@leauxra As @bkurdali suggests there are lots of Free software (as in freedom, not caged by some company but developed by anyone - a community). A good thing about !fs is that it's generally gratis - but if you and others donate and new features get implemented then the whole world can access these features. Not just the ones who afford the new version. And the best t…
I guess for those who are curious they will try to know more about how Mastadon came into being and then find out about !GNUSocial and then eventually -- GNU itself. !fs
Sadly, tying medical equipment to non-free software is all too common. You're right, it's a huge privacy violation, and the End-User-Licence-Agreement allowing them to insert ads in your readouts just makes it worse. Do they make you sign up for an Outlook or Facebook account to keep up-to-date? I hope not. We need more !OpenHardware that runs !FreeSoftware.
@strypey I'm afraid your argument that "IRC is fragmented" doesn't really hold. First of all, IRC clients tend to be friendly for multi-server and multi-channel use. No weird stuff. Slack however is extremely fragmented. Despite being a single company running a single service, they don't even have Single Sign On (remember, IRC has no sign on at all, problem solved). So…
@nanoha Then any two users with their IDs and fingerprints published should be able to initiate communication in a completely private space with easy to use off-the-shelf !fs.
Not !fs as far as I remember (actually, I remember reading about how there were multiple variants being used, with varying popularity). I explicitly remember reading about how it was troublesome that iOS users couldn't communicate with Android networks, as the most common p2p method was some kind of bluetooth meshing-or-comparable-technology. And Apple only allows audi…
Classy move by Matt Mullenweg @photomatt: https://ma.tt/2016/10/wix-and-the-gpl/ "…downloaded the new Wix (closed, proprietary, non-open-sourced, non-GPL) mobile app. […] If I were being charitable, I’d say, “The app’s editor is based on the WordPress mobile app’s editor.” If I were being honest, I’d say that Wix copied WordPress without attribution, credit, or following the license." !fs #GPL
!fediverse I take for granted most people on here are programmers ... if not how come you got interested in gnusocial? How did you learn about free software? #gnu #fs #ilovefs
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