Jan-Lukas Else

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This is a collection of links I stumbled across and found worth sharing. Also see the blogroll for links to blogs I regularly read.


Companies and their responsibility when using free software

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I know, it’s a medium.com link again, but I’m still a Medium member until my membership expires next March. OneZero has some great articles though. If you don’t have a Medium membership, open the link in a private browser tab.

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Help the environment by NOT buying a new iPhone

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Sorry for sharing a Medium.com link, but this is an article I really want to highlight.

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Codeberg: Non-profit GitHub alternative from Germany

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Just today I migrated my hosting setup and use my private Gitea instance instead of GitLab. But because this is hosted at my home, I don’t want to trust it and it’s backups completely and have a fallback too. In the past I used GitLab for such tasks, but now I’m choosing Codeberg instead.

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Do you journal?

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Just a short time ago, I wrote about my favorite journaling software rwtxt. Today I discovered the story of someone else journaling.

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Nextcloud’s mission and principles

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In “The Nextcloud mission and principles”, Frank Karlitschek, CEO of Nextcloud describes the mission and principles of Nextcloud, the company behind the software with the same name.

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Eight ways to reduce your digital carbon footprint

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Although the linked article is basically an ad for Firefox, there are two things I would like to highlight.

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telnet mapscii.me

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I heard of telnet already, but I never used it in some way. It’s one of the oldest internet standards. Now I discovered a cool project: mapscii.

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Conversing through email

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In the recent past I got a similar experience like Brandon Nolet by conversing through email. Emails don’t have this presure to respond as soon as possible. You can take your time to think and then write a better response. Sometimes it can take days, weeks or even months. With email that’s not really a problem.

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Awesome Personal Blogs

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You’ve probably come across Awesome lists already. This one is quite similar to Personalsit.es, which I linked to recently. It’s nice to have such a long list full of personal blogs to explore. Exploring other’s personal blogs always offers the possibility to learn and discover new things and get to know new people who share interesting stuff.

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What is Fedora Silverblue?

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On my new PC, I use Fedora Silverblue since the beginning. It’s different than your normal distro, but I actually learned to love it, especially for it’s atomic updates.

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