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Avui m'he assabentat que la Generalitat ha decidit que les persones que cursin FP en Administració i Gestió tindran un Mac per treballar a classe. ¿Algú em pot dir perquè collons volen un Mac per fer anar l'Excel? Estic indignat i crec que hauríem d'organitzar-nos i demanar explicacions al Departament d'Educació. Perquè compren Macs, perquè es gasten diners en llicències per Windows. Perquè es gasten diners en llicències de software privatiu i perquè collons no fan servir GNU/Linux als aules.
The new #XMPP newsletter for August 2021 is out:
https://xmpp.org/2021/08/newsletter-08-august/
(haven't seen the toot from @xmpp yet...)
Though Surveillance Capitalism is a global phenomenon and a universal term, it is interpreted differently by people from different regions.
Americans see this mostly as a monopoly/anti-trust problem.
Europeans are calling it digital feudalism.
The once-colonized global south sees it as digital colonialism.
All of these interpretations are not only simultaneously true but also demonstrate that this issue is multi-faceted.
#SurveillanceCapitalism #DigitalColonialism #DigitalFeudalism
“… you give us more information about you, about your friends … We don’t need you to type at all. We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less now what you’re thinking about.”
– Eric Schmidt, Google CEO in 2010
🎉 Our iOS app is finally public! 🎉
https://snikket.org/blog/snikket-ios-public-release/
This is a huge milestone for the project, and proof of what we can accomplish when a community comes together around a purpose.
The app link will automatically appear in the next Snikket server update (along with some other app-related fixes), but the post has manual instructions for admins who just can't wait 🙂
The open calendar, task and note space is a mess
https://stevenvanbael.com/open-calendar-task-space-is-a-mess
(submitted by quaintdev)
Gajim 1.4 Preview: Workspaces
The Gajim team has been hard at work in the past months to prepare the next v1.4 release. The upcoming version brings a major interface redesign. In this post, we explain how the new interface works and what remains to be decided or implemented before the release.
@aral
As someone who just got back into academia, I agree with this.
The amount of obstacles to publishing research from "industrial partners"(in the UK, you jst say "customers"), and the ability of industry to determine what is researched at, has grown like crazy in the last 20 years, and based on older colleagues' stories, at least since the early 1990's.
Incentives for "relevant" research are not per se bad but it's been going too far for quite some time now.