Anyone have any examples on hand for good Points of Unity for a small co-operative? Or suggestions for how to go about drafting one?
I've read many examples online but am looking for things that emphasize direct anti-oppressive, anti-microaggressive actions for people without any knowledge of this terminology.
Boosts appreciated because this directly impacts my workplace safety as a qtwoc. Many thanks!
@Shamar@lunaterra Computer literacy should be taught, but not in terms of how to use Microsoft products. It should be taught like mathematics and children should understand the basics of how the internet works. Things like what is a protocol and what are the main protocols. How to make the simplest web page. How to write a hello world program or a very simple game. What is the difference between fixed storage and ram? What is the von Neumann architecture and a Turing machine. Things like that.
Like learning maths, not every child will go on to be a mathematician or programmer, but having the background knowledge gives the potential to make better decisions and be less susceptible to fallacies and marketing scams as an adult.
This is how static-site blogging generally works. You have a directory of text files and images on your laptop, you push a button, and BAM your website is updated.
Compare to Wordpress, where I log into my remote site and edit posts. If I want to get those posts onto my laptop, I have to take special action, repeatedly—even though I *composed* the posts while sitting at my laptop! Bonkers.
(Let's make social media work more like that first case, 'k?)
@dublinux@Tutanota What I said was that for now it's possible to enable "less secure apps" but who knows for how long Google will allow you to do that. It might be that some time in future they just turn off IMAP support altogether so that you're forced to use their apps in the manner they deem to be "secure". Transitioning to another email provider might be wise, but all for-profit providers tend to start doing this type of thing eventually.
I'm so sick of websites websites refusing to even display text and images if I don't agree to run their proprietary Javascript on my computer. Isn't it time that browsers started treating requests to run Javascript like requests to use the mic or camera, and asked the user before allowing them? Ideally with crowdsourced info about what the scripts are, and what they do? In other words, make something like #NoScript a standard part of browsers.
Climate refugees should be entitled to American or European citizenship. After all, it is the West that is largely responsible for most of the world's greenhouse emissions.