Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Um....no Bad idea. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200 dollars.

https://www.cryptoninjas.net/2021/04/23/decentralized-employment-cooperative-opolis-launches-native-work-token/

https://opolis.co/

Announcing XMPP<=>ActivityPub gateway project doubled with XMPP Pubsub end-to-end encryption supported by NLnet/NGI Zero (thanks again @NGIZero !)

https://www.goffi.org/b/activitypub-gateway-and-pubsub-e2ee-QGqK

#XMPP #activitypub #libervia #nlnet #e2ee #pubsub

1/ Just got off the phone with pops and got the update on shenanigans at the state legislative session. Highlights include:
- A bill to allow crossbows to be used during archery season, opposed by the MT Bowhunters Assoc.
- A national "sportsmans group" based in the midwest who came in to support the bill (featuring Ted Nugent).
- An astroturf "veterans organization" started by a former DC lobbyist that formed apparently for the sole purpose of supporting the bill.

EFF opposes digital proof of COVID vaccination as a condition of going about our daily lives. They’re not “vaccine passports” to speed our way back to normal. They’re “vaccine bouncers” that will scrutinize us at doorways and unfairly turn many of us away. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/04/no-digital-vaccine-bouncers

15,000 call on FTC to protect the Right to Repair.

If you own it, you should be able to repair it. https://uspirg.org/news/usp/more-15000-call-ftc-action-right-repair

@lwriemen @LeoSammallahti
Yup. First priority should be making sure everyone has adequate housing, and doesn't have to struggle to maintain it. Then we can worry about what price, if any, should be charged, and to whom.

Greetings, everyone! 🌱
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#opensourceseeds #introduction #opensource

To the free market/market forces adherents out there who also write proprietary software... wondering if it ever occurred to you that by writing proprietary software (that isn't specifically compliant with all relevant vendor-neutral royalty-free open standards) is an inherent market distortion. It is a tool to enable autocratic (corporations are autocratic) power grabs. More explanation https://davelane.nz/proprietary

Ain't that the truth!|

#racism

RT @FINALLEVEL@twitter.com

ICE Cold Fact: The deep problem isn’t with the people that ADMIT to it....

Really mad about this Linux kernel - academic research kerfuffle. See: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/YH%2FfM%2FTsbmcZzwnX@kroah.com/

TL;DR: researchers at UMN introduced patches to Linux kernel that contained known-buggy code TO WRITE A PAPER and the UMN IRB didn't consider it human subjects research

Wtaf were these researchers thinking? How did the IRB not consider this human subjects resaerch? How did someone think this was an ethical thing to do?

The software engineering research community has a problem with (lack of) ethic approval culture when experimenting on free/open source software developers.

https://twitter.com/gregkh/status/1384785747874656257

I don't think there's much hugely controversial in this essay, but I do think it's worth a read, as a reminder to keep things in perspective. Alternative agriculture has tendencies toward solutionism that parallel conventional / ecomodern solutionism.

https://smallfarmfuture.org.uk/2021/04/alternative-agriculture-a-polite-discussion/

#ShowerThoughts Both philosophically and technically, federation is the middle ground between "the centre should have total authority and control over the edges" (authoritarianism), and "there should be no centre, only edges" (individualism or egoism). The essence of federation is that its useful to have centres, but power ought to reside mostly at the edges.

#federation #authoritarianism #individualism #egoism #philosophy