jkuester @jkuester@social.kuester7.com

Open Source should not be restricted to a walled garden. When you appraise your app as being "open source", always consider making it available openly as well – and not just "available at Google Play".

Good options include of course #FDroid or, should your app not fully comply there, the #IzzySoftRepo – but the least you can do is tagging your releases and attach a signed release APK 😉

Oh, and of course make sure to declare a #foss license for it 😄

#Android #OpenSource #apps

GCompris releases version 3.0 of the collection of educational activities for children. The new release includes 182 activities with 8 new ones on how to use a mouse, understand fractions, compare numbers and the concept of 10's complement.

https://gcompris.net/news/2023-01-18-en.html

GCompris' activities come fully translated into 24 languages, and partially translated to another 12. Translations include text and friendly voices.

GCompris is available for free on Windows, Linux, macOS, Android and Raspberry Pi.

#UnifiedPush using #xmpp #Conversations

Now #fluffychat (#matrix) gets notifications instantly (using conversations.im server)

Just set what XMPP account (in any server) will get notified and share it in your device

https://unifiedpush.org/users/distributors/conversations/

Free/Open source FTW!!

APPS with UP service: https://unifiedpush.org/users/apps/

(you can set what server will manage the service, eventually: your own)

That's just 10 per year on average... #curl

Man, with 293 @pop_os_official has a big lead in our Best Distro, way ahead of second place Fedora with 125 votes. Third place @ubuntu is almost out of the running with 82 votes. Distros need to get their users voting. I'm talking to you @linuxmint , @debian , @manjarolinux , @MXLinux , @opensuse , @elementary , and @EndeavourOS . Boost this toot to get the word out, and vote here: https://fossforce.com/2023/01/its-time-to-vote-in-the-best-linux-distro-polls-final-round/

me: *screaming into the abyss"

the abyss: this could have been an email

We just released #CouchDB 3.3.1, fixing a rather major issue from CouchDB 3.3.0. We recommend everyone on 3.3.0 to upgrade quickly: https://blog.couchdb.org/2023/01/11/3-3-1/

Know what I miss?

Hard disk activity lights. "Is the machine locked up? Is it just busy? Ah, the light's blinking, it's busy."

#old #retrocomputing #getoffmylawn

Brandolini's Law is terribly frustrating. 😖

First day back at work in the new year? Don't forget to update your passwords from ending in 22 to 23

“You can find us anywhere you get your podcasts.”

I *adore* this phrase, because it has been like two whole-ass decades and not one single venture capital darling has managed to unseat plain RSS as the distribution method for podcasts. Not one. (And they have really tried!)

Podcasts are just out there, like air. You don’t go to one place to get them; you get them from everywhere and anywhere. You can choose how you want to engage with them and manage them and it is legitimately heartwarming that nothing has ever gotten in the way of that being a fundamental fact.

This is the best of what the web is. It will never have a stock ticker or even a marketing scheme. Most people don’t even know it is there. But it endures (past the many, many attempts by squillionaire corporates to kill it) because of its absolute unshakable utility.

My suggestion: any time you hear “anywhere you get your podcasts”, send a little thanks to RSS for keeping the real web alive.

#RSS #Podcasts #ProtocolsNotProducts

#Twitter suspends #Mastodon account, prevents sharing links: Our statement

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2022/12/twitter-suspends-mastodon-account-prevents-sharing-links/

I’m happy to announce the immediate availability of PouchDB 8.0.0 — This is mainly a source-code rejuvenation release in where we are *finally* starting the ES6 transition.

But there are also a few nice new features and bugfixes along the way, including an activeTasks() API and *drumroll* purge() for the indexeddb adapter.

https://pouchdb.com/2022/12/14/pouchdb-8.0.0.html

Oh yes, @fastmail joined Mastodon!

@fastmail you need to verify your account.

Until you do, for my own followers I can say with confidence this is them because I am a customer and this was in their official 2022 end of year newsletter. 😉

My biggest influencers are my parents, and they barely have any followers. So I am quite sure fedi is able to properly scale for social relations just fine

Welcome to the fediverse…

Corporations
People

#TwitterMigration #fediverse #corporations #people

We did a thing...because, why not? 😜

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"Roses are red, violets are blue . . ."

submitted by DwijBavisi
https://reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/yyj4dg/roses_are_red_violets_are_blue/

You’re not the product anymore. You’re a community member in your host’s ad-free server they pay for. There’s no venture capitalist payday coming for them. Everything you do here costs your host a little bit of money. Find out how you can chip in.

Oh man... just found that the "MASTO 95" theme is the correct way to use this site.