Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Seeing people in the Fediverse promoting Microsoft and their Azure services... I have to say that in my experiences with MS Azure, it's focus is locking you into its proprietary services. They're just like Amazon's AWS. Both are 10-15 times more expensive than non-proprietary commodity services offered by myriad providers. We got better performance & a 90% cost reduction by shifting our #FOSS services to providers like DigitalOcean, Hetzner, and Linode among others.

I just learned that FedCo Seeds is a hybrid worker/consumer co-op that has been around for a good long time: https://www.fedcoseeds.com/

I'm going to join, and I really want to learn more about their experiences!

NEW🚀 For those looking for a privacy-focused cellular service in the United States, Purism has launched another option in its suite of privacy-first cellular plans.
➕ “SIMple Plus”, provides subscribers with 4G high speed internet with a 3 GB monthly data limit and a $59/month price. They can send texts globally to over 160 countries at no extra cost. The plan is designed especially for those who are interested in the SIMple plan, but would like a higher data cap.
https://puri.sm/posts/simple-plus/

The rich extremists are making more people suffer and die every year.

Tax Billionaire Wealth and Pandemic Profits, Says Oxfam, to End 'Inequality That Literally Kills'
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/23/tax-billionaire-wealth-and-pandemic-profits-says-oxfam-end-inequality-literally

Does anyone know why the Platform Coop space regularly obsesses over DAOs and Crypto while ignoring Open Source? Hypes up Web 3 while ignore the Fediverse? Is it just lack of understanding, or something worse?

Installing an adblocker is the gateway drug into anti-consumerism, which is in turn the gateway drug into anti-capitalism.

Tell all your friends how to install adblockers.

Can't wait for the death of the rest of work.

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20220517-the-death-of-mandatory-fun-in-the-office

Nick's put together a good intro to #FOSS apps for people still stuck as renters in a proprietary software world. https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=uundIaRNJ6A or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uundIaRNJ6A #FOSS just tastes better.

New from @LeoSammallahti

"Big tech is facing an escalating backlash. Co-operatives could offer a more equitable and accountable alternative. In fact, some already do. This article describes three large co-operatives that have managed to take on tech giants such as Amazon and IBM."

https://www.getrevue.co/profile/coop_exchange/issues/three-examples-of-big-tech-co-operatives-795334

Greatest country on Earth, amiright?

https://www.sicknote.co/p/patients-keep-getting-charged-for?s=r

“.01% of bitcoin holders hold 27% of all bitcoin! That’s 100x the wealth concentration of the regular economy.”

Next time someone tells you cryptocurrencies and blockchain are about decentralisation, laugh in their faces. Loudly. While pointing at them.

https://nitter.net/MorePerfectUS/status/1527661935054962688

#cryptocurrency #blockchain #decentralisation #web3 #rightLibertarian #bullshit

#Sociocracy in #Cooperatives Conference 2022 is coming up, June 23rd!

https://www.sociocracyforall.org/sociocracy-in-cooperatives-conference-2022/

"The Government of Kerala has created an innovative program to combat unemployment by employing educated but unemployed people... The Comprehensive Programme for Employment of the Educated Unemployed in Kerala...also highlights the potential of platform cooperatives to facilitate a more equitable relationship between platforms and providers. Their long-term strategy calls for the formation of 4,000 platform #cooperatives."

https://platform.coop/blog/kerala-plans-to-launch-4000-platform-co-ops-to-upskill-unemployed-youth/

Yeah, We're Gonna Need to Leave That in the Ground
https://gizmodo.com/leave-fossil-fuels-in-the-ground-1848943187 #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #LeadOnClimate

Ugh. As if we needed more concerns, seems the basis for the global food system is far more precarious than I even knew... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/19/banks-collapsed-in-2008-food-system-same-producers-regulators

Update on the announced self-hostable #bandcamp alternative: Got tons of work done on the foundation over the last days (architecture, reading, transcoding, caching, syncing, configuration, cli arguments, ...). Today was the first time I did some design exporation (first glimpses attached - these are already in-browser screenshots of the functional interface, not mockups :)). I'm developing out in the open at https://codeberg.org/simonrepp/faircamp °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖°

Development Teaser: I'm working on a self-hostable #bandcamp alternative - implemented as a static site generator written in #rust

As a small tech tradeoff and an experiment I'm integrating a soft paycurtain: Albums can display a price tag, (including a user interaction for setting a price for "name your price" albums), payment directions are given (Liberapay, SEPA, etc. as configured), but the payment itself is not technically enforced, i.e. the listener is asked to affirm by themselves - by clicking a button - that they have paid for what they want, and only then given the download link. I'm open to experiment further with this when I've released faircamp (current codename) to the public. I could also imagine an option for integrating a hard paywall based on entering a token that could e.g. be made exclusively available to your backers on an external platform (ghost, patreon, steady, paypal, ...).

Been fleshing out the first prototype all day today, and having a blast! ✌️

Anyone out there using Photoprism (https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism) or LibrePhotos (https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos) as a GooglePhotos/Flickr replacement? I'm wondering what you like/don't like, or if you've tried both, which you prefer!

Living in the #Netherlands?

Sign this #petition to the #Dutch Government with a plea for fair #education in the classroom and to keep children away from #privacy-infringing #SurveillanceCapitalism platforms they (and their teachers) are forced to use.

https://eerlijkdigitaalonderwijs.petities.nl/?locale=en