Chris Thompson (wolcen) @wolcen@social.coop

"A belief that the part you play in any global issue is 'insignificant' is no justification to contribute to any such problem."... we need to change our minds, to change things.

Thank you, @fsf@status.fsf.org for adopting and publicizing a sensible approach to Twitter: "...We need to be talking about free software in places where everyone is not already a committed free software supporter -- we won't be successful if we are only in our own echo chamber, or preaching to the choir. It's important for us as activists to be reaching the people on these platforms, even if we have some reservations about using them ourselves."

Cool domain trick using the TLD .whoswho: if you add .whoswho to the most common domains TLDs, you can see the whois + some dns info e.g. try it out: http://agaric.coop.whoswho or http://duckduckgo.com.whoswho

While everyone over at that chatty-bird place is focused on #DeleteFacebook -ing, it's a good time to consider switching away from other addiction-inducing, privacy-invading and/or freedom-limiting services and software. The easiest to use / most complete directory I've found is at https://switching.software/ If you need any assistance doing so, ask an @agaric for help; it's core to what we do! #deletefacebook #foss #opensource #Agaric

...this all came about because cameras were really hard to find when the pandemic started, but MicroCenter was clearing out refurb Wyze Cam v2's for ~$18 (they still have more). Having faith in FOSS I could do *something* with it - especially seeing it could run custom firmware, I snapped it up! Got Wyze off there and it runs Xiaomi Dafang Hacks. Been a fun thing to tinker with. I could never have imagined growing up that I'd one day have a <$20 camera that lets me ssh into it. Nuts.

I love that FOSS enables you to do some interesting things... like rigging up an IP cam to behave like a directly connected webcam (using v4l2loopback). If it weren't FOSS, I'd probably never have tracked down this issue, either: FireFox/other apps see the cam fine, Signal would say I had no cam. Signal => Electron desktop app, and uses MediaDeviceInfo from Chromium to find cams. Finds bug w/Chromium + v4l2loopback: add exclusive_caps=1 when loading the module and at last I have cam in Signal :)

MayFirst is currently experiencing an outage with the upstream provider Hurricane in NYC. Updates available from https://status.mayfirst.org/ #MFMT

Domains up for grabs:ridepairing.com + ridepairing.org

Might anyone be working on ride sharing or similar that might want these? I personally am not likely to get back to focusing on carpooling platforms any time soon. Maybe not priority during covid-daze, but...more useful some day soonish, assuming Elon's robo-taxi fleet doesn't take over before then.

Not selling, but would appreciate if you could pay the annual renewal of ~$27 and we'll set up the transfer (no time to xfer before renewal)

It would seem to me, that with #PanQuake nearing $50K in donations in under a month, that #Twister, having been around for over 7 years with actual software, is really missing out here. Will have to see if the devs want to start an opencollective maybe? http://twister.net.co/
https://github.com/miguelfreitas/twister-core