Notices by forteller (forteller@octodon.social)

Any #openstreetmap pros on here who can tell me if there's a tag for the following?

1) publicly available trees and plants with edible fruit/berries, meant for public consumption.

2) Stores that sell food cheaper near the end of the day to avoid food waste.

Thanks!

Some fucking patent troll is suing @gnome, and they are fighting back, to help all of Free software, who might be victims if the troll wins.

I've gotten so much from Gnome trough so many years, and given so little back. But here it is easy to give, so I did, and I tried to make up a little bit for all I've gotten.

And you should too!

Read more: https://www.gnome.org/news/2019/10/gnome-files-defense-against-patent-troll/

Give to the defense: https://secure.givelively.org/donate/gnome-foundation-inc/gnome-patent-troll-defense-fund

Please boost, they are fighting for all of us, at least we can spread the word

Have you seen the new authenticator Aegis? Looks quite nice, and it's FOSS and available trough F-Droid. Oh, and the website is quite beautiful, which is too rare in the FOSS universe

https://beem.dev/

I would like to test following someone on Pixelfed from my Mastodon account. Who should I follow? #federation

This is an extremely important read!

"If we take freedom and openness for granted, we'll lose both. That's already happening, and we need to fight back. The question is how.

We have to fight for the general purpose computer. Read the linked texts by Cory Doctorow at the bottom:

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/we-need-save-what-made-linux-and-foss-possible

The EU is starting a full on war on general purpose computing. A proposed law will make it impossible to install custom software on WiFi routers, smartphones and embedded devices!

This is insane. The hearing ends today. Please give your feedback: https://blog.mehl.mx/2019/protect-freedom-on-radio-devices-raise-your-voice-today/

Need some VPN advice. There's a million of them out there, and so many things to consider, things I don't know anything about.

Some years ago I got myself a lifetime account on Slick VPN, and I'm wondering if it's OK, or if I need to spend more money on some other VPN.

Any thoughts?

Free and Open Source Software is not winning. That is terrible for all of humanity, as more and more of our freedom of thought, speech, movement, and our security is integrated with computers and the web.

Why are we losing? Because there is so much money on the other side and so little on our.

The sollution? We need to band togheter, in organizations fighting the cause. That means: We need to donate to @conservancy @fsfe, etc!

Please read and upvote: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/aa8ws9/a_message_from_karen_sadler_to_supporters_of_the/ecrg474/ #freesoftware

Loving this new feature in Lineage OS: Lockdown added to power menu actions: lock the device and force the password input, disabling any biometric or smart unlock tools

If you're running Android on your phone, you should consider switchting to #Lineage OS https://lineage.microg.org/

I've finnished transcribing one of Cory Doctorow's most important talks: How to break the Internet, destroy democracy and enslave the human race (or not).

Do you care about a free and just society? Then you need to watch/read this! Software rules the world https://corydoctorow.miraheze.org/wiki/How_to_break_the_Internet,_destroy_democracy_and_enslave_the_human_race_(or_not)

PS: I'd love your help on the wiki! Read how here: https://corydoctorow.miraheze.org/wiki/Meta

PPS: Do you appreciate my work? I'd appreciate your support on my new @Liberapay, if you can! :) https://liberapay.com/forteller/

#CDwiki

Are you using Googles reCAPTCHA on your website? Now is the time to stop. https://theintercept.com/2018/03/06/google-is-quietly-providing-ai-technology-for-drone-strike-targeting-project/

Is there a great FLOSS alternative for this type of thing? Please let me know!

Want to resist the easy way? Install this Firefox extension and get redirected from AMP to HTML automatically! https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/amp2html/

#Google is trying to eat the web, one service at a time. Now they are even eating external news websites with #AMP.

This is a really disturbing development. Please resist, don't visit AMP pages if you can avoid it.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/19/open_source_insider_google_amp_bad_bad_bad/ #googleamp

This is a really important time to push free and open source alternatives to #Patreon! I've considered using @Liberapay, but was afraid I had to use Patreon to get the network effect.

Please tell people about #Liberapay, post about it on Reddit (r/patreon), vote it up on Alternativeto, etc https://alternativeto.net/software/liberapay/

Please boost! This kind of opportunity to topple a near monopoly with FLOSS does not come often!
Are there other FLOSS #crowdfunding platforms?

Federated we stand, divided we fall