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
Theory of change to disconnect from the gas network. If I stop paying my gas bill it'll increase the cost on other users and the market incentive for others to stop using gas goes up, reducing emissions greater than my reduction.
But the biggest incentive for domestic reduction in use was opening up the market to international prices!
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Another reasons to tut at the Mercator Map projection - how a circle with a radius of 5,000km, centred on Paris, looks according the Mercator map
@sam I'm sure the King will welcome his lost sheep back.
@stephaniewalter also, the map is not centred on the equator. I have family from Portugal come and visit me in Perth, Western Australia. We travelled the South-West corner of the state and drove 3 to 4 times the length of Portugal. They thought we drove to the centre of the state. Not even close! With modern digital tools we need better projections.
@mos_8502 Apple got this idea at least a decade ago when they brought out the retina concept. As a developer I don't want to be pixel bashing and I think that's why I like creating UIs with html and CSS. % and em ftw.
@Snoro I work at the Western Australian government Department of Health and from our Climate Action Plan, 10% of our emissions come from "Anaesthetic gases, gases for diagnosis pathology as well as some gases for steam and hot water"
@be o I just assumed they were a dodgy company. If I click an unsubscribe button and I don't see a 'sorry to see you go' or click here to confirm, I mark the email as spam.
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‘Out of the dark ages’: Greens to force climate action if they win WA balance of power
The WA Greens intend to leverage a balance of power scenario in the upper house to push the next government to increase royalties from oil and gas and improve its response to climate change
#Australia #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
@smlx yeah, the airline industry has had this mindset for decades and makes it the most (?) safe form of travel. We can learn and become a true engineering discipline.
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This is happening across Australia next Saturday. Please consider attending if you can.
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In light of US tech oligarchy setting its sights on Wikimedia Foundation, a historical detail I did not know before: #Wikipedia became the non-profit it is today partly as the result of a labour strike of Spanish Wikipedia editors who disagreed with the proposed inclusion of advertisements. Initially, it was not clear what revenue model Wikipedia would get, and Wales moved towards a for-profit model already a year after launch. However, rather than working for free, so Jimmy Wales could profit from their labour via advertising, Spanish contributors forked Spanish Wikipedia as the Encyclopedia Libre Universal. Under the threat of losing the editorial community of such a large language, Wales conceded and set up the non-profit.
That is to say, however imperfect they are, all the digital commons we have are the result of ongoing struggle and hard work to keep them as commons.
Via Las Redes Son Nuestras (https://www.consonni.org/es/publicaciones/las-redes-son-nuestras) by @teclista
- 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
