Notices by Björn Schießle (bjoern@mastodon.social), page 3

@bob
Remember what Stallman did ~30 years ago when proprietary software dominated, he didn't recommended abstinence he came up with a positive answer aka Free Software. We need to do the same with today's evolving technology (cloud, saas, IoT, whatever). Ignoring it will change nothing we have to get engaged and shape it in a freedom and privacy respecting way.

The "Simple Mobile Tools" #Android apps are really nice. I use many of them and really recommend to have a look at them. https://simplemobiletools.github.io/ #FreeYourAndroid

@schlink @sheogorath @nextcloud @jordyd Nextcloud is completely Free Software, just download it, install it and use it as you wish. The pricing is just for Enterprise grade support.

Wow, i just learned that the #MIT has its own #Mastodon instance. https://mastodon.mit.edu/about

#Google removes #Kodi from search autocomplete in anti-piracy effort - the article state "But, while Kodi is legal software, it remains a space that enables piracy, akin to platforms like BitTorrent."... Yes, like any general purpose computer. 🙄 https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/29/17176894/google-removes-kodi-search-autocomplete-anti-piracy

Finally Nextcloud Talk landed in F-Droid, get it while it's hot! https://f-droid.org/packages/com.nextcloud.talk2/ #Nextcloud #Talk #fdroid #Android

Yesterday I discovered #ForkAwesome a #FontAwesome fork. Finally with nice icons for #Mastodon #Diaspora, #GNUSocial, #Friendica, #XMPP,... https://forkawesome.github.io/Fork-Awesome/ Thanks a lot, I already updated my homepage!

@masoud @BryanLunduke CopperheadOS switched their license some time ago to CC BY-NC-SA because they decided that this is the only way for them to secure their business https://copperhead.co/android/docs/building#redistribution

@BryanLunduke
CopperheadOS was once quite promising but then they switched to non-free software licenses :(

@mairin I agree, I think we see/saw this by most successful services. Status.net had identi.ca and become rather successful, Matrix has matrix.org (as you said), Mastodon has mastodon.social. I think for new people it is good to know where to go, instead of having to chose between many small and unknown services.

I just rediscovered this small tool I wrote some time ago: Upload one or multiple files with one click to your #Nextcloud and create a public link. Works with #Thunar, #Nautilus, #Nemo and #Dolphin https://github.com/schiessle/shareLinkCreator

@junglestrike @vinzv @phildini @bob at this point I would even be happy to ignore the "average user" for now, if all the people and organisations who know the importance of free and decentralised systems would finally start using them instead of complaining on Twitter & Co that they are not perfect.

People wrote already many good things about Firefox 57 for the desktop. Today I updated Firefox for Android and I have to say that the progress there is at least as impressive as on the Desktop side! I use Firefox on Android for years, but this is by far the best version. For the first time Firefox's look & feel is like a real mobile browser and not like something ported from the desktop to the mobile world. #Firefox #Android #mobile