Jon Leibowitz @jon@jonleibowitz.social

If you want to run your own #Mastodon instance but don't want to do techie stuff, you can get fully managed hosting from Masto.Host:

https://masto.host

They're also on Mastodon at:

@mastohost

You control your instance, they do the behind-the-scenes technical maintenance.

#MastoTips

#Mastodon 2.7 is released 🎉

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/01/mastodon-2.7/

Want to use a link shortener on #Mastodon?

Don't! All links in Mastodon posts count for 23 characters, no matter how long they really are.

(via @jond )

#MastoTips

The year is 2019 and I can’t buy a good majority of consumer technology because we lack privacy legislation and consumer protections. Example: it’s absurd that my TV came with spyware that can’t be turned off or avoided; I had to stop it from phoning home at the network level. It also came with an arbitration clause and a clause waiving the right to a class action lawsuit.

Hey folks, does anyone have any good resources on how the serverless teams at AWS, Microsoft, Google, et. al. operate their platforms? I.E. signals used for disambiguating function health from platform health, what is a pageable moment, managing platform upgrades, etc.

I work at an office on Wilshire in #DTLA, all our neighbors have Spectrum but @GetSpectrum@twitter.com wants $34k to pull coax into our building?!? @MayorOfLA@twitter.com the cable monopoly in #LosAngeles is another area you haven't shown leadership on.

The word of the hour is: Freeve

"Debian is back in the Mastodon/GNU Social fediverse, follow fosstodon.org/@debian" by Laura Arjona Reina https://larjona.wordpress.com/2018/12/21/debian-is-back-in-the-mastodon-gnu-social-fediverse-follow-fosstodon-org-debian/

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Did you know that you might have access to Lynda.com through your local #library?!

https://www.lynda.com/portal/sip

That's access to free courses and all kinds of stuff from #Programing to #DevOps, #3DPRinting to #eBook #Publishing! Blogging, advertising, and all sorts of content!

We're using this to train new employees where I work and I can vouch for the quality of most of the content. Check with your local library and learn something 😃

"A small Massachusetts town has rejected an offer from Comcast and instead plans to build a municipal fiber broadband network."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/12/comcast-rejected-by-small-town-residents-vote-for-municipal-fiber-instead/

Own your networks. #Network #infrastructure should always be publicly owned.

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