Michel Salim @michel_slm@social.coop

Software and Wetware: updates on my #FOSDEM talk, @fedora change proposals, #EPEL work, and ... oh yes I'm a new parent so I'll be off the grid for a few weeks! See y'all on the other side

https://michel-slm.name/posts/2021-02-26-software-wetware/

This post is day 14 of my #100DaysToOffload challenge

#blog
#Fedora
#FOSDEM2021
#CentOS

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

Uptain Sinclair

Whether it be pollution of the Great Lakes or the pollution of fence line communities today, the rule is the same. Businesses don't decide to take policies to limit harmful externalities unless they believe that it will be better for them in the long run.

America’s covid response has failed in no small part because, from the very beginning, people have been looking for the Product to Buy to fix it — hand sanitizer, masks, plexiglass shields, disinfecting wipes — while maintaining the exact same lifestyle uninterrupted, without any consideration for what actually spreads the disease. every problem must, by rule, have some sort of consumption-based solution

I'm using the awesome powers vested in me as organiser to close the #SFFBookClub poll while there's a clear winner so I don't have to choose. And February's book will be Scarlet Odyssey by C. T. Rwizi.

I think I'll reuse all the runners up for next month, except The Ministry For The Future, which only got 1 vote.

If you missed my boost, Amazon's got a union busting campaign and well they want you to rat em out. It would be such a shame if everyone sent them junk and spam.

https://doitwithoutdues.com/contact

I'm not the only one who fictionalizes attacks like this. Within hours of the attacks, right wing conspiratorialists were calling it a false flag and describing their colleagues in the videos as secret antifa infiltrators.

The narrative aftermath of this is gonna be *wild*.

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Enrique Tarrio, leader of the violent far-right extremist Proud Boys, has been arrested.

https://twitter.com/lilsarg/status/1346231875908608001

Heads up #SFFBookClub. Martha Wells, author of the Murderbot books, amongst others, is having trouble with Amazon and pirate copies. Info here: https://twitter.com/marthawells1/status/1345008789527941121?s=19

#SciFi

Boris Johnson would lose majority and seat in election tomorrow – poll - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jan/02/poll-predicts-a-uk-general-election-now-would-wipe-out-tory-majority about time, too given UK gov handling of #covid and #brexit

Installing an adblocker is the gateway drug into anti-consumerism, which is in turn the gateway drug into anti-capitalism.

Tell all your friends how to install adblockers.

#Ariane : Un petit navigateur #Gemini pour #Android si vous avez envie de tester.

https://oppenlab.net/pr/ariane/

https://codeberg.org/oppenlab/Ariane

https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/fr/reports/oppen.gemini.ariane/latest/

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=oppen.gemini.ariane&pcampaignid=pcampaignidMKT-Other-global-all-co-prtnr-py-PartBadge-Mar2515-1