Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

And I stand corrected - I had the dependency the wrong way around. @nuclear points out that MSFT's VSCode codebase is not available under a proper OSI/FSF approved license (plus it includes telemetry and other undesirables), so the VSCodium project has been set up by people (independent of MSFT?) wanting to rehabilitate the salvageable code.

As I've noted before: yeah, MSFT loves open source. Like a tapeworm loves a healthy digestive system.

@wizzwizz4 @devinprater @csepp @praveen @danielst @lorabe @storm I recall a thread where someone recounted some history behind all this, that there were several projects funded by the (American Council for the Blind?) to improve accessibility, but each time Microsoft (a big ACB funder) threatened to pull funding unless they dropped the projects.

And the reason appears to be: governments require accessibility in their software, so MS et al didn't want any threats to their monopoly over government contracts.

So to accuse OSS community of simply not caring enough to bother isn't really accurate - there is deliberate monopolism at play here. MS and Apple might appear to "care more" but only when it gets them access to tenders, and excludes the communal software from the competition.

#Oil firms made ‘false claims’ on blue #hydrogen costs, says ex-lobby boss | #HydrogenPower | The Guardian

So-called #BlueHydrogen is another scam that #FossilFuel #companies are promoting to carry on effectively as normal. H2 could potentially be extracted (more) sustainably but the infrastructure isn’t there yet.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/20/oil-firms-made-false-claims-on-blue-hydrogen-costs-says-ex-lobby-boss

#Environment #Energy

Interesting to see this review/comparison of NextCloud with is proprietary competitors in this mainstream IT rag: https://www.itproportal.com/reviews/nextcloud-review/

Just a periodic reminder: Microsoft's VSCode is not open source. No more than Google's Chrome is. Both are based on open source projects (Chromium and the unimaginatively-named VSCodium are open source) but include proprietary stuff like fonts, integrations, and telemetry. If a software app isn't entirely FOSS, it's entirely proprietary. If you're using VSCode or Chrome, you're not using open source.

The former @FCC chief technologist built a scanning system like Apple's. But then: "We warned against our own system design." https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/19/apple-csam-abuse-encryption-security-privacy-dangerous/

Oh, I found it: https://twitter.com/lyta_gold/status/1428011761635143681

😕

I really don't understand liberals in this country who think that the way to get people to change their behavior is to shame them.

"Call them stupid enough times and it'll convince them to get vaccinated, wear a mask, and vote for Democrats!" jfc

Some folks have asked about making a spam blocker for the #Pinephone . I made one here for #Phosh: https://gitlab.com/kop316/phosh-antispam

If the contact is not in your contact list (or you added it as "Spam), it will automatically hang up.

Also, it has some user configuration options to allow 1) blocked numbers, 2) a caller through if they call twice within 10 seconds, or 3) A way to look for a subset of a number (e.g. an area code, a number prefix) and let that through.

Let me know what you think of it!

Wow. Check this out: a RISC-V-based camera component (compatible with OpenMV)... is a similar cost to its ARM Cortext-M7-based predecessor... but is *thousands of times faster*... https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000009313628.html

Psst, pass it on: Billionaires and trillion-dollar corporations are inherently incompatible with social justice.

Signalise is a platform co-op that enables users to request and book interpreting services. Its democratically owned by deaf people, health staff and interpreters. This year they raised £330,000 pounds of investment in a crowdfunding campaign, exceeding their target by 10%.

It has now won the bid to become the main service provider for sign language interpreter services for the National Health Service in Liverpool, the fifth largest city in the country.

https://medium.com/signalisecoop/signalise-co-op-announced-as-nhs-liverpool-ccg-main-provider-5a52b1346fdc

#SteveBell on the #WarOnTerror – #cartoon | Opinion | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2021/aug/16/steve-bell-on-the-war-on-terror-cartoon

#US #Politics #Satire #GeorgeWBush #BarackObama #DonaldTrump #JoeBiden

Do yourself a favor and watch this presentation from the Cooperative Development Foundation

Shared Values #Indigenous People and #Cooperatives

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uGf52RbkT4

#Wikimania

Wikipedia now has a more advanced citing system than science.

You can cite articles in #Wikipedia by giving their ID in #Wikidata. Then if an article is retracted this will become visible on all Wiki pages that cite the article. 🤗

Survivors of domestic abuse need to be able to remove their cell phone plan and information from the control of abusers. A new bill would let them. Tell Congress to pass the Safe Connections Act. https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-to-pass-the-safe-connections-act-and-make-it-easier-for-survivors-to-escape-domestic-violence

The Minnesota Fusion Center, a federal-state law enforcement partnership, has been surveilling water protectors who are trying to protect their land and water sources from tar sands pipelines. https://unicornriot.ninja/2021/line-3-fusion-center-data-declared-secret/