It uses a custom DuckDuckGo search for ebooks in Gutenberg, Adelaide University, Wikisource, Gutenberg Australia, Gutenberg Canada, Faded Page, Standard eBooks, Runeberg.org, Lonnrot.net and dbnl.org
If you know of any other sources of PD eBooks, especially non-English sources, let me know.
folks, please, please, please (if you use Mastodon just pretend these words are formatted with emphasis) don’t compromise on your AS2 vocab usage just to make posts look nice in Mastodon right now.
you’re cheating yourselves out of richer integration with other software, like Pleroma, Plume, Read.as, Hubzilla, Friendica, Osada, and PixelFed, who will be more than happy to process your AS2 vocab correctly.
instead, ask for Mastodon to improve their support of non-Note objects.
if you send an blog post as an Article, Pleroma, Plume and Read.as can be used as a social reader. if you send it as a Note, well… it kind of sucks.
@jeff i was telling someone about bleromer and he was like 'so you can't get banned?' and i said 'no, just blocked from certain parts of the network' and he was like 'wow there must be a lot of people selling drugs'
It's complicated. Fosdem has been sponsored by Google for a long time afaik. There is probably some non-trivial overlap between FOSS developers and Googlers. And also many people are within the trance of the mainstream media and so unaware of the things it misrepresents or just leaves out entirely.
I think we should get companies like Google out of conferences, but boycotting them isn't necessarily the best way to do it unless there's an alternative one to attend. Otherwise you're merely helping the silo companies by breaking up community events for the few developers who could meaningfully oppose them.
A better way to do it might be to ensure that the organizers don't have a complacent attitude. To give companies like Google a limited platform (if any) in terms of speakers and to ensure that there is critical evaluation of what they say or do. Don't give them an easy ride like they got in the past. Just encouraging more attendees to adopt a critical attitude towards the software they're using, rather than the Sillycon Valley attitude of breathless enthusiasm for any new BS being pushed by a $bigcorp, would do a lot of good.
RT @Psythor@twitter.com Here's a dystopian vision of the future: A real announcement I recorded on the Beijing-Shanghai bullet train. (I've subtitled it so you can watch in silence.)
If we want to keep projects such as #gnome, #systemd, #fedora and others in our hands, its time to step up our Patreon/#Librepay game massively and to divest control of these to entities like the #GNU project, who are set up from the get go to avoid being taken over by corporate interests.