What is Free Software ? Explained in 3 minutes
Really good video to explain what free software and the ideas behind the movement.
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#FreeSoftware,#FSFE,#Video,#Explanation,#DigitalFreedoms,#Use,Study, #Share,#Improve
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Share to Mastodon – Firefox plugin
There is now a new plug in for Mozilla Firefox which facilitates the sharing of articles to the Federated social media network Mastodon, part of the Fediverse.
This is a really good step forward, and will really help.
More information on the Mozilla Website
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Use pastebin from command line
Use pastebin from command line
Quite often, when you have a problem where, in order to get help you need to paste the contents of a file,or command output so that it can be shared, for example on IRC (Chat) or a forum, this can be challenging to begin with.
As it is depreciated that you paste more than 2 lines in to IRC chat. The way round this is to use a service called pastebin. Debian [1] has it's own service for this [2]. There is a tool called pastebinit which is really helpful from the command line.
The first step is to switch to the root user. Sear for and install the package pastebinit as per below.
Search
root@Desktop:/home/user# apt search pastebinit
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
pastebinit/stable 1.5.1-1 all
command-line pastebin client
Install
root@Desktop:/home/user# apt install pastebinit
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
linux-image-5.10.0-7-amd64 linux-image-5.10.0-8-amd64
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
pastebinit
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 46.6 kB of archives.
After this operation, 342 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye/main amd64 pastebinit all 1.5.1-1 [46.6 kB]
Fetched 46.6 kB in 0s (342 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package pastebinit.
(Reading database ... 190310 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../pastebinit_1.5.1-1_all.deb ...
Unpacking pastebinit (1.5.1-1) ...
Setting up pastebinit (1.5.1-1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.4-2) ...
root@Desktop:/home/user#
Once complete switch back to normal user (usually type exit)
user@Desktop:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list > pastebinit
user@Desktop:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list | pastebinit
https://paste.debian.net/1228146/
In this example I have used the cat command and piped the contents in to pastebinit, this has given me a url to paste in to chat, (or copy manually)
Open this in a browser and you and others can see the contents, and people can help you further.
This is really useful too if you are stuck at the command prompt, without a graphical interface.
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1 Debian 2 pastebin – debian 3 Paignton Library STEM Group TAGS
#Debian,#GNULinux,#Paste,#Text,#Pastebin,#Share,#Troubleshooting
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Alma Linux
AlmaLinux OS Sees First Stable Release as a Drop-In Replacement for CentOS Linux 8 – 9to5Linux
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- 9 to 5 Linux : Alma Linux Review
- AlmaLinux OS
- 9 to 5 Linux
- Free Software Foundation
- GNU
- Free Software Foundation Europe
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#9to5Linux,#Alma,#Servers,#CentOSReplacement,#GNU,#Linux,#FreeSoftware,#Use,#Study,#Modify,#Share,#FSF,#FreeSoftwareFoundation,#Enterprise,#Business,#fsfe,#FreeSoftwareFoundationEurope
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Share Graphics on Next Cloud
So Further to the video / post yesterday
In a similar way to how you can share a video on BBB you can share graphics in markdown, by doing something similar. This works on WriteAs / WriteFreely
I uploaded ILoveFS.png
So adding /download?.png to
https://nc.phillw.org/index.php/s/BsMHAQ8sKDKExfW
Embeds the graphics in the page.
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#YearOfTheFediverse,#NextCloud,#Share,#Graphics, #ProblemSolving
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Adding CC Images To Photos
This is a re-post from December 2019
If you create lots of media such as photos or graphics. You may want to add information pertaining to the copyright (or ideally copyleft) of the image.
As I am interested in Creative Commons (CC) then it makes sense to be able to add one of the many creative commons license logos to an image.
I asked on Friendica about how to do this (having tried and failed before) and was provided with some help and a really useful shell script to automate the process.
Firstly we need an image to modify and a logo image to add to this:
Example logo file to insert
For the sake of this article, I am just using a random photo I took of Paignton Geopark. I have also reduced the image size to 640×480 to make it smaller for the website as per command below.
gm mogrify -resize 640×480 *.JPG
I also had to convert the jpg files to png files with the following
gm convert DSCF0182mod.jpg DSCF0182mod.png
So that this blog would display the images.
The next step is to create a folder structure to contain what we need to undertake the work.
What we need is a new folder
mkdir insertcc-logo
Inside this, we need another folder called out
cd insertcc-logo
mkdir out
we need some more files mostly the cc logos, these are available from a simple duckduckgo search.
Note if putting on a website or other media you need to properly include the creative commons license being used on here I have put
''' Licenced under Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) '''
Which should then link to the human readable license terms you want to use.
So what we should have is
\insertcc-logo\insertcc.sh
\insertcc-logo\out
\insertcc-logo\out\88×31.png
\insertcc-logo\out\88×31-sa.png
\insertcc-logo\out\cc-zero.png
etc
Put the SOURCE FILE in \insertcc-logo
MODIFY AND RUN the script below
Our script looks like ( save this as insertcc.sh or what you want to call this )
for p in *.JPG; do convert “$p” ./out/88×31.png -gravity southeast -geometry +10+10 -composite “out/$p”; done
What the script does is take each file with the JPG extension (or other extension), add the required logo, and save the modified file in
\insertcc-logo\out
As per :
You need to make sure that the script points to the correct source files.
You also need to point the script to the correct file you want to insert in to your source image.
for p in *.JPG;
To use a different logo change this section of the script
$p” ./out/88×31.png
This article originally appeared on http://www.zleap.net.
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#photo,#embed,#add,#creativecommonslogo,#linux #graphicsmagick,#editing,#manipulation,#bash,#commands, #media,#copyleft,#attribute,#share,#alike,#sharealike, #commons,#freedom,
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Scratch : Share projects
By default, Scratch projects are set to private. This means that only you can edit them. This feature helps to keep users safe. However the very nature of Scratch is collaborative and you are encouraged to share, but remember to be safe while you are sharing, Ask a grown up first.
To share your new project:
- Fill in the name box next to the orange share button.
- Click the orange share button.
Don't worry if you forget to give your project a name, clicking on the share button brings up this screen.
Adding to a studio
Method 1
From the above screen you will see there is an Add to studio button near the bottom right
Method 2
If you click on your name in the corner, click my stuff you are then taken to this screen, where you can share your project with a studio you are following.
You do this by clicking Add to and selecting the studio from the list.
#scratch, #share, #project, #howto