Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Every displacement harms people.

Please, if you can, come before 9am tomorrow to Cedar Ave at Interstate 94 and document every person violating the human right to shelter, slow or stop this forced move and the inevitable loss of personal property, or help people move.

@strypey Departments and authorities running their own Fedi instances seems to be working well for Germany.

@yawnbox @lightweight @nzlemming @verbman @openpolicynz @vincent

Do you also think that software created using taxpayers’ money should be released as #FreeSoftware?
Let's fight for it! 💪🏾
Sign our #OpenLetter! 📝
https://publiccode.eu/openletter/

#SoftwareFreedom #PMPC

I wrote up my proposal for news organizations (and others) to provide trustable, verifiable accounts (as much as we can, in society) for staff:

News/media organizations would stand up a Mastodon instance for staff-only, for example follow.washingtonpost.com (doesn't exist! Only an example!)

follow.washingtonpost.com inherits the trust of its parent washingtonpost.com domain. Accounts from that instance are trustable, no public signups.

https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/4230/

Cool! https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/nov/01/mastodon-twitter-elon-musk-takeover

While everyone is exploring new platforms, it's worth a reminder that Dreamwidth is still around: https://www.dreamwidth.org/

DW is a fork of LiveJournal, the ancient and original social-blogging platform, and it's still the best place for long-form posting with healthy communities. If you want to say things that don't fit in 500 characters, and want to foster good conversation, it's still the best. Check it out...

See ADHD myths debunked! Marvel at the real facts about this neurological condition! Help fight the misinformation and stigma that too often stops people with ADHD fulfilling our potential! The power is yours!

https://www.additudemag.com/download/facts-about-adhd-debunking-myths/

#ADHD

Periodic reminder: TechSoup is Microsoft's way of ensuring that NGOs get hooked into and fully dependent on its costly proprietary services rather than ever discovering what #FOSS could offer them. It undermines everything that Microsoft's PR insists it 'loves', but stabs in the back at every opportunity.

"For decades New Zealanders have been throwing our empty cans, boxes and plastic containers into the recycling, believing our actions were making a difference for the environment. What if we were not just wrong, but deceived?"

#recycling #plastic #environment

https://northandsouth.co.nz/2022/04/03/recycling-new-zealand-plastic-environment/

⚠️ #GitHub is not #OpenSource. #AllThingsOpen #GiveUpGitHub

https://giveupgithub.org/

OpenSSL 3.0.7 released https://lwn.net/Articles/913370/ #LWN

#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