All it costs to fulfill the average person's needs for digital services is a $5 per month VPS instance. It's even cheaper if you buy a single board computer and host your services at home.
We've been letting companies steal our personal data and sell it to the highest bidder and destroying democracy in the process all to save what? A coffee a month?
This is one of the worst deals in history.
@e8johan Welcome to the #fediverse!
A scam in the name of Mark Shuttleworth.
"Apple, Google and Silicon Valley love to say they're ethical. But what do they really mean?" Show more
What major project that now moved to gitlab or went on a selfhosted solution?
Got approved for a GitLab Ultimate license so that's sorted (although I haven't received it yet)
Ramadan à Casablanca, c'est pas vraiment ça.
@lain for me the main reason is ideological, I'd rather support an open source platform than a megacorp.
I don't think MS buying GitHub changes anything, but the problem with GitHub being a closed source single point of failure was always there.
Until GitLab came along there really weren't any practical alternatives, but now that one exists it would be good to support it in my opinion.
@thomas what's/who's in metalhead.club?
Just received a cyber packet over TCP from @Stranded_Life 😎
"standing on the shoulders of giants"
This project would not be possible without the pioneering work of evanp and @cwebber along with @Gargron and @mmn and many others!
I really look forward to the May 31st beta launch of https://pixelfed.org
@jon Welcome!
@gnomelibre hey, bienvenue mastodon et le #fediverse !
Pour les projets libres, il y a un certain nombre déjà présent comme @kde @gnome et @GIMP . il y a aussi la @fsf @Mozilla et @mozilla etc. Je te laisse découvrir le reste.
#TWIF week 20 is up for preview at #fdroid staging!
https://staging.f-droid.org/en/2018/05/17/this-week-in-fdroid-w20.html
It should go live on the main site with the next index update.
Some apps already updated since it was submitted, so do let us know which updates are important, and why!
The update list is at https://gist.github.com/Matrixcoffee/a61370a7615244ddace38afccfdab671 as always, and will be updated throughout the week.
Ramadan Karim.
رمضان مبارك سعيد.
#Ramadan
In the series of me forgetting stuff, I lost my keys today. Technically I am homeless.