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islamicaudiobooks

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Audiobook publisher and distributor.

Find our books on Google Play (DRM-free), Apple Books, Spotify and Audible as well as in public libraries, our website and our YouTube and Odysee channels.

We love and use #Linux and #OpenSource / #FreeSoftware for professional audio production!

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nixCraft, (edited ) to mastodon
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Poll: How do you access ? Please boost for reach. TIA.

islamicaudiobooks,
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@nixCraft Desktop app should also be an option.

itsfoss, to random
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Interested in a Firefox fork that claims to be faster?

https://news.itsfoss.com/floorp-firefox/

islamicaudiobooks,
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@itsfoss Still has Google as the default search engine. Might as well be based on Chromium.

itsfoss, (edited ) to linux
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Linux only!!! 🐧 ❤️

Would you ever go for Windows after trying Linux?

#linux

islamicaudiobooks,
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@itsfoss No, not voluntarily. Can't think of any reason except to:

  • save my life or someone else's
  • help out someone who isn't ready to migrate yet
    So definitely not for myself unless I absolutelt have to then in a VM.
binarydigit, to SmallWeb

Attempts Were Made

I feel like I’ve gone through another set of “try something new other than WordPress but came back to WordPress” yet again.

I discovered Hugo and I use it on my main website, which I call a “digital cafe” over at https://binarydigit.cafe.

https://binarydigit.coffee/hello-again-wordpress/After getting the hang of the static site generator, Hugo, I found an awesome them – Blowfish.page and absolutely love it. I want to still keep the concept of a “digital garden” on that site, so it serves more static informational pages. It’s the place where I want to call “home” and point folks to if they are looking for information about me or my interests. I want to build it up like a wiki and note taking site and keep it fun like all of my sites. I even added webmentions which was a feat on it’s own.

Still Missing Something

After I was done, sitting down and writing up a post seemed a bit of a chore. I had to be on my Mac (since I set git up with my dev tools there), and I have to deliberately create my post, fine a a feature image, resize it or create it etc. I became a bit lazy and then wrote the post “Not a Blogger“. I thought maybe I just didn’t want to blog, but I admitted to opening up a Tumblr account again and having fun with hand curating and blogging short form.

Trying out Other Platforms

I tried self hosting with flat files. I tried Ghost. I tried 11ty. I checked our various commenting systems. Nothing was as satisfying as a CMS with an “easy to type up and add photos admin interface”, that I can do on any computer I have and my phone or tablet. I was missing the ease of having a choice of a million plugins if I needed indie web integrations, ActivityPub, webmentions, and native comments. WordPress has them all, even if a site can be bloated if you aren’t careful.

So here I am, back on a clean install of WordPress, clean install of plugins, only the ones I need. It turns out there are a crap ton of them. But I’m very happy to be back for now. Until I discover the perfect SSG with CMS integration (and even willing to pay for it). Plus I have 2 more years of shared hosting so it’s the perfect time to use it.

Welcome to my personal blog of micro posts, and writing whatever the heck I like, and not using social media for it. My internet home is the cafe and this coffee site is for small sips of content.

You can follow this blog on the fediverse at @binarydigit@binarydigit.coffee ☕Thanks for reading!

https://binarydigit.coffee/hello-again-wordpress/

islamicaudiobooks,
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@binarydigit Have you tried ?

nano, to random
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holy shit mozilla has a new issue tracker documenting all of the ways that apple, google, and microsoft purposefully put third party browsers at a disadvantage and is calling for action https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2024/01/19/platform-tilt/

islamicaudiobooks,
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@nano They should create another issue tracker for adding all the ways has been putting at a disadvantage.

astian, to linux
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The first news about Astian and Midori is about productivity, alliance with Collabora, LibreOffice Online and Much more.

https://astian.org/midori-en/productivity-more-productivity-at-astian/

islamicaudiobooks,
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@astian Great... and the second news?

mitexleo, to random

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islamicaudiobooks,
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@mitexleo Assalaamu alaikum bro. What happened to buddyverse.xyz? I got the impression you were running it...

Btw, you have many profiles - is this your primary account?

nixCraft, to linux
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Nobody in my friends and family ever asks me what Linux distributions I use.😭

Arch btw

islamicaudiobooks,
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@nixCraft Have kids and install a different distro for each matching their personality ;)

islamicaudiobooks,
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@nixCraft ...but your are nixCraft, not archCraft

drakenblackknight, to random
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I know I promised to stop mentioning this hacky port of LineageOS, but the Android developer who keeps claiming he gets routinely swatted without any actual evidence to back his claims up actually makes a good point here.

But, as I'm prone to saying, even a broken military clock is right once a day.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/grapheneos-frequent-android-auto-reboots-block-firmware-exploits/

islamicaudiobooks,
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@drakenblackknight It's apparently available on other OSes as well. Is the difference that enables it by default?

islamicaudiobooks,
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@matchboxbananasynergy Thanks for the explanation. I hope enables it by default. I can confirm that at least one other OS includes it as a feature with the default set to 72 hours, I think...

