Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Although listening to Hayden Donnell on Midweek Mediawatch trying to explain the problems with social media as a general problem of under-moderation of the net, rather than one specific to zero-conscience corporate ownership and ad-driven datafarming business models, I can't help but think the journalists will be the last to get it ;)

@lightweight @rysiek

The problem with letting strangers put things into your computer, is, you're letting strangers put things into your computer.

I don't know if we'll ever figure out how to do this in a way that doesn't end in tears.

If you have had trouble to move your account to another instance due to a problem with the alias page, please try again.

A patch has been deployed on top of Mastodon v3.5.1 that should resolve this bug.

PSA: To everyone who is #NewHere, and those who are not.

When you use hashtags it can help those using a #ScreenReader to use #CamelCase. Screen-readers can then find and pronounce the constituent words, rather than trying to pronounce the whole thing.

It's not essential, but it's one way we can make the Fediverse more welcoming.

I don't really understand this or why they don't call it a new battery technology. It sounds amazing, but also like one of those amazing post-carbon technologies you never hear about again after reading the article (which leaves me unsure if it's because of patents, lack of market interest, or the tech was overhyped).

Anyway, perhaps someone else knows.

"Solar energy can now be stored for up to 18 years, say scientists "
https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/04/12/solar-energy-can-now-be-stored-for-up-to-18-years-say-scientists

Researchers find Amazon uses Alexa voice data to target you with ads.

The report concludes that #Amazon and third parties (including advertising and #tracking services) collect data from your interactions with #Alexa through #Echo smart speakers and share it with as many as 41 #advertising partners.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/28/23047026/amazon-alexa-voice-data-targeted-ads-research-report

At least you can say you are not alone at home anymore.

41 fu**ing partners.

#privacyMatters #domotics #privacy

🚩 ✊ #Labor #LaborDay #workers #MayDay

TIL that linktr.ee pages, which exist to serve a *list of links,* something websites in 1995 could do, does not load at all without JS enabled.

Does anyone else find it outrageous that U.N. agencies keep removing RSS feeds for their updates while prominently featuring Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Youtube accounts on their websites? Our taxes fund these entities. We deserve open access to the content they produce.

Much of the independent web relies on Patreon to organize financial support.

The good folks at @comradery are building an ethical alternative as a co-op.

One of their rules is "no bosses, no cops". It's not meant for businesses (even nonprofits like the one I work for) but for independent creators, workers, activists, and co-ops.

If that could be a good fit for anything you our your friends are doing, maybe give them a follow here to stay updated as they're building the platform!

✨️ I made a thing! 🎉️

Check out my brandnew webcomic, "Contra Chrome":

👉️ https://contrachrome.com

Subtitle: How #Google‘s browser became a threat to #privacy and #democracy.

Featuring Shoshana Zuboff, vegan Piranhas, and everything you ever wanted to know about #Chrome but were afraid to ask!

Read and download for free – hope you like it! 😊

And if you do, please spread the word!

#BoostsWelcome
#comic #comics

If any #Vermont/#NewEngland folks are interested in learning about #EmployeeOwnership, #workercoops, etc., the Vermont Employee Ownership Conference is happening June 9 in Burlington! You can register here:

If the price is beyond your means, DM me, as we offer a variety of discounts to students, first-timers exploring, etc. https://whova.com/portal/registration/veoc_202206/

#btv #vt #coop #workercoop #ESOP #cooperative #cooperatives

"There is just one significant flaw in the tragedy [of the commons] parable. It does not accurately describe a commons. Hardin's fictional scenario sets forth a system that has no boundaries around the pasture, no rules for managing it, no punishments for overuse and no distinct community of users. But that is not a commons. ... A commons requires that there be a community willing to act as a conscientious steward of a resource"

-- "Think like a Commoner"

In the spirit of #linuxappsummit , I'm looking for someone on site to help me debug a #KDE specific bug in my #GNOME app https://github.com/sonnyp/Junction/issues/70 anyone interested ? Boost appreciated

@kyle using the #Librem5 internal smartcard reader to unlock LUKS with #osk-sdl to type the #smartcard pin

In the pics you can see the in the output the public key used to encrypt the storage unit.

🚨 🌍 🇺🇳 UN Secretary-General: World leaders have...

36 weeks

... to prevent #climate catastrophe.

https://nitter.net/antonioguterres/status/1517828129338757120

💉💰 #Vaccine makers took BILLIONS of dollars in public funding. So why are they keeping #COVID19 vaccines from lower-income countries?

🗣️ Join in calling on #Pfizer #Moderna and others to #ShareTheScience and help end the #COVID #pandemic.

if you agree.

👴 OK kids...

Before #Mastodon, before #socialMedia, before the #Web, we had the #BBS.

If you wanna learn from those who came before, here's a comprehensive 5-hour #documentary about bulletin board systems. 🤓

(Of course, given the world back then it's mostly 5 hours of old white guys. So it goes!)

https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=nO5vjmDFZaI