bertol @bertol@mastodon.eus

¿Habéis visto la serie de vídeos cortos #Dopamine en #Arte?
https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/RC-017841/dopamine/
Creo que merecen la pena, y muestran cómo funcionamos en las redes digitales, o cómo hacen que funcionemos.
Necesitamos "pitiklings", "Likes" y "retoots" o nos aburrimos. Espero que el #Fediverso siga como hasta ahora y no caigamos en la tentación....
Puede que te interese @CorioPsicologia ;)

So I was recently asked why I prefer to use free and open source software over more conventional and popular proprietary software and services.

A few years ago I was an avid Google user. I was deeply embedded in the Google ecosystem and used their products everywhere. I used Gmail for email, Google Calendar and Contacts for PIM, YouTube for entertainment, Google Newsstand for news, Android for mobile, and Chrome as my web browser.

I would upload all of my family photos to Google Photos and all of my personal documents to Google Drive (which were all in Google Docs format). I used Google Domains to register my domain names for websites where I would keep track of my users using Google Analytics and monetize them using Google AdSense.

I used Google Hangouts (one of Google’s previous messaging plays) to communicate with friends and family and Google Wallet (with debit card) to buy things online and in-store.

My home is covered with Google Homes (1 in my office, 1 in my bedroom, 1 in the main living area) which I would use to play music on my Google Play Music subscription and podcasts from Google Podcasts.

I have easily invested thousands of dollars into my Google account to buy movies, TV shows, apps, and Google hardware devices. This was truly the Google life.

Then one day, I received an email from Google that changed everything.

“Your account has been suspended”

Just the thing you want to wake up to in the morning. An email from Google saying that your account has been suspended due to a perceived Terms of Use violation. No prior warning. No appeals process. No number to call. Trying to sign in to your Google account yields an error and all of your connected devices are signed out. All of your Google data, your photos, emails, contacts, calendars, purchased movies and TV shows. All gone.

I nearly had a heart attack, until I saw that the Google account that had been suspended was in fact not my main personal Google account, but a throwaway Gmail account that I created years prior for a project. I hadn’t touched the other account since creation and forgot it existed. Apparently my personal Gmail was listed as the recovery address for the throwaway account and that’s why I received the termination email.

Although I was able to breathe a sigh of relief this time, the email was wake up call. I was forced to critically reevaluate my dependence on a single company for all the tech products and services in my life.

I found myself to be a frog in a heating pot of water and I made the decision that I was going to jump out.

Leaving Google

Today there are plenty of lists on the internet providing alternatives to Google services such as this and this. Although the “DeGoogle” movement was still in its infancy when I was making the move.

The first Google service I decided to drop was Gmail, the heart of my online identity. I migrated to Fastmail with my own domain in case I needed to move again (hint: glad I did, now I self host my email). Fastmail also provided calendar and contacts solutions so that took care of leaving Google Calendar and Contacts.

Here are some other alternatives that I moved to:

Gmail → Fastmail → Self-hosted (via Cloudron)
Google Contacts → Fastmail → Nextcloud Contacts
Google Calendar → Fastmail → Nextcloud Calendar
Google Search → Bing → DuckDuckGo
Google Maps → Bing Maps → OpenStreetMaps and OsmAnd
Google Analytics → Matomo Analytics
Google Drive → Nextcloud Files
Google Photos → Nextcloud Files/Gallery
Google Docs → Collabora Office (Nextcloud integration) and LibreOffice
Google Play Music → Spotify / Plex → Spotify / Jellyfin
Google Play Movies/TV → Plex → Jellyfin
Google Play Audiobooks/Books → Audible/Kindle
Google Play Store (apps) → F-Droid / Aurora Store
Google Android → Lineage OS → Ubuntu Touch on PinePhone (coming soon?)
Google’s Android Apps → Simple Mobile Tools
Google Chrome → Mozilla Firefox
Google Domains → Hover
Google Hangouts → Matrix and Nextcloud Talk
Google Allo → Signal
Google Podcasts → PocketCasts → AntennaPod
Google Newsstand → RSS
Google Wallet → PayPal and Cash App
Google Voice →Ting Mobile

Migrating away from Google was not a fast or easy process. It took years to get where I am now and there are still several Google services that I depend on: YouTube and Google Home.

