𝒅𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒎 @dazinism@social.coop

i'm wondering if i should be thinking harder about my backup scheme going forward...

currently i have an external drive that gets dailies from the desktop, almost everything important on the laptop is synced to the desktop via syncthing, and i send a weekly incremental to tarsnap (i know this is dicey ruleswise but i call the whole thing a business expense. that said i'd still like to keep that bill down).

@neil i have a major problem with this article: It assumes that Housing Coops in general are neither capitalist not state-driven actors. Here in germany that is really wrong, the very much liberalised the conditions under which housing coops can act, so a few big ones do act as normal profit driven actors in bigger cities. It matters what is written in the Coop Laws and in the statutes of the coops...

@Torrone @dazinism @wion

False. the #Pinephone is fully functional on mainline Linux.

There's also developers from several of the main Linux mobile distributions (PostmarketOS, Maemo Leste, LuneOS, Ubuntu Touch, Sailfish) onboard with the project and most of those already have feature-complete builds on dev hardware.

We had our first #VOICE group chat testing session today. Here's a quick write-up:
https://write.as/zk9vm8m00eutn.md

Join us for future sessions. We're coordinating at:
#voicechat:matrix.org

Earlier this month, the New York Times published a rare, beautifully illustrated piece on the importance of organic, open source seeds for the future of food. Well worth the read:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/07/opinion/sunday/dan-barber-seed-companies.html

https://staltz.com/software-below-the-poverty-line.html

André Staltz: Software below the poverty line

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/masks-cash-and-apps-how-hong-kongs-protesters-find-ways-to-outwit-the-surveillance-state/2019/06/15/8229169c-8ea0-11e9-b6f4-033356502dce_story.html

"Hong Kong has offered a picture of what it looks like to stage mass civil disobedience in the age of the surveillance state."

"Civil rights groups have called it “perhaps the most dangerous surveillance technology ever developed”, and called for Amazon to stop selling it to government agencies, particularly police forces."

"Mr Vogels doesn’t feel it's Amazon’s responsibility to make sure Rekognition is used accurately or ethically.

“That’s not my decision to make,” he tells me."

Murky AF. I guess this kind of moral self-absolution is a necessity if you're in charge of Amazon.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-48634676

Oh wow. So that really famous centralized vs decentralized vs distributed diagram that I quote above? Well, in one of the companion papers, Baran provides this iteration on it, which in my opinion is far superior and I'm going to start using in my presentations.

Full paper: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM3097.html

Halfway through the translation & serial publication of Solidarity Economy Roads.

I have a liberapay account if you'd like to support my work. https://liberapay.com/MNoyes/

Wanting to organise a group to meet up. Corporate surveillance silos like Meetup.com and Facebook are dominant, but not an option.

What non-corporate service can I use that won't suck for people, including those people I don't know yet?

@prydt Hey um, your profile says history, have you tried the Hardcore History podcast? Their "Kings of Kings" and "Death throes of the republic" series are really good.

Just thought you might like it. 🤷‍♂️ 💚

GrapheneOS is an open source privacy and security focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility. https://grapheneos.org/

@yogthos
Contributors are wanted!

Quote: "there is funding to hire other developers too"
"the hardest part is finding good people"

If you're interested come say hi f.e. in #grapheneos on freenode.

An academic talk in #Islamabad, #Pakistan and via webinar on environmental diplomacy and water conflicts given by Professor Asim Zia (my husband) on Thursday at 6 am EDT (New York City time). He will cover #Kabul, #Indus, #Jordan, #Missisquoi, and #Kali Rivers
#AdaptiveManagement. #Rivers. #EnvironmentalPolicy. #ComplexSystems