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Felipe Alfonso González<p>📡 Broadcasting from the decentralized frontier…<br>Find me on Nostr:<br>npub103p4pdyuerlaxl5xd966wgtc5vtnfr9mphjf5epf4uul5005z3lqs252n2</p><p>No algorithms. No gatekeepers. Just pure signal.<br>Let’s connect through the relays.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nostr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nostr</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Web3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Web3</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Decentralized" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Decentralized</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/npub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>npub</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EncryptedSocial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EncryptedSocial</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreedomTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreedomTech</span></a></p>
Linux G. Fossman<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://programming.dev/u/drew_belloc" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>drew_belloc</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://lemm.ee/u/noodlejetski" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>noodlejetski</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://programming.dev/u/drew_belloc" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>drew_belloc</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://lemm.ee/u/noodlejetski" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>noodlejetski</span></a></span> I don't have a dock either. I do have a favourites row though, and currently these are the pinned apps (arranged in no particular order):</p><p>1. Calls by <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/GNOME" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GNOME</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Purism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Purism</span></a><br>2. Chats (<a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Chatty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chatty</span></a>) by Purism &amp; GNOME - supports <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/SMS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SMS</span></a>, <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Matrix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Matrix</span></a>, <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/XMPP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>XMPP</span></a><br>3. Contacts by GNOME <br>4. <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a> web browser by <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Mozilla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mozilla</span></a><br>5. <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/SignalMessenger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SignalMessenger</span></a><br>6. GNOME Settings<br>7. <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Phosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Phosh</span></a> Mobile Settings<br>8. Tweaks by <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/postmarketOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>postmarketOS</span></a><br>9. <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Tuba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tuba</span></a> (client for <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> / <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fediverse</span></a>)<br>10. <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Kasts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kasts</span></a> by <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/KDE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KDE</span></a><br>11. <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/DeltaChat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeltaChat</span></a> (<a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/openstandards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>openstandards</span></a>-based, <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/securityaudited" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>securityaudited</span></a>, fast <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/e2ee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>e2ee</span></a> chats over bloody <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/email" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>email</span></a>!)<br>12. Files / <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Nautilus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nautilus</span></a> by GNOME</p><p>All <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSoftware</span></a> /Libre, <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS</span></a> / <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/FLOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FLOSS</span></a> : )</p><p>Note: The home screen and the app drawer / search / overview is all one and the same.</p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/FreedomTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreedomTech</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/LibreTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LibreTech</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Librem5" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Librem5</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/LibertyPhone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LibertyPhone</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/LinuxMobile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LinuxMobile</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/MobileLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MobileLinux</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/LinuxPhones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LinuxPhones</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/gnuLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gnuLinux</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/softwarefreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>softwarefreedom</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/BreakTheDuopoly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BreakTheDuopoly</span></a></p>
Julian Foad<p>Open tech, be afraid. Be very afraid. Microsoft owns both Visual Studio Code “VSCode” and MS-GitHub, two intertwined and <strong>utterly proprietary</strong> product-service ecosystems with a bit of open-source in their core to lure us in. Because they love open source? Yeah, no.</p><p>Soon after leaving GitPod whose technology links the two, Geoffrey Hunt last year explained their strategy and what it’s doing to our open tech world, in a great and “harrowing” article, “Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture” <a href="https://ghuntley.com/fracture/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://ghuntley.com/fracture/</a> </p><blockquote><p>“The future of software development tooling that is being built is closed as ****, and people seem to be okay with it…”</p></blockquote><p>This is why MS-GitHub is not our friend.</p><p>This is why falling for their trick, disguising MS-VSCode as a neat “free” editor, will come back and haunt and hurt us.</p><p>Vendor lock-in double-whammy. Using open source as “a financial weapon”.</p><blockquote><p>“… the biggest challenge for Gitpod, GitLab, Datacoves, OpenBB, Foam, et al lies ahead - developing open language tooling for each community where Microsoft has forked the communities over to proprietary language servers…”</p></blockquote><p>If we have a grain of public spirit, if we are motivated at all by the Freedom that’s supposed to be afforded by Free-Libre Open-Source Software, we must <a class="hashtag" href="https://fed.foad.me.uk/tag/giveupgithub" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GiveUpGithub</a>, we must recognise the trap, we must choose truly open <a class="hashtag" href="https://fed.foad.me.uk/tag/freedomtech" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FreedomTech</a>.</p><ul><li><em>See also my <a href="https://wrily.foad.me.uk/foss-apps-live-in-foss-forges" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">FOSS Apps Live in FOSS Forges</a> .</em></li></ul>