, come per esempio cercare qualcosa in più cartelle ed account contemporaneamente. Ora magari si potrà fare anche con Outlook, ma Thunderbird cerca sempre…
Create, develop and visualize your ideas Minder is a nice mind-mapping tool created for Elementary OS but that is nicely available on Debian. It’s appstore is has the nice idea that you shall pay to get the binaries.
Bliss OS Open Source OS for PC’s, based on AOSP
Now I know I’ve done the-right-thing supporting Librem5. I knew that almost all phones comes with a proprietary OS, either the prison-ware iOS or proprietary derivative of Android. Yet I wasn’t aware that the situation is SO bad. Read this. Android is not open source – The Quantified VC – Medium
The crowdsourced $700 Linux phone is actually becoming a real product.
Source: Purism’s Librem 5 phone starts shipping—a fully open GNU/Linux phone | Ars Technica
I’ve chosen to receive mine with the Dogwood or Evergreen batch; I’m too anxious to wait for the Batch Fir that will have a 14nm Next Generation CPU….
Hong Kong Protesters Using Mesh Messaging App China Can’t Block: Usage Up 3685% – Slashdot: An anonymous reader quotes Forbes: How do you communicate when the government censors the internet? With a peer-to-peer mesh broadcasting network that doesn’t use the internet. That’s exactly what Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters are doing now, thanks to San Francisco…
Dear Facebook, I’ve been accessing your social service using Frost an free-as-in-freedom Android app. Why? Because I don’t trust you. You already far too much about me. And knowing your ways of handling and selling the data you collect I’ve decided to confine you as much as possible and this means that I will never…