Joseph Nuthalapati @njoseph@social.masto.host

You can connect existing WordPress blogs to the Fediverse by using this plugin:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub

It lets people on Mastodon etc follow your blog, comment, like and share its posts.

You can also find it in the plugins section of your WordPress blog, search for "ActivityPub" (all one word).

#FediTips #Fediverse #Wordpress #Blogs #ActivityPub

Are you a native speaker of a non-English language? Please help translate the new version of OnionShare! 🧅 ❤️

We use Weblate for translations: https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/onionshare/

You can download 4.2.dev1 here: https://github.com/onionshare/onionshare/releases/tag/v2.4.dev1

It would be great to translate the documentation as well as the app. Here's the new version's docs: https://docs.onionshare.org/2.4.dev1/en/

enjoyed this quote from h***** n***:

"Newton was a genius, yet the man spent most of his life doing alchemy, trying to forecast the future with the help of the bible, and chasing dragons in the Swiss Alps, put simply, he was batshit insane and probably a failure by the standards of modern productivity gurus. Yet he also made contributions larger than anyone will ever do by filling up note-taking apps and tracking how much time they spent on their breakfast with a stopwatch. "

@mike @joseph Yes, this need to ‘rent’ everything is driving me mad. Everything is a service now so that I can never get out from under constant expenditure. Great for their business model, rubbish for my peace of mind (not to mention my wallet). And THEN they still either serve me ads or monetise me further by harvesting and selling my data.

It’s like going to the doctor, paying a consultancy fee and then having to let them take a blood donation to sell for further revenue generation.

MNT Research is a small independent company creating a libre laptop called the MNT Reform. You can follow at:

➡️ @mntmn

The official website is at https://mntre.com and there's more info about the laptop at https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2020-05-08-the-much-more-personal-computer.html

#MNTResearch #MNTMN #MNTReform #MNT #Computing #Libre #Hardware #OpenHardware #OpenSourceHardware #OSH #FOSS #FLOSS #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Technology #Business #Company

#Matrix users: updates for Element and SchildiChat just hit our repo, containing important security fixes. Please refresh the index in your clients and update ASAP.

#security #updates

When writing software, or debugging software, shortening tthe speed of the edit/build/test/examine/wtf cycle is one key element for higher productivity.

Yak Shaving,
my new favorite expression.😄

I sometimes think about how I would structure code if I’d been trained outside OOP. As much as I work in FP now, it still taints my brain!

bond together through co-operation and mutual support

If you think of free software as a developers' rights issue, it's a solved problem. Developers can use free stacks everywhere, and they are free to fix anything. Nobody is legally restricted from learning to be a developer. There's a pretty good live ecosystem. Mission accomplished.

If you think of free software as a human rights issue, you need to think about how all people can actually use and benefit, and usability and accessibility and localisation all become integral parts of the problem.

Ours was now a country in which the cost of replacing a broken machine with a newer model was typically lower than the cost of having it fixed by an expert, which itself was typically lower than the cost of sourcing the parts and figuring out how to fix it yourself. This fact alone virtually guaranteed technological tyranny, which was perpetuated not by the technology itself but by the ignorance of everyone who used it daily and yet failed to understand it. To refuse to inform yourself about the basic operation and maintenance of the equipment you depended on was to passively accept that tyranny and agree to its terms: when your equipment works, you'll work, but when your equipment breaks down you'll break down, too. Your possessions would possess you.

- Edward Snowden, Permanent Record