Some of the news coverage gave me the impression that it was exclusive to GrapheneOS...

parzzix, to iPhone

I have an and I have a , the iPhone is the main, but I toy with going full time . Please share the reasons you use the platform you use and please boost.

islamicaudiobooks,
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@burntkrispe @parzzix Well if you're interested, I did it successfully this way:

  • Got a Pixel device & installed a OS that comes with @fdroidorg and @signalapp
  • Told everyone: "Sorry, my phone doesn't have Whatsapp or even Play store. Please contact me on Signal."
  • Sent Signal link
  • Many friends and family now communicate with me on Signal.

Also, I'm a teacher and I require my classes to be on Signal, or (no Zoom) so I have also onboarded many people that way.

islamicaudiobooks, (edited )
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@lucasmz @burntkrispe @parzzix @fdroidorg @signalapp Yes but would be true for other privacy OSes as well as long as you don't run the Google Play stuff.

The main thing is it's way easier to onboard others to apps once they realise is the only option you have. You don't have to tell them about microG, Aurora Store, sandboxed Google Play on GrapheneOS, especially if you're not using them anyway :)

calyxinstitute, to random
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This #MLKDay, check out CryptoHarlem's new video series, Hacktivism101! All videos available here: https://www.twitch.tv/cryptoharlem/videos

islamicaudiobooks,
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@drakenblackknight @calyxinstitute Works for me - just tried.

avoidthehack, to passkeys

When the banking app inevitably asks you for your opinion on what they can do better, reply “it’s 2024. Support TOTP, FIDO2, or , thanks.”

islamicaudiobooks,
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@avoidthehack Problem is they never ask. Most effective thing may be to demand that en masse using Google Play/Maps reviews and social media comments.

nixCraft, to firefox
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I have been using since 2004 and do not intend to stop anytime soon. You need to take it out of my dead hands. What about you?

islamicaudiobooks,
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@nixCraft Although I use @mozilla Firefox, I would argue that @brave out of the box has better privacy defaults and the scammy crypto features are not enabled by default.

I would love to be shown another cross platform browser (besides Tor) that has better privacy defaults than .

This is because we often need to recommend software to our normie friends who will be deterred from migratung if they are required to tweak settings, install addons, etc.

itsfoss, to random
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Searching for an alternative to the default file manager on your Linux system?

Then, look no further 👇

https://itsfoss.com/file-managers-linux/

islamicaudiobooks,
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@christophermontgomery and Yazi

nixCraft, to random
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Which laptop brand is your favourite? Why?

islamicaudiobooks,
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@nixCraft The ones I've never used, of course: @mntmn MNT Reform, @purism, @frameworkcomputer, @system76, @tuxedocomputers, @slimbook, @starlabs_computers, @PINE64 because...?

I guess ideology is more important to me than anything else.

I know probably only one or two of them are fully open...

farooqkz, to bch
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https://freelancers.googol.cash/en

This guy is building a website for freelancers who are willing to accept crypto. It aims to be distributed and non-custodial. Consider donating :)

Boost to spread the word.

islamicaudiobooks,
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@farooqkz There's also https://islamic-marketplace.com but it's only.

frameworkcomputer, to random
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What would you like to see from us in 2024?

islamicaudiobooks, (edited )
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@frameworkcomputer Full first class support for preinstalled on assembled device

  • ...

  • shipping to New Zealand

  • 17 inch 4:3 laptop (because 16" is not big enough)

  • at least rumours about

SudoVanilla, to random
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All services have came to a halt.
No income, no donations, no funding.
I can no longer pay the bills.
https://status.sudovanilla.com/

islamicaudiobooks,
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@SudoVanilla You could create a professional brand and offer these services for paying users if you wish to go down that route...

islamicaudiobooks,
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@SudoVanilla Understandable but people who don't have the time or skills to self host need someone to host those services in order to benefit from them, migrate away from or just try out alternatives.

Look at what Murena has done with ecloud, their hosted Nextcloud solution for instance. Without it, it would be difficult to escape Google even on degoogled phones unless you can selfhost.

You can always have a limited free tier + donate a % of the payments to FOSS projects :)

islamicaudiobooks,
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@SudoVanilla That's great. I personally don't use them but I do appreciate your packaging :)

Hopefully, I can contribute in the future.

itsfoss, to linux
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What's stopping you, Non-Linux users? Come join us! 🐧

islamicaudiobooks,
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@itsfoss The only thing stopping most of them is that didn't come preinstalled on their device.

islamicaudiobooks,
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@itsfoss Yes but non techy users would never need to see the terminal if they don't want to... especially as everything they need is available with a GUI. We have our community school running Linux in the computer lab and students couldn't care less about the OS as long as the apps are there.

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