Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Here's the rub:

#owncast (if you haven't heard) is an awesome, yet still young and growing, live streaming alternative to Twitch/Youtube/etc. There is a small but mighty community regularly using Owncast to stream a variety of content, and development is marching on ( #activitypub #federation is otw! )

However, the project is in need of design help. That's why I'm forwarding the call for designers.

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@LeoSammallahti writes about The Staffing Coop (now part of Obran) at #CoopExchange: https://coop.exchange/blog/98aae6de-f8e5-11e9-a6c8-06ceb0bf34bd/we-need-more-worker-owned-staffing-agencies

Hive-mind: are there other examples of or literature about cooperatively owned/run staffing agencies?
Links/suggestions welcomed!

I'm particularly interested in food and ag sector applications, where there are major labor issues a coop approach could be quite helpful in addressing.

@Jeff_Piestrak @LeoSammallahti The Rocky Mountain Farmers Union is creating a Mobile Farm Workforce co-op. Some description in this expired job posting: https://www.goodfoodjobs.com/jobs/144318/farm-food-mobile-workforce-member.html

"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