Miren @miren@mas.to

I implore any #FLOSS group using #Telegram to consider switching to @matrix for public (unencrypted) and private (#E2EE) chats, and #Fediverse services (Mastodon, Pleroma, Write.as etc) for announcements. And Discourse.

https://t.me/durov/176

Tips on how to upcycle your phone. Print or share online our high-resolution infographics and help others learn that #UpcyclingAndroid is a more sustainable choice than buying a new one.

You can do it!

https://fsfe.org/activities/upcyclingandroid/informationmaterial.html#infographics

An investigation of what happened in 1984 that made so many women give up on computer science.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/17/356944145/episode-576-when-women-stopped-coding

Of course Elsevier's "enhanced pdf viewer" tracks where you click, view, if you hide the page, etc. and then transmits a big base64 blob of events along with ID from University proxy when you leave. I'm sure straight to SciVal for sale.
Is this the way we want science to work?

If you can't bear to live without having infinite access to every music you could possibly want, you're not a music fan, you're an addict. You're addicted to consumer convenience. You're addicted to the entitlement to have everything at your disposal and you're ignoring the very, very real cost of that convenience. It's not worth it.

Not getting any coding done because GitHub is down? Why not take the opportunity to check out Codeberg (https://codeberg.org/), Gitea (https://gitea.com/) or GitLab (https://about.gitlab.com/install/)

#alternatives

"Pfizer agreed to provide Israel with enough vaccines for the entire population, in exchange for huge amounts of valuable data, raising concerns about privacy and data monopoly, and demonstrating that citizens’ data is now one of the most valuable state assets".

https://www.ft.com/content/f1b30f2c-84aa-4595-84f2-7816796d6841

#infosec #COVID19

"There has been a time when the Internet was mainly a project for the military, a time in which it was a project for academics, then came a time the Internet was a project for corporations. Now is the time we make the Internet a project for citizens and communities."

Yup.

https://labs.ripe.net/author/niels-ten-oever/human-rights-are-not-a-bug/

when you think about it, the idea that software should scale is actually really weird. "sure this garden is nice, but how nice can it be if it doesn't grow to cover the entire surface of the earth?"

I got zero responses last time I hit up the Fediverse offering paid creative work, but I'm not giving up!

Some #Owncast features being worked on require iconography. And while we could use an icon library or something like Fiverr it'd be nice to work with an illustrator on the Fediverse who focuses on icons to have something that is custom.

This is paid work, so please boost and tell your friends.

Feel free to message me on the fediverse or email me: gabek@real-ity.com

Cloud native or cloud naive?

"The last twenty years of the internet have demonstrated the vast and unchecked power that comes with owning and controlling the platforms, the ability to structure and profit from every interaction. It seems unbelievably short-sighted for the education sector to relinquish the dwindling amount of agency it still possesses…" https://abject.ca/just-give-up-i-guess/

MS Windows is so insidious because it frames most people's view of the digital world. And it has lots of deliberate smudges that colour that view in unfortunate ways, creating (and dashing) expectations (and learned helplessness) that aren't to anyone's benefit other than Microsoft's...

Sometimes I need to learn how to do a thing, so I search online for a tutorial. I’m so pleased when I can find a text-based tutorial. You know: words on a web page with helpful photos or diagrams. Instead of yet another time-sucking video.

Please, don't panic: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has been published on October 12, 1979.

Exactly 42 years ago 🙊