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Jack Henschel | @jack@social.secclo.community

Hi, I'm Jack!
Cycling and cloud computing enthusiast currently located in Geneva, Switzerland.
Working as an OpenShift administrator at CERN.

Framasoft currently hosts more than 1,200 Nextcloud instances, for associations, activist groups, unions, etc.

But getting to grips with Nextcloud without support can be... complicated!

Framasoft is doing its bit (no pun intended) with publishing "Intros", a Nextcloud App for integrating tutorials into the Nextcloud interface.

Interview with Val, Framasoft intern, here https://framablog.org/2024/07/31/intros-a-nextcloud-app-to-help-you-get-to-grips-with-framaspace/

(ping @nextclouders@gnusocial.de @nextcloud )

My new blog post is now up!

You can contribute to KDE with non-C++ code

I always see:

  • people being told they can contribute to KDE with C++/QML
  • people being told they can contribute to KDE without code

But I don't often see:

  • people being told that they can contribute to KDE with code that is not C++

I like C++, QML, and even CMake, but you might not be interested in them or you might just not be willing to spend time learning another language, and that's perfectly fine.

In this blog post I list a few KDE projects that you might not know about that might be written in your preferred language or in a specialized format you have expertise or interest in.

By far, the most popular programming language actively used in KDE other than the expected languages is Python.

We also have stuff that would interest sysadmins (containers), packagers (snap/flatpak) and web developers.

https://rabbitictranslator.com/contribute-to-kde-without-cpp/

PSA: delete your old Photobucket account now! Don’t put it off.

You know those emails you’ve been getting for a year from Photobucket threatening to delete your old account and you were like lol who cares and ignored them?

Turns out they didn’t delete them anyway, they repurposed the business as a broker of biometric data to AI companies and they’re using your old pictures for that. You have to actually go in and delete your account to opt out, and you only have until Monday, July 22 to do it.

New Biometric Information Policy includes: 

Information about the rights you grant us, including the right to the extent permitted by the laws of your region, to license or sell your Public User Uploaded Content to third parties for the scanning and processing of your Public User Uploaded Content, including extracting physical features, e.g. measurements, of your Biometric Information, solely for the purpose of artificial intelligence and machine learning training and the subsequent uses derived therefrom. • How to opt-out if you do not want Photobucket to se.., lease, trade, or use your Public User Uploaded Content for profit. There is an initial opt-out period that exists for forty-five (45) days from the Effective Date listed above ("Initial Opt-Out Period") that will be prior to any license or sale taking effect. Please note that if you opt-out, Photobucket will delete your Account and all of your User Uploaded Content. If you decide to opt-out, please download and save any of your User Uploaded Content that you wish to keep and store. After the end of the Initial Opt-Out Period, you will still have the option to opt-out from granting Photobucket the right to sell, lease, trade or otherwise profit from the disclosure of your Biometric Information contained in your Public User Uploaded Content prospectively.

PokemonGo for OSM - StreetComplete
https://streetcomplete.app/

Once a year, in my mum's small town in Somerset (in the South West of England) they hold a graffiti/street art festival. I'm visiting for the weekend, and this is a new one I've not seen!



The side of a 2 storey building painted in a huge Nintendo graffiti mural

Impressions from Simplonpass, Switzerland

#switzerland

Question for my fellow #gophers :
Are you using JSON5 with #go? if yes, which package are you using for encoding/decoding?

#golang #json

@marga Discourse is pretty popular, they also have a hosted option: https://www.discourse.org/pricing

TIL about bdtu: is a sampling disk usage profiler for btrfs. It works by randomly looking at data points on disk and figuring out to which file the data belongs. By repeating this over and over again, it gradually builds an accurate representation of disk usage (like du or ncdu).

Pretty neat!

https://github.com/CyberShadow/btdu

It is as if sleep is a pool from which emerging is more difficult than entering

Call for Speakers is extended to July 21! 🎉

Have a great idea or project to share? Submit your proposal for a lightning talk or workshop and join us in shaping the future of Nextcloud!

We also offer travel support!

https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-conference-2024-call-for-speakers/

@elmiko Nice! Where is that?

That moment when you are asked to install a firmware update for a bike derailleur :O

Interested in joining the Nextcloud team?

If you love our vision of a more private, data sovereign digital world, sharing open source principles and growing quickly along with our amazing worldwide community, we'd love to hear from you! 🦾

We have many open positions, from Marketing Director, Key Account Managers USA, multiple developer positions, and many more!

Come make a difference by joining one of the best tech teams in the industry. 🚀

https://nextcloud.com/jobs/

What's the reason that every airport needs to have their own, custom busses for shutteling passengers around?

@markmaster

- Linode was $24 a month for 2 shared CPU / 4GB Ram and 80GB SSD (non NVME)

- Hetzner is 13EUR for 4 non-shared CPU / 8GB Ram and 160GB NVME SSD.

Literally half the price. I will be more than happy to recommend Hetzner to anyone having jumped in this weekend. The web terminal is fantastic as well - much nicer than the Glish one of Linodes.

systemd-tmpfiles, deleting /home

That moment when you are preselecting conference talks and all of a sudden you have 18 talks selected for the first day!
@devconf_cz

#DevConf_CZ #definefuture #opensource

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