neil @neil@social.coop
Go slow and fix things.
Joined Sep 2017
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Spread good vibes and good info.
@ntnsndr I just read (and loved!) your paper on Vanguard Stacks.
In the diagram on the different stacks it says that framasoft uses Hetzner and says that Hetzner is a coop. I can't find anywhere on Hetzner's site that says they're a coop. I'd be excited if they were, as I use them for my servers - I wondered if you have a source for that?
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The Countries With the Most Military Spending, 2019. http://dlvr.it/RxSFsz
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Why has the number of worker-owned cooperatives grown 20 fold in the UK since 1970?
A new article on Mutual Interest, a a free online media cooperative owned by readers & writers.
Become a founder member here and help distribute our funds using participatory budgeting:
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what do people do for mobile phones these days.. The last one I bought that I liked was a google nexus 4 - that I could flash with Lineage..
but ever since that got stolen, I just buy cheapest android phones I ever find - and ignore the spyware/crudware apps on them
Is it possible to get a decent phone for less than £100 ?
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HALT AND CATCH FIRE SYLLABUS 🔥
This has been on my mind for a long time, and now it's a real thing!
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I love you
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Once imagined as a space of liberation, the internet today is a rabble of corporate monopolies, oppressive governments and hate mobs. Much of its empowering potential has faded or been trampled. But perhaps there is a way forward.
#Freedombone is a home server system which enables you to run your own internet services, individually or as a household. It includes all of the things you'd expect such as email, chat, VoIP, wikis, blogs, social networks, and more. You can run Freedombone on an old laptop or single board computer. You can also run it on an onion address. Reclaim the internet, one server at a time.
This is a great article in @compost on the role of the client-server model in the enclosure of the digital commons, and how peer-to-peer can punch some cracks in the big tech pavement.
https://one.compost.digital/seeding-the-wild/
I think there's some space for reflection on the other aspect of the article, the use of nature analogies for technological concepts. I like them (e.g. digital garden) but I think need to think about what they might hide or distort, too.
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Free software becomes a standard in Dortmund, Germany
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/04/02/free-software-becomes-a-standard-in-dortmund-germany/ #freesw
@flancian Do you have a reference for how Agora slugifies wikilinks?
@flancian Wanted to let you know that I'm spiking on an org-export backend to let me export my org-roam garden to Agora-suitable Markdown.
Work-in-progress at the moment, but looking promising!
I am noting about it here (https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/ox-agora) and the current output is here - https://gitlab.com/ngm/commonplace-agora .
I wonder if you have a reference of expected formatting for the Agora?
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Did I mention that we at Igalia are hiring? We're hiring! Join our respectful egalitarian flat cooperative structure and let's build free open source software together. ❤️
For students we also offer a CE programme:
https://www.igalia.com/coding-experience/
Several areas of work are possible.
We're very remote-friendly.
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I just published a delightful conversation with @FreeScholar. She shares her experiences with @agaric, cooperativism, free software, and much more.
Listen and/or read here: https://realcoopstories.org/micky-metts-agaric/
🌲👩🏼💻🌲
I imagine this has been shared already, but... a panel on the future of digital co-operatives this Friday:
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Analysis of the decline of social democracy focuses too much on policies and not enough on organising methods.
The analysis of organising methods focuses too much on unions and not enough on the equally important role that cooperative and mutual businesses used to play.
The three pillars of Labour organising, that were most successfully implemented in the Nordic countries consisted of organising:
- Workers into unions
- Consumers into cooperatives
- Voters into social democratic parties
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Wikimedia is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer that will work closely with my team(s)!
Let me know if you have any questions.
Boosts appreciated :)
Go slow and fix things.
Joined Sep 2017
