Matt Panhans @mpanhans@librem.one
Economist. Antitrust policy; industrial organization; history of economics
xmpp: mattp@sendero.snikket.chat
Joined Mar 2020
@hypolite @cj@mastodon.technology My main accomplishment of 2020 was getting the family chat moved to Signal :)
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US federal government employee? You can donate to the FSF through the Combined Federal Campaign workplace giving program -- Go to https://givecfc.org and search for the FSF's ID, 63210.
@dansup Great work! Any news on the iOS app?
@lightweight Interesting! Well I don't know that there has been any government-wide official policy, but I just have seen several projects at US govt agencies using CC-0. So it looks to me like things are moving that way.
@lightweight In the US, Section 105 of the Copyright Act says that all work created by the federal government has no copyright protection and is part of the public domain. This includes software.
This post suggests that best practices are converging on releasing code created by the US government under CC-0
https://ben.balter.com/2014/10/08/open-source-licensing-for-government-attorneys/
@tpheine @jwildeboer Congrats! Unfortunately I am also unable to follow you from my pixelfed instance, even when searching for the instance/username URL nothing appears. There do seem to be some big federation issues still. If you want to try to follow me, I'll add you back if it works. I am at pixel.sendero.social/mattp
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Shadows of Chicago on frozen Lake Michigan
@dansup Great to hear, hope you are okay!
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Fizzy Water Fans: If, hypothetically, you owned a Carbonating Device from a Popular At-Home Fizzy Beverages Company that has, at times, been "somewhat to extremely problematic", I am here to tell you that this company in Wisconsin will refill your CO2 canisters by mail:
A huge and excellent list of google alternatives:
https://degoogle.jmoore.dev/
If anyone has more feel free to add!
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The Markup: "The High Privacy Cost of a 'Free' Website"
https://themarkup.org/blacklight/2020/09/22/blacklight-tracking-advertisers-digital-privacy-sensitive-websites
Very interesting read
@SAFEpress This looks great I am eager to see develop!
@strypey I agree with you. I was disappointed on reading Masnick’s techdirt piece. It’s fine to critique the film but he does so in a completely unhelpful way
@lightweight yes I like DigitalOcean. I host a pixelfed instance on a droplet from them
@strypey I'm interested to both learn from this myself and contribute in any way I can
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In the wake of the huge response to The Social Dilemma, I feel like the time has come to really push forward on Fyre Exyt, a project to create a detailed guide to escaping the datafarms.
I envisioned a page for each datafarm, to describe:
* what data users can export and how
* how to delete your account
* what liberating software / services could be the best replacement for various use cases of the datafarm
It's a big project. Anyone keen to help?
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"Platform cooperatives are a tool for creating quality jobs on a large scale and they are already a reality! At a time when the concentration of big tech companies is through the roof, this course is not limited to generating an analysis and vigilance of capitalism. It prepares people for success as platform entrepreneurs in the exponentially growing ecosystem that is the gig economy."
https://www.mondragon.edu/en/-/segunda-edicion-programa-cooperativas-plataforma-
Economist. Antitrust policy; industrial organization; history of economics
xmpp: mattp@sendero.snikket.chat
Joined Mar 2020
