James Valleroy @jvalleroy@fosstodon.org

TIL that apt has support for downloading packages and updates through tor.

Just install apt-transport-tor and change url on your sources.list from URL to tor+URL

Good introduction for getting started with packaging #Rust crates for #Debian.
https://blog.hackeriet.no/packaging-a-rust-project-for-debian/

Nextcloud Hub takes on Google Docs and Office 365 https://www.zdnet.com/article/nextcloud-hub-takes-on-google-docs-and-office-365/

📰 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