Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

@lightweight I completely get this, but I expect most companies would far rather wave a ccompany credit card in front of Zoom or Teams and regard it as ‘job done’ while BigBlueButton looks like it might actually involve some work and, you know, we simply can’t have that.

People don't like being told that, in their high paying jobs for multinational corporations, they're actively lending their talents to those corporations who're making the world a worse place. And yet, undeniably, that is why many of us are doing. 'What's the alternative?' some might ask. Resign and take a lower paying job working for a small local business or foundation. Or start your own of either. Aim for sustainability. There are many benefits (I have personal experience with both).

Open source gurus urge you to dump Zoom

https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/15/software_freedom_conservancy_zoom/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IOiWM5rs-s

Did you know a group of ravens is sometimes called an unkindness? Learn this and other bird facts when you pick up EFF's #DEFCON member t-shirt. Catch it before it flies away this evening. https://www.eff.org/vv

For no reason whatsoever, I’m just gonna drop this piece here where I argue that it’s pointless to do CO₂ removal (CDR) before we decarbonize significantly.

https://rdcu.be/dbFbB

Holy cow - this sounds like the start of a brilliant trend! https://www.businessinsider.com/massachusetts-millionaire-tax-gets-kids-free-school-lunches-2023-8 Let's have a lot of this here in Aotearoa NZ, too! #Equity #TaxTheRich #TaxMultinationalCorporations

Cool stuff you can do with #LibreSoftware Inkscape that you can't do with eye-wateringly expensive, totally proprietary Adobe Illustrator: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=jPd-AQ7Re6Q or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPd-AQ7Re6Q

Consumer Reports (CR)'s Innovation Lab is hiring to ramp up the development of new products and services that level the playing field for consumers. They are actively hiring for a 1) Head of Experimental Engineering, 2) Research Engineer and 3) Senior Data Scientist. Working on this team is a great opportunity to ship technologies that have a real impact on the marketplace, the law, and people’s lives. Learn more here.: https://innovation.consumerreports.org/new-opportunities-at-cr-2/

This is so ridiculously petty if true.

#elonmusk #twitter #x #twittermigration #tech #technology

Extremists looking for books to ban can't be bothered to, you know, read books. So they go to a "source" that's notorious for spouting bullshit -- you guessed it, ChatGPT -- for advice on what books to ban.

https://www.popsci.com/technology/iowa-chatgpt-book-ban/

Girl, 13, gives birth after she was raped and denied abortion in Mississippi - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/14/mississippi-abortion-ban-girl-raped-gives-birth #murica

Do I know anyone in the #Atlanta area who would want to split a large town house with the option of renting or buying your half and being able to resell it later? It's close to East Lake MARTA and has groceries and bars in easy walking distance, but I can't afford it on my own without a roommate. You'd have your own floor with a bathroom, and we'd share common areas (kitchen, living room)

Up until two months ago the CLA Page on the Hashicorp site explicitly stated that the goal was to dual license and that they were committed to having a FOSS license on their projects. People signed these legal agreements with this commitment in mind.

I think this is important to note for two reasons:

1. The leadership at #Hashicorp can not be trusted. They've proven that any commitment or statement they make is conditional.

2. This seems like a huge legal liability for Hashicorp.

#terraform

In favor of bad takes:

"A community devoted to playing with new ideas will generate many bad takes. And that is ok—if everyone understands that we are all thinking through problems out loud together, that bad takes are stepping stones on the road to surer conclusions. "

https://scholars-stage.org/in-favor-of-bad-takes/

I'm in the camp that leans toward thinking things would be better if free email services went back to very limited volume.

I think the main outcomes would be that people do some combination of going back to storing their email locally and/or opting for paid email services, both of which I see as primarily good things.

“In the first ruling of its kind [in the US], a Montana state court decided Monday in favor of young people who alleged the state violated their right to a “clean and healthful environment” by promoting the use of fossil fuels.”

This is the hope I needed to feel today. The kids are alright 🙏

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/08/14/youths-win-montana-climate-trial/#

Daily reminder that Discord is not a wiki, guide site, or a forum. "Did you ask on the Discord?" is not a valid answer because someone will be looking for that info in a few years and either find invalid invites, or a dead Discord that they have to try to unearth their answer in previous discussion like they're trying to find obsidian arrowheads in Egypt. Assuming that Discord server even still exists at that point. And unlike when a site vanishes, there is no wayback machine for Discord servers

I learned today via FDA why and when the new Covid boosters will be ready
—The reason for the delay is that the Covid Public Health Emergency ended May 11, 2023, so it requires a Product Licensing Application (PLA) instead of an EUA
—Now projected to be available ~9/15