Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

Don't be fooled by the metaverse bling... "The tech giants are paying millions of dollars to the operators of clickbait pages, bankrolling the deterioration of information ecosystems around the world." #BigTech

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/11/20/1039076/facebook-google-disinformation-clickbait/

Hello Fediverse! I’ve had several people express interest in #Kiva after I posted about it recently. This inspired me to create a Fediverse Kiva team.

If you don’t know what Kiva is: it’s a philanthropic micro-lending organization that matches people who need small loans (typically a few hundred to a few thousand dollars) with people who are willing to lend. When a loan is repaid, those funds become available for you to lend again (or cash-out if you choose) thus multiplying your impact!

It’s a really neat program, I highly encourage people to check out (https://www.kiva.org), and if you do decide to sign up, join the Fediverse team to show solidarity with your fellow Fedi givers:

https://www.kiva.org/invitedto/fediverse/by/anonym00se

#GivingTuesday is coming up on December 1st. If 10 new people from the Fediverse join the Kiva Fediverse team by December 1st, I will fund 10 $25 loan credits for the people who signed up! If more than 10 people join the team, I will pick 10 team members at random to receive the $25 credits.

If you have questions about Kiva before signing up, I will do my best to answer them.

Shares and boosts appreciated.

@Laconicif @cjd @feld @christian_zerfass @TesserAches @icedquinn

Consumers' opinions should play a decisive role in determining project direction. You're lucky if you happen to belong to the group of consumers and engaged in building the thing at the same time but, it doesn't always happen.
The Ayn Rand philosophy runs the tech world, and produces products like Google, Facebook. We must free the Libre world out of that tunnel vision. User friendly configuration, complexity reduction, and modular design over magic and "I know this is the best way to do it"

OpenArchive does an amazing job preserving data from journalists and activists through building a secure mobile data preservation tool -- you could join 'em! https://open-archive.org/Fall21Hiring

Weekend plan. #Matrix

Please remember that when Trump was caught stealing #Fediverse software, the #legacyMedia said he was attacked by hackers.

They made #Trump the f&cking victim!

Please keep this at the forefront of your mind. A sign on the fridge to remind you how great our plight is.

Draw signs with permanent marker on corflute to advertise #Fediverse, #GNULinux, and other #freedomSoftware you love. Attach them to your vehicle whereever you park it.

Time to rise.

#softwareTheft #copyleft #timeToRise

#GNU Emacs is so much more than a text editor -- it's an entire workflow environment, loved by free software supporters around the world. Get the new GNU Emacs Manual, Nineteenth edition, for Emacs 27.2, at the GNU Press Shop: https://u.fsf.org/3ff

Without free (as in freedom) software, we cannot and will not have a free society. Take the next step to software freedom and help us reach 500 new associate members by December 31! #userfreedom https://u.fsf.org/fall21

@morgenthau @lanodan @alcinnz @avalos @DHeadshot which is why those of us fortunate enough to not have those existential threats should a) work to help those who have them, and b) defuse the digital threats that they haven't had the headspace or access to tech to confront yet, before they have to do so.

@morgenthau @DHeadshot @alcinnz @avalos that's why, for my day job, we've created this: https://oeru.org/learning-in-a-digital-age/ (openly licensed materials, mobile-friendly, and all delivered via #FOSS).

Valve Says SteamOS 3.0 (Arch Linux with KDE Desktop on Wayland) Will Be Available for Everyone to Download and Install https://squeet.me/objects/962c3e1002218800bcb68cb48455553fa0d175e0

We’re happy to announce that our latest software update for #Fairphone 3 and 3+ users is now available. 📲

You should receive a push notification to automatically update. Read more about the improvements on our community forum ➡️ : https://bit.ly/3FlaYIx

All recordings from #LinuxPlumbers Conference 2021 are now available on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVsQ_xZBEyN3wA8Ej4BUjudXFbXuxhnfc

What if there was a combined Free Software, OSHW and Right to Repair group, providing ideological leadership in a peer to peer fashion via federated services (including Git-based code hosting) and an emphasis on teaching how to self-host your own federated hosting infrastructure?