Eventually, my Google Home’s will grow old and become unsupported at which point hopefully the Mycroft devices have matured and become available for purchase. YouTube may never be replaced (although I do hope for projects like PeerTube to succeed) but I find the compromise of using only one or two Google services to be acceptable.

At this point losing my Google account due to a mistake in their machine learning would largely be inconsequential and my focus has shifted to leaving Amazon which I use for most of my shopping and cloud services.

The reason that I moved to mostly FOSS applications is that it seems to be the only software ecosystem where everything works seamlessly together and I don’t have to cede control to any single company. Alternatively I could have simply split my service usage up evenly across Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple but I don’t feel that they would have worked as nicely together.

Overall I’m very happy with the open source ecosystem. I use Ubuntu with KDE on all of my computers and Android (no GApps) on my mobile phone. I’ve ordered the PinePhone “Brave Heart” and hope to one day be able to use it or one of its successors as a daily driver with Ubuntu Touch or Plasma Mobile.

I don’t want to give the impression that I exclusively use open source software either, I do use a number of proprietary apps including: Sublime Text, Typora, and Cloudron.

https://www.kylepiira.com/2020/01/09/why-i-quit-google/

Web honetan https://folk.uib.no/nmioa/kalender/ Ole Arntzen.ek danon eskura jartzen ditu urteko egutegi ez-ohikoak egiteko aukera. Baita #euskaraz ere!! Nirea bidean dator... Milesker @MartaMachoS, zuk idatzitakoa ikusi dudala!

#URGENTE || #FreeAssange

"Estoy muriendo lentamente aquí": Assange logra hablar con un amigo desde la prisión Belmarsh en medio de preocupaciones sobre su salud

"Nos contó a mi esposa y a mí cómo estaba muriendo lentamente en Belmarsh donde, aunque solo en prisión preventiva, es mantenido en confinamiento solitario durante 23 horas al día y es a menudo sedado" #mastoart 🐘

¡VAMOS A HACERLO VIRAL!
@chalecosamarillos

Para quienes piensen en abrir un nodo deje unas breves notas aquí: https://notas.56k.es/SERVICES/MASTODON-Instalaci%C3%B3n_sobre_Debian_10_sin_docker.pdf

No obstante antes de abrir un nodo es interesante pensar para que y como se va a soportar con el tiempo. Hacer un plan de si es viable a años vista mantenerlo tanto económicamente como con tiempo.

Mi recomendación es que si se quiere probar se cierre el registro primero. Un nodo monousuario para probar. Luego con el tiempo se abre a registro. Y backups. y medir si crece si se puede soportar.

Para entender la diversidad de este universo #fediverso #fediverse esta web viene bien https://fediverse.party/

Aunque no salen todas las redes que lo forman si salen las más importantes creo. Por ejemplo #mastodon habla con muchas otras instancias que usan otra tecnología diferente: https://fediverse.party/en/mastodon/

Lo que viene siendo que hablan el mismo lenguaje, usan el mismo protocolo: activitypub .

Existen otros protocolos pero la idea es ir al standard con el tiempo.

I am looking for someone willing to work in the open on one or more publications on #wikiversity journal, and help with the structure and the writing.

The subject will be the Generic Tuple Store and its implementation #nomunofu. Future work include the Versioned Generic Tuple Store.

#wikidata #wikipedia #rdf #sparql

Boost welcome.

Ezin hobeto azaldu du Mikel Artetxek eskoletan multinazional handien eskutik ematen ari den burugabeko teknologizazioa.

https://www.sarean.eus/teknologia-berriak-hezkuntzan/

Hello, I’m the reel2bits project developper, a #FOSS self-hostable #soundcloud like with #ActivityPub federation.

It’s written in python/flask/vuejs and I need help because of health issues I’m unable to work a lot on it anymore, if you are interested to help me on some of the issues and more specially the ActivityPub part, you can contact me through:

the project matrix channel
the issue tracker
this account

boosts appreciated, thanks.

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