Stephen Hinton @hinton@librem.one

GNU Octave has a new release!

https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/NEWS-6.1.html

Join us for a fireside chat with @flexlibris, ED of @LibraryFreedom, on January 7th as we discuss the growing risk of academic surveillance. https://www.eff.org/event/home-and-campus-eff

Dune anime spinoff where the Bene Gesserit form a pop idol group to build support for Arrakis, it's called Spice Girls

I made a holder for my #pinephone. The wood I used is also pine.

As 2021's crackdowns on monopoly proceed, lawmakers, courts, and regulators will be looking for solutions. We think competitive compatibility should be in their toolkits. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/competitive-compatibility-year-review

Do you play #MapRoulette?

https://maproulette.org/

MapRoulette has dozens of mapping Challenges that are created by experienced mappers. Each Challenge is about improving #OpenStreetMap in one very specific way. Do you want to add pedestrian crossings? Fix bridges? Add opening times for shops? There’s a challenge for it.

Even though it’s only 26 words long, Section 230 doesn’t say what many think it does. Here's a handy primer. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/section-230-good-actually

I finally used a screwdriver and un- and replugged a few cables:

https://devtube.dev-wiki.de/videos/watch/70e4e4bb-291e-42eb-aca7-804763e839ff

#PinePhone #QWERTYphones #LinuxPhones #DIY #badDIY

Wow, that's a very impressive DIY skills making a tripod for a cycle with a good angle to take street level photos

https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/tordans/diary/395215

When my grandkids ask me one day why i stopped being friends with @popey all those years ago, i'm going tho show them this tweet and they're gonna cry.

With #MapComplete, you can create your own contribution theme to easily add data to #OpenStreetMap. It’s a crossover of #StreetComplete and #MapContrib: as easy to use as StreetComplete, but focused on a single subject (e.g. nature, bicycle infrastructure, ...).
- Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVbFrNVPxPw
- Project: https://github.com/pietervdvn/MapComplete
- Wiki: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/MapComplete

Hashtags can be difficult for blind people's screen readers, because the reading software may have trouble telling the words apart in the tag.

✅ You can make hashtags screen reader friendly by using "CamelCase", where each word in the tag begins with a capital letter.

For example, #DogsOfMastodon is fine but #dogsofmastodon may cause problems.

#FediTips #MastoTips #Accessibility #A11y #Hashtags #ScreenReaders

This person being born Vietnamese in Ohio, discovering a love of maps, surviving racism, and becoming a major contributor to #openstreetmap is a worthwhile read:

http://notes.1ec5.org/archives/2020/06/06/racism.html

The CASE Act, Hidden in the Coronavirus Relief Bill, Is Just the Beginning of the Next #Copyright Battle https://www.activistpost.com/2020/12/the-case-act-hidden-in-the-coronavirus-relief-bill-is-just-the-beginning-of-the-next-copyright-battle.html

From the new FSF Bulletin (https://u.fsf.org/37z): Professor Christian Grothoff introduces the first free software payment system, GNU Taler! https://u.fsf.org/386

Holy moly, Owncast is really taking off with the 0.0.3 release!

Almost 1000 stars in a single day for https://github.com/owncast/owncast 🙊

Hackernews front page, #1 on several sub-reddits: r/selfhosted, r/golang, ... awesome stuff!

Someone even started streaming public domain movies 24/7 on their Owncast instance: https://movies.shiftpop.com/

Check out the Owncast directory to find more instances: https://directory.owncast.online/

What are the Holidays without Hot Boozy Drinks? And this is SO EASY! https://tilvids.com/videos/watch/392e427d-b4c2-4577-a128-a7c35f121751