Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa
Joined May 2019
Just read about the plane flying the #LoserPalooza banner over the Trump rally. #truth
When Will Politicians Start Caring about People’s Actual Problems? https://rall.com/2021/07/01/when-will-politicians-start-caring-about-peoples-actual-problems
#rall
Universal Basic Income rejected in UK by influential group after Tory MPs vote it down https://basicincometoday.com/universal-basic-income-rejected-in-uk-by-influential-group-after-tory-mps-vote-it-down/
The feds just threw a wrench into Enbridge’s plan to keep Line 5 running https://grist.org/energy/the-feds-just-threw-a-wrench-into-enbridges-plan-to-keep-line-5-running/
How the gas industry is trying to keep crappy heaters on the market https://grist.org/energy/how-the-gas-industry-is-trying-to-keep-crappy-heaters-on-the-market/
#capitalismsucks
Firms That Backed Gov. Charlie Baker’s Pro-Charter Initiative Scored Millions in Contracts With Massachusetts Pension Fund https://theintercept.com/2021/07/02/charlie-baker-charter-schools-massachusetts-pension-fund/
#capitalismsucks
Meet the Consulting Firm That’s Staffing the Biden Administration https://theintercept.com/2021/07/06/westexec-biden-administration/
What Can the Biden Admin Do to Make Our Food System More Resilient? Make it More Local. https://inthesetimes.com/article/biden-usda-food-system-supply-chains-resilient-local-agriculture
Making things more local should also be applied to all industry. Globalization should be to benefit local outcomes, not to abuse persons or environments outside the local sphere.
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Hi all! We're the folks behind Co-op Cloud (https://coopcloud.tech), a project which aims to build out a digital configuration commons for tech co-ops and democratic tech collectives. Our approach aims to maximise sharing, co-operation and reuse for setting up and maintaining libre software infrastructure. We have a public matrix room at `#coopcloud:autonomic.zone`, feel welcome! The project is currently in public alpha and super young ☁️ 🎩 💻
#introductions #tech #coops #coopcloud #commons
@Zergling_man @ademalsasa The dominant browser sets the web standards has been the defacto strategy since the days of Netscape. Netscape and Internet Explorer used the strategy to hold off competition for years. The W3C was always behind and often couldn't set a standard, if IE and Netscape each had their own way of presenting the same data.
OS/2 had a standards based browser that Netscape quickly made obselete by introducing non-standard extensions.
@Zergling_man Only within the Windows environment, and before the rise of mobile, Microsoft would break their own interop whenever a competition used it. @ademalsasa
@ademalsasa Office suites are terrible things in general. The computing world was a much better place when the tools competed on their own merits. Proprietary interoperability was the cudgel used to compel people to suites.
The same thing happened in the development world with IDEs. Convenience comes at a price to the user. Without Microsoft's abusive monopoly, the computing world might have found better paths to interoperability.
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"In conservation biology terms, [open source] maintainers can be thought of as a keystone species. A keystone species is small in population size but it has an outsized impact on its ecosystem."
- #NadiaEghbal, 2020, 'The Making and Maintenance of our Open Source Infrastructure'
https://soundcloud.com/longnow/making-and-maintenance-our-open-source-infrastructure
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Ugh: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/446192/dhbs-refuse-to-release-information-on-cyber-security-systems I don't think the problem is lack of capital investment - the private IT security pros would say that, though. I suspect the problem is lack of skilled IT staff & training for regular staff. And the use of MS Windows & a raft of other EOL'd, unsupported proprietary software. If there was a "Health IT" department that developed *open standards* for IT procurement and focused on #FOSS health IT, it'd attract the best & brightest. Cut loose the dead wood in IT.
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Happy #coopsday!
Working on a book titled "250 facts about co-operatives".
It won't be sold conventionally - you can read it free online on Mutual Interest Media Co-ops site.
The only way to get a print-copy is to join Mutual Interest (www.mutualinterest.coop) as a member-owner, after which you can get a free copy (you only pay for postal fees).
Really fortunate that my dad has the equipment and experience in printing and designing books.
If someone wants to help with editing let me know.
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"Meet.coop began as a collaboration between three tech co-ops in May 2020. It is set up using open source software (BigBlueButton) and runs on co-operatively owned hardware powered by renewable energy. It currently has 105 members across Europe, Asia and South America, including brands such as Friends of the Earth International and The Tor Project."
- #RebeccaHarvey, 2021
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Is global plastic pollution nearing an irreversible tipping point?
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/07/210701140931.htm #environment
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"Lytton and the surrounding area has experienced tragic losses from the fire. We are still trying to account for all our people, and countless family homes were lost. We are raising funds to support community members during this horrible emergency and to help us rebuild. On behalf of Lytton First Nation we have created this page and we are a qualified donee with Charity status and can provide tax receipts.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/lytton-first-nation-community-emergency-support
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#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa
Joined May 2019
