JC @jc@librem.one

Many of the journalists Elon suspended today on Twitter are here on #Mastodon. Please follow and boost:

Drew Harwell, Washington Post
@drewharwell

Donie O’Sullivan, CNN
@donieosullivan

Steve Herman, VOA
@w7voa

Micah Lee, Intercept
@micahflee

Tony Webster
@tony

Matt Binder, Mashable
@MattBinder

#freepress #journalism #journalists #news

Finding people to follow on #Mastodon can be hard! We all hear it. We all feel it. Well, I built a little tool for myself to find new people to follow, and in the spirit of getting feedback I'm sharing it with you all here: https://fedipages.com

#projects #flask #zappa #mongo

Lots of new #Mastodon instances popping up this winter #MastoAdmin #linux #memes

“You can find us anywhere you get your podcasts.”

I *adore* this phrase, because it has been like two whole-ass decades and not one single venture capital darling has managed to unseat plain RSS as the distribution method for podcasts. Not one. (And they have really tried!)

Podcasts are just out there, like air. You don’t go to one place to get them; you get them from everywhere and anywhere. You can choose how you want to engage with them and manage them and it is legitimately heartwarming that nothing has ever gotten in the way of that being a fundamental fact.

This is the best of what the web is. It will never have a stock ticker or even a marketing scheme. Most people don’t even know it is there. But it endures (past the many, many attempts by squillionaire corporates to kill it) because of its absolute unshakable utility.

My suggestion: any time you hear “anywhere you get your podcasts”, send a little thanks to RSS for keeping the real web alive.

#RSS #Podcasts #ProtocolsNotProducts

Mark your calendars, July 13th-16th SFC will be hosting the first annual FOSSY Conference in Portland, OR! A conference dedicated to the communities of people who use, make and love software freedom. https://fossy.us

AgonLight Open Source Hardware Retro Computer is captured in KiCad and updated by Olimex https://olimex.wordpress.com/2022/12/09/agonlight-open-source-hardware-retro-computer-running-bbc-basic-was-captured-in-kicad-and-updated-by-olimex/ #retrocomputer #bbcbasic #z80 #OSHW #embeded will be available for pre-order next week at special Christmas price of EUR 50 for assembled, programmed and tested board

i.MX8MPlus for MNT Reform is booting a mainline kernel (plus some DSI patches)! Now it's that typical dance again to get the display to actually show something. But tomorrow.

thread on MNT Reform community contributions. If you want to help, chime in: https://community.mnt.re/t/community-contributions/1327/3

There are two types of people in this world:
“Crap, sorry, my computer just died.”
And
“Hold on, I need to find an outlet because my battery is at 89%.”

RT @ZackBornstein
I don’t understand how COVID is spiking again after we’ve tried everything from pretending it’s over to pretending it never happened