The UK government's new ad campaign makes a ridiculous assertion: that privacy is just a cover for criminality. No one is buying it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/01/uk-paid-724000-creepy-campaign-convince-people-encryption-bad-it-wont-work
Eight Bills Construct an Authoritarian Legal Infrastructure
https://bylinetimes.com/2022/01/24/enabling-acts-citizenship-of-quarter-of-britons-at-risk-as-conservatives-construct-an-authoritarian-legal-infrastructure/
"the state and the private interests with which it is entwined will have newfound powers to limit and control politics, education, media, culture, and health – while being capable of deploying covert political violence to silence dissent."
The East Bay Permanent Real Estate #Cooperative is hiring a Co-ownership and Education Facilitator.
@GuerillaOntologist @bhaugen @datatitian @Matt_Noyes @ntnsndr @aral @Framasoft @tierra_comun
CommunityBridge.com offers free BBB video chat rooms and there is US dial-in capability. We help by offering tech support but it is rarely needed as the interface is clear and zoom-ish https://communitybridge.com/faq
easy to get a dedicated room up https://communitybridge.com/hosting
@bhaugen
Welcome to Global Rebirth Group on Signal: https://stevebosserman.micro.blog/2022/01/23/signal-membership.html
The Appalachian Staple Foods Collaborative is interesting to me as it overlaps with what we are trying to build (a CSA for staples and other produce that stores well)
The combination of ag production, IT skills and alternative economics made me think of you. But maybe you are already aware?
This also from Steve gives further overview https://greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/
Doesnt look like @steveb is very active on Mastodon
@bhaugen @bonfire @lynnfoster @disco_coop @GuerillaOntologist @datatitian @ntnsndr @aral @FreeScholar @Framasoft @tierra_comun
1) I will copy and paste all of these toots, since there is good material here.
2) Case in point - look at the required skills... https://www.idealist.org/en/consultant-job/b3e6a8f3f19d4fbab456fb07e73f4e03-project-coordinator-upside-down-consulting-llc-chicago
CommunityBridge.com - Privacy Workshop: Intro to Basic Security Tools
How to Check what information is coming in and out of a system, using netstat, tcpdump and nmap
Join us at 3pm - Wednesday the 26th of January
See more detail here https://communitybridge.com/privacyworkshop
I sure this will go over like a lead balloon, but still...
https://jacobinmag.com/2022/01/cryptocurrency-scam-blockchain-bitcoin-economy-decentralization
State lawmakers across the country are hearing more from farmers, mechanics, independent repair shops, and everyday people: copyright restrictions shouldn’t stand in the way of the right to repair. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/01/copyright-shouldnt-stand-way-your-right-repair
The soft deadline for the #FOSSASIA #cfp hit a few hours ago, but there's still time before the hard deadline
FOSSASIA had some great content last year and is nicely situated timewise for Asia, AU and NZ and also for the Americas
https://eventyay.com/e/6b901f56/cfs
The virtual conference is 7th to 9th of April
I strongly agree with this: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2022-01-21/climate-scientists-ban-solar-geoengineering/
[Full-time] Open Source Engineering Manager at RStudio https://www.fossjobs.net/job/10821/open-source-engineering-manager-at-rstudio/ #jobs
If you run (or participate in) an organisation that advocates for open technology or open source software... and you're active on Twitter but not in the Fedisphere... I encourage you to remedy that clanging dissonance. It's both free and easy to walk the talk (and be ideologically consistent). I can assist if you don't know what I'm talking about.
Happy to report that the European Commission's Open Source Programme Office decided to fund a bug bounty program for #Mastodon!
One way to get people to move toward FOSS alternatives.
https://9to5google.com/2022/01/19/g-suite-legacy-free-edition/
At this last stage of my career, I have never seen an objective choice on methods, processes, or even programming languages be made. Thus my focus has switched more to software metrics. I have my own subjective preferences in some areas of software development (some of which appear to be strongly correlated by existing metrics data), but without metrics we are all chickens running around with our heads cut off.
Early in my career I was mostly writing single use programs, so my focus was more on which programming language to use. As I moved into bigger teams and projects, the focus shifted from programming languages to processes and methods. Reuse, scheduling, and productivity all became more important to be in focus. Software team management became more interesting, but in seeing how little autonomy my managers possessed, it never became a destination goal.
My first blog post on GEO.coop, and expanded version of a toot I posted here on Christopher Alecander...
"An organization of this type completes the movements and communities of which it is a part, preserves their structure, makes them deeper, makes them better, by creating strong centers in them and next to them..."
https://geo.coop/blog/reading-nature-order-vision-living-world
#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