Dean @dean@librem.one
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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
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@nothien@tilde.zone @devinprater@dragonscave.space there's no easy miracle plan and mental health is important. You've probably heard this but actioning it is hard.
- Eat more vegetables and a variety of vegetables.
- Get some exercise, so you puff and maybe a little sweaty.
- Sleep well and
- Connect with people and friends.
Over time this would give you more physical and mental energy.
@wholesomedonut @lanodan @alcinnz @be For months Purism staff have been saying they are buying up as much stock as they can to get ahead of manufacturing. In terms of sustainability, I now have to use my old Android for a longer 😅
There has been a chat about the 'lack' of Librem 5 shipments in April (people saying they got it)
If they do fall over, at least their code got into Gnome. As I got skin in the game hopefully they stay afloat
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The coalition has five modest demands for Disney:
I. Honor contracts now held by Disney and its subsidiaries
II. Provide royalty payments and statements to all affected authors
III. Update their licensing page with an FAQ for writers about how to handle missing royalties
IV. Create a clear, easy-to-find contact person or point for affected authors.
V. Cooperate with author organizations who are providing support to authors and agents.
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Microsoft now owns, or will soon own, one of the best text-to-speech engines for blind power-users, through its acquisition of Nuance. But the code has been abandoned for years. It seems unlikely that this TTS engine is a valuable asset for Microsoft. So let's petition them to open-source it. https://www.change.org/p/microsoft-open-source-eti-eloquence (No, I didn't start the petition, but I'm in agreement with it.)
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2 YEARS! For 730 days, Julian #Assange has been rotting in "British Guantanamo", after being forcefully removed from EC embassy, his political asylum illegally revoked.
His crime? Exposing the true nature of the war crimes of the US and the UK, in an undeniable, un-censorable and searchable way.
Massive breaches of the rule-of-law concern us all!
Beyond Assange and WikiLeaks is the fate of free speech, free press, and our collective ability to publish online.
@xiroux I want to live in a world where people feel connected to life around them. FOSS allows people to connect to the makers of their 'devices'/software and it's not just an abstract lifeless commodity.
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Delete Chrome. Now.
Google is using its exceptionally powerful position to make *the browser itself* analyze your browsing behavior and serve that on a plate in the form of "cohorts" to anyone interested.
They are transforming Chrome into a "browsing-history-passport" - right now.
If you care about your intellectual freedom even a little bit, you must put Chrome out of your life as soon as possible. Support others doing the same.
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We do a disservice to people who genuinely have a hard time picking up social cues or "reading the room", when we put that in the same category as decades of toxic behavior--behavior which literally thousands of people have attempted to change since the 1980s.
I would encourage you to read Sumana's post, here: "Not The First Time We Tried" (many other detailed such accounts exist).
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The Federation Falacy - On Life & Lisp: https://rosenzweig.io/blog/the-federation-fallacy.html
I'm sure plenty of you disagree, I think I recall specifically that.
Personally I like advocating P2P, to avoid asking asking the question of "which server do you want to use?"
@StayGrounded_net haha, free 10 min go at flying the plane.
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I renamed the essay to "Towards A Cooperative Technology Movement" and moved it to https://cooperativetechnology.codeberg.page/
@Ventronik sparql could be useful. Gnome Tracker is for the desktop but there are possibly other projects for remote data.
"If a majority of apps store data with libtracker-sparql, the shell could use libtracker-sparql to query these databases directly and save the overhead of spawning each app. The big advantage of the federated approach, though, is that search providers can store data in the most suitable method for that data." - https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/tag/tracker/
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Ada Lovelace is known for being the first computer programmer, which is cool, except 1) she never actually ran her programs, 2) the programs were for a machine that was never built, and 3) neither her program or the machine had any influence on modern CS.
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Why not instead use Barbara Liskov? The "Liskov Substitution Principle", the 'L' in SOLID, is named after her. Her work on CLU has influenced almost all modern languages. She invented abstract data types. She invented ITERATORS!
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Or Frances Allen? First woman to win the Turing Award. Major, *major* innovations in optimizing compilers that compiled high level languages into FAST bytecode. Without her we might still be stuck writing assembly for anything that needs performance.
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GNOME 40 is almost here meaning updates are on the way! Learn a little bit more about what's changing in Epiphany in this blog from Alexander Mikhaylenko: https://blogs.gnome.org/alexm/2021/03/13/reinventing-tabs/
@dsfgs This article is not even paid staff of FB. Just group admins (anyone can start a group). They should also have Stackoverflow or askUbuntu forum moderators interviewed!
I'm glad I deleted all my accounts with FB websites.
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"Ulysses claims it can currently access more than 15 billion vehicle locations around the world every month, and it estimates that, by 2025, 100 percent of new cars will be connected and transmitting gigabytes of collectible data per hour." #privacy https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/03/one-company-wants-to-sell-the-feds-location-data-from-every-car-on-earth/
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Dean
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- 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
