Notices by Joseph Nuthalapati :fbx: (njoseph@social.masto.host)

Software Freedom Podcast: SFP#1 on Day Against DRM with Cory Doctorow https://fsfe.org/news/podcast/episode-1.en.html

From GNU Taler FAQ

"Actual transaction costs are estimated around 0.001 cent/transaction (at high transaction rates, amortized over billions of transactions, excluding migration costs)."

A disruptive payment processor (similar to Lets Encrypt) powered by GNU Taler might be able to totally change the game. :blobthinkingcool:

Jitsi is getting a lot of mentions here.

I wonder if people are aware of GNU Jami, a P2P solution.
https://jami.net/

Jami has end-to-end encryption while Jitsi is only encrypted during transit. The Jitsi server has your packets available in unencrypted form. If you can't trust a Jitsi server and need end-to-end encryption, Jami can be a good alternative.

#Jitsi #Jami #e2ee

Epicyon is a new Fediverse server being developed by Freedombone developer Bob Mottram

Example:
https://epicyon.freedombone.net/@bob

Code:
https://code.freedombone.net/bashrc/epicyon

#Epicyon #Freedombone

My Pioneer edition FreedomBox running on in-built battery backup during a minor power outage today.

I have minor power outages of a few minutes a day at my place during the rainy season. When I was running FreedomBox on a bare Raspberry Pi 2 earlier, I had to replace the microSD card once a year due to damage. The Pioneer edition has solved this problem for me.

#Debian #FreedomBox #HomeServer #Olimex #SelfHosting

Created a #diaspora account at njoseph@poddery.com

I think I'll be mostly posting/ranting about #Debian on that account.

Poddery is a diaspora* pod hosting 4400 users, which also provides end-to-end encrypted Matrix and XMPP services to its users.

They've reached 51% of the funding goal of $1500. Please donate to keep the services running! 😇
https://fund.poddery.com/

Also feel free to join and use the services.

#fundPoddery #diaspora #xmpp #matrix

When adding your FreedomBox as a device in other Syncthing peers, set its address like "tcp://njoseph.me" instead of "dynamic". This allows your Syncthing peers to directly connect to your FreedomBox avoiding the need for relays. It also allows for fast on-demand syncing if you don't want to keep Syncthing running all the time on your mobile devices.

More tips and tricks on my wiki
https://njoseph.me/mediawiki/FreedomBox/Tips_and_Tricks

Documentation
https://docs.syncthing.net/users/config.html#device-element

#Tips #FreedomBox #Syncthing

Surveillance Capitalists be like,

"I'm going to rob your house tonight. Uncheck these 200 checkboxes representing each item in your house that I am going to take. Any checkbox you fail to check gives us the permission to rob that item. And we can't guarantee the list here is exhaustive, nor that our 1000 partners won't rob your house."

We shouldn't be "opting out" of their violations of our rights. We should be asking what gives them the right to steal our behavioral data in the first place.

Google walkout organizers say they're being retaliated against for demanding ethical standards — Cory Doctorow

https://boingboing.net/2019/04/22/town-hall-apr-26.html

@buoyantair Any claims to privacy when the software is completely proprietary are baseless.

TIL that Apple is also in the advertising business.

@Shamar @Famicoman @ckeen @gcupc @bob @grainloom

Mastodon and PeerTube have some nice explainer videos and artwork. It would be nice to have such explainers for the idea of self-hosting in general.

#selfhosting

A product's privacy claims are only as good as its default settings.

Providing options to change the default privacy-violating settings in some "Advanced" section doesn't make your product a privacy-respecting one.

#Privacy

Digital Empowerment in Rural India - powered by FreedomBox.

Sudhamsh Kandukuri and I presented yesterday at XConf India 2018.

An inspiring story of a grassroots movement where people rejected Facebook's Free Basics and installed low-cost community Wi-Fi networks instead.
A FreedomBox on the network provides most of the essential digital services required, offline.

Slides:
https://njoseph.me/~joseph/Digital%20Empowerment%20in%20Rural%20India.pdf

Video recording: coming soon!

#FreedomBox #Swecha #FSMI #XConfIndia #ThoughtWorks

In a parallel universe where Ubuntu hadn't provided the "install alongside Windows" option (which it did about 10 years ago), I'd be writing enterprise Java on a Windows 10 machine, blissfully unaware of the existence of free software and believing that privacy is dead if Mark Zuckerberg says so.

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Dear #purists and #absolutists,

It's great to be clean and pure yourself, but sometimes you have step into the mud to pull out others who are stuck in it.

#windows #ubuntu #privacy #freesoftware

@aral The software called Mastodon is protected from EEE (Embrace, Extend, Extinguish) abuse by the AGPLv3 license. Any changes made to Mastodon must follow the same license and must be made public.

ActivityPub OTOH, is susceptible to the EEE strategy. First some MegaCorpX will make an ActivityPub-based social network and gather a lot of users. Then they will add more features than there are in the spec. The third step is to stop federating with other ActivityPub instances.

e.g. Slack vs. IRC

The most dangerous place to be for activists

https://qrius.com/the-most-dangerous-place-to-be-for-activists/

#climate #activism