"Slide" Brombek @brombek@social.privacytools.io

I think y'all might like this portable terminal https://www.clockworkpi.com/

This is brilliant!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzlCOg-37hI

love to make juice

picorio maybe to be a risc-v alternative to the raspberry pi / beaglebone ? https://riscv.org/blog/2020/11/picorio-the-raspberry-pi-like-small-board-computer-for-risc-v/

stop

using

consumer

operating

systems

🇵🇱 "Ania pracuje w Świerku w Otwocku pod Warszawą, w jednym z największych instytutów badawczych w kraju – Narodowym Centrum Badań Jądrowych. A konkretnie – w reaktorze jądrowym “MARIA”. Jest tam jedną z najmłodszych osób."
https://www.girlsgonetech.pl/2020/11/05/chyba-najmlodsza-w-reaktorze/

At this moment, Germany is importing 3.3 GW of #nuclear power from France due to calm wind and no sunlight in Germany and much of Europe, plus burning coal and fossil gas like crazy...

there's an attitude i very frequently see from people who stubbornly insist on staying in the consoomer software ecosystem, apple users especially, whey they seem absolutely convinced that learning to use a new system and switching their infrastructure over to something that respects their basic human dignity, is a proposition of such enormity that mere mortals such as them simply cannot ever hope to do it. "i can't spend all this time learning to use grownup software, i have a job to do!" they cry. and yet they have no problem at all wasting even more time and spending money endlessly on proprietary software to try and make their digital cuckshed minimally habitable, even knowing that apple is going to come along in five minutes and wreck everything all over again. if macOS 69 "Guantanamo" came out with the requirement that users purchase an overpriced Apple-brand bluetooth shock collar and wear it at all times so they can be punished for insufficient consumption, these idiots would be the first people to rush out and buy a copy and they would spend at least an hour a day for the next month heroically defending tim cook online

stockholm syndrome is real, folks

Really good - CONSTANTLY WRONG: The Case Against Conspiracy Theories 👍

https://vimeo.com/478132832

via @kmic

Made a vim video. People seem to like it https://youtu.be/9I7K4NU5Zkw

Man, I love FOSS. So great to have a community of people building software with the user's interests in mind just because they can

HP never stopped innovating. From its origins as a leading electronics manufacturer to its role in the birth of PCs and performance servers, it has always demonstrated incredible ingenuity.

Today, that ingenuity is deployed in service of evil ink-based fuckery.

The printer-ink business model has always been a form of commercial sadism in which you are expected to put giant manufacturers' interests ahead of your own with no expectation of any sort of reciprocity.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/ink-stained-wretches-battle-soul-digital-freedom-taking-place-inside-your-printer

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@kami_kadse is Greta even allowed to burn Trump this badly? He's a fossil, after all.

@celesteh YouTube has a toxic effect on young creators too; who end up burning out trying to chase the algorithms and relatively small amounts of ad revenue as there are often 20+ all following the same format, and even the popular (younger) ones all seem to be middle class kids living with parents still (its less of a problem to those in middle age who already have an established business/career outside of YT and are making videos related to this, but thats just another form of advertising)

I've just been reminded: I often forgot the constraints most people feel (and work around) with existing web hosting services! By which I include Medium and YouTube.

Running my own homeserver really illustrates to me how trivial all these webservices really are. They're very much pretty facades upon almost nothing!

Silicon Valley has done nothing to deserve your worship.

@alcinnz Yeah, UBI is a good idea regardless, not just because it helps poor people but it’d be a powerful force for stabilizing the economy, putting a check on just how wealthy someone can be, without taking away our incentives.

I can think of a number of changes to copyright that would all greatly improve things, but even just completely burning the law and having zero copyright would be better than what we’ve got now, so it’s not hard to find less crazy ideas for improvement.

inalienable copyright, patents, etc
13 year limit to that stuff
make it illegal to claim a trade mark on something that has become part of the public mindshare. Soon as it gets popular enough, bam: public domain.
public funding for artists, researchers, etc
no legal protections for trade secrets, or private research.
it only counts as a “copy” when it’s a commodity, so not ideas, performances, files, algorithms, magic numbers, etc.
legal protections for preserving attribution, severe penalties for corporations trying to take credit for the creations of their employees
Fair use is legal, without having to go to court pay a ton of legal fees and pray that this particular case won’t have a corrupt judge
More scrutiny on judges so that ones who are corporate schills can get caught, fired, hopefully jailed, and then replaced.

I could go on for a while…

wouldn't it be cool if r&d went into improving the things that are actually materially beneficial for user experience (i.e. software design esp. stability, interoperability/composability, performance) instead of "tech culture" being basically just luxury lifestyle brands selling halo products to people who both can't really afford them and shouldn't have to

i don't want more hardware and i don't want others to want more hardware either. a fancier machine isn't useful unless software improves