Jamie @jamiem@social.coop

APC has produced an impressive guide on the circular economy of digital devices: https://circulartech.apc.org/books/a-guide-to-the-circular-economy-of-digital-devices

Check out upcoming workshop on privacy from the folks at Community Bridge - this Thursday at 3:00 pm America/New_york time: https://communitybridge.com/events/

I just read Adam Gordon Bell's article on the awk command and learned that awk was named after the first letters of the three authors. Big take away: we could have been typing `wak` this whole time!
https://earthly.dev/blog/awk-examples/

Nobody likes corporate tech drones, but the birds are doing something about it! #directaction
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7437616/they-think-its-terminator-angry-birds-take-down-drone-deliveries/

R.I.P Howard Frederick. We should challenge the narrative that the corporate/military/right wing have always directed the development of the Internet. Frederick was a pioneer with a legacy of left wing innovation via the Internet: https://www.academia.edu/29802924/The_Technologies_of_Peace_and_War_The_Future_of_PeaceNet_and_Other_Decentralized_Technologies (scroll down to read - you don't have to give your email).

We Thought It Was Fiction - an abolitionist perspective on surveillance: https://www.radicalecologicaldemocracy.org/we-thought-it-was-fiction/

If you live in the US and need help paying your Internet bill, check out https://ebbhelp.org or take a look at the attached PSA.

Facebook Is Censoring People For Mentioning Open-Source Social Network Mastodon | The Changelog
https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10285-facebook-censored-me-for-mentioning-open-source-social-network-mastodon

Inching closer to getting the Jitsi Meet patch required for live interpretation merged into core:
https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/pull/9322

Climate activist arrested after ProtonMail provided his IP address - https://twitter.com/tenacioustek/status/1434604102676271106

Anyone else trying to learn IPv6? Any tips?

How do corporate services reach the tipping point where "everyone" uses them? Is it by writing good software? Not so much... https://twitter.com/jowens510/status/1428415192480698371

Is anyone using gitweb anymore or is it gitlab and gitea all the way? Just struggled to get gitweb working, now documented for future self https://current.workingdirectory.net/posts/2021/gitweb/