Dean @dean@librem.one

Imagine #libraries don't exist, but there's this person who thought of them and is trying to convince everyone else about them.

-Borrow books for free? People are going to steal them!
-You can just come in to use a computer? Well that's just going to be abused by freeloaders.
-Staff? Who is going to pay them? Why should my taxes be wasted subsidising access to books for people who haven't saved and bought their own?

How many amazing things do we dismiss? What is our society missing out on?

Please boost for visibility: Global Accessibility Awareness day (#GAAD) is on May 19th. I’d like everyone that can to turn off your monitor, or close the laptop lid and connect a keyboard, or close your eyes, and turn on your OS screen reader, and use your computer with it. How does it make you feel? Do you know enough keyboard commands? Does it give you enough info? Does it make you enjoy using the computer? Do you feel productive? Why or why not? #a11y #screenreader #blind

Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated individual. So ... maybe calm down. -- Anon

If you're saying we should ditch #Firefox due to #Mozilla's decisions, this is the world #map you're advocating for. #browser

🔗 https://nitter.net/theworldmaps_/status/1518150533038620672

https://0ver.org/ is pretty hilarious

Today Google is turning on activity tracking for many users that previously turned it off. - https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/google-turns-on-activity-tracking-even-if-turned-off/

Effective today, Google is changing its Workspace Settings, including a change that activates activity tracking for all users of Google Workspace accounts even if the organizations admin disabled activity tracking for all users previously. What is more, admins can no longer control this setting for their users, but all users need to invidually toggle the tracking off again.

You don’t want a DAO you just want a co-op. Just make a co-op or stop pretending you’re doing anything but building a pyramid scheme

Problems we face today:

❌ Climate crisis
❌ Systemic inequality
❌ War, poverty, and disease

Silicon Valley’s solutions:

✅ Blockchain
✅ NFTs
✅ Billionaires in space

What planet are these people on?

#web3

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

Sad illustration...
I had first vision for this after reading some chapters of "Permanent Record".

#drawing #comic #internet #freedom #privacy #corporations #socialmedia

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

@devinprater
maura quint @​
@​behindyourback

I will be you NFT girlfriend, you can’t
ever touch me or interact with me in
real life but if you pay me enough
money you can go around telling
people I’m yours.

US folks, please call your representatives and ask them to support H.R.4728, the Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act. In fact, ask them to cosponsor it.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4728

Of course Elsevier's "enhanced pdf viewer" tracks where you click, view, if you hide the page, etc. and then transmits a big base64 blob of events along with ID from University proxy when you leave. I'm sure straight to SciVal for sale.
Is this the way we want science to work?