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KayfabeApp<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@ff3" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ff3</span></a></span> Very exciting! <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/FOSSFTW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FOSSFTW</span></a>!</p>
sb arms & legs<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@iris_meredith" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>iris_meredith</span></a></span> <br>That's a doap tip!</p><p>I do the rest of my composing, and a lot of the first drafts in <a href="https://metroholografix.ca/tags/joplin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>joplin</span></a> and sometimes <a href="https://metroholografix.ca/tags/obsidian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>obsidian</span></a>. </p><p>The cool thing about <a href="https://metroholografix.ca/tags/hugo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hugo</span></a> is I can do all three interchangeably and there are even more options! <a href="https://metroholografix.ca/tags/FOSSFTW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FOSSFTW</span></a></p>
sfritz<p>Wenn <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> mal den Stecker ziehen würde, sind wir alle ausgeliefert. Warum? Weil zu viele meinen, die Microsoft-Cloud und Produkte seien ja so alternativlos.</p><p>Dabei gäbe es genug Alternativen. Die warten nur darauf, endlich eingesetzt werden.</p><p><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/UnplugTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UnplugTrump</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Stasi365" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Stasi365</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/FossFTW" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FossFTW</span></a></p>
Mark :terminal: :tux: :python:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mysk" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mysk</span></a></span> <br>That's interesting. Yet one more (unnecessary) reason for me to never buy one of these things.</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/fossftw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fossftw</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/SelfHostingftw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SelfHostingftw</span></a></p>
Nextcloud 📱☁️💻<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@larsmb" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>larsmb</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@richards" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>richards</span></a></span> Agree! We would love to see a Firefox Sync integration for Nextcloud. Anyone interested in working on one? We'd love to help support this effort..</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/FOSSFTW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FOSSFTW</span></a></p>
Ruth Mottram<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.acc.umu.se/@pettter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>pettter</span></a></span> oh for sure! But I mainly don't see why I should train Google and openAI's models for free if there is an open one I can use... <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/FOSSFTW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FOSSFTW</span></a></p>
Brooklyn Bridge<p>I has been an year since I joined Fosstodon. I'm so glad that I found this amazing community. Thank you all for making this community so informative, fun and helping. <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/fossftw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fossftw</span></a></p>
stux⚡<p>If you like you can always indirectly support mstdn.social by tapping on a Google :ad:​ sometimes on <a href="https://pinbun.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">pinbun.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> for example :blobcatgiggle:​ :catblush:​ That way Google (or their advertisers) pay for the server bills <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FOSSFTW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FOSSFTW</span></a></p>
Terence Eden<p>Switching from LastPass to bitwarden.com for two reasons:<br>1) LP broke their FireFox extension and refuse to fix it.<br>2) BW is open source and works well with Linux.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fossftw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FOSSftw</span></a>!</p>