Humanity @Blort@social.tchncs.de

The worst possible version of the EU Copyright Directive has sparked a German uprising

https://boingboing.net/2019/02/18/niemehrcdu.html

RT @osdiversity@twitter.com

On "I Love Free Software" day, a special huge thank you to the people from underrepresented groups who maintain and contribute to free & open source software! ✊

👉 https://ilovefs.org #ilovefs
❤ https://opensourcediversity.org #opensourcediversity

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/osdiversity/status/1096015509546504192

Calling all #Fediverse admins of instances in the #EU. The #CopyrightDirective is coming, we need to show the MEPs how massively the EU Internets will be affected.

We are preparing a list of all EU-based #Pleroma, #Mastodon, #GNUSocial, #Peertube, #Funkwhale, and any other instances.

Please *contact me*. All I need is the domain name, which EU Member State it's located in, and the rough topic of the instance. Approximate user count welcome, but not necessary.

Please help. This is important.

Most of tradition is just peer pressure from dead people. #Showerthoughts

Use Google Drive, but encrypt everything.

Create separate, fake Facebook and Twitter accounts for anything that requires linking to a social media profile.

Buy locked-down hardware that's sold at a loss and then jailbreak it.

Jailbreak all your friends' devices.

Repair things.

Hack the ink cartridges on your printer so you can refill them.

Install Linux.

Oh wow, if you search for a hastag on #Mastodon; pin it as a column and go into the column settings, you can add additional hashtags to that feed.

That near enough allows you to subscribe to hastags, that's awesome!

Can't believe that one slipped by me.

My new album called "Of Judy Stroat" is OUT right now!, and the video for the track "Just Romantique" too! 💥 💥 ‼️

VIDEO:
🎞️ https://vimeo.com/314597415
🎞️ https://share.tube/videos/watch/aaa3bf61-6335-4691-aa34-e7b0dc3a024c

PATREON post:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/24368261

BANDCAMP:
🔊 https://music.lukaprincic.si/album/of-judy-stroat

🎵

Boosts appreciated!

#CreativeCommons

#ambiental #ElectronicMusic

#ArtWithOpenSource #LinuxAudio #kdenlive #SuperCollider #Renoise

@andycuccaro Another great question! You know how in the fediverse currently if a server goes down all its content goes down with it? Wouldn't it be cool if that didn't happen? Also wouldn't it be cool if a post got really popular that the whole fediverse could share the load of distributing the file? A peer to peer sharing network could help, but how to keep it private so only intended recipients can see? Golem demoes how to do that with ActivityPub in just 500 lines of Racket code!

Toot, toot!

Tusky has opened an Open Collective, where you can support the development, translations and support work!

We offer a $12/ year tier, which is the symbolic "if everyone who uses the app can pay $1/month".

As well as, a backer tier, and a sponsor tier!

https://opencollective.com/tusky

#OpenCollective #sponsor #donate

Still, I think Mastodon has done more to make decentralized tech accessible than anything else I've seen. There are non-techies on the fediverse! There are people here who don't know what SSH is! That's a miracle.

I hope we continue doing this kind of good work and bringing more people into the humane, privacy-respecting, own-your-own-data world. It would be a shame if we succeeded on the technical front but failed on the human front, and people turned around and went back to the silos.