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Matt Panhans  

In this panel, Christopher Lemmer Webber discusses ActivityPub's server-to-client and server-to-server protocols, and how they could be used to allow people to use a single account to log in to many Fediverse clients. This seems like an immensely useful feature, that could offer enough ease of use to entice people to join the Fediverse. Are there projects working on this?

Relevant discussion starts at minute 24:00:
archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedu

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Strypey  

"Hence, when it came to the simple matter of bamboozling the masses with ripping tales of government as the very embodiment of evil, as Friedman did, there were never any qualms expressed about their simultaneous drive to take over the Republican Party, and then the U.S. government, in order to impose a strong state and an even stronger set of state-instituted novel markets."
- # PhilipMirowski
americanaffairsjournal.org/201

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Matt Panhans  

Fascinating interview with Phil Mirowski on why COVID-19 is more of an opportunity than a threat for neoliberalism. soundcloud.com/poltheoryother/
@lightweight might find this interesting.

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Matt Panhans  

I only recently learned about Digital Research and its founder Gary Kildall, but this history really makes it seem like Bill Gates ripped off CP/M to launch Microsoft. Is this right?? youtube.com/watch?v=hJNaAG2BXo

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Ferdi Groenewald :verified:  

Facebook’s Giphy acquisition sounds antitrust alarms in Congress - The Verge
theverge.com/2020/5/15/2126065

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Sean Tilley  
Cool, got LibreOffice on my laptop integrated with NextCloud's WebDAV.

Now I can edit documents from my desktop, mobile, or the web interface, and the document data should update without any problems.

This is good progress. 😎
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Drew DeVault  

The PeerTube content bootstrap fund:

sourcehut.org/blog/2020-05-15-

Please boost!

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Dave Lane 🇳🇿  

@mpanhans the whole desktop domain model employed by Windows (and forced upon any Macs & Linux machines that want to participate) and the VPN/RDP practice are all extremely heavy & dated. A modern org should be 100% web based in its systems (fully client-server), including file sharing (if they insist on using shared filesystems, they should use WebDAV with something like NextCloud. A file sync option is also there). Really clever organisations will have a "single source" policy w/ git :)

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Matt Panhans  

@theprivacyfoundation Relatedly, last year Chris Cox left Facebook over Zuckerberg's pivot to encryption. Cox thought encryption made it harder to filter out fake news, hate speech, detect human trafficking. If Cox had won and Facebook had not pivoted to encryption, and Facebook's tools would not be able to be used for human trafficking, wouldn't we be in a better world?

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Matt Panhans  

I have a sincere question for @theprivacyfoundation and the community. The DOJ announced it's investigating Senator Richard Burr, who sold off $1.7m in stock before the coronavirus crash, while assuring the public it was under control. His brother-in-law sold off too. Search warrants were used to collect data from his iCould account and cell phone. With encryption, it would be hard to investigate this case. Privacy makes it harder to root out corruption. What's the response?

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Matt Panhans  

Ranked Choice Voting can create more fair elections, lessen political polarization, and eliminate the possibility of spoiler candidates so voters can express their true preferences. Here is a very nice explainer video created by FairVote:

youtu.be/8Z2fRPRkWvY

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LibreOffice  

LibreOffice has extensive documentation, thanks to our worldwide community. Today we're announcing an update to the Base Guide, a 470+ page handbook covering all aspects of database creation and management: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl

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Matt Panhans  

I wonder if @purism would consider hosting instances of other fediverse applications with its bundle? Librem Social is a great Twitter alternative. Users are also trying to find alternatives to Facebook and Instagram, and hosting instances of software like Friendica and PixelFed alongside Librem Social would be a convenient and useful package.

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LibreOffice  

Where did LibreOffice come from? And where is it going? Discover the rich history of the leading free and open source office suite – from its early days as StarOffice, through OpenOffice, to its current home at The Document Foundation: libreoffice.org/about-us/libre

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pixelfed  

Think different.

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LibreOffice  

Got crypto? You can support the LibreOffice community with a donation! Bitcoin (and Cash), Litecoin, Ethereum, XRP, TRON, Nano, Stellar, Telcoin and many more: pay.coingate.com/pay/thedocume (The Document Foundation is the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice). Thanks for your support!

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Purism  

Looking to try or switch form ? With a free account you get social, chat, voice and video calls all under one convenient username which you can also upgrade to include and librem.one/

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Kyle Rankin  

There's a well-known African proverb: "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." What Moxie's centralization talk misses is that the faults in early decentralized protocols came because dotcoms wanted to capture the market.

invidio.us/watch?v=Nj3YFprqAr8

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