Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

The Open App Markets Act targets Google and Apple, but also online game stores like Steam, helping indie developers compete on price. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/new-bill-would-protect-indie-video-game-developers-and-app-developers

Han Dynasty China had credit unions based on a sort of bond auction.

A group of people pooled an equal amount of money together, and members willing to pay the highest interest could borrow it.

The proceedings from the interest was then distributed back to the members of the circle.

Really cool!

It's time to decentralize the internet, again: What was distributed is now centralized by Google, Facebook, etc

See https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/11/decentralized_internet/

#technology #decentralization

SA Gov prohibits free open source ERP solutions for tender in contravention of own policy to promote open source and small business

See https://itweb.co.za/content/P3gQ2MGxOmgqnRD1

Policy at https://gcis.gov.za/content/newsroom/media-releases/cabinet-statements/statement-cabinet-meeting-21-february-2007

You can help by retweeting this from https://twitter.com/Ossugsa/status/1425764371989417988

#opensource #foss #southafrica

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So, we want to make our compost tea available for late season fertilizing, to do so properly we really need to get this part of the label right... To that end: Know anyone with skills/equipment to do PCR species identification? 🧑‍🔬 Reach out! Local preferred but we can ship a sample anywhere. Scientific or product development advice? All ears 👂

#PCR #Compost

https://foodtopowerco.org/soil-cycle

This little graphical demonstration shows one example of such a state. The #AnimatedGif was produced a routine written in #WxMaxima. 2/2

#Mathematics #TheoryOfElasticity #Mechanics #SolidMechanics #Engineering #MyWork #CCBYSA #WorkInProgress #FreeSoftware

Subscription boxes are booming in popularity.

A coop that would provide subscription boxes with basic goods of members choice sourced from different coops could be cool. So it would include coffee from a coffee coop, milk from a dairy coop, etc.

Lot of food coops have successfully implemented "veg boxes" and in Japan coops account for over half of the grocery home deliveries.

Ideally the delivery would done by a courier owned coop, many of which already exist as part of the CoopCycle network.

My biggest worry about Apple crossing the Rubicon with client-side searches is all the other vendors that inevitably copy Apple innovations, but poorly. Even if Apple can keep their promises, others won't. Imagine a home (and car) full of devices searching for crimes. ⁨#privacy⁩

Criminals and students always face the bleeding edge of surveillance tech, because neither group has enough agency to resist it. ⁨#privacy⁩ ⁨https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tech-prison-idUSKBN2FA0OO

How Your Ad Blocker Can Track You Across the Web
https://gizmodo.com/how-your-ad-blocker-can-track-you-across-the-web-1847459354 #privacy #security #purism

The Canadian government is planning to implement new dangerous content moderation rules -- and a new speech czar with broad powers to enforce them. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/o-no-canada-fast-moving-proposal-creates-filtering-blocking-and-reporting-rules-1

That's why we joined a coalition of civil rights groups demanding that the Biden administration end its prison mail scanning pilot program. https://app.box.com/s/4nwsqh8g282ga4ww4lx49vg7tnd3rekm https://t.co/3OBsWKLm4R