Doug Webb @douginamug@mastodon.xyz
Member of Kanthaus, 🏠 a common house in 🇩🇪 https://kanthaus.online Current focus: score voting ➡️ coop & commons governance ⚖️ Glad to be here with you 🌍
- test
- what happens...
- test 2
- ... when I add a table?
Open source's nature is to fade into the background and go unnoticed except by those whose work touches it directly. It is the plankton of computing. We all breathe, but few of us stop to think about where the oxygen is coming from.
-- "Producing Open Source Software" by Karl Fogel
... given unconditionally, pre-paid by death.
Life is an absurd gift.
"The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live."
Thanks for reminding me of my foolishness, Epicurus.
Reclaiming RSS
“Before Twitter, before algorithmic timelines filtered our reality for us, before surveillance capitalism, there was RSS: Really Simple Syndication … As we move away from the centralised web to the peer web, it’s time to rediscover, re-embrace, and reclaim RSS.”
Awesome news: thanks to the support of SolidFund we have 10 #free tickets available for low-income people in worker #coops to join our #UK workshops. 🎉
Please share with cooperators around #Manchester + #London.
The future is cooperative 🌶
Insurance is a lottery.
Fight me.
'Philosophy Football' sketch by the Monty Pythons made me chuckle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2gJamguN04
@wolfi Something to 'prickle your fancy' perhaps, thanks for discovery https://futhark-lang.org/blog/2018-06-18-designing-a-programming-language-for-the-desert.html @wu_lee
5: good or bad
15: finds ying/yang, good *and* bad
25: pluralist, relativist chaos,
.@Blender's videos on #YouTube have now come back, but they are also being told by Google/YT that they HAVE to monetise them. #Blender are considering refusing, which presumably would mean the videos being taken down again:
https://www.blender.org/media-exposure/youtube-blocks-blender-videos-worldwide/
Whatever they once stood for, #Google's aim now is exploiting their users' content for maximum profit.
If you don't want your videos to be exploited, it is important to switch to an independent alternative:
After the chaos over #YouTube's inexplicable takedown and enforced monetisation, Blender is now testing its own #PeerTube instance:
laptop: #thunderbird + #lightning add-on + #cardbook add-on + #nextcloud sync client
phone: #fdroid + #k9mail + #davdroid + #nextcloud notes
(... 24 hours of configuration ...)
Notes, calendar events, contacts and emails are now synced with laptop and phone. Feels good.
delighted to see the movement of #HumanAdBlockers taking off!! Lancement mouvement #StopPubVideo Collectif Plein la vue !! more pictures -> https://www.facebook.com/Stop-Pub-Video-Le-mouvement-2060452440887836/
I translated the #HumanAdBlock tutorial in English https://maxlath.eu/posts/ad-blocker-humain/#EN
#CCBYSA licensed => happy remix :)
cc @douginamug
#KOrganizer calendar autodiscovers #Nextcloud calendars! But writing to google cal is broken :(
#Lightning on #Thunderbird syncs perfectly with google cal! But can't subscribe to Nextcloud...
May the day when emails, contact info and calendar events are easily interoperable come quickly. Thanks if you're developing.
