Notices by Tobias (tobias)
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Tobias (tobias)'s status on Wednesday, 18-May-2022 15:49:02 UTC 
Tobias
Happy 14th Birthday dear #fediverse
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Tobias (tobias)'s status on Sunday, 28-Nov-2021 15:16:03 UTC
Tobias
I've never really thought about, where and when humans had begun using glass... This is a fascinating read about the origins of glass and the art it was used for.
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Tobias (tobias)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jul-2021 06:54:14 UTC
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It is documented at the beginning of the installation documentation in the prerequirement "(a) choose a domain (b) setup HTTPS for the domain". OTOH nobody ever reads documentations. -
Tobias (tobias)'s status on Tuesday, 18-May-2021 06:07:44 UTC
Tobias
Happy B-Day dear #Fediverse ! A teenager, how time flies :D web.archive.org/web/2013061511… -
Tobias (tobias)'s status on Sunday, 27-Sep-2020 12:07:55 UTC
Tobias
♲ @frederic@pouet.couchet.org: "Starting this Thanksgiving I am going to write a complete Unix-compatible software system called GNU (for Gnu's Not Unix), and give it away free to everyone who can use it." September 27, 1983 - Richard Stallman. www.gnu.org/gnu/initial-announ…
Happy birthday to GNU \0/ -
hoergen on Friendica (hoergen)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Aug-2020 13:46:15 UTC 
hoergen on Friendica
Happy 29th Birthday, Linux!
It’s August 25th were I sit so grab a bottle of champagne or bake a cake because it is time to celebrate Linux, which now turns 29 years old since Linus Torvalds announced it to the world. Happy 29th birthday, Linux!
9to5linux.com/happy-29th-birth…
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Tobias (tobias)'s status on Monday, 27-Jul-2020 04:51:27 UTC
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♲ @Wenting@fosstodon.org: Hey guys, what's up
I am conducting an anonymous survey for my MSc dissertation on the barriers to uptake of alternative social media platforms. If you're interested, please click the link below. Your input would be much appreciated!
The link is:
standrews.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe…
#fediverse #pleroma #gnusocial #diaspora #friendica #peertube
#alternative #socialhome
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Tobias (tobias)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jul-2020 12:39:52 UTC
Tobias
I've joined the Fediverse August 2008 as @Tobias Diekershoff, after a report in one of Germans IT-News portals. I never was on Twitter before, but had a, more or less dormant, Facebook account. Microblogging was fun, in contrast to organizing study groups at FB ;-) and when Laconica (the software that ran identi.ca back then) got a first release to host your own instance, I set mine up and became one of those early pioneers stepping into the void starting to form the bubble that today is called the Fediverse.
And maybe I should some grayish strands into my profile picture ;-)
Time for a campfire story // Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash
And while Microblogging was fun, for me one thing missing were private postings. Postings I only shared with friends, or with the people from my study group or with family members. So when diaspora* got a first alpha version released I got really excited about the self-hosted alternative to FB. So, I tried to set-up diaspora* on my server at home and failed after two weekends struggling with the requirements and the stable version of Debian :-)
So I looked for an alternative to the alternative and found Mistpark. A small one-man project to build a social media platform with Facebook like features. And one big plus point, it was written in PHP, same as Laconica/StatusNet, and was installed within minutes on the Debian box. I don't know exactly when that was, but it should be around December of 2010.
The last ten years went by in the blink of an eye. Friendica was the 1st multi protocol project in the Fedivers & Federation, speaking with IMAP, RSS feeds and both the OStatus and the diaspora* world. (And picked up ActivityPub along the way at some point.) It got my central spot of personal communication streams.
I've met many great people, we got friends and mourned together when some of us passed away. We had our ypots collected and drank our cup of coffee together in the morning. We celebrated birthdays and child birth. We saw monoliths struggle and fall. Islands in the void growing. Slowly but steadily that what got the Fediverse of today was formed. A diverse bunch of projects with a diverse group of communities connected through space and time. Slowly at first but every now and then a wave of newcomers was washed ashore the banks of the Fediverse and Federation.
Today we can celebrate another birthday. Ten long years ago, @Mike Macgirvin did the initial commit to ~friendica . Thank you Mike cheers! I wish I could share a home-brew with you. Have a great party today--all of you, being new or old to the Fediverse. Keep your physical distance as appropriate but get more closer socially :-) -
Tobias (tobias)'s status on Monday, 18-May-2020 06:56:15 UTC
Tobias
Happy Birthday dear Fediverse! Have a great party dear Fedizens :D ♲ @lightone@iliketoast.net:
Happy 12th Birthday, #Fediverse ?
