The Biden administration teased a sweeping antimonopoly executive order last week, including a Right to Repair provision aimed at agricultural equipment - a direct assault on the corporate power of repair archnemesis John Deere. It
https://pluralistic.net/2021/07/07/instrumentalism/#r2r
But it turns out that the executive order goes far beyond tractors and other agricultural equipment - it also applies to consumer electronics, including mobile phones, and this is a *huge fucking deal*.
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The #keyoxide project is celebrating its first anniversary today ๐ thanks to all for your support!
New Pepper&Carrot Episode 35: "The Reflection" is now published online! https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/article468/episode-35-the-reflection
(and it's my 40๐ today! ๐๐บ)
#peppercarrot #krita #creativecommons
@davidrevoy
Happy Birthday ๐ ๐
@davidrevoy I love the look on Carrot's face!
Trying out a new AFK hobby: Warhammer 40k miniature painting.
Not bad for first models, if I do say so myself.
https://kevin.thecorams.net/posts/2021/05/15/first-4k-models/
Really, asking "what should replace Facebook" is putting things the wrong way around.
A more interesting way to ask the question is, "what did Facebook replace."
People used to build their own websites. People used to have blogs. People used USENET which was truly distributed and un-censorable.
Facebook and Google took the open internet and open standards and monetized and made everything crappy. Enough of that. Nothing should replace Facebook, it's done, stick a fork in it.
How a 30-year-old technology โ #WiFi โ will turn into our next big #privacy problem - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/how-a-30-year-old-technology-wifi-will-turn-into-our-next-big-privacy-problem/ interesting technology, done right...
@kev Congratulations! I couldn't imagine moving that fish tank . . . amazing that you were able to do so!
New Pepper&Carrot "Episode 34: The Knighting of Shichimi" is now published online! (with many translations)
https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/article467/episode-34-the-knighting-of-shichimi
#krita #webcomics #creativecommons #peppercarrot
@amolith saw this site recently -- http://solarprotocol.net/
@amolith fedicraft?
@laura I am a happy user of https://github.com/andOTP/andOTP on my Android device.
New derivation:
A Pepper&Carrot RPG-themed idle video-game by Congusbongus and StarNavigator, free/libre and open-source (won second place at MiniJam22). ๐
Open culture FTW! ๐
โ Blog-post with link to play: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article818/
#indiegames