Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

#Destruction of world’s #forests increased sharply in #2020 | #Trees and forests | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/31/destruction-of-worlds-forests-increased-sharply-in-2020-loss-tree-cover-tropical

#Environment #Deforestation #Biodiversity #Conservation #ClimateChanve #GlobalWarming

My university seems to be continuing is slide into MS control. Can't really have a local server to host things anymore. Can't really even have my own web pages hosted by the university.

Pretty much all of the tech knowledge is being outsourced to big tech companies.

Really makes me appreciate the stuff I see at places like OERu. Which I think is largely maintained by @lightweight

For better or for worse, I've put my entire Machine Component Design course online. All 9.5 hours spread over 55 videos.

https://toobnix.org/videos/watch/playlist/26d226c9-0fc1-4e1f-a909-c50c5180b309

#engineering #education

The underlying assumptions of Big Tech projects are fundamentally different from those of Small Tech projects.

I am collecting my knowledge on this topic on this page.
https://njoseph.me/mediawiki/SmallTech

^ This is a wiki page and is unfinished by definition.

#bigTech #smallTech #GAFAM

Waldman does a pretty decent job of describing some of the elitist dynamics of liberal culture that serve to alienate and marginalize a whole lot of people...poor people, specifically...

https://www.interfluidity.com/v2/8392.html

"The US Solidarity Economy Network is excited to be partnering with a truly amazing group of national movement organizations to present The Post Capitalism Conference: Building a Solidarity Economy to be held online April 22-25. What a great way to kick off Earth Day!"

https://events.eventee.co/detail/post-capitalism-conference-8356

"Yesterday (2021-03-28) two malicious commits were pushed to the php-src repo"

In related news, PHP switches to hosting their repositories on GitHub.

https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/113838

TIL:

"git get-tar-commit-id" extracts the commit ID from an archive created using git-archive.

This is super useful for packagers!

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-get-tar-commit-id

Ending discriminatory and self-serving programs is what net neutrality protections are meant to do. AT&T ending its zero-rating means California's law is working as intended. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/atts-hbo-max-deal-was-never-free

Most #US #Covid-19 #deaths ‘could have been mitigated’ after first 100,000, #Birx says | Coronavirus | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/28/dr-deborah-birx-cnn-documentary-covid-trump

Having bad grades or economic struggles does not make a child a criminal, and it shouldn't subject them to police harassment. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/pasco-countys-sheriff-must-end-its-targeted-child-harassment-program

Did I mention that we at Igalia are hiring? We're hiring! Join our respectful egalitarian flat cooperative structure and let's build free open source software together. ❤️​

https://www.igalia.com/jobs/

For students we also offer a CE programme:

https://www.igalia.com/coding-experience/

Several areas of work are possible.
We're very remote-friendly.

EFF opposes the revised PACT Act. It still puts the law’s thumb on the scale of censoring internet users’ speech. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/even-changes-revised-pact-act-will-lead-more-online-censorship

Renewables met 97% of Scotland's electricity demand in 2020

https://bbc.in/3lQPMlc

@ARG can we get a plug? Were a mutual aid collective of houseless people in so called Portland Or. providing mutual aid and working on an autonomous communal urban campsite. We're working to grow and do as much as possible for our houseless comrades. Twitter @PDXHRC email info@radicalcamping.org is encrypted, FB ask for invite (haven't decided yet if FB is at all wise even as a private group) website coming when we figure out how the internet works. thanks

Haven't finished reading the article, but this quote sums up so much for me:
"We need to design a renewable food system that can feed the global population adequately, fitting livestock into it where we can, rather than designing livestock systems to meet the demand for meat which compromise food access and renewability."

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2021-03-25/can-organic-farming-feed-the-world/