Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Ugh. As if we needed more concerns, seems the basis for the global food system is far more precarious than I even knew... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/19/banks-collapsed-in-2008-food-system-same-producers-regulators

Update on the announced self-hostable #bandcamp alternative: Got tons of work done on the foundation over the last days (architecture, reading, transcoding, caching, syncing, configuration, cli arguments, ...). Today was the first time I did some design exporation (first glimpses attached - these are already in-browser screenshots of the functional interface, not mockups :)). I'm developing out in the open at https://codeberg.org/simonrepp/faircamp °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖°

Development Teaser: I'm working on a self-hostable #bandcamp alternative - implemented as a static site generator written in #rust

As a small tech tradeoff and an experiment I'm integrating a soft paycurtain: Albums can display a price tag, (including a user interaction for setting a price for "name your price" albums), payment directions are given (Liberapay, SEPA, etc. as configured), but the payment itself is not technically enforced, i.e. the listener is asked to affirm by themselves - by clicking a button - that they have paid for what they want, and only then given the download link. I'm open to experiment further with this when I've released faircamp (current codename) to the public. I could also imagine an option for integrating a hard paywall based on entering a token that could e.g. be made exclusively available to your backers on an external platform (ghost, patreon, steady, paypal, ...).

Been fleshing out the first prototype all day today, and having a blast! ✌️

Anyone out there using Photoprism (https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism) or LibrePhotos (https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos) as a GooglePhotos/Flickr replacement? I'm wondering what you like/don't like, or if you've tried both, which you prefer!

Darn. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-teams-windows-11-hacked-on-first-day-of-pwn2own/ Well, that should breed enterprise confidence in the Microsoft monoculture :)

Police in #Atlanta made brutal arrests this weekend as hundreds - including pre-school students - marched against #CopCity. Today as police attempted to evict tree-sitters while promoting tired claims of "outside agitators," one local resident fires back. https://itsgoingdown.org/on-many-fronts-why-one-atlanta-resident-is-fighting-to-stop-cop-city/

Ok, so trying to test Mobilizon events... here's a proposed event: https://events.nzoss.nz/@free_and_open_source_virtual_gatherings - see if you can sign up either using a 'federated identity' on another Mobilizon instance (if you have one) or your Mastodon identity...

Our parent org, Freedom of the Press Foundation, is now also home to Dangerzone, a tool developed by @micahflee that lets you convert potentially dangerous PDF files, images, and office documents into safe PDFs:

https://freedom.press/news/welcome-to-the-dangerzone/

As part of this transition to FPF stewardship, we're also looking for a part-time developer for Dangerzone (6 month contract, $40K fixed budget, schedule is yours to propose). If you're interested, please consider applying!

https://grnh.se/77e5b7b55us

Ella Baker's trajectory from the Young Negro Cooperative League, through the NAACP and SCLC to SNCC is fascinating and inspiring, constantly moving toward democratic self-organization.
#EllaJoBaker

How to Write #Software With Mathematical Perfection
Quanta Magazine

An article about #LesleyLamport (who also wrote #LaTeX, of course).

https://www.quantamagazine.org/computing-expert-says-programmers-need-more-math-20220517/

🇺🇸 #PSA for US folks:

As of today, each house can now request 8 additional no-charge #COVID tests shipped free. (Total of 16 per house if you have not yet requested any.)

https://www.covid.gov/tests

Little headsup, Mastodon developers seem to be testing a language selector in the posting interface (see attached image).

The idea is you set the language you're posting in which will make it easier for other people to filter your post out if they don't speak it.

You can already set your default language in the Preferences/Settings section, but the idea of this new feature is to let you optionally change the setting for each particular message. This is handy if you toot in several languages.

I have no idea if/when this will be rolled out, the developers' instances often get test features like this.

#Mastodon

GoFundMe for martyr and hero Reuel Rodriguez-Nunez: https://gofund.me/54dacb91

@subMedia @igd_news

#MargaretThatcher statue egged within hours of it being installed | Margaret Thatcher | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/may/15/margaret-thatcher-statue-grantham-egged-within-hours-of-it-being-installed