Notices by Adam Bishop (adambishop@floss.social)

After 14 hours without electricity in most of Spain, we are now back online in #Granada. Lots of panic here in the city. Some decided to make the most of it and party, some decided to prepare for the worst and look after their closest. Some worried about work and deadlines. Some played cards and admired the stars. Among other things, I helped an elderly neighbour break back into her apartment with an old London Transport Oyster card.

Lots of questions remain ...

#blackout #powerOutage #apagón

@killyourfm @frameworkcomputer With the Framework, you can carry one or more fully charged spare batteries and swap them in, in just a few minutes 😜

I'm happy that, not wanting to accept the monthly price hike from 7 to 10 Euros, or the annoying cursor adjacent Copilot prompt, my wife decided to finally join me and switch permanently to the latest version of LibreOffice (@libreoffice). One less customer for Microsoft, one more user for quality, free, libre and open source office software, without the annoying, planet-burning AI.

#FLOSS #LibreOffice

It's almost 5 o'clock on a Sunday, daughter tells us she needs to do a science experiment for homework, due tomorrow, and needs alcohol.

We got alcohol, but not that kind of alcohol... 🤦♂️

My niece is interested in joining the Fediverse ... Any smallish servers that might be of interest to her?

She likes things #psychic, #mediums, #tarot, #surfing, #acting, #theatre, #mermaids

Any suggestions?

#askFedi

A reminder to those who manage #websites (I needed it myself):

Remove the share to X/Twitter button from your sites, if you no longer want to be associated in any way to a social network run by a billionaire that thinks it ok to do a Nazi salute.

@JRepin I know WordPress has an ActivityPub plugin under active development, allowing posts to be posted to the Fediverse, the blog to be followed as an account on the Fediverse, and comments under Fediverse posts to be displayed as comments under the blog posts on the original blog page.

👀

"Your Bluesky Posts Are Probably In A Bunch of Datasets Now"

https://www.404media.co/bluesky-posts-machine-learning-ai-datasets-hugging-face/

I have a client, small business owner, who wants to send out a newsletter. What's the FOSS way of doing it? Without over-relying on third-party services if possible?

Anyone, any suggestions?

@ploum @pvheditions @ludomire Would love to translate into English 🙋♂️

@killyourfm Great track! 😀

My mum wants to join the #Fediverse - as she's fed up with adverts in other social media - and I have no idea what server would be best for her.

She's in her seventies, likes gardening, outdoors, cats and dogs, travel, books..

Any suggestions?

#askFedi #askMastodon

@dm @killyourfm My daughter and I still proudly wear our Linux for Everyone T-shirts 😄

Perusing the science news this morning, as I do, I came across an interesting article about scientists finding an effect of menthol on Alzheimer's disease. Anecdotally, my nan had a obsession for sucking on boiled mints, which only grew with her sad decline.

I remember worrying that maybe the mints were making her worse, but maybe it was her way of fighting back against the disease ...

https://www.sciencealert.com/unexpected-connection-between-menthol-and-alzheimers-discovered-in-mice

#science #sciComm #Alzheimer #mint

@killyourfm Don't you fear that websites will essentially become obsolete, existing merely as a forgotten backend to the black box of omni-knowledgeable AI?

@killyourfm Ha! 😄👏
... I just plugged one in.

Certainly not in spirit of open source is this from GitHub 🫤

"Microsoft is Locking Down Search for Public Code on GitHub"

https://news.itsfoss.com/microsoft-github-open-source-code/

#OpenSource

@killyourfm

Give people an easy to mute hashtag if they've had enough of it, like #KMFMusic, and let them know they can mute it?

Then they can always come back and check if they want.

I think it's normal to express your whole complex multifaceted personality. If you have a particular passion, it's normal to express that too.

If I had a profile for every one of my interests, I'd have a hundred profiles! 😅

@killyourfm Anxious 😅

@killyourfm @element Of course not all, but many big name Flatpaks are packaged and maintained (or sometimes not so maintained) by the community, and not directly packaged by the developer. I even tried to package a few apps myself, but made a few mistakes in my .yaml! I think it is wise in general to check directly on the developer's website, and first install the way they would suggest if possible.