Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

"Microsoft: I Love Open Source"

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Now at the #rC3 conference.

German Sovereign Tech Fund will fund open source digital infrastructure to avert the next log4j https://variable-variability.blogspot.com/2021/12/german-sovereign-tech-fund-will-fund.html

The famous #XKCD cartoon has resulted in an open source digital infrastructure fund. Thank you Randall.

#SovereignTechFund #FOSS #OpenSource #Digitization #DigitalInfrastrucutre #Ampel

Opensource folks: Has anyone heard of OSS maintainers (other than presumably the log4j folks) without major corporate ties who have been invited to this?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-23/white-house-extends-invitation-to-improve-open-source-security

The first wave of EVs are old enough their batteries are starting to fail. People tend to repair old ICE cars, but at a $22k price tag to replace batteries that will inevitably fail, it seems like older EVs will be thrown away instead of repaired. https://gizmodo.com/finnish-man-passes-on-paying-22-600-to-replace-his-tes-1848268874

I interviewed one of the co-founders of Old Salt Co-op, a multi-stakeholder pasture-to-plate #cooperative

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWPKUAXIRCM

[With #FOSS] money doesn't translate directly into well-maintained projects. There's a lot more to it than that... no one's working on it for money, directly." https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=Aeij24E-jHI #svelte, #sveltkit #nytimes #richharris #rollup

There is nothing "sustainable" about business models that destroy society for the sake of continued and growing profits.

What we learned this year about how to avoid a climate catastrophe
https://www.engadget.com/cop26-climate-change-resolution-carbon-emissions-143037481.html?src=rss #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #LeadOnClimate

Just reminded of what Microsoft is willing to do to protect its monopolies (in this case corrupting the entire global ISO process to protect its Office monopoly): http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080328090328998 Yeah, Microsoft are still full of shit, just like very $trillion corporation. #UnworthyOfExistence

Is there a working ecommerce static site generator?

Flatmarket looked amazing, until I found out it hasn't been updated for five years and Stripe has moved on to a new API since then

@baldur « NFTs seem to me just a way for artists to get a little piece of the action from global capitalism, our own cute little version of financialisation. How sweet - now artists can become little capitalist assholes as well. »
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"TikTok is accused of violating GPL with new live streaming software"

https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/tiktok-obs-gpl-violation

“Brian Eno on NFTs & Automatism”

“The idea that Ayn Rand, that Nietzsche-for-Teenagers toxin, should have had her whacky ideas enshrined in a philosophy about money is what is terrifying to me.” https://the-crypto-syllabus.com/brian-eno-on-nfts-and-automatism/

[Full-time] Tech Product Designer - REMOTE at Humanitarian OpenStreetMaps Team (HOT) https://www.fossjobs.net/job/10795/tech-product-designer-remote-at-humanitarian-openstreetmaps-team-hot/ #jobs

[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."