Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

#OpenSSL Announcement: https://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-announce/2022-November/000241.html

What is #FreeSoftware? Do you know its advantages?
➡ https://fsfe.org/freesoftware/freesoftware.en.html

#SoftwareFreedom

I have a friend whose home with her husband&kids is being targeted violently. Having no other real recourse she has called the police multiple times and they have been predictably useless. Just last night they broke the window of her car, threw in a flare and the car caught on fire and is now completely burnt. I think she needs some kind of community defense support but I need ideas of what that could look like and how to organize it.

@Gargron wow, not wanting to add to your load... but I just saw that you've opted for Discord and Github Discussion for supporting #MastoAdmins. It's really disappointing that a FOSS paragon like Mastodon has snubbed the great FOSS support options, opting for such clangingly inappropriate closed technologies for its most crucial community members. Very bad optics. I won't use those tools on principle... but I would commit my time/$ to help you switch to & maintain suitable FOSS options.

I suppose it's time again for my monthly posting of "Free Software Needs Free Tools" by @mako:

https://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html

Folks interested in the ongoing viability of our planet... (all of you, I would hope) if you don't know about Kate Raworth's "Doughnut Economics", you need to. Here's a very good interview in which she explains it quite well. https://www.planetcritical.com/p/the-most-sustainable-economy-in-the-world She's also a big fan of FOSS and the open commons (she mentions Māori & Ubuntu)! And I'm *so* chuffed she explicitly cites Kim Stanley Robinson's "The Ministry for the Future"! Another essential read for anyone interested us having a viable future.

My first impression is that this is some kind of scam. Anybody know anything about them? #web3 #coop

https://c3alliance.co/index

And here I thought that our US political leaders were the most blatantly bigoted pricks possible, what with all the "American exceptionalism" talk, but this little gem from an EU foreign-policy bigwig is really up there...just wow. The chauvinism and racism on display here is just 🤯

https://multipolarista.com/2022/10/15/eu-europe-garden-jungle/

12 scientists are held in prison for a non-violent climate protest in Germany. The judge has decided they'll remain in custody for up to a week.

There is something they want you to hear. Follow the thread for their testimonies. #UniteAgainstClimateFailure #ScienceInJail (1/n)

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I'm trying a new idea to try to get a small community together of open source maintainers.

As somebody who tries to build and maintain a project myself I very often wish I had a place to learn, share, and grow with others that are in a similar place.

So I threw this together: https://openbuilders.club/

If you've running an #opensource project, maybe it's some place you could casually hang out, ask others that might be in similar situations for advice, and make some friends. I know I could sure use some friends!

Feel free to message me with your Matrix account for an invite and share this with your friends who are building things.

Please boost for reach: To any F-droid developers, is there a way for tags or categories to be added by developers or users, like "accessible", so that users could then filter apps by that tag? This could be useful for people to find accessible #foss apps for Android. Perhaps another tag could be added, "not accessible", so that users or developers could mark apps that are not, or cannot, be made accessible as well.

#a11y #android #fdroid

Looking to connect with #māori and #indigenous whānau on here.