Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

cf. https://geo.coop/sites/default/files/0213-benefits-and-impacts-of-cooperatives.pdf

Another surprisingly good article about worker co-ops in Bloomberg.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-03-31/employee-co-ops-need-financing-these-impact-investors-want-to-help

A year ago we said it was troubling that the so-called predictive policing program created by Banjo used “artificial intelligence” hidden inside a black box. A state audit has now revealed that the company had no AI to speak of. https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkd7pk/banjo-ai-surveillance-utah-contract

PEN America's new report, No Excuse for Abuse, suggests some concrete ways that social media companies can help vulnerable populations cope with abuse by empowering users: https://pen.org/report/no-excuse-for-abuse/

Who is attracted to discourse about individual liberties? Libertarians, unsurprisingly.

more details about how fsf became unionized. I knew rms would fire people on a whim, but I didn't know about the pay raises and bereavement leave stuff. hoooooly shit.

https://twitter.com/paulnivin/status/1377079987950395393

Bill Gates continuing to do evil under the guise of philanthropy.

"When Oxford University began work on its covid vaccine, it promised that the resulting work would be patent-free, with an active tech-transfer assistance program so that developing nations could manufacture their own supplies....

....That promise was broken. The Gates Foundation pushed the racist lie that poor people can't make safe vaccines - despite world-leading production facilities in the Global South - and convinced the university to sell exclusive rights to Astrazeneca...."

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1377290915987918849

Biden plan eliminates billions in fossil fuel subsidies - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/03/biden-plan-eliminates-billions-in-fossil-fuel-subsidies/ sounds a good start

I'm a back end developer located in Atlanta, GA with ~8 years of experience, mostly in Go and Rust. I'd love to start looking for some freelance projects, or develop a product, if I could find a few people with front end programming, design, marketing, etc. skills. Any takers? #cooperatives

#phosh 0.10.0 is out 🚀 : https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/phosh/-/releases/v0.10.0

Besides plenty of fixes #phosh can now be a #geoclue agent (so location services can work) and has support for reboot/shutdown dialogs (which are used when e.g. gnome-software wants to reboot or when you shut down the system from the menu).

See above release notes for the full list of changes and contributors.

#librem5 @purism #gnomeonmobile #gnome

#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