Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I built this tool a year ago but I feel like Mastodon folks would like it

The "Weird Old Book Finder"

Type in a search query, and it'll find one randomly-chosen public-domain book that matches the query -- and present it for immediate reading: https://weird-old-book-finder.glitch.me

Why only one book? To prevent the paradox of choice! Just *start readin'*

Can't promise every book will be weird, but most are

A longer essay on how/why I developed it: https://debugger.medium.com/a-search-engine-that-finds-you-weird-old-books-3a74fbb5f3d4

This was a search for "mastodon"

A year ago I started working on supporting GL Textures in the rusty @GStreamer Paintable @GTK Sink and now its merged 🎉
This should dramatically reduce the CPU usage consumed and allow for zero-copy rendering when used with hardware decoders.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-rs/-/merge_requests/588

I'm dismayed at some of the people on the #left throwing shade at #decentralization as "some #libertarian noise." Like, this is literally people #seizing the #means of mass communication, and these people are opting to side with the #profiteers because apparently it turns out the #proles are actually scary.
The ideal socialist condition would be independent communities self-governing and engaging in mutual aid. How the hell does #Twitter fit that model even *remotely* better than #Mastodon?

MPD is there now at the Hiawatha-Lake camp, trying to ensure a bobcat operator can destroy tents before people can salvage them.

It had been all Metro Transit cops (as far as marked cars / uniforms) earlier today..

For anyone in the US that is "unbanked" and on Social Security: if you are having troubles accessing your account, it's not just you.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/12/links-12-2-2022.html#comment-3819797

Please forward.

There is conversation about a proposed gathering of collectively/cooperatively/democratically run Mastodon instances.

As @natematias has pointed out, this conversation needs to start with #bipoc, #lgbtqia+, and other people who have been (and continue to be) attacked in social media spaces.

If you are running a #Black, #BIPOC, #LGBTQIA+ or other instance, does a gathering of collective/cooperative instances seem useful to you?

#deij #jedi

https://app.element.io/#/room/#democratic-fediverse:matrix.org

Police are showing up at the doors of protestors in China who have demonstrated against the lockdowns there. They tracked them down using their phones and their faces: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/business/china-protests-surveillance.html

I'm thinking of trying out Last.fm as a way of keeping track of what I listen to while in the workshop because I thought it might be a fun thing to share. But maybe there is a better/simpler way of doing this that doesn't involve giving more data to an opaque corporation? Anyone have thoughts?

I'll be playing music off of my (android) phone, in case that matters.

"Schools are slowly becoming extremely reliant on a few large companies’ entire technological stacks in order to operate. In turn, these stacks are reshaping what schooling is and could be, and exercising unaccountable control over students, teachers, administrators and content providers alike".
This worries me quite a lot, actually. Read the whole essay. https://educationdatafutures.digitalfuturescommission.org.uk/essays/competing-interests-in-education-data/schools-must-resist-big-edtech
(via @garyackerman)

With all the new folks joining here, I thought I should lay out a couple guiding posts for #AltText. I hope it will give everyone something to consider going forward, and I strongly encourage everyone to use this tool. It engages those like me, who have been shut out of entire conversations in the past because we couldn't follow along due to an absence of described images.
#A11y #Advocacy

The Brewer's Advent calendar from Costco is a personal treat every holiday season. Each day there's a new obscure German beer I can't find locally. 23 more days of this! #beer #advent

#introductions Hi, we are Earth First UK, promoting green anarchism in this bit of the world (https://www.earthfirst.uk/).

Totally new to Mastodon, no idea how it works! Be great to link up with others involved ecological organising.