Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Implementing sortition to elect #Cooperative boards

https://cooperativesfirst.com/blog/2022/02/07/choosing-leaders-by-lottery/

Dymo's desktop label-makers enjoyed a boom during lockdown, thanks to the shift to e-commerce and the demand for shipping labels. But that windfall wasn't enough for the company. They just released two new models, the 550 and the 5XL, whose DRM prevents you from using third-party labels:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/02/worst-timeline-printer-company-putting-drm-paper-now

Third-party labels for desktop label-makers are ubiquitous. Different manufacturers produce them, differentiating on materials, size, and adhesive. Oh, and price, naturally.

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Ugh. This fills me with no confidence whatsoever. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/02/finding-vulnerabilities-in-open-source-projects.html Bruce, I'd hoped for more incredulity from you.

That's an important challenge, because McKinsey's business relies on fielding plausible experts that will maintain its role as consigliere to 90 of the 100 largest businesses in the world. But McKinsey itself is such a force for ill that it keeps losing top personnel. Some - like Anand Giridharadas, go on to write bestsellers that eviscerate its claims to virtue:

https://memex.craphound.com/2018/11/10/winners-take-all-modern-philanthropy-means-that-giving-some-away-is-more-important-than-how-you-got-it/

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Attention all media uploaders! Please caption your images and video so that everyone, not just the sighted, can appreciate, boost and reply to your brilliant memes and funny fails.

We've added a couple of themes to Ecko that highlight undescribed media but one wonders if more can be done.

In discussions around Media Upload in ActivityPub mention is made of a summary but it is non-normative. So would it make sense to formalize the handling of captions and text descriptions? Can a protocol extension or document help the fedi become more accessible at network level?

h/t @weirdwriter @makarygo

Suddenly, their closed source bionic eye implants lost their updates.

Their implants: now "obsolete, and unsupported".

The employees were laid off.

What happens to the patients when software upgrades are gone?

#FOSS matters.

#OpenSource #Firmware #Bionic #Transhumanism #Implant #Medical #News

https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete

[Full-time] Senior Technical Writer at Wikimedia Foundation https://www.fossjobs.net/job/10851/senior-technical-writer-at-wikimedia-foundation/ #jobs

Q. What's worse than printers with DRM ink?
A. Printers with DRM *paper*

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/02/worst-timeline-printer-company-putting-drm-paper-now

Akamai is acquiring @linode https://www.akamai.com/newsroom/press-release/akamai-to-acquire-linode

🔎 #Google #Search Is Dying

"The #SEO marketers gaming their way to the top of every Google search result might as well be robots. Everything is commercialized. Someone’s always trying to sell you something. Whether they’re a bot or human, they are decidedly fake."

https://dkb.io/post/google-search-is-dying

Anybody know what happened to this planned worker-owned laundry in New Haven, CT? Most recent reporting I can find is from almost 2 years ago. @mattcropp, you know anything?

https://www.newhavenindependent.org/article/boa_consol_plan

Our amazing Silvia López from DisCO and @guerrillamediacollective talks here about Cooperative Organizations for the Commons and how we have created a system for tracking contributions of different types (probono, livelihood and carework). ❤️

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5ze77suebU

these are some of the tips and tricks I used as a health reporter to access academic studies without spending thousands of dollars on them https://blog.yaelwrites.com/how-to-bypass-paywalls-to-access-academic-studies/

The last time this bill was introduced, we generated so much vocal backlash that it never went to a floor vote. Now we need EVERYONE to speak out, and most importantly spread the word.Post this link anywhere you can reach people online: https://www.noearnitact.org

Are there any Fosstodon like Peertube instances?
I mean FOSS oriented, community funded, well maintained, etc

#fediverese #peertube #foss #fosstodon #opensource

We're looking for mentors and projects for Google Summer of Code 2022! Learn more and submit your ideas here: https://discourse.gnome.org/t/call-for-project-ideas-and-mentors-for-google-summer-of-code-2022-by-march-1st/8930

#GSoC #GSoC2022 #internship #opensource

The people of Ohio would be better off with nothing than with this so-called privacy protection act. Tell your representatives to stop this bill. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/02/ohio-dont-give-big-tech-pass-privacy