My first computer was a Commodore C16 in 1986, followed by a C128D in 1987, on which I ran the included CP/M 3.0 and wrote my first Turbo pascal programs on it.
1991, I got my first MS-DOS-based PC with a real screen reader, HAL v4.5 by @yourdolphin.
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RT @BlondeHistorian
But if you’re blind how do you type?! 👩🏼🦯🤳🏻
Blind people online have to answer these kind of questions constantly.
So help raise some awareness & share this…
https://twitter.com/BlondeHistorian/status/1485377239248220161
Advert in today's Australian @FinancialReview: Julian Assange faces extradition to the US and a 175 year sentence simply for publishing truthful documents #auspol #FreeAssangeNOW #DickSmith https://t.co/oDbWYI63Qm
Universal Audio said they'd invest in Linux support for their devices if tens of thousands of people signed a petition. So, here's that petition:
https://www.change.org/p/linux-support-for-universalaudio-audio-interfaces
@madargon Caption: Internet at the beginning. Person riding a bird over green pastures with people camping and having fun everyehere. Internet now. Same person carrying shoulder bag on a stick walking through a PoW style camp with a welcome sign, trip wires, holes, and security cameras.
Sad illustration...
I had first vision for this after reading some chapters of "Permanent Record".
#drawing #comic #internet #freedom #privacy #corporations #socialmedia
@aral I signed but I am working on a Web 3.0 app. I see data being distributed as part of the semantic web. People can hook into the network and share using a device and not a server.
@3rik #FreeSoftware can still contribute and build upon it. They just cannot be part of a corporation. Its similar to MIT and GPL. What is more free, writing code so some billionaire can make more money and you get health insurance, or working together to make your collective peers' live more fruitful? Both make open source code.
71% of Australians polled by the Sydney Morning Herald on 18th December support calls for @wikileaks founder and publisher Julian Assange to be 'brought back to Australia' @smh #FreeAssangeNOW https://t.co/f5Ohenu0dC
@sam Librem.one has an interesting approach where the same account can be used for mastodon, email, matrix. You'll need all services hosted in the same place. I don't know what they do in the backend, but is this something you were thinking of?
@obra I would like to get more into developing open source but if a security researcher comes with a bug. I would like to know the best processes that we can use to fix the issue and push it out so the log4j incident doesn't repeat.
@devinprater you can tell the type of people if a meow breaks the silence or extends it. Cats make a community but you cannot herd them.
@kyle I was always a fan of Tesla as they were the first mover and made cool cars. But they have gone down the path of Apple and now I want to get another electronic car maker that'll care for their customers.
@rgegriff all worship Y2K.
@StampedingLonghorn @devinprater what! I thought you meant there was a little reset type button you needed a pin to press for 3 seconds to unlock your computer 🤪
A good video looking at the carbon impacts of meat. I rarely eat meat because of the sustainability issues. 26% of carbon emissions is from farming and I feel this is the only industry we cannot just switch to a carbon neutral version. It requires personal change 😔
Is Meat Really That Bad?
By Kurzgersagt - In a nut shell
https://youtube.com/watch?v=F1Hq8eVOMHs
@be I think it was to allow you to use it with GPL code.
I am into science and climate activism. I love to learn about social issues and to challenge my own perspectives. I'm also into free and open-source software and I am back in University studying computer science.