Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

[Full-time] Open Innovation Facilitator - REMOTE at Humanitarian OpenStreetMaps Team (HOT) https://www.fossjobs.net/job/10796/open-innovation-facilitator-remote-at-humanitarian-openstreetmaps-team-hot/ #jobs

Needs repeating: world economic inequality is staggering, and trends for the better are very weak if exist at all.

In 2021 the richest 10% owns 76% of total wealth and bottom 50% just 2%.

"Inequality is a political choice, not an inevitability."

Source: https://wir2022.wid.world/

Following on my thread from June, here's an upsetting article about how self-governed publicly funded homeless tent villages in Portland were converted to a conventional governance model: https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2021/12/14/37410751/small-gestures-of-trust-what-was-learned-and-lost-in-creating-portlands-emergency-homeless-villages
(thanks for the link, @anarchistbicycleclub).

"Residents said they could tell that there was a change in leadership almost overnight. Villages suddenly saw their three daily meals reduced to two, locks placed on community storage units, and a restriction on giving away supplies to homeless people who weren’t residents. All Good brought on 60 staff to replace the work previously being done by volunteers and residents—and then some. Unlike the earlier iteration of C3PO villages, All Good hired case workers to work directly with residents to help them with anything from securing permanent housing to applying for health care. All Good informed all residents who had been employed by R2DToo that they could keep their jobs only if they agreed to move out of the village within six months."

Does anyone know of any published lists of celebrities and/or microcelebrities who publish to the Fediverse?

(boosts appreciated)

RT @newint

Can employees be in full control of their enterprises? Amy Hall explores the possibilities and tensions of worker co-operatives.

https://newint.org/features/2021/10/07/democratic-workplace

#coops #Cooperative

Technology Pill: Tech Research: includes a free gift https://anchor.fm/technology-pill/episodes/Tech-Research-includes-a-free-gift-e1brjf6

The Data Interception Environment (DIE) is a tool released by @privacyint that you can use to analyse how your data is being used by app developers and third parties. It allows you to see how apps are sending your data from your device back to the company or to third parties
https://privacyinternational.org/learn/data-interception-environment

I wonder how many educators are on here.

There were thriving communities of educators on Tumblr and Twitter, but Tumblr's went to heck after moderated hashtags went away and Twitter is ... Twitter.

The fediverse has Scholar.social, but that's more of an instance for college/university level academics. I'd like to connect with other K-12 educators.

my kid just figured out how to put a full debian install on his school-issued locked-down chromebook. the first thing he did was install firefox which lets him bypass the school content blocker system (they did this as a browser extension rather than an OS-level firewall, oops). second thing was to put ublock origin on it, since somehow the school locked all the students out of installing ad blockers. (I know, right?)

anyway he's pretty stoked about it and wanting to learn more. he likes learning thru videos; can anyone recommend a video series for command-line basics? he's got some basic programming experience in Lua and knows HTML but has only very rudimentary shell exposure.

the paid app gives you less info than the free one

Who would have guessed

IMO the only reason to use #RadarScope instead of #Wx is the mping reports

"More generally, I believe that #opensource development should return to its roots as a #freesoftware movement guided by moral principles. Doing so would help the open source community set better boundaries, which would in turn improve software quality, funding, and working conditions. Without a moral center to give developers a spine, they’ll continue to race to the bottom to please corporate interests."

https://www.haskellforall.com/2021/12/funding-isnt-problem-with-open-source.html

This a great trend. #Apple
is going to sell replacements parts to anybody officially. #Dell
goes one step further and wants to buy old parts back and remarket them. I want more of this.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/12/dells-concept-luna-pc-disassembles-easily-so-you-can-reuse-its-parts/

More on the project: https://moja.global/

For those tracking the #DMA in Europe this week, a minor win but frustrating loss as Device Neutrality makes it in, but #OpenSource standards & interoperability did not, keeping the door open for unchecked #SurveillanceCapitalism from big tech.

More early reporting from @fsfe here:

https://fsfe.org/news/2021/news-20211215-01.html

Climate Justice as a Core Competency among Internet Practitioners - Michelle Thorn @ Branch Mag: https://branch.climateaction.tech/issues/issue-3/internet-practionioners-climate-justice/

@aaronpk Pretty sure moving to the proprietary walled garden GitHub where a project's data has no escape route fails at least 7/11 of the #IndieWeb principles.

❌ Own your data
❌ Make what you need
❌ Use what you make
❌ Open source your stuff
❌ Modularity
❌ Longevity
❌ Plurality

I only subscribe to the Chronicle of Philanthropy newsletter for the cringe. 😂

The rich people are feeling emotionally drained! They're trying to fix the world and people just keep asking them for checks!