James Valleroy @jvalleroy@fosstodon.org

📰 NEWS: Our new #FreedomBox #website is live! 🎉 🥳🎉

🔗Check it out here: https://freedombox.org/

Please share your #thoughts and #feedback with us on our #forum below 🤔

Details:
https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/new-website-is-live/624

“Parasite” is a cross over hit, becoming the first South Korean film ever nominated for an Oscar. Its success is due to the fact that it encapsulates the parasitic relationship between the rich and the working class.
https://www.leftvoice.org/class-morality-and-capitalism-in-parasite

Had to verify. And yes. Kernighan and Ritchie really did this. TIL :)

So, SourceHut is not hosted in anyone's cloud. I own all of the hardware outright and colocate most of it in a local datacenter.

I just built a new server for git.sr.ht, and boy is she a beat. It cost me about $5.5K as a one-time upfront cost, and now I just pay for power, bandwidth, and space, which runs about $650/mo for *all* of my servers (10+).

Ran back of the napkin numbers with AWS's price estimator for a server of equivalent specs, and without even considering bandwidth usage it'd cost me almost TEN GRAND PER MONTH to host JUST that server alone on AWS.

AWS is how techbro startups pile up and BURN their investor money.

#FreedomBox looking for contributors https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2020/01/msg00001.html

A #Debian package to install #Mozilla #Webthings gateway easily is in the works - see :

* https://github.com/mozilla-iot/gateway/issues/2321
* https://github.com/mozilla-iot/gateway-deb

« #Python 2.7 will retire in... 0 Years 0 Months 0 Days 0 Hours 0 Minutes 0
Seconds » https://pythonclock.org/ #HappyNewYear

Python 2.7 will retire in

11 d 15 h 5m 14s

https://pythonclock.org #python

PinePhone review

https://drewdevault.com/2019/12/18/PinePhone-review.html

@mike_hales
What would be a concrete example of a Commons of Commons?

Two concrete examples of Cooperative of Cooperatives might be https://www.mutualaidnetwork.org/

They have several co-ops as members, and also a related cooperative of worker co-ops:
https://madworc.org/

They do not yet do what I envision a cooperative of cooperatives to do, which is internetwork economically, where some co-ops provide inputs to other co-ops, forming a cooperative economic system.

@LeoSammallahti @ntnsndr

The Collatz Conjecture says that any number sequence where at each step you either halve the previous value if it is even, or multiply it by three and add one if it is odd, will end up at the the value one.

A deceivingly simple description. It happens to be true for every number we tried, but we don't have the theory for why.

If you have a #FreeSoftware project, please use a Free Software solution such as #weblate for translating the app, manual or documentations.

Today, I just tried to help #Briar for its Persian translation on Transifix (which is a non-free solution). It doesn't recognize numbers in other languages! Crowdin also is not much better in such cases.

Free Software community deserves to be provided Free Software solutions for their contributions.

[Internship] Open-Source Software Developer Internship at Collabora https://www.fossjobs.net/job/10170/open-source-software-developer-internship-at-collabora/ #jobs

#FreedomBox version 19.22 has been released to the Unstable branch! Soon, it will migrate to Testing and then to Stable-backports.

Highlights:
-Add new app for Samba file sharing 📁
-Update translations for 3 languages 🌎
-10 people contributed❗

Details: https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/freedombox-v19-22-released/541

Some discussion about #Rust software being packaged in #Debian has happened recently. This comment by dkg on the bug report is a good summary of the problems and the current state of the discussion. https://bugs.debian.org/945542#94

Stop 👏 Using 👏 Facebook

So many reasons, why you should consider closing your #Facebook account. Here is a nice documented list:

https://www.stopusingfacebook.co

HyperCard was inspired by an acid trip.

I think this stage should be factored in to the SDLC.

https://boingboing.net/2018/06/18/apples-hypercard-was-inspire.html

Hey all,

A while ago, my publication, #WeDistribute, got picked up by Feneas, and now serves as the organization's official publication.

This is all well and good: I get to keep writing articles, and figure out how to turn this whole thing into something more than a one-man project.

The writing team is still very small right now, and I'm putting together guidelines for contributing. I would love nothing more than to see other people who are passionate about the fediverse and decentralized communication tech come on board to help provide news coverage, tutorials, technical explainers, interviews, and editorials.

If you think you're up for the challenge, please apply here: https://wedistribute.org/write-with-us/