Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

To my knowledge – and, BOY, would I like to be wrong about this – there is not a single other platform in the world that supports the by-works model that Patreon offers.

To be crystal clear, it entails:

• Patrons pledge to pay $n per work, on an ongoing basis, in advance of the work being done.

• The creator then generates works on an ad hoc basis, not to any set schedule, and each time they do, they check in with the UI to bill their patrons.

PSA: Google has now begun to roll-out the Ad Topics "feature" onto Android itself. It's not just in Chrome you have to disable the settings. Please #Boost to spread awareness.

If you didn't get the pop-up screen on your Android device (it'll look like the first two screenshots), to opt-out of these settings:

Go to your device Settings
Press on "Google"
Press on "Ads"While you're here, press on the "Delete Advertising ID" button and delete it
Press on "Ad Privacy"
Review: "Ad Topics", "App-suggested ads", and "App Measurement". Make sure they are all labelled as "OFF". (This page will look like the third screenshot.)

If you don't see "Ad Privacy" in Step 4 then it means that it hasn't been rolled out to you yet. You might need to wait and check back in a couple of days to see if/when it has been implemented to disable these settings.

#Android #Google #Privacy #AdTopics

"“Obama came here saying GMOs are good, but his family had an organic garden behind the White House!” he recalled. “All of the Western leaders are like hunters who use poison. They don’t eat that meat. They sell it.”

By the start of Obama’s second term, the alliance to industrialize African agriculture had stepped up its PR offensive, largely thanks to the money and strategic direction of its de facto leader, Bill Gates.."

Best episode in #Apple's climate TV show was the patent-free rice one.

"a regional and global crusade to integrate every aspect of smallholder farming into the industrial food system.

"The crusade’s most stubborn opponent has been the humble seed, whose natural ability to replicate has made it uniquely resistant to proprietary control.

"Since the 1980s, agribusiness, its sponsor governments, and its mega-philanthropy allies have targeted this stubbornness as though it were a tumor, using national laws and threats… to introduce patent-protected hybrids and GMOs."

Air quality forces cancellation of Yellowknife welcome-home show

Even for Yellowknifers who think they’ve seen it all this summer, Saturday morning was something.
The sky that greeted waking residents was, at best, dark orange.
Tiny shards of ash fluttered to the surface of dimly apocalyptic streets.
https://cabinradio.ca/154265/news/yellowknife/yellowknife-awakens-to-grossest-morning-in-city-history/
By 10am, the sky outside remained remarkably and eerily dark.

Misinformation researchers are under vicious attack from Republicans, who have made lies and deceitful propaganda key tools in their campaign to overthrow democracy. The attacker aren't just burning honest education these days. They're burning the research that makes learning even possible. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/23/online-misinformation-jim-jordan/

This is very informative about the 'Groundswell' organisation. https://yewtu.be/watch?v=gw2vowJ0E8c or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw2vowJ0E8c Unsurprisingly, it's the corporate landowners mostly trying to create the *impression* of a grassroots movement. Same story as usual - the precariat is meat in the sandwich.

@julianfairfax @agx @deedend @devrtz @purism
okay, this might come as a shock, but electron is a f*** chrome-browser.

Had a project lately, where the developing party did not allow to use the dev-mode inside the electron based client.
well, QA as we are, we know packetsniffers and found the base-url.
From there it was just open chromium and use dev-tools...
so when people say the develop in, they mean they develop for google-chrome.

Latest comic: The Real Conspiracy

#misinformation #disinformation #authoritarianism #democracy #cartoon

@devrtz Purism is doing the right thing by pricing their hardware to support software developers. With Red Hat beginning to pull support from the Linux desktop, we need another company that can fill the gap. @purism is our best hope today.

Interesting concept: basically, #Comradery seems to be a cooperatively-owned #Patreon-alternative. Certainly it would be hard to make it work, but there's no particular reason it *couldn't*, & if it did, it'd be a great test case.
I feel like the main caveat with things like this is just don't put all your eggs in this basket.
https://comradery.co/

@julianfairfax @deedend @devrtz @purism

Linux wasn't a "desktop" platform to begin with either so that argument doesn't make sense.

Linux is what we make out of it by contributing to the solution. The Linux kernel has the capability to run well on mobile. We have mobile shells and adaptive toolkits and devices that can run them well. We need to continue to grow the app ecosystem and work on infrastructure bits sure but this very thread proves that this is happening at a nice pace.

Wow, well done @thelinuxEXP - this is a cool video about #LibreSoftware alternatives to popular proprietary software: https://tilvids.com/w/5XTPqzq54ENNm7kELSaoTw

That "smart lighting" from Philips is about to spy on you in new ways you can't control -- naturally the company is claiming it's to protect you. This is Trump-level lying.

https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/09/22/philips-hue-force-users-upload-data-to-cloud/

I think, given that MS Azure costs at least 10 x much of its competition, the NZ public service (i.e. we taxpayers) are being ripped off. https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/201838240/should-nz-health-data-be-in-the-cloud I need ot have a word with Ben Creet about praising "cloud providers'" security... some are far worse than others, and Microsoft's no where near the head of the pack.

#Unity claims that the removal of their ToS repo right after they changed it was just "unfortunate timing" and that the reason was that "it got too low views"...

I give it a year before they pull the same shit again. Do yourself a favor, and use a #FreeSoftware tool, like #GodotEngine.

"Farmers, ranchers and forest landowners who experienced discrimination in USDA’s farm lending programs prior to January 1, 2021 have until the end of October to apply for financial assistance through Section 22007 of the Inflation Reduction Act. The Discrimination Financial Assistance Program (DFAP) application process will close on October 31."

https://ncbaclusa.coop/blog/icymi-usdas-discrimination-financial-assistance-program-is-accepting-applications-through-october-31/

UK: Anarchist comrade Toby Shone abducted by armed cops & sent back to prison!
"Toby Shone is an anarchist who was imprisoned in Wandsworth, Bristol and G4S Prison Parc for nearly two years accused of being the administrator of counter-information project 325.nostate.net. After the political prosecution failed and the cops had to drop the case 5 days before trial in October 2021, Toby received a sentence of 3 years 9 months for possession of psychedelic medicines. He was released on 28 December 2022 under heavy restrictions (license conditions), oversight by a multi-agency team (MAPPA) including the National Security Division (counter-terror) and forced to live in a filthy bail hostel in Gloucester for 9 months. He had just moved back into a flat in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire 9 days ago.
(...)
Toby is in a good mood, as always, and asks for letters and books.
You can write to:
Toby Shone A7645EP
HMP Bristol
19 Cambridge
Bishopston Road Bristol BS7 8 CV"

https://darknights.noblogs.org/post/2023/09/22/uk-anarchist-comrade-toby-shone-abducted-by-armed-cops-sent-back-to-prison/
#UK #Anarchism #AnarchistPrisoners #politicalprisoner #AbolishPrisons

“The Negative Relationship between Reasoning and Religiosity Is Underpinned by a Bias for Intuitive Responses Specifically When Intuition and Logic Are in Conflict”

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02191/full

#weekend #reading #religion #science