Neil @neil@glasgow.social

Join us online this December 1st at 7PM GMT for the Edinburgh Linux User Group meeting.

December's meeting will be a quiz centred around all things open source!

https://opentechcalendar.co.uk/event/10881-december-quiz-night

“Your tier is not your destiny – every area has the means of escape” UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson says “the allocation of tiers will be reviewed every 14 days, starting on the 16th December”

...has there ever been a more dystopian YA Novel sentence spoken?

Federation is now enabled for https://lemmy.ml !

https://lemmy.ml/post/42833

#activitypub #reddit #lemmy

New meetup event added:
Among Us - Let's Play! Multiplay video game night at Online event
https://www.meetup.com/The-Glasgow-Geeks/events/274780143/
Thu 26th Nov 2020 7:00pm
#geeksocial

Are we ready

We successfully tested Direct Messages between Pixelfed and Mastodon!

The Direct Messages feature will be shipping later today! 🎉

#pixelfed #direct

Hello Mastodon World! Here we are once again. After starting this mastodon node around 4 months ago, I tried inviting all my fb friends to come make accounts over here, thinking... "Who wouldn't want a more free and open social network?" How mistaken I was. A tiny few came to say hi (thank you, the few who showed support), but most of my "real friends" still can only be contacted via fb. 😩

did the EFF just quote Tolkein while smacking down the RIAA over youtube-dl?

lol, yes they did

https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/11/2020-11-16-RIAA-reversal-effletter.pdf

If you're still undecided which console to go with this generation, people have figured out that they can float ping-pong balls on the Series X vent... so I think we have a clear winner.

How to get root on Ubuntu 20.04 by pretending nobody’s /home
https://securitylab.github.com/research/Ubuntu-gdm3-accountsservice-LPE

(submitted by generalizations)

Tomorrow:
6:00pm Lean Agile Glasgow: Emily Webber - Networks, Serendipity and the Flow of Ideas
https://www.meetup.com/Lean-Agile-Glasgow/events/ncmqtrybcpbpb/

You thought their Xmas movies were cheesy? Well the brilliant Jenny Nicholson discovers their now dormant Hallmark DIY Crafting channel on Youtube, and gives us the review only she can give.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHbtaWr6lj8

For Microsoft Windows users who want to try out Gemini you can get a browser here:
https://www.marmaladefoo.com/pages/geminaut

Gemini is a new alternative to the web so 'geminaut' is like Chrome or Firefox or the Edge browser except for geminispace.

Gemini is much simpler than the web and is mostly text with links to other stuff that can then be downloaded.
Think: no cookies, no GoogleApis no sign in here to Facebook etc. It is perfect for personal pages and blogs, a bit like the Web in the early 1990s.

#Windows #Gemini

Remember the Microsoft Children's book for the stay-at-home server?

This fits the times, and they are more free and cheaper than ever!

Decentralise your data


https://www.betaarchive.com/wiki/images/6/67/Mommy%2C_Why_is_There_a_Server_in_the_House.pdf

Abstruse Goose
https://abstrusegoose.com/

Events on today:
6:00pm Devops Glasgow: Farming in the Cloud
https://www.meetup.com/DevOpsGlasgow/events/273931492/
7:30pm Lean Agile Glasgow: Evening Lean Coffee for 1 Night Only!
https://www.meetup.com/Lean-Agile-Glasgow/events/zqgqxrybcnblc/