Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Lets ditch #Patreon for a Worker Coop!

https://comradery.co/

Half the fees of Patreon Lite (2.5% vs 5%) and be featured among and support other comrades. #Comradery / #ComraderyCo

> Comradery membership is designed for independent creators, workers, and activists, and cooperatively-owned organizations (referred to from here on as ‘Creators’) who need a place to connect with their audiences and supporters to raise a monthly income.

Just signed up. UwU

From the AWESOME coop cycle

https://coopcycle.org/en/

#platformcoop

“Real Power is in the Land”: Community Land Trusts—Past, Present and Future

https://www.lisc.org/our-stories/story/real-power-is-in-the-land-community-land-trustspast-present-and-future/

Some innovative #FoodSecurity work going on in Preston:

https://www.mutualinterest.coop/2021/08/preston-council-plan-to-launch-a-food-subscription-co-operative-to-fight-food-poverty-2

And the took away Danny DeVito's blue check for supporting the striking Nabisco workers. Oh noes!

https://www.ign.com/articles/danny-devito-twitter-verification

All power to the workers at Nabisco in Portland, now on strike after their employer realized record profits last year and is still reducing benefits. ✊

https://nwlaborpress.org/2021/08/nabisco-workers-strike-around-the-nation/

Our new issue of Possible Futures is out.

In this issue we cover the heated topic of 💸 FUNDING 💸 .

https://possiblefutures.tech/issue/funding

How can we ethically fund projects so tech projects don't end up scaling at all costs, ditching all morals along the way?

How do we fairly compensate people in open source?

This issue also includes our *first* piece of original content.

I interviewed the CEO of @penpot on how they fund their open source projects among other things.

https://possiblefutures.tech/posts/interview-with-penpot-ceo-pablo-ruiz-muzquiz-on-open-source-design-and-ethical-funding

Arguing that setting up coops is useless because markets force them to act indistinguishably from capitalist firms is not just contrary to what research shows.

Its an argument that capitalists love, because what it says is that markets should be left entirely to the capitalists.

And I stand corrected - I had the dependency the wrong way around. @nuclear points out that MSFT's VSCode codebase is not available under a proper OSI/FSF approved license (plus it includes telemetry and other undesirables), so the VSCodium project has been set up by people (independent of MSFT?) wanting to rehabilitate the salvageable code.

As I've noted before: yeah, MSFT loves open source. Like a tapeworm loves a healthy digestive system.

@wizzwizz4 @devinprater @csepp @praveen @danielst @lorabe @storm I recall a thread where someone recounted some history behind all this, that there were several projects funded by the (American Council for the Blind?) to improve accessibility, but each time Microsoft (a big ACB funder) threatened to pull funding unless they dropped the projects.

And the reason appears to be: governments require accessibility in their software, so MS et al didn't want any threats to their monopoly over government contracts.

So to accuse OSS community of simply not caring enough to bother isn't really accurate - there is deliberate monopolism at play here. MS and Apple might appear to "care more" but only when it gets them access to tenders, and excludes the communal software from the competition.

#Oil firms made ‘false claims’ on blue #hydrogen costs, says ex-lobby boss | #HydrogenPower | The Guardian

So-called #BlueHydrogen is another scam that #FossilFuel #companies are promoting to carry on effectively as normal. H2 could potentially be extracted (more) sustainably but the infrastructure isn’t there yet.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/20/oil-firms-made-false-claims-on-blue-hydrogen-costs-says-ex-lobby-boss

#Environment #Energy

Interesting to see this review/comparison of NextCloud with is proprietary competitors in this mainstream IT rag: https://www.itproportal.com/reviews/nextcloud-review/

Just a periodic reminder: Microsoft's VSCode is not open source. No more than Google's Chrome is. Both are based on open source projects (Chromium and the unimaginatively-named VSCodium are open source) but include proprietary stuff like fonts, integrations, and telemetry. If a software app isn't entirely FOSS, it's entirely proprietary. If you're using VSCode or Chrome, you're not using open source.

The former @FCC chief technologist built a scanning system like Apple's. But then: "We warned against our own system design." https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/19/apple-csam-abuse-encryption-security-privacy-dangerous/

Oh, I found it: https://twitter.com/lyta_gold/status/1428011761635143681

😕

I really don't understand liberals in this country who think that the way to get people to change their behavior is to shame them.

"Call them stupid enough times and it'll convince them to get vaccinated, wear a mask, and vote for Democrats!" jfc

Some folks have asked about making a spam blocker for the #Pinephone . I made one here for #Phosh: https://gitlab.com/kop316/phosh-antispam

If the contact is not in your contact list (or you added it as "Spam), it will automatically hang up.

Also, it has some user configuration options to allow 1) blocked numbers, 2) a caller through if they call twice within 10 seconds, or 3) A way to look for a subset of a number (e.g. an area code, a number prefix) and let that through.

Let me know what you think of it!

Wow. Check this out: a RISC-V-based camera component (compatible with OpenMV)... is a similar cost to its ARM Cortext-M7-based predecessor... but is *thousands of times faster*... https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000009313628.html

Psst, pass it on: Billionaires and trillion-dollar corporations are inherently incompatible with social justice.