Franz Geffke @franz@pantherx.social
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A quick look at the #PantherX Desktop: Here we've got the Menu with global search that can dig into PDF's and other documents, Hub with all online accounts and recent messages and of course System - at the top, right - with clear connection information; supporting all modern standards, including special cases such as OpenVPN with stunnel.
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I wonder if there are Mastodon communities for fashion. 🤔
I wonder if there are open culture clothes, and what that might mean.
How are clothes made? Can this be done in a decentralized way which benefits from the sharing of information? 🤔
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Chromium automatically issues DNS lookups for 3 randomly generated domains on every startup and change of network.
Turns out this "adds up to a whopping half the total load on the root DNS servers… 60 billion bogus queries every day." Oops.
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Mozilla just laid off 70 fantastic people. If you can help them - open positions, offering helpful conversations and references, anything else - please say so.
Use #MozillaLifeboat as an umbrella tag for easy finding. (It's already flowing on the birdsite.)
If you've been affected, I'm happy to chat directly. Also have some open positions (see rest of this thread). But doesn't have to be today - take time to recover if you can.
Most of all: thank you folks for making the web better.
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If it wasn't clear already that #Zoom cares more about money than its users' #privacy and #security, here you have it:
"Only our paid users will have access to end-to-end #encryption for their meetings."
Source: https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/05/27/90-day-security-plan-progress-report-may-27/
Are you looking for a simple time tracking software that works everywhere (and offline), supports unlimited projects and team members, costs nothing and could be even better - with your help! I just found Pendulums and it looks like a great fit for many: https://pendulums.io/
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"European Parliament strongly recommends any software developed by and for the EU institutions to be made publicly available under Free and Open Source Software licence"
Wow ... Another down? GitHub, NPM, now Wunderlist? I never really used this software, but it (used) to be incredibly popular!
What gives? Microsoft consolidating power, to better compete with Google? Apple?
We've just lost another. After GitHub has fallen into Microsoft's hands, and deteriorating ever since, GitHub has now purchased npm with that Microsoft monaaay.
Who's winning? Not us. Certainly not the user.
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viruses • chemistry
Basically, a virus is a big self-assembled bunch of proteins and lipids. The fatty lipid bilayer is what holds the whole thing together.
Soap easily dissolves those lipids, making the whole thing fall apart and killing the virus.
The alcohol in hand sanitiser does the same thing, but not as well. Any antibacterial compounds don't touch viruses at all, so don't waste your time or money. It's basically just expensive soap.
The Lebanese currency didn't drop 50%, it dropped 50% more than the EUR/USD/RMB. How much did EUR drop? ~10%, 20%, 30%? Good question, when literally every currency is and has been losing value for years, and virtually, at an equal rate. Globalisation - Remember? Few winners, more losers.
Certainly wouldn't mind that..."through the GAIA-X
initiative, [Europe] would set a goal of 50% of government IT spending on open source, on-premises solutions by 2025 and 100% by 2030" https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/news/let-market-solve-it
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Was nimmt man denn heute zur Haussteuerung? Zigbee oder Z-Wave? Will in einem gemieteten Büro ein paar Sachen automatisieren, kann also nicht wie zu Hause Kabel ziehen. Ganz wichtig wären Heizungsthermostate.
Dachte an Home Assistent zur Steuerung, aber die kuscheln irgendwie immer mehr mit Google. openHAB fand ich nicht so toll. Was gibts sonst für Alternativen?
I'm probably not going to use qutebrowser but I love that it exists: https://www.qutebrowser.org/index.html (no, I don't use vim).
Finally started working with #rust today.
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So I'm in a tough position, my hours got cut at work cause they decided they didn't want to pay out payroll for already scheduled shifts. I'm currently looking for a 3rd job (or replacement for the retail one) but in the meantime I really need some extra work.
I do have a commission queue, but if you have deadlines I can accommodate for it - especially if it's for a Christmas gift. I can fast track those :)
Can anyone recommend a reliable hosting company in the EU, that doesn't block IP's based on US policy? It wouldn't hurt, if the server doesn't take hours to spin-up, and is reasonably fast. I'm familiar with most of the common offerings - any tips, based on actual experience?
It just hit me: What Facebook, Instagram or Twitter will never accomplish, Mastodon apparently has.
Segregation at it's finest.
This is what Trumps wettest dreams are made of; on Mastodon, a single person gets to decide, whether, thousands, or even millions, are able to communicate with a certain social or interest group, or even individual - the admin.
Future, here we come!
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- Matrix
- @franz:pantherx.org
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PantherX Founder, FOSS & privacy advocate
Joined Jan 2019
