Is your school forcing you to use Zoom, Skype, or other proprietary videoconferencing software to learn or teach? That's a violation of your educational rights. Support #FreeSoftware https://fsf.org
Life's for the living, not competing. Relax; take it easy; take a hit.
Can we just kill everybody and start over? Oh wait! That's what we're already trying to do! #climatechange
Adaptive version of #gnome #calendar running on #pureos on the #librem5. This is still a work in progress, some issues still need to be solved before releasing this. But again; “hey it’s progress” :D.
Credits to @KekunPlazas fr his work on this.
Just gonna leave this here. 👇
(from https://newint.org/features/2021/08/09/money-ultimate-decolonizer-fjf )
Once again my #coop is hiring: https://app.beapplied.com/apply/bx6k4sjaxe
We do open data stuff for public good. This role in particular is focussed on beneficial ownership data analysis and standards development, but internally there's a lot of flexibility about what you work on and we have a variety of ongoing projects. It's particularly fun to do transparency and anti-corruption stuff though.
We have flat pay, are all remote, mostly UK-based, mostly part time, extremely flexi, and always looking for new ways to improve our wellbeing.
There's a birdsite thread with more info here: https://twitter.com/opendatacoop/status/1450787984706506755 (which I might recreate on here later).
Neither Front Porch Forum nor Pantip get the headlines of a Facebook—but not because they're unsuccessful forums. In this installment of our series on the Public Interest internet, we talk about why localized services matter. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/10/bangkok-burlington-public-interest-social-internet
Have ideas for how to improve Debian? Submit a project proposal. https://freexian-team.pages.debian.net/project-funding
The Marin County Sheriff uses automated license plate readers to track the movements of drivers, and shares its database with hundreds of out-of-state and federal agencies, including ICE.
Now, community activists are suing over this illegal data sharing. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/10/eff-files-new-lawsuit-against-california-sheriff-sharing-alpr-data-ice-and-cbp
Purism's App Developer, Dorota Czaplejewicz shows how she used PulseAudio to play sounds from the laptop on her #librem5 📢
https://puri.sm/posts/speak-to-me/
RT @RancidBacon@twitter.com
@AntonHand@twitter.com If more people who depend on creative tools had this realization it could be transformative in terms of tools available to them.
If even fraction of $$$ creatives spend on software tools went to projects like Blender/Krita/Godot/Inkscape their tools could be their own.
Forever.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/RancidBacon/status/1449854436394762240
How do you fund free software sustainably? In this post I talk about some of the main approaches, the problems with some funding models, and specifically how (and why) Purism takes the approach we do. https://puri.sm/posts/how-purism-funds-free-software/
Was just talking to a new neighbour briefly, who, it turns out, runs a national gov't owned organisation. We were talking IT systems and she said (clearly expecting me to be impressed) that they were a fully Microsoft shop, and had just moved to a Microsoft Dynamics CRM system. Unfortunately I couldn't help but wince and had to say "you're throwing money into a hole"... We've agreed to discuss it in more detail over a pint in future...
Figured some people here might be interested:
The Maintainers are funding 4x $10k fellowships next year for people "whose maintenance, repair, and care work has substantial and practical engagements with the environment, and who are passionate about cross-disciplinary and interprofessional collaboration."
Applications due Nov. 4
Improvements for those of us who run #phosh daily on their #librem5:
- the media player allows to skip in songs/podcasts (by @ollieparanoid)
- headphones show a different icon
- music player gets muted on headphone unplug
#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