Kamalavelan @demonshreder@mastodon.xyz

@tshrinivasan You can check the status of instances from here https://instances.social/ and as @prassee suggests, I also support we start the first mastodon instance in India and we shall reach out to first the FOSS communities, Regional communities like writers, poets in tamil and bring them into it. But like https://social.coop we should look at managing and funding the platform as a #cooperative

I just learned that the #Debian #Gitlab instance is not limited to the Debian project but open for any Free Software project. In case you are looking for a (new) home, I think Debian is a great place to be. https://salsa.debian.org

There are people who work and build communities and there are people who just get close with people in power to attain power.A community needs to be very conscious that they build a team, a community and not a power hierarchy. Because power for the sake of power or power without the right thought are both going to kill a lot of things. Whereas a community is a very different game and calls for a collective growth over an individual growth.
Free Software Movements are a perfect example.

Very recently printed and assembled commonspoly game with my peers @prashere @maniraj . soon will be playing the game with cooprades. Planning to have a fest soon.

#commonspoly #cbpp #diy #cooperatives

which means we can download and print out the game board ourselves in a paper and stick it them to old cardboard boxex which is DIY.

I will be playing with @smith_ai @demonshreder @maniraj this weekend. 😉

The Go Developer's Quickstart Guide to Rust by Matt Butcher: http://technosophos.com/2018/05/27/the-go-developers-quickstart-guide-to-rust.html #Rust #language

Reading telekommunist manifesto by Dimitri kleiner

In the 90s, MIT's Athena system devised a system to handle online harrassment. One feature of the system was that the notice of reported abusive behaviour sent to the accused user began with the phrase "Someone using your account…". Users were advised to re-password their accounts, as they may have been hacked. Password resets by UYA recipients were taken in good faith by staff, but the most astonishing thing was that the offending behaviour nearly always stopped there.

https://www.metafilter.com/173881/UYA-notices-and-face-saving-in-moderation-systems#inline-7389802

I need to remember this technique in the event of anyone doing stuff that merits a warning.

பொதுவானவை(Commons) பொதுவானவையாக இருப்பதற்கு ஒரு இயக்கமாக ஒன்றினைந்து போராட வேண்டும், விழிப்புணர்வை ஏற்படுத்த வேண்டும். பொதுவானவையை உருவாக்குவதோடு அவை முடிந்துவிடுவதில்லை.
#FSFTN #WikipediaEditathon #Commons

The @GIMP have just released 2.10 to the world! Six years of hard work and improvements are all wrapped up and now available! Congratulations to the GIMP team for all of their hard work and dedication to bring us such a great project!

https://www.gimp.org/news/2018/04/27/gimp-2-10-0-released/

#FOSS #photography #artwithopensource #digitalart #freesoftware #software #editing

This is why I only use & support Free & Open Source Software in my personal life. This man is going to prison. Prison.

"A California man who built a sizable business out of recycling electronic waste is headed to federal prison for 15 months after a federal appeals court in Miami rejected his claim that the “restore disks” he made to extend the lives of computers had no financial value, instead ruling that he had infringed Microsoft’s products to the tune of $700,000."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/true-crime/wp/2018/04/24/recycling-innovator-eric-lundgren-loses-appeal-on-computer-restore-discs-must-serve-15-month-prison-term/?noredirect=on

Baba Jaga
#cat #caturday

@ajroach42 I read what you wrote but have not dug through all the responses, so please forgive me if I say something that's already been mentioned.

I think a lot of the problem is that the nature of the people programming computers has changed. Back in the 60s-80s, nearly everyone writing software was a tinkerer. Nowadays "programmers" are mass produced, and by and large they are neither tinkerers nor engineers; they are laborers.