Dean @dean@librem.one
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- Australia
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.
Joined Jun 2019
@samwilson what were you doing outside?!
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@xogium cool, I have an Ubuntu server running ZoneMinder for security cameras that I do not like. So I'll give it a try when I switch software.
blind and transgender
@jamesthomson all of this tech for a pocket calculator! It'll be great to see all the different ways you can do math in VR.
@danirabbit @mbullington when I was firstly diagnosed people were like can you see this, can you see that. It doesn't disappear from my vision it just doesn't look as colourful. I think "correction" is good, because we use it for glasses, to correct people's vision.
So maybe "colour deficiency correction" and a description saying it'll assist you by adjusting the colours of your display.
@JonathanMosen was it a nice meet-cute?
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"I have seen how the Palestinian people are at best second class citizens on their own ever-shrinking lands. Clearly, this is apartheid. We have denounced and defeated it before and we must again. Do not be brow-beaten into silent complicity by claims that supporting the near-defenseless Palestinian people is anti-semitic. The far-right government of Israel is doing this, not the Jewish people. Stand with the defenselessness, not the powerful." Mike said regarding this action. [2/n]
GPL violation musing
@kyle thanks I'm about to finish uni so this is really helpful.
@valere when I see this I'll finally get Nebula and ditch YouTube. All the people I watch on YouTube also have a Nebula account.
AI bullshit
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Cost of King Charles’s Coronation: £250m¹
Amount cut from social care budget: £250m
Staunchly remaining a royalist fool in the 21st century: priceless.
#uk #monarchy #notMyKing #democracy #equality #humanRights
¹ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/king-charles-iiis-coronation-expected-cost-taxpayers-around-250m-1715507
@libroraptor @pezmico I didn't know UV lights would be effective. Unless it's designed extremely well and positioned correctly I feel like it would do very little. Do you know more?
But very cool the shop is still following protocol.
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I've found the best way to try to break through doomers' defenses is to first point out that, according to current science, a runaway hot house is very unlikely. That means every little bit of less destruction is better. Every person saved and every extinction prevented is worth all our effort.
After that because doomers are in so many cases men, you can try to appeal to their heroic imagination: saving the planet is generation's big fight. History demands we step up.
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I 'unpublished' my Patreon creator page in August last year. There's no option to delete it (and the guides to 'how to delete your creator page' mention things that don't exist) so you can just unpublish. I, as expected, haven't had any payments from my supporters since doing that.
Old supporter DMed me.
Her: Hi! Are you still creating?
Me: Oh I've moved to Ko-Fi! (link)
Her: Ah! I guess I can delete my plege then?
Me: Sure, but Patreon shouldn't have been taking anything
Her: Er, they have...
@WorkingFamilies yeah, I like the idea of 'think global act local'. My current goal is to physically disconnect my house from the gas network. Then there is one less household for the fossil fuel lobby to 'advocate for'. It's been interesting looking at the capital costs and running costs to achieve this.
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The #OpenStreetMap weekend in #Berlin was great to catch up with old friends and get up to speed with what's going on out there! 🎉
I also got the chance to make a tiny bit of progress on my collaborative real-time map prototype; think #Figma but for maps.
- Country
- Australia
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.
Joined Jun 2019
