Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

ATTN: Canadian #Coop scholars. Scholarships available for graduate and undergradute students from CASC

https://canada.coop/wp-content/uploads/CASC-Scholarships-ENG.pdf

Galileo from @ProSieben, one of Germany’s most popular television programs released a new episode covering #Nextcloud as a major challenger against Microsoft’s cloud services.

Watch for @fkarlitschek in the episode and read about it in our blog!

https://nextcloud.com/blog/galileo-presents-nextcloud-as-major-challenger-of-microsoft/

Good morning social.coop - my proposal to fix our missing privacy policy currently has 50 votes

https://www.loomio.com/p/qkE3BUsN/social-coop-should-have-a-privacy-policy

This is actually a historically very good participation rate! But is only 16% of our loomio group 😢 (and only 8% of our active members on social.coop 😱 )

I believe in social.coop's mission to model participatory decision-making, so please go vote!

#socialcoop #governance

Wireless Carriers Find That Nobody Cares About #5G Despite Years Of Hype - https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/05/wireless-carriers-find-that-nobody-cares-about-5g-despite-years-of-hype/ just as many of us predicted...

This graph speaks for itself. It is factual, hard data about global temperature rise over the last 2019 years.

This graph is based on solid peer-reviewed #science. #Climate deniers hate on this "hockey stick" graph, but their objections have been thoroughly debunked.

Show a climate-denier this graph and link. Lead them to water, even if they won't drink.

Link Sauce : https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.32KW973

#ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency #GlobalWarming

Question for recent folks joining the #Fediverse from #Twtitter... if you deleted your Twitter account, have you found yourself locked out of any non-Twitter services that you logged into using your Twitter credentials (using it as an OAuth or OpenID provider)? I suspect that could be an unexpected side-effect of the changing social media landscape. Good to get people considering the implications of their decisions made with their convenience as the only priority...

Things may be starting nice and slow over here, but work's getting done. #Pinetta is currently in the planning stages; if you're interested to know what's up, why not star our repo on @Codeberg?

https://codeberg.org/dragfyre/pinetta

As mentioned in our roadmap, Two main things are due for December: 1) an initial decision on a language / library framework; and 2) an initial statement of principles, which will later feed into Pinetta's Code of Conduct and community framework.

If conservatives really cared about free speech, Twitter and reporting about Hunter Biden's laptop, why don't they say something about #DDoSecrets? https://theintercept.com/2022/11/22/elon-musk-twitter-censor-ddosecrets/

We made the data available to credentialed journalists - regardless of politics - along with analysis of the timeline and forensics. https://ddosecrets.com/wiki/Hunter_Biden_Laptop

But it's not about good faith arguments, or unbiased data to them. If it were, they wouldn't be silent about our global archives being banned.

If you want to support the data behind actual journalism, contribute to our new fundraiser as we go into our fourth year at https://DDoSecrets.Charity/

It's so funny that our current problem with AI is that it's more obedient of its operators than its owners.

Hello Mastodon.

I am looking for new PhD students to come work with me at the Oxford Internet Institute in 22/23 (@oiioxford) to study the future of data privacy and digital rights, the impact of AI and algorithms on digital platforms, and help co-create better digital futures.

Boosts very much appreciated! 🐘

If the Dems actually were serious about taking and keeping power (at least for a few generations) they would be fixing healthcare. If any party successfully makes healthcare free at point of service, they won't need to worry about losing an election for a good long while. But, of course, nobody in either political party actually cares about winning voters, as it's the campaign funders who they are really working for.

https://theintercept.com/2022/11/29/wisconsin-medicare-for-all-health-care/

Underground greenhouses are helping indigenous communities achieve greater food sovereignty and adapt to the climate crisis.

#AppropriateTechnology
#FoodSovereignty
#Greenhouses

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/03/south-dakota-reservation-food-desert-residents-transforming-crop-oasis

Had an uncomfortable moment earlier this morning that I'm still mulling over.

A friend of mine had boosted a toot, I clicked through, and read what I thought was an interesting dialog representing diverse perspectives on an issue.

I was poised to recommend the thread, when I dug a bit deeper and saw some stuff that seemed weird and out of place. Then viewed the thread on the original instance and saw that there was some abusive trolling by someone on an instance my instance blocks.

Students respond better to feedback when it's depersonalized.

Personal: Your wording here is unclear
Impersonal: The wording here is unclear.

Personal: Your organization is confusing.
Impersonal: The organization is confusing.

Personal: You made the opposite claim in the previous paragraph.
Impersonal: The previous paragraph made the opposite claim.

I've found that this makes a massive difference, giving students the detachment they need to focus on their writing.

#AcademicMastodon

#RailStrike #union #RailroadStrike
The Railroad Workers Rank-and-File Committee has announced an online rally this Tues at 7 pm EST, register here: https://t.co/E5UxiVwdVV
Supporters are encouraged to attend!!
If you are a railroad worker, To join the Railroad Workers Rank-and-File Committee (RWRFC) email railwrfc@gmail.com or text (314) 529-1064
The RWRFC issues the following statement, declaring congress & the presidents attempts to crush a rail strike illegitimate:

Let's say you have a legislative body that wants to be able to kill popular bills while maintaining an aura of legitimacy. What you do is this: create an abstruse, arbitrary rule about how bills are adopted that requires a super-majority of votes for anything to get passed.

1/

“Gates sold it by announcing a product that didn’t exist, developing it on the model of the best version available elsewhere, not testing it very seriously, demonstrating an edition that didn’t fully work, and finally releasing the product in rather buggy form after a lengthy delay. From then on this modus operandi became Microsoft’s trademark”, From https://web.archive.org/web/20051013072349/http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS_1.html

@lightweight Unix since the 80's DEC prior. I watched aghast Microsoft do what it did - putting back computer literacy and development by 10 years. At least. Never mind. They did get some good acquisitions and some of those are deeply embedded in organisation IT systems. Microsoft supports those assets as best it can. In the end, it is Microsoft who'll be called on if any of the millions of lines of code i wrote against such assets need to be supported. Woe is their email debacle.