Matt Panhans @mpanhans@librem.one
Economist. Antitrust policy; industrial organization; history of economics
Joined Mar 2020
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Fully decentralised and Open Source communication and collaboration solutions like Nextcloud are key now. Especially for journalists and political activists in times of war. #UkraineInvasion
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Trump's social network (Truth Social) is now open source due to pressure from the maintainers of Mastodon.
I have now mirrored the code on Codeberg and GitHub to keep track of changes, ease public examination, and ensure a copy stays public.
https://codeberg.org/TruthSocial/truth-social
https://github.com/justjosias/truth-social
I have also generated a basic diff between Mastodon v3.4.1 and Truth Social's latest code. https://codeberg.org/TruthSocial/diffs/
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Today I officially launched my second business. Well registered, not much there yet. But the goal is to help small business owners to make use of free software as good as possible and get them away from solutions that lock them in. The homepage and everything else will be up within the next couple of weeks in time for the official launch, but I figured I give the fediverse an early notice….
This laptop looks amazing - Framework Laptop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rkTgPt3M4k
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You can now financially support the #Spectra #PeerTube instance on Liberapay!
https://liberapay.com/Spectra/
https://liberapay.com/Spectra/
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#FundOSS! Fund alternative software respectful of people and made for the benefit of people!
@pixelfed is a federated social image sharing platform, similar to Instagram (and promising!) that uses the ActivityPub protocol (like Mastodon).
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RT @pixelfed
FundOSS is matching OpenCollective donations for #Pixelfed, please donate if you can! 😁
https://fundoss.org/collective/pixelfed
https://twitter.com/PixelFed/status/1404833522238386186
Such a great read. "Secret codes. Legal threats. Betrayal. How one couple built a device to fix McDonald’s notoriously broken soft-serve machines—and how the fast-food giant froze them out." https://www.wired.com/story/they-hacked-mcdonalds-ice-cream-makers-started-cold-war/
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Hello v0.11.0!
We're 3 years old today and to celebrate we shipped a new version. 🥳
- Autocomplete Support
- Creative Commons Licenses
- Network Timeline
- Admin config settings
- Profile pronouns
- New admin dashboard layout
- Fresh about page layout
- Instance Rules
- New Home Timeline
Hi @cwebber @fossandcrafts I recently listened to the Foss & Crafts episode 27 on Game Design and Social Systems. I thought you might enjoy this article by a BU professor about how Mario Kart can teach us to reduce world poverty - from the mechanic where in last place you get powerful items while in first place you just get banana peels, in order to keep everyone in the race.
@kev Question for you, what software do you use for your blog at https://kevq.uk/blog/ ? Is it wordpress, and do you have thoughts on wordpress vs write.as?
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Upcoming Instagram changes warn users to accept activity tracking to "Help keep Instagram free of charge" 🙄 #deleteInstagram
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All undergraduates of #Duke University are told to #quarantine due to #covid19 outbreak caused by recruitment parties.
Effective immediately, students must stay in place until at least Sunday March 21. More than 180 positive #coronavirus cases have been reported. Suspension or dismissal will be the penalty.
Total #virus cases in North #Carolina is 887,595 with 11,716 deaths
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Interesting - putting a value on the contribution of FOSS developers... TL;DL -> $100s of billions contributed to the economy. https://www.zdnet.com/video/open-source-developers-contribute-hundreds-of-billions-of-dollars-to-the-economy/
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Important call for experimentation from @democracypolicy:
Alternative Voting Methods | Democracy Policy Network - https://democracypolicy.network/agenda/open-country/open-government/alternative-voting-methods
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I suggest Bitwarden for those ready to migrate
LastPass’ free tier will become a lot less useful next month
https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/16/22285531/lastpass-free-tier-mobile-computer-device-premium-family
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"Own a Newspaper for $1 per Month." An interesting story about a growing experiment in cooperative local journalism.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/november-december-2020/own-a-newspaper-for-1-per-month/
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Are you subscribed to our YouTube? We’re live streaming, posting demos, and more. Check it out: https://youtube.com/c/elementaryinc
Economist. Antitrust policy; industrial organization; history of economics
Joined Mar 2020
