WebNest of Tomas Jakl

Okay so Google killed their Buzz, Wave, Talk, Picasa, URL Shortener, Google+, Hangouts and now essentially even Photos.

Reshared https://framapiaf.org/@mobilizon/105105871397995194 Mobilizon has been released!

Reshared https://mastodon.social/@bjoern/105101029509399377 From next year on, all software developed by the city of Munich will be Free Software.

Mental note for myself: restarters.net have a great wiki https://wiki.restarters.net/, full of tutorials and other material for people that prefer to repair laptops, phones and other electronics rather than throwing it away.

Reshared https://mastodon.matrix.org/@matrix/105062044447208598 Last Sunday the UK/US/CA/AU/NZ/IN/JP govts issued a statement asking tech companies to add backdoors into E2E encryption.

Who reads privacy policies and terms of use these days?

I love Michael Lewis' idea to create a dedicated search engine for personal websites (read his explanation here and here).

Cool talk by Bartosz Milewski on defunctionalization, called Replacing functions with data (he also wrote a blog post on the topic).

The end of my first day of quarantine.

Reshared https://social.weho.st/@Fairphone/104761725590811172 We’re proud to officially announce the Fairphone 3+ 🙌 It has improved cameras, upgraded software and even more fair materials, but here’s the twist: The exact same modules can also be used to u…

I'm supporting Matt's initiative to make RSS great again.

What it's like to fly these days?

Australians have suprise me.

Reshared https://mastodon.social/@rysiek/104587120563564942 A nice talk by rysiek about decentralisation and about his project called samizdat.

This is pure gold, a fairy tale about social networks and the current state of the web: The Serfs of Facebook, by Zach Alberico 😀 #Facebook, #web

#HongKong swiftly approves a law effectively extending the Great Firewall of China to Hong Kong.

Wow, Replika.ai is yet another of Black Mirror's predictions coming true.

This is scary https://www.nothingprivate.ml/ Edit: also check out https://amiunique.org/fp and https://panopticlick.eff.org/.

We all carry symbols of modern-day slavery in our pockets https://ethical.net/technology/the-slavery-supported-the-device-in-your-pocket/ #ethics

I missed this great news from a couple of months back.

Olympus is selling their camera division, according to the official News Release.

Reshared https://www.kylepiira.com/2020/06/22/spotify-is-trying-to-embrace-extend-and-extinguish-open-podcasting/ If Spotify chooses to continue on their current path of exclusive content it will break interoperability with other podcast apps and force li…

A nice write-up by ProtonMail of Apple's practices that help regimes in many countries to silence their opposition: https://protonmail.com/blog/apple-app-store-antitrust/ #Apple, #censorship

Reshared https://social.weho.st/@Fairphone/104370722097078014 Because Qualcomm is no longer supporting the chipset in the Fairphone 2, we have to make Android 9 comply with all of Google’s requirements ourselves.

thenextweb.com/facebook/2020/06/17/ Facebook gives US users power to turn off political ads ...

"I think it is wrong to teach maths without teaching programming.

A wonderful example when somebody in industry is doing a wonderful (academical) research, and delivers a great talk: Alexis King - “Effects for Less” #haskell, #effect-systems

I came across of Socialism 101 and, as I'm reading through it, I think that I see what made communism so successful.

Related to my one year old article on tomas.jakl.one, I just rediscovered a text by Cory Doctorow on boingboing.net titled After months of insisting that #Article13 doesn't require filters, top EU Commissioner says "Article 13 requires filters" 😔 #Article…

Normally countries would find their own ways to regulate TV, radio, press, etc. from foreign influence.

Reshared https://mastodon.social/@bjoern/104230579257041115 Björn Schießle wrote: You want digital sovereignty?

Bedtime thought: on Facebook, GitHub, Mastodon, Spotify, etc. we should be able to view all activity (logs) of connected apps on those platforms.

Reshared https://mastodon.social/@bjoern/104205965360420630 "From now on, all IT solutions developed by and for the EU institutions will first need to be assessed against the possibility of using Open Source solutions."

Year 2020 is the year of #Linux desktop!

Reshared https://friend.camp/@darius/104190909214606402 Another day, another "bring back Google Reader" article that does not acknowledge Reader's extremely robust social features.

This is interesting.

I was blown away by how much has Xournal++ improved since the last time I tried it.

I'm all for Make America Great Again!

Reshared https://mastodon.social/@rysiek/104127620701704641 Zoom aquires Keybase!

Just signed the Declaration of Digital Independence.

Reshared https://mastodon.art/@inkscape/104111521799426605 Inkscape version 1.0 released!

Why is there no static site generator based around shake, ginger, and dhall?

Attempting to institutionalize backdoors into private encrypted communication should be unconstitutional.

Managed to export my Mastodon posts to my website, in order to keep my content under my control (#indieweb).

Reshared https://mastodon.social/@dansup/104097644330784809 dansup will be launching an ActivityPub debugging tool!

Darius Kazemi (the internet bot artist) has written two articles about the importance of small decentralised social networks: https://tinysubversions.com/notes/activitypub-tool/ https://runyourown.social/ #fediverse, #activitypub

Reshared https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/germany-privacy-covid-app/ Germany builds a Covid-19 tracing app with decentralized storage #privacy, #covid19

Reshared https://mastodon.social/users/gael/statuses/104081943015671018 Ethical phone with an ethical version of Android is a reality!

I can post both to Mastodon and Twitter from my blog via brid.gy!

Reshared https://mastodon.ar.al/users/aral/statuses/104058663983497893 Aral Balkan says: If you teach development, the first thing you should be teaching… before HTML, CSS, JS, etc., is ETHICS.