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Erik Moeller  

Why Mastodon and the fediverse are “doomed to fail”

-> a small rant about how the profit lens distorts our understanding of success vs. failure:

write.as/eloquence/why-mastodo

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Frank Karlitschek  

Did you know that Nextcloud can OCR uploaded files? apps.nextcloud.com/apps/ocr Super cool when combined with the scanner integration apps.nextcloud.com/apps/scanne

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Emacsen  

Looked for a toy from a childhood TV show on ebay. At >$150... I think I'll pass.

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Emacsen  

Do any of my friends know how to get in touch with Rusty Foster?

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Emacsen  

All my yogurts and kefir experiemnets were a failure.

Some notes for next time...

I'm going to use only fresh yogurt and supplement with powder.

For Kefir, I think it needs sugars to consume, so no unsweetened milk substitute.

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Emacsen  

Blocking bad Instances 

spinster.xyz is an instance that is about harming trans folks under the guise of being about the LGBTQ+ community.

It's not. It's about "gender critical" which is a TERF dog whistle.

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DMW!  

RT @_AstroMaddie@twitter.com

i literally spit out my water

🐦🔗: twitter.com/_AstroMaddie/statu

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Emacsen  

I see people are excited about American Independence Day.

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Emacsen  

US Politics 

Make no mistake, this *is* what will happen. Voter suppression or a claim of a rigged election. This will not end well, no matter what.

independent.co.uk/news/world/a

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Emacsen  

Excuse my poor English. It's 99F/37C outside and my brain isn't working.

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Emacsen  

If someone wants to help writing documentation for FLOSS, what's a place to start?

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scolobb  

Elsevier rant, long, f-word 

Elsevier now confirms the submission of the copyright form¹ by sending you an E-mail with an HTML attachment called Order Confirmation.html. What’s inside? A two-section document, the second section having the title “Order Confirmation” and, among others, the fields: “Order number” and “Order date”.

Fuck you Elsevier! I’m not buying shit, I’m publishing a fucking paper!

Some colleagues refuse submitting or reviewing papers to Elsevier journals. As an early career researcher, I find it difficult to do because I have multiple colleagues exploited by Elsevier, and I do need to maintain good karma in my relationship with them. However, since interacting with this “publisher” gets worse and worse over time, I am seriously considering losing some karma points.

¹ Publishers in academia very often ask us to waive some of our rights over the article to them so that they can freely handle the profit they get from selling our works to the libraries of our own institutions. We, the authors, are paid nothing for our work. We, the reviewers, are paid nothing for our work. We are supposed to be just happy with the fact that our articles get “published” behind paywalls and with lots of restrictions prohibiting us from actually sharing our papers freely.

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Emacsen  

I see a lot of people boosting this message.

You should know that it passed the Senate Judiciary Committee. IT MUST BE STOPPED NOW IN REGULAR COMMITTEE. THERE IS NO TIME TO WASTE!

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Emacsen  

Food, Health 

I think it's great that people are being given options for foods like plant based steak. If you want to go vegan or vegetarian, as long as you are healthy, go for it.

At the same time, please understand that for many of us, these kinds of foods are not healthy, and in fact poison our systems. One meat substitute in a single meal could basically knock me out of commission for a week.

So please don't take food choices away from others based on your decisions.

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Emacsen  

This is so much better than the actual Star Wars prequels.

youtube.com/watch?v=MgN8J7VUEk

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Yarmo :solus:  

It's finally here, teasing is over:

I'm excited to launch #keyoxide today!

yarmo.eu/post/keyoxide

#FOSS solution for easy encryption, signature verification and decentralized identity proofs!

I've been in favor of #DeleteKeybase but I never had something to offer as an alternative. Now I do :)

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Emacsen  

Why Canada is able to do things the US can't do.

getpocket.com/explore/item/why

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Emacsen  

Booking guests for @librelounge is not a straightforward thing. LL isn't a "tech podcast", so finding the right fit of guest isn't always easy.

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Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) SE HK  

♻️ MooGNU, the copyleft NyanCat 

peertube.mastodon.host/videos/…

♲ @troll@peertube.mastodon.host:

MooGNU


MooGNU (a copyleft alternative to copyrighted NyanCat) Source: https://archive.org/details/M00GNU
https://peertube.mastodon.host/static/webseed/13aff225-00d2-4eb1-a6e9-6c4eedcd77b8-360.mp4

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Emacsen  

Please, Americans, if you do nothing else today, then please take action against EARN-IT.

noearnitact.org/call/?link_id=

We discussed it on the show, but it would destroy online privacy, crypto, etc. This is no joke. Please, take action TODAY as it goes up for a vote July 2nd.

If you love Free Software or Privacy, this bill has to die!

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