It's great that you don't put all your eggs in one basket ;) Stay cool.
https://fediverse.party/en/post/fediverse-12-years-in-2020
full-sized image https://gitlab.com/distributopia/sticker-bay/-/tree/master/promo-1
✔️ idea to not let this day pass unnoticed - by https://pleroma.libretux.com/u/@titi
#Fediverse12 #HappyFedi2U #art #eggs -
Tobias (tobias)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Mar-2020 10:51:11 UTC
Tobias
♲ @libreoffice@fosstodon.org: Today is Document Freedom Day! Discover why open document formats – as used by LibreOffice – are essential for long-term data storage. Avoid getting locked out of your own work: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…
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Tobias (tobias)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2020 07:47:08 UTC
Tobias
Good morning 2020-02-02 / 02.02.2020 may you be a wonderful day for everyone. -
Tobias (tobias)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2019 18:34:09 UTC
Tobias
There is now a peertube location for the video
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Tobias (tobias)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2019 07:10:37 UTC
Tobias
@Aral Balkan has given some explaining speech for the EU parliamentarians about Mastodon, the Fediverse and surveillance capitalism as part of a panel about The future internet regulation organized by the Greens group in parliament. Thanks Aral!
From around 1:14 to 1:52 in the recording. I had no time to listen/watch the rest of the panel ;-)
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Tobias (tobias)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2019 17:31:00 UTC
Tobias
12h CET should be 6h EST IIRC @Nobody [Linux Walt Alt (@lnxw37a2)] -
Tobias (tobias)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2019 08:09:02 UTC
Tobias
Happy Birthday dear #Fediverse sorry to be a day late ;-) but we celebrated yesterday https://l-p-d.org/. Almost grown up now with 11 ? wayback.archive.org/web/201306… -
Tobias (tobias)'s status on Sunday, 08-Apr-2018 09:26:49 UTC
Tobias
Thanks to all the busy translators of ~friendica UI strings over at https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/friendica/. These days especially to Waldemar and Kris for their work on the Polish and Finnish translations <3
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Tobias (tobias)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2018 06:10:22 UTC
Tobias
you can find the dfrn2 spec in the repo https://github.com/friendica/friendica/tree/develop/spec and on any node -
Tobias (tobias)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2018 17:08:36 UTC
Tobias
Rest in peace Tony!/tazman Thanks for all the fun and conversations over the last years in the various places of your avatar over the instances in the Fediverse/Federation. My condolences to his daughter and his girlfriend!
(ref https://sparklechicken.net/channel/red/?f=&mid=b3db271b77d980b4a68be92a17852cdb4c59c47ab59acef1b6bf328cad994fc8@sparklechicken.net&zid=tobias%40hubzilla.a-zwenkau.de and his https://tonybaldwin.tumblr.com/ with some of his photography) https://vimeo.com/26968359 -
Tobias (tobias)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2017 09:07:15 UTC
Tobias
Biggest difference to C3s so far is the brightness in the halls. If you are hat #34c3 drop by at the FSFE booth CCL 1st floor in the "Rights & Freedom" cluster - we have GNU social stickers and more :-D -
Tobias (tobias)'s status on Thursday, 21-Dec-2017 06:45:33 UTC
Tobias
Social Networking, powered by FreeSoftware
Most people think about the big American data silos when talking about social networking. But there is a world outside these silos, where FreeSoftware empowers the networking of people and organisations.
In this talk I would like to show you a glimpse of this world, what advantages it offers and how it can be used to reach even those entangled in the siloes.
It is a one hour slot, that will most likely not be filled completely with the talk. Afterwards should be time and space in the hall for a get together of the decentralized federal social network users.
See also the Congress wiki entry
#34c3 #FSFEStarts:
Wednesday December 27, 2017 @ 8:00 PM
Finishes:
Wednesday December 27, 2017 @ 9:00 PM
Location:
[url=https://events.ccc.de/congress/2017/wiki/index.php/Main_Page]34c3[/url], Messe-Leipzig, [url=https://events.ccc.de/congress/2017/wiki/index.php/Cluster:Rights_%26_Freedoms]Rights & Freedom Cluster[/url]: [url=https://events.ccc.de/congress/2017/wiki/index.php/Assembly:Free_Software_Foundation_Europe]FSFE Assembly[/url] in [url=https://events.ccc.de/congress/2017/wiki/index.php/Room:Hall_3]Hall 3[/url]
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