V02460 @v02460@librem.one

Herzlichen Glückwunsch an das Land Berlin zu seiner Open-Source-Strategie 🎉

Das Land Berlin hat eine eigene Open-Source-Strategie beschlossen. Nach Gründung des eigenen Open-Source-Kompetenzzentrums ist das der nächste konsequente Schritt in Richtung Digitaler Souveränität. Mit Schleswig-Holstein und Thüringen ist Berlin nun das dritte Land, das seine digitale Infrastruktur auf offenen Standards aufbauen will.

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Hey, I've been under distress lately due to personal circumstances that are outside my control. I can't find a permanent job that allows me to function, I'm not eligible for government benefits, my grant proposals got rejected, paid internships are quite difficult to find. Essentially, I have no stable monthly income that allows me to sustain myself.

Nowadays, I work mostly on accessibility throughout GNOME as a volunteer, improving the experience of people with disabilities. I helped make the majority of GNOME Calendar accessible with a keyboard and screen reader — still an ongoing effort with !564 and !598 —which is an effort no company ever contributed financially. These merge requests take thousands (literally) of hours to research, develop, and test, which would have been enough to sustain myself for a couple of years if I had been working under a salary.

I would really appreciate any kinds of donations, especially ones that happen periodically to bump my monthly income.

These donations will allow me to sustain myself while allowing me to continue working on accessibility throughout GNOME, potentially even 'crowdfunding' development without doing it on the behalf of the Foundation.

I accept donations through the following platforms:

- “TheEvilSkeleton” on Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/TheEvilSkeleton/donate (free and open-source platform)
- “TheEvilSkeleton” on Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/theevilskeleton
- “TheEvilSkeleton” on GitHub Sponsors: https://github.com/sponsors/TheEvilSkeleton

Boosts welcome and appreciated.

#Accessibility #a11y #GNOME #GNOMECalendar #MutualAidRequest #MutualAid

I wrote a blogpost about an automatic phone call testing PoC I did recently.
The setup can detect a failed phone call. When properly integrated into the postmarketOS Hardware CI setup, it will automatically detect phone call reliability/quality issues.

Hopefully this can take away the fear of the phone not working when you need it and remove a roadblock for daily driving #linuxmobile.

https://izzo.pro/blog/phone-call-testing/

#postmarketOS #hardwareci

Vielen Dank für den Besuch im ZenDiS, Ralph Brinkhaus! Der Vorsitzende der Arbeitsgruppe „Digitales und Staatsmodernisierung“ der CDU/CSU-Bundestagsfraktion ist in Bochum vorbeigekommen, um sich über den Stand unserer Office- und Kollaborationssuite #openDesk zu informieren.

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#WirMachenSouverän

New:

http://em-dash-appreciation.org/

The Em Dash Appreciation Society
for Humans.

by @elysdir .

We're hosting our German #OpenDesk and French #LaSuite colleagues at our Dutch Ministry of Interior today to exchange experiences with our #MijnBureau team 🇩🇪🇫🇷

This is in preparation of the official European Digital Infrastructure Consortium (EDIC) launch tomorrow in The Hague. 🍾

The #EDIC will be a consortium of several EU member states to fund, support and build more #opensource EU alternatives together, like the sovereign workspaces replacing Microsoft.

#digitalsovereignty #eupolicy

Tech bros don’t actually understand the sci-fi they claim to love. Thank you Al Jazeera English for having me on.

Big news: Deutsche Welle has launched DW Access, an Android app that delivers independent news where it's needed most: in regions under information lockdown.

Key features:

➡️ No app store needed (share via link, messenger, bluetooth)

➡️ Offline mode

➡️ Built-in VPN protection

➡️ Zero personal data collected

More info (and download options) over here: https://corporate.dw.com/en/dw-access-new-app-counters-global-censorship/a-74924705

#PressFreedom #AntiCensorship #DigitalRights #DWAccess

Hello world! We are Modal, a new collective born out of the local Berlin community around Linux infrastructure. We're involved in projects like GNOME, postmarketOS, p2panda, and systemd.

We organize the #BoilingTheOcean events, and work upstream on a number of difficult problems in emancipatory computing, including local-first networking, mainline Linux on phones, and platform security.

Our long-term goal: A free software platform that's competitive with the iPhone 🌈

https://modal.cx/blog/what-is-modal

Die Familienunternehmer wollen die AfD jetzt doch nicht mehr einladen. Der Fall zeigt: es lohnt sich immer noch, weiter für die Brandmauer zu kämpfen.
https://www.volksverpetzer.de/aktuelles/familienunternehmer-rueckzieher-brandmauer-steht/?utm_source=mstdn

Die Nazis wieder. Wir stehen ihnen direkt gegenüber und konfrontieren sie für Euch pausenlos! ❤️

Gasturbinen für Rechenzentren und andere absurde ungehemmtes Wachstumseffekte… nicht nur in den USA. Sondern auch in Frankfurt … https://algorithmwatch.org/de/rechenzentren-strompreise/

Petition in Germany to recognize unpaid contribution to free and open source software projects as 'society-beneficial volunteering' (ehrenamt)!

This will give volunteering for e.g. @postmarketOS , @freifunk , @kde , @nextcloud and other libre projects the same legal status as taking care of an elderly family member, which provides tax benefits and relaxes requirements for receiving unemployment benefits.

https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/anerkennung-von-open-source-arbeit-als-ehrenamt-in-deutschland#petition-main

Please only sign the petition if you're a legal resident of Germany.

Die nächsten PRÜF-Demos finden am 13.12. statt! Mehr Infos am 28.11. bei @pruef_de! #pruef! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o3Pj5UvfuuM (wie funktioniert peertube? wo sollen wir da andocken?)