Free Soft&Hardware Enthusiast @goatwildernesscollective@librem.one

Now is your moment to shine

Remote work may cut greenhouse gas emissions by more than half https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/100923_commute_greenhouse_gas/remote-work-may-cut-greenhouse-gas-emissions-by-more-than-half/
The growth of remote and hybrid work during the COVID-19 pandemic showed limiting trips to the office can reduce the carbon footprint of simply working by as much as 58% in the United States.
#Tucson #Arizona

#Police Resistance and #Politics Undercut the Authority of Prosecutors Trying to Reform the Justice System
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After major American cities began electing prosecutors who campaigned on the promise of systemic reform, law enforcement unions labeled these DAs as soft on #crime while lawmakers made legal and legislative efforts to remove them from office.

#CriminalJustice #News

https://www.propublica.org/article/police-politicians-undermined-reform-prosecutors-chicago-philadelphia?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

How a Maneuver in #PuertoRico Led to a $29 Billion #Tax Bill for #Microsoft
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In the largest audit in U.S. history, the #IRS rejected Microsoft’s attempts to channel profits to a small factory in Puerto Rico that burned Windows software onto CDs.

#Taxes #News

https://www.propublica.org/article/irs-microsoft-audit-back-taxes-puerto-rico-billions?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#117 Queued Fixes
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/10/twig-117/

#GNOME #TWIG

The future of computing is local-first.

I de-activated my Twitter account today. I had decided to keep it without posting a while back, just in case anyone would try to use my handle to write weird stuff and impersonate me, but I realized there’s no way I’m ever going back to Twitter and posting anything there.

If someone impersonates me, well, since Twitter has become so ridiculous and toxic, I’m sure people will accept that it’s not me talking.

I wasn’t using this account, and hadn’t for something like a year, so, bye « X »!

Oh my goodness, it’s #caturday!

Had the need to charge an all electric Kia recently and guess what: both the charging stations app and the vendor's app are proprietary so how would I know when charging finished?

Turns out people around #HomeAssistant figured out the vendor API so I could use that to have a small app to monitor the charging status on my #Librem5 running #phosh

#gtk #gnome #MobileLinux #ev

Every time I open Flathub there is a new GNOME / libadwaita app.

https://flathub.org/apps/xyz.slothlife.Jogger

"Track and view your runs, walks, cycles, swims, and other workouts on mobile Linux."

🥇 for the app id

#Linux #LinuxMobile #mobileLinux #Flatpak #Flathub #GNOME #libadwaita #GTK

That's a concept of funny ads I have been working on lately for the #Librem5 by #Purism

UX designers who eliminated the filesystem from user consciousness in name of simplicity ruined the world and are morally culpable for shriveling minds of children who are unable to tackle the challenges of today thanks to a choice sold as advocacy for the user but was ultimately motivated by control of a disempowered customer.

your free software approved device can't watch you, they still haven't reversed the driver to make the camera to work