Keith Whyte @keith@tic-ac.org

The web is rotting out. I'm seeing more and more active organizations with broken content, bad links, and out of date websites. But don't worry, their facebook page is up to date!

We paved over the library of alexandria and put a walmart in its place.

Entschuldigung

Perfekt

@NGIZero “Open Source” for a surveillance capitalist like Google is one or several of four main things:

- The potential to use free labour
- The potential for positive public relations (which, when amplified, will hopefully get people thinking about them as a benevolent philosopher kings instead of the robber barons and people farmers that they are)
- The potential to influence the stack (with tools that function in line with their success criteria)
- The potential to find new talent

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What #education did you do for free software and people in your country?

Please share your experience.

Boosts are very appreciated.

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #School

People who think "Open Source is thriving, it's everywhere!" and are all optimistic about it are doing the same thing as the people with electric cars and solar panels on their McMansions thinking that we're on track to deal with the climate crisis.

The *real* solutions for a healthy sustainable FLO world are all still marginalized and struggling, and the capitalist #greenwashing and #openwashing serve mainly to delude people about the state of things.

Suelo limpio lo llaman cuando producen desierto https://fediverse.tv/videos/watch/65a0bb78-75b9-46e7-95ea-93d2b93f722d

Is there a name for this rhetorical trick?

1. A writer asserts that "anyone who still uses two spaces after a full stop is abusing the language."
2. The writer notes that their target "is one of those people who still uses two spaces."
3. From that point, the author and all their fans describe the target as "an abuser" and their work as "abusive" without clarification.
4. Anyone who tries to clarify is described as "an apologist for abusers".

I feel there has to be but can't think of it.

The new joinmastodon.org website delivered by @oakstudios is live (has been for a little while, actually, but I've been working on it still). I think it's the best it's ever been. Check out the branding and about pages too!

https://joinmastodon.org/

As you might have seen from the last boost, PeerTube's latest version now supports "ability to automatically import all videos from a remote channel (from another video platform)".

What does this mean?

It means you can automatically import your videos from YouTube to PeerTube 🥳

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More info from PeerTube's official news page:

https://joinpeertube.org/news#release-4.3

#PeerTube #Fediverse #YouTube

Mäuse fangen

Chilean voters resoundingly reject a new ‘ecological’ constitution

Draft charter had major implications for economic policy, climate, environment, research, and Indigenous rights

https://www.science.org/content/article/chilean-voters-resoundingly-reject-a-new-ecological-constitution

#ClimateEmergency
#pollution #ecology #environment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #CllimateChange #Chile

We're celebrating OpenStreetMap's 18th Anniversary! #OpenStreetMap18

https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2022/08/06/happy-18th-anniversary-openstreetmap/

Cake by @osmbd@twitter.com :)