Charles Stanhope @cstanhope@social.coop

Your house is overloaded with books. What do you do?

https://twitter.com/hacks4pancakes/status/1086000837615382529

I make some exceptions sharing twitter threads when it’s something important.

More and more businesses are realizing they can add surveillance to where it wasn’t possible before. Landlords are pushing hard for this in order to gain more control, to sell your data (extremely private data). The IoT devices are a boon for amoral corps, allowing them to perpetuate _massive_ land grabs to tip the status quo.

I made a little thing on Glitch for making blackout poetry, so you can be emo on the internet faster and more efficiently https://blackoutpoetry.glitch.me

The New York Times killed their behavorial advertising integrations in prep for GDPR and... it went fine! Their revenue actually increased:

https://digiday.com/media/new-york-times-gdpr-cut-off-ad-exchanges-europe-ad-revenue/

(Edited to note: This only applied to their pages served in Europe, as far as I can tell.)

A benefit of the OPA this article doesn't mention: being government-made IP, OPA reports are in the public domain -- and having high-quality serious PD summaries of scientific material is great. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2019/01/11/feature/why-is-congress-so-dumb/

https://mntmn.com/media/news_md/2019-01-14-status_update_on_reform.html

Just discovered this article about the band called Lorenzo's Music which is a #opensource and #creativecommons band that decided as a challenge to create their album using only open source with the OS @ubuntustudio

Pretty great stuff. Here is the article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2018/09/25/open-source-challenge-why-one-band-chose-linux-to-record-their-new-album/#3b6c23184439

I've also decided to mirror these guys on share.tube so that we can have their creative commons stuff on #peertube too. @lorenzosmirror
#linux #ubuntustudio #music

Who in the fediverse is an active leader/officer of a union?

(Boosts appreciated!)

I originally posted this on because somehow I assumed people on Mastodon would know…

Stanford has published on Youtube 111_{10}¹ lectures by Donald Knuth:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL94E35692EB9D36F3

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¹ given the subject I thought specifying the base was relevant.

#FreeAsInFreedom is back! In this episode of the #OggcCast, Bradley and Karen discuss the new wave of non-free licenses with #FieldOfUseRestrictions:
http://faif.us/cast/2018/dec/31/0x5F/

The World President took the call.
"All right, Dr Dastard, what are your demands?"
"Media always talk about my inventions and schemes, and call me 'mad scientist' or 'evil genius'."
"I can't control media-
"But it's not just me! It's never a lone genius! My team deserves credit!"
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

@cstanhope We need to get more people to build other types of products that don't screw their customers. Me, trying to: https://indiecomputing.com/products/ But need lots more.

In Greensboro, closure of food co-op illustrates challenges faced by those hoping for this model as a way to solve “food desert” issues

https://www.greensboro.com/news/local_news/food-desert-rescuer-renaissance-co-op-in-greensboro-is-closing/article_35545715-1392-5258-abdd-1d317545fb4d.html