João Azevedo @joao@librem.one

The extradition of Julian Assange is a malicious prosecution by any standard. Even critics of the man ought to condemn this as a show trial. The "crime" in question is the greatest public service @wikileaks ever performed: exposing Iraq-era abuses.

Drop the charges. #FreeAssange https://t.co/JhIrfro7cV

Read this and tell me that the show trial of Assange doesn't read like something from Kafka. The judge permits the charges to be changed so frequently the defense doesn't even know what they are, the most basic demands are denied, no one can hear what the defendant says—a farce. https://t.co/d7oYBLBvky

Remote work in Corona times has been released on media.ccc.de and YouTube https://media.ccc.de/v/froscon2020-2573-remote_work_in_corona_times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdTnE_IRUBQ

They literally re-arrested him on the day of his trial. For those keeping note: yes, they re-arrested a man already in prison. This entire process is less trial than Soviet joke. https://t.co/xHli8Hgv1f

The anthropologist David Graeber just died. He is one of my primary intellectual influences, and his book DEBT changed my life back in 2011: https://bookshop.org/books/debt-updated-and-expanded-the-first-5-000-years-revised/9781612194196

Some articles of his that are also really important to me:

Using our mid-20th century projections of flying cars as a jumping-off point to think about what actually happened to material progress in the last 50 years: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/of-flying-cars-and-the-declining-rate-of-profit

On bullshit make-work that contributes to the above: https://www.strike.coop/bullshit-jobs/

If I were to create an advertisement for #RSS, it would be like this:

"Do not let GAFAM curate the web for you. Curate it yourself. Use RSS feeds."

Feel free to steal this. 😉

Can we please, please – PLEASE! not make the nonsensical US date format month/day/year the default in applications? 🤦‍♂️

PRE 👏 TTY 👏 PLEASE

And to all users of that format: it makes no sense, it's counter-intuitive, it makes collaboration frustrating, it introduces inconsistencies and errors... Just stop. Please. Use international standards.
(And don't get me started on your other units of weights, volumes and distances. Bloody hell.)

Boost if I'm right.

Next FOSDEM: 6 & 7 February 2021, online https://fosdem.org/2021/news/2020-09-01-dates-fosdem-2021/

From Kolektiva:
https://kolektiva.social/@kolektiva/104791015542563114 (en)
https://kolektiva.social/@kolektiva/104791395256635871 (es)

From Antimídia:
https://kolektiva.media/videos/watch/bc2aaafc-2b03-4cba-953b-1cff53f11f3a (it)
https://kolektiva.media/videos/watch/fa99b191-40ff-441e-ba88-acb5cc628e79 (es)
https://kolektiva.media/videos/watch/e4d0edd8-91f6-4087-91ae-a82a67153f80 (ar)
https://kolektiva.media/videos/watch/1d760623-ed19-4616-a4e8-fefd4c45a5c6 (el)
https://kolektiva.media/videos/watch/050c32d2-2d2e-4885-86c3-b7045c82a8aa (pt)

Also just to clarify something, and I will talk more about it, once everything is set. (90% of things aren't at the moment) @yunohost works.

If you are techy enough to want to host your own server but don't QUITE want to deal with actual installs from source and dockers etc, even mastodon wasn't that hard to get off of the ground, all things considered. (and #mastodon probably is one of the trickier software to deploy) #FLOSS #selfhosting

Open source developers: please actually use your code hosting platform’s “releases” feature. It substantially raises the visibility of your releases, lets downstreams use better tooling, and makes it less of a guessing game when trying to find versions.

https://the-federation.info/

Developing on the #pinephone in the docked mode.

Today I learned five ways to make a footer in CSS:

1.
.footer { position: absolute; height: 60px; ...}
.body { margin-bottom: 60px; }

problem: not responsive.

2.
.footer { position: absolute; padding: 1.5em 0; ...}
body {}

problem: if body is too long, it hides under the footer

3.
.footer { position: static; padding: 1.5em 0; ...}
body {}

problem: if body is too short, there's empty space between the footer and the bottom of the browser window

and now for the correct ways:

4. https://mdn.github.io/css-examples/css-cookbook/sticky-footer.html

5. https://mdn.github.io/css-examples/css-cookbook/sticky-footer-flexbox.html

Went with 5, because we already use flexbox elsewhere on the site, but don't use grid yet.

My distro-hopping day are finally over! Check out our latest post to see what I use! https://librefree.me/im-done-distro-hopping
#librefree.me #OpenSource #Distro

We love PureOS so much, we wrote about it! https://librefree.me/i-lied-pureos-is-my-new-home
@purism hope you enjoy the read @todd You get a special mention too
#librefree.me #OpenSource #PureOS #Purism #GhostBSD #Distro #Braillynn

If you think that Linux can move to GitHub or GitLab and still be productive at scale, I want you to read through the MAINTAINERS file in the root of the Linux source tree.

https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/linux/tree/master/MAINTAINERS

Every one of those entries has a dedicated maintainer in charge of it, applying to a subset of the source tree. All 3,000 of them. Many of these have dedicated external trees, mailing lists, and policies. Almost all of this development happens away from the LKML. Each of those trees has a path upwards towards Linus's tree, often via other trees and other maintainers, or towards the -lts trees. These trees are not necessarily authoritative either, and the kernel you're running might be its own upstream maintained by your Linux distro, unique from any of the releases on kernel.org.

All of it is based on email. And it *works* to drive the most efficient and largest-scale open-source project in history.

#filosofia #philosophy https://youtu.be/LRNkDZy30xU

The call for proposals for this year's EmacsConf is now open! Gather your thoughts on the joy of #Emacs and hit M-x submit by September 30th. https://u.fsf.org/353