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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 fsf.org

Life's for the living, not competing. Relax; take it easy; take a hit.

Listening to a younger friend talk about their child's grades starting to slip. Really couldn't bring myself to say, "So, they're starting to see through the bullshit!".

Can we just kill everybody and start over? Oh wait! That's what we're already trying to do!

Adaptive version of running on on the . 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.

Once again my #coop is hiring: app.beapplied.com/apply/bx6k4s

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: twitter.com/opendatacoop/statu (which I might recreate on here later).

#coopjobs #cooplife

In case you missed it. Google Play may be about to do something unethical to Termux. Suggestion is to back up now, uninstall the Google Play version to stop them uploading a destructive stub, and reinstall from F-Droid.

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. eff.org/deeplinks/2021/10/bang

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. eff.org/deeplinks/2021/10/eff-

Purism's App Developer, Dorota Czaplejewicz shows how she used PulseAudio to play sounds from the laptop on her 📢
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.

🐦🔗: twitter.com/RancidBacon/status

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. puri.sm/posts/how-purism-funds

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...

So... I'm keen on the NodeJS and Svelte ecosystems, but I'm keen to avoid Microsoft dependencies - I actively avoid VSCode, Typescript, and Github. I develop on Linux, so is there a viable alternative to npm I can use there, given that it's also now owned (captured) by Microsoft?

Starting to feel conflicted about whether the impact of Richard Wolff is a net positive to the cooperative movement.

He seems very fanatical and quite apologetic towards things like the genocidal Soviet Union.

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

themaintainers.org/call-for-mo

Improvements for those of us who run daily on their :
- the media player allows to skip in songs/podcasts (by @ollieparanoid)
- headphones show a different icon
- music player gets muted on headphone unplug

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