switching.social
@boisdevache @knittingsquirrel
Lineage is pretty difficult to install, but my understanding is that once it's been installed it is as easy to use as Google Android. For non-tech users, if you can find a tech person to do installation then this may be a viable option.
If you're in the market for a new phone, there's @Purism 's new kind of phone, Librem5, which is due out in April. It is entirely Google-free (and Android-free) and designed to be as private as possible:
Ind.ie
‘Why a focus on “fake news” and Facebook misses the internet's real problems - and solutions’
“The biggest oversight… is in diagnosing disinformation as essentially a problem with Facebook, rather than a systemic issue emerging in part from the pollution of online spaces by the business model that Facebook shares with others: the surveillance and modification of human behaviour for profit.”
Also on our forum: https://forum.ind.ie/t/why-a-focus-on-fake-news-and-facebook-misses-the-internets-real-problems-and-solutions/2599
OpenLifeChallenge
OpenLifeChallenge
Mikael
Mikael
b9AcE 🐊
All 2.7 million recorded calls to the medical advice phone number 1177 (operated by the municipalities in Sweden) answered by the subcontractor Medicall since 2013 were found to be available to everyone on an unprotected web server.
That's 170000 hours of sensitive phone calls with symptoms, etc.
-CS
Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺
...while independent studies show that the direct opposite is true. Zero malware was found in the open, transparent and free appstore F-Droid https://nsl.cs.waseda.ac.jp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/submitted_wama2017.pdf
Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺
"Every tap, button push and keyboard entry is recorded — effectively screenshotted — and sent back to the app developers", including credit card numbers, passwords, etc. When will people stop pretending that the #Apple system of a proprietary walled garden lead to more #security and #privacy? https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/06/iphone-session-replay-screenshots
switching.social
#SelfHosting and #CommunityHosting are when you run your own server for yourself or your community. This means you can have full control over whatever services run from that server, for example email or social networking.
It has traditionally been quite difficult to run a server, but there are a number of projects on the Fediverse that are trying to make it easier:
❓ YunoHost:
@yunohost
📦 FreedomBox: @freedomboxfndn
🍖 FreedomBone:
@freedombone
🍭 Lollipop Cloud:
@cloud
rysiek ✅
Calling all #Fediverse admins of instances in the #EU. The #CopyrightDirective is coming, we need to show the MEPs how massively the EU Internets will be affected.
We are preparing a list of all EU-based #Pleroma, #Mastodon, #GNUSocial, #Peertube, #Funkwhale, and any other instances.
Please *contact me*. All I need is the domain name, which EU Member State it's located in, and the rough topic of the instance. Approximate user count welcome, but not necessary.
Please help. This is important.
Wim 🅾
I have written a #guide to help people who want to run their own fedi instance but don't know where to start. It covers the basics of networking, use of command line, Linux system administration, just enough to get you started.
So if you would like to run your own #Mastodon or #Pleroma instance but you find you don't know enough to follow the tutorials, then this guide is for you.
Comments welcome!
Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺
In January, the #EU is launching bug bounties on #FreeSoftware projects to increase the #security of the #Internet! https://juliareda.eu/2018/12/eu-fossa-bug-bounties #FOSSA
The Open Internet
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