Better than WhatsApp: Try these Free Software Apps and Services β Free Software Foundation India
https://fsf.org.in/article/better-than-whatsapp/
#WhatsApp #Telegram #Signal #matrix #xmpp #p2p #element #quicksy #FreeSoftware
Thanks to Riya for making the info graphics.
"Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people." - Marx
Marx is so often overabbreviated and thus misunderstood. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_of_the_people
Mobilizon. Your events. Your groups. Your data.
Go behind the scenes of the design of #Mobilizon, our new tool to free your groups and events from Facebook.
https://framablog.org/2020/10/27/mobilizon-your-events-your-groups-your-data
(illus CC-By @davidrevoy)
covid
informative blog post about the shortcomings of the UK NHS COVID-19 QR code system:
It's been heartening to come across so many #blacklivesmatter banners across documentation sites for web development tools. A huge number of developers will be hitting these sites countless times daily to look things up during work β I've been one of them!
To highlight a few:
https://sass-lang.com/
https://glitch.com/
https://emotion.sh/
Last (but not least!), Netlify are matching donations up to $25,000 to a number of orgs: https://www.netlify.com/donation-matching/
I love this. I think it solves the problem of #bookmarks for me. Links to handy tools can live in my knowledge base, and links to blogs that I don't want to forget about can go in here, surfaced in my browser start page every so often.
can't say I've ever worked with a compiled language before, but the Elm compiler looks super duper friendly
"This is the future, Iβm afraid. An automated future where no one actually knows how things work."
https://m.signalvnoise.com/i-went-to-see-a-movie-and-instead-i-saw-the-future/
People that take the Glasgow-Edinburgh train have developed this anarcho-communist ticket sharing economy and I love it. It's because return tickets cost literally only 10 pence more than a single, so people just buy returns and leave the other ticket at the station they arrive at.
It's fucking beautiful and more folk need tae know about it