Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Thanks to @bigblen for pointing me at https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/13/eu_open_source_study_highlights/ - gee, wonder if NZ gov't could learn anything from these recommendations? On the plus side, we have a much smaller ship to turn around... On the negative... we haven't got a single IT-savvy politician (and only the most sporadic evidence of any savvy policy makers or advisers).

Accessible-Coconut: #Linux distro for blind and low-vision people

https://www.makeuseof.com/accessible-coconut-linux-distro-for-visually-impaired/

People subtracted on adding machines w/ a neat trick: the complements method. Convert a number to its complement, add it, and discard the extra "1" on the left. Many calculators with subtraction functions use this method under the hood: https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/subtraction-by-addition.html

#Facebook has reversed its systemic ban of mentions of #Mastodon. Good.

There is a debate over whether or not this #censorship was intentional. I believe it was. Whether a human specifically added joinmastodon.org to a blacklist or not, they have made quite deliberate decisions about their algorithm that serve their greed for engagement first, and the resulting low-quality dangerous information on FB is entirely predictable. Details: https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10303-facebooks-blocking-decisions-are-deliberate-including-their-censorship-of-mastodon

Really cool work! Anarchist building simple tiny homes out of pallets for homeless people that want them https://narratively.com/the-undercover-anarchists-secret-construction-collective/

Best POTUS ever, amiright?

https://twitter.com/AliAbunimah/status/1435637655501512712

I'm not an audio book guy (with the exception of the occasional librevox recording), so I had no idea that Amazon owns Audible. And I had no idea how frickin' terrible they are for authors.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/03/somebody-will/#acx

Judge orders Apple to change its App Store practices in long-awaited decision in antitrust trial with Fortnite maker Epic Games
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/09/10/apple-epic-decision-judge-market-monopoly/ #bigtech #apple #purism #librem5

@yojimbo Here's a first cut. https://davelane.nz/principles-engagement

I just had to break it to one of my consulting clients - who requested me to take part in a meeting with their staff and other consultants - that I don't use MS Teams. Or any other MS software. It's (my) company policy. I provided them with a link to one of the BigBlueButton instances I run onshore in Aotearoa instead. Which'll be better in every way in any case.

VICTORY! Both SB 4 and AB 14 have cleared the California legislature and are headed to the governor's desk. Thank you to everyone who supported #broadbandforall. https://t.co/NsvSKQ0bxE

Nearly All the Unburned Coal Must Stay in the Ground to Avert Climate Catastrophe
https://gizmodo.com/nearly-all-the-unburned-coal-must-stay-in-the-ground-to-1847645357 #climatechange #climatecrisis #leadonclimate

The best article I've read about this whole fiasco just came out in Real Clear Science. Well worth a read, imo.

https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2021/09/08/lessons_from_the_ivermectin_debacle_793483.html

Great conversation on organizing in "flyover country" on This Is Revolution:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnrEbZtMdgI