Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Part of what I'm pondering here is a paradox that I've alluded to in the past (https://cybre.space/@dynamic/106409189951101085): is disruption good, or not?

There are two ideas that keep coming up: 1) "we live in an entrenched system with evils built into it and nothing is going to disrupt it", combined with 2) "serious disruption always favors consolidation of power."

I don't know how to balance those correctly, and that really bothers me. The main thing that I get out of the whole thing is: proceed with caution.

It makes me sad to see that conferences of folks I once considered "my community", like linux.con.au, are only using proprietary centralised social media (from what I can see) and eschew distributed open media. I wonder what video conferencing system they'll use, and what back channels. I'm hopeful they'll use #FOSS technologies for that, but seems like a long shot. Most "open" communities seem too harried to actually us open tools. Which strikes lots of sour notes.

I'm encouraged to see the growth of trade schools, not just for young adults who wouldn't be served well by a 4-year degree, but also for older adults who must retool because fewer modern career paths last someone their whole life. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/12/31/skilled-trade-education-comeback/

I implore any #FLOSS group using #Telegram to consider switching to @matrix for public (unencrypted) and private (#E2EE) chats, and #Fediverse services (Mastodon, Pleroma, Write.as etc) for announcements. And Discourse.

https://t.me/durov/176

Raise-Op is just $4k short, with a month of fundraising to go.

"Informed by our own members' experiences with housing, this 9-unit building is designed to meet the needs of people in our neighborhood today and 100 years in the future.

"It's a passive house design, which means it consumes very little energy to heat or cool, and it has excellent air quality."

https://www.mightycause.com/story/Raiseop-Eco-Homes

THIS! ☝️
Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects

https://drewdevault.com/2021/12/28/Dont-use-Discord-for-FOSS.html

#floss #foss #opensource #discord #chat

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