Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

SUMMER SALE on Librem 14s 😎
Enter the coupon code, L14SUMMER in the ‘Promotion Code’ box during check out to claim $100 off on your final order.
https://puri.sm/posts/summer-sale-on-librem-14-laptops/

Good to know that the Dem administration is on the same page as all those Repub judges. Truly, we live in the best of all possible worlds.

https://www.levernews.com/biden-is-preparing-to-crush-historic-climate-change-lawsuit/

DC is charging a higher vehicle license fee for extremely oversized vehicles, to discourage the use of these stupid elephant cars that are so deadly to pedestrians.

California law explicitly bans San Francisco (and other cities) from doing this. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-26/a-new-way-to-curb-the-rise-of-oversized-pickups-and-suvs

https://opencollective.com/liberia-foss-collective

"Would you like to support the birth of a free software based
information technology program in public schools in the capital of
Liberia? Visit https://opencollective.com/liberia-foss-collective and
chip in a few bucks."

My friend Jeff Elkner has already bought his ticket, and is prepared to fund the whole trip himself, but it would be most gratifying to support what he is doing.

@zabbeer @dajbelshaw @humanetech @aral This is also good point. As long we use Windows and other Microsoft sofware, we don't have real #privacy, no matter how we decentralize or which search engine we use. We may avoid being tracked by Google but Microsoft is our biggest #VIRUS in our computers....

Azure and AWS are both trying to make their customers dependent on "certified consultants" because they know those consultants (who've paid Azure and AWS for certification) will only every suggest the services they're certified for to their customers. Even though they' re more expensive & are *all about lock-in * with proprietary services and APIs. Build your business logic around either offering, and you have to fully rewrite it to shift to a different provider. Huge cost! Don't get sucked in!

Also, in my experience Azure services (like AWS) are all "batteries not included". Want to know how much you've racked up this month using Azure services? You have to *pay* for an extra service to have that. Otherwise you have to *request a report from Azure support* which takes several days. Digital Ocean (like the other providers in that tier) tells you your current account balance for all the services you're using on every single page of their admin interface. And that costs $0.

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.

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