Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

@zleap what a kind offering, Paul. Thank you very much. However, I think you are fine to make your own list, Paul. Just like @itsfoss's https://itsfoss.com/open-source-video-conferencing-tools for example. Mine will be based on friends suggestions here at mastodon aside from my own teaching experience.

@praveen

@zleap thank you very much for telling me that, Paul. And I am currently writing a more comprehensive post as well about this at #UbuntuBuzz thanks to @praveen's suggestion.

Better Than Zoom

Please help me share.

Jitsi https://jitsi.org

Big Blue Button https://bigbluebutton.org

Nextcloud Talk https://nextcloud.com

Worth mentioning: Mattermost (https://mattermost.com) | OpenMeeting (https://openmeetings.apache.org) | RocketChat (https://openmeetings.apache.org)

All with free service accesses.

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Zoom #VideoCall

Poll: Most Americans want to break up Big Tech
https://www.vox.com/2021/1/26/22241053/antitrust-google-facebook-break-up-big-tech-monopoly

Never forget how Oxford wanted to open source their vaccine but the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation stepped in and AstraZeneca got exclusive rights. https://khn.org/news/rather-than-give-away-its-covid-vaccine-oxford-makes-a-deal-with-drugmaker/

But if you outsource this work, the shameful secrets become the property of your contractors, who probably don't even bother to document them. So you lose out on knowledge - and even on the ability to buy that knowledge.

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"Software Is about Developing Knowledge More than Writing Code" presents a really important perspective on software development I'd not seen before: that the complex, messy, iterative process of software development is a feature, not a bug.

Author Li Hongyi argues that getting working software out the door involves making tradeoffs, compromises, and paint-to-cover/file-to-fit style engineering. If you do that work in house, you know where the weak spots are.

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Also, heads up, we’re probably going to move to doing a Small is Beautiful stream every month instead of once a week.

It’s just too disruptive to my coding.

I might do a more frequent short technical stream just to report on my ongoing work on Place (not ready for use: https://github.com/small-tech/place/tree/esm)

Today, January 28th, marks 35 years since the space shuttle Challenger disaster. It is also NASA's annual day of remembrance to honor the astronauts who have lost their lives during missions.

#NASA #Challenger

35 years ago NASA lost 7 astronauts when Challenger exploded.
https://www.kwch.com/2021/01/28/35-years-ago-nasa-lost-7-astronauts-when-challenger-exploded/

Release time!

This one adds the ability to set image descriptions (good practice for accessibility reasons, but also handy to comment on each photo), and there are translation improvements (plurals are now supported, so languages like Russian with more nuanced plurals can translate things correctly).

Thank you for the crash reports, a regression caused by a change in the last release was fixed!

Get it here: https://gitlab.shinice.net/pixeldroid/PixelDroid/-/releases

Or on the IzzyOnDroid repo: https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.h.pixeldroid

News from the Right to Repair movement, helping farmers protect their right to fix their own farm equipment without facing legal repercussions: https://u.fsf.org/38u

I believe every American deserves the peace of mind that comes with having access to quality, affordable health care. That’s why today, I’ll take action to strengthen Americans’ access to care. https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1354849916124860419

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As a kid I use to draw and cut out telephones and laptops from paper so I had my own

Also when I had my very first laptop it was Windows but I wanted Apple soooo badly that I installed themes and tweaks to make it look like Mac OSX It's kinda sad

the internet is broken in more ways than just javascript being bad

President Biden is rapidly working down the list of what he can accomplish on climate change on his own—and it's quite a lot. Directing the power of federal procurement to clean electricity and vehicles will provide massive boosts for those sectors. https://bit.ly/3om18gx https://twitter.com/techreview/status/1354518170271416322 #Tech #MIT #Biden #Climate

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