Mobilizon : let’s finance a software to free our events from Facebook !framablog.org/2019/05/14/mobil… #Framablog #TootOuRien
We have less than 60 days to finance Mobilizon. Less than 60 days to promote our project of a free and federated alternative to Facebook events ; and to know how much we need to invest ourselves in it.
Change the software of the people who change the world?
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I received my new spindle + whorl + wool kit, made myself a distaff from a dowel and a band of fabric from my bag of odd pieces, and decided to start trying with some of the modern top I was already used to.
Between the different technique and the lack of a hook it feels a lot like starting again from scratch, but I'm starting to get back a tiny bit of consistency and the yarn is no longer breaking every other metre or so. I'm happy I kept the nice wool for later, however.
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Dying @ this anecdote from Andrew Thaler on birbsite:“Six years ago today, I walked into the techiest tech-bro bar in San Fransisco, positioned myself obnoxiously into a group of Dudes Wearing Google Glass, and loudly said "Ok Google, Call Mom."
It was magical.
How were you radicalized against pervasive technology?”
Dal sito programminghistorian.org/ ho ripreso e tradotto l’articolo
Sustainable Authorship in Plain Text using #Pandoc and #Markdown. Presenta un modello di #scrittura "sostenibile" che usa il plain text e strumenti da riga di comando (#Pandoc e un briciolo di #Latex) Mi è sembrato molto interessante. La versione italiana si può leggere qui: frama.link/8ax800Fc
#softwarelibero @maupao @paolo @Ca_Gi @steko @wikimediaitalia
i don't always use fountain pens…
but when I do, i build them myself :D
Since I stumbled on sites.google.com/site/cartedar… I've been wanting to try and make one, and I've finally found half an hour to do so.
This includes discovering that the cartridges I still had from my school years (last millennium) were dry, refilling one of them, discovering that I don't know how to refill an ink cartridge without spilling ink (luckily just on my hands and on some paper ads that were there to protect the desktop) and finally trying the pen.
For something made out of a soft drink can, it writes pretty well.
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FreedomBox Home Server Kit for Decentralizing the Internet and keeping your privacy away from the Big brother is now in stock! olimex.wordpress.com/2019/04/2…
No, it doesn't (afaik, at least it didn't last time I checked).
Friendica supports the diaspora protocol, because friendica supports *everything* :D
Olimex freedombox home server kit is available:
FreedomBox Home Server Kit for Decentralizing the Internet and keeping your privacy away from the Big brother is now in stock! olimex.wordpress.com/2019/04/2…
Cool. Stoicism is close to my heart, and expresses a lot of what I have discovered for myself.
But it definitely carries with it the danger of an interpretation where person A might tell person B that person A's actions were justified and person B's distress is entirely internal, therefore there is no reason for person A to change their behavior, B should just be better at accepting their fate.
We can do both. This is where I refer to the Serenity Prayer. It's one of the best pieces of Christianity, and it is pure Stoicism.
Grant me the wine to accept the things I cannot change,
The coffee to change the things I can,
And the shrooms to know the difference.
Mother Goose had it centuries before Reinhold Niebuhr, apparently:
> For every ailment under the sun
> There is a remedy, or there is none;
> If there be one, try to find it;
> If there be none, never mind it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity…
(and of course various Stoics and Buddhists a millennium or two before her, but her version is pretty much exactly the Serenity Prayer in content, just with different phrasing)
On Sunday, March 24th at the @fsf's annual #LibrePlanet conference, the FreedomBox Foundation announced that it has partnered with @olimex to sell Pioneer FreedomBox Home Server Kits.We chose to announce at #LibrePlanet for a reason. #BeAPioneer
SiFive updated their #HiFive1 #RISCV development board, in case you missed the first round.crowdsupply.com/sifive/hifive1…
Now it includes onboard WiFi and Bluetooth, among other updates like support for more peripherals.
For anyone #teaching #programming, this is excellent.Ten quick tips for teaching programming
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol…Full citation:
Brown, Neil C. C., and Greg Wilson. “Ten Quick Tips for Teaching Programming.” PLOS Computational Biology 14, no. 4 (April 5, 2018): e1006023. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1…
From “the internet” (if you know where this comes from, please tell me so)
this is so true it hurts
Debian SnowCamp in Laveno 28 Feb / 3 Mar 2019
Just like last year, we are organizing a small DIY DebCamp in Laveno from Thursday 28 February to Sunday 3 March 2019.A DIY DebCamp is chance to meet other debianites and work together, with no preset schedule other than what the participants themselves decide to have.
There is still room to register by adding yourself to the table on the debian wiki:
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/it/2019/SnowCamp
See you in Laveno!
Debian SnowCamp in Laveno 28 Feb / 3 Mar 2019
Just like last year, we are organizing a small DIY DebCamp in Laveno from Thursday 28 February to Sunday 3 March 2019.
A DIY DebCamp is chance to meet other debianites and work together, with no preset schedule other than what the participants themselves decide to have.
There is still room to register by adding yourself to the table on the debian wiki:
wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/i…
See you in Laveno!
openscore.cc is a project that wants to liberate sheet music from copyright and from paper! They invite and coordinate volunteers to transcribe public domain scans from imslp.org using musescore.org. Should be a great learning experience! 🎼
Become A Facebook-Free Business
This is an interesting initiative!
Being a Facebook-Free Business means your customers can trust that you aren’t collaborators with the Facebook machine. That when you spend your money with a Facebook-Free Business, none of that money will find its way back to Facebook’s coffers.The rules are pretty simple. Being Facebook Free means:
- We do not buy advertisement on Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, or WhatsApp.
- We do not use Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, or WhatsApp to promote or represent our business or to communicate with our customers.
- We do not assist Facebook in its data collection regime through use of Facebook social Like buttons or by offering Facebook logins.
m.signalvnoise.com/become-a-fa…Thanks to @Debacle for the pointer!
I'd like to send virtual chocolate¹ to all of the distribution maintainers who deal with toxic upstreams so that the users can get the software without having to deal with the toxicity themselves.
You are doing a great and *useful* job!
¹ if you're not in the mood for chocolate it will turn magically into whatever virtual comfort food you want
P.S. this is not restricted to any episode / project you may be thinking about.
Comfy clothing
Last autumn I followed the Otari Hoodie sew along using black cotton sweatshirting as the main body and leftovers of cat print cotton jersey as the lining.
I had enough sweatshirting for a matching skirt, with applied pockets, using the circle_fraction_skirt pattern (on my git repository.
I had pockets on the hoodie and the skirt, but they aren't very big (and knits aren't great at carrying weight), so I added zippers to both seams so that I can access my pockets, so that I can have the “privilege of not lending” my scissors :D
And then today was a great day to wear it while on the couch (not pictured: warm blanket, book)
I only need to be careful not to wear this while playing munchkin steampunk in case those things count as toy cats for the mousetrap level 2 monster (“+1 for each living or toy cat you can see in the room when this card is turned up”. I wouldn't see my own clothing (riiight?), but other players would, and I suspect that they wouldn't be happy :D )
Pepper and Carrot board game
Today the post had a surprise for me!
The Pepper and Carrot #freeCulture #boardGame from kickstarter.com/projects/18989… , including most expansions.
Looking forwards to playing it!
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