التنينوكس @dragnucs@touha.me

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.

#privacy #selfhosting

57% of tech workers are burned out. I bet half of the rest are lying to themselves.

And yet we still don't have an effective trade union.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/57-percent-of-tech-workers-are-suffering-from-job-burnout/

http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2018-06-25/apple-google-facebook-microsoft-technology-ethics-and-privacy/9893740

"from privacy and addiction management to AI, how will we know these companies have lived up to their promises?"

"Like privacy, "ethical" can be stretched and moulded to mean anything you like. Norms must be debated and chosen. There must be real consequences for failing to follow them."

#TWIF is live: https://f-droid.org/en/2018/06/22/this-week-in-fdroid-w25.html

Got approved for a GitLab Ultimate license so that's sorted (although I haven't received it yet)

@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.

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

#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.