Rune @rune@librem.one

Prison Abolition and dealing with "The Dangerous Few"

https://twitter.com/lackingceremony/status/1132437030774796289

I found this super compelling and it resolves my only holdout argument against prison abolition.

#anarchism #ACAB #abolition

Hackerspaces can and will outlive Maker, and Free Software will outlive Open Source, because ultimately movements built on community, principles and people will always live longer than those built on brands and trends.

Don't be sad about Maker Faire. It's just an opportunity for you to create your own community-driven event in your area.

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Mixed feelings about Maker Faire shutting down. I feel sad because it was a cool event in principle, but the corporate sponsorship and corporatization of it made me uncomfortable in the same way that Hackerspaces became "Maker Spaces".

If that pattern seemed familiar to how Free Software became co-opted to become Open Source, you have the same man to thank, Tim O'Reilly.

But what this shows us is another clear lesson that we can't build community on "benevolent corporations".

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psa if you have a simple html UI mechanism (tabs, accordions, popup dialogs, hiding/showing/selectively disabling buttons/fields/etc) that you would normally implement with javascript, i would happily teach you how to do it in pure html/css instead if possible (it's usually possible)

i want to do my part to make the web as js-free as possible and im happy to do it pro bono

RT @FreedomofPress
In Australia, the United States, and elsewhere, journalists are being targeted for reporting on secret government info. The public’s right to know would be severely inhibited if the press could only publish news the government decides is not “secret.” https://freedom.press/news/outrageous-raids-journalists-australia-and-elsewhere-threaten-press-freedom/

RT @FreedomofPress
Australian authorities raided the home of a journalist one day, and a newsroom the next. These incidents are the latest in a string of instances by governments that claim to value press freedom targeting journalists for their reporting. https://freedom.press/news/outrageous-raids-journalists-australia-and-elsewhere-threaten-press-freedom/

Because of their aesthetic appeal, and thanks to the ability to produce them locally, small wooden wind turbines can also improve the public acceptance of wind power.

Reinventing the Small Wind Turbine http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/krisdedecker/lowtechmagazineenglish/~3/DP8DJ1tQ4D8/small-wooden-wind-turbines.html

#wind #power #energy #electricity

it's been said before, but: getting a bunch of boosts/favorites on a mastodon post is so much more satisfying (and feels so much nicer) than getting even an order of magnitude more likes/retweets/shares/whatever on an attention-manipulation social network post. mastodon favs/boosts feel more like individual commitments and not, like, purely performative acts coerced by advertisement algorithms

Did you know that with the Librem 5 smartphone you can remove the back and have access to :

- the battery
- a removable OpenPGP smart card
- a removable cellular modem
- and a microSD card so you can expand your storage later on

More here:
https://puri.sm/posts/with-purism-products-you-are-in-control/

bzip2 is officially up on GitLab now! This means it has an issue tracker and public source code repository. https://gitlab.com/federicomenaquintero/bzip2

Python: batteries included, but they’re leaking https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2019/05/amber-brown-batteries-included-but.html?m=1

Like other tech megacorps, Apple hates the copyleft exemplified by the GNU General Public License... Its latest MacOS replaces the GPL'd Bash shell with MIT (weak open source license) licensed Zsh instead. Here're some past GPL purges from Apple: http://meta.ath0.com/2012/02/05/apples-great-gpl-purge/

That's essentially punishing everybody for the actions of one player, a practice no one, including the founders would not accept as fair, nor just, if applied within the legal system.

They're also essentially helping cement AWS's position, because any potential newcomers in the cloud space would need gigantic resources to license software Amazon never had to license.

Note also that Cockroach is built on other technologies that are themselves free software, (#Golang, #PostgreSQL...).

I have to say, the fact that #CockroachDB, (founded by the original creators of *The* #GIMP), has switched to a #MongoDB / Elastic style license, where you cannot offer a commercial managed version of it from the source code, (thus making it no longer free software, nor open source, but rather merely 'source available'), is pretty disappointing.

I get that #Amazon are pieces of shit that will steam roll over anyone, without paying a dime for the SW they built AWS on, but this is not the way.

"Thing is, web developers don’t believe in performance. They say they do, but in reality, they don’t. What they believe in is hype."

http://tonsky.me/blog/pwa/

A bit harsh, but I can't disagree.

Also: "Think about it: web, in general, failed to be fast, so Google invents a parallel web where they simply don’t let you use JavaScript."

#SyncThing, like #MailPile, is another cross-platform app that launches it's UI in the default browser, rather than running most of Chrome(ium) in the background so it can have it's own window that doesn't look like a browser tab. App makers using #Electron, take note.

Pushed to the #Mailpile repo a fix for the Johnny's Fired bug.

In a perfect world I'd have checked out the exploit tools and properly tested it... We do not live in a perfect world. 😔

Discussion is here: https://community.mailpile.is/t/johnny-you-are-fired-gnupg-bug-fix/143