˗ˏˋ Doug Belshaw ˎˊ˗ 🇪🇺☠️✊
@allan The problem with these kinds of things is that if you *do* complete them they end up giving you more administrative shit to do, long-term.
On the other hand, if you refuse to do them (which I'd be tempted to do) it causes you problems, short-term.
<sigh>
Siph :siphonayhappy:
In Spanish, if you end a sentence with the 🙂 emoji, you have to start it with the 🙃 emoji
˗ˏˋ Doug Belshaw ˎˊ˗ 🇪🇺☠️✊
@adamprocter Nice! 😀
˗ˏˋ Doug Belshaw ˎˊ˗ 🇪🇺☠️✊
Is anyone running the /e/ mobile phone OS yet?
https://hackernoon.com/leaving-apple-google-e-first-beta-is-here-89e39f492c6f
AFAIK it's a fork of a microG-enabled LineageOS codebase, so not sure I'd gain much from switching.
˗ˏˋ Doug Belshaw ˎˊ˗ 🇪🇺☠️✊
Myths about children and digital technologies
http://thoughtshrapnel.com/2018/10/11/myths-children-digital/
Silver Spook Games
Machine learning is money laundering for bias. It's oppression outsourcing.
˗ˏˋ Doug Belshaw ˎˊ˗ 🇪🇺☠️✊
@xor Just visited my go-to git site to find that it's now only accessible via the Wayback Machine.
Still awesome: https://web.archive.org/web/20180321070922/http://ibrokegit.com:80/
switching.social
Filling in the alt text on your posts' images is a great way to help blind people using screen readers, as they have no other way of knowing what is in the image.
There's now a bot service that sends you a DM if you have forgotten to add an alt text:
Follow the bot to start the service, unfollow to stop.
˗ˏˋ Doug Belshaw ˎˊ˗ 🇪🇺☠️✊
Starting now! 👆
˗ˏˋ Doug Belshaw ˎˊ˗ 🇪🇺☠️✊
World Mental Health Day: my story
˗ˏˋ Doug Belshaw ˎˊ˗ 🇪🇺☠️✊
@Downes Well, I mean in terms of things like not linking to websites that use JavaScript...
˗ˏˋ Doug Belshaw ˎˊ˗ 🇪🇺☠️✊
@TheWayneGibbons @kayaelle I don't think so. Credly came to an agreement with Pearson around their Acclaim platform, which must have included the patents.
So Credly didn't file the patents (AFAIK) but do benefit from them. They're particularly useful, I should imagine, when raising venture capital.
It suits Credly to have their cake and eat it. By that, I mean hold all the aces (in terms of patents) while also being seen as playing nice with the rest of the community.
˗ˏˋ Doug Belshaw ˎˊ˗ 🇪🇺☠️✊
I've recently rediscovered @rms's political notes. He's pretty hardcore, and I don't necessarily agree with everything he says, but there's some interesting links in there:
˗ˏˋ Doug Belshaw ˎˊ˗ 🇪🇺☠️✊
Later today there's an Open Recognition
Alliance call about Credly's patents relating to #OpenBadges. They acquired them when they took over Pearson's Acclaim platform.
@kayaelle has written a post giving background and context, as well as details of how to connect to the call (an important one for the community):
Christine Lemmer-Webber
If you want more hints as to what I'm thinking, I gave a presentation on this which contains some of my thoughts earlier in the year https://dustycloud.org/misc/mmose.pdf
Here's the crux though: I think making a decentralized social web that's hard to censor but focuses on protecting users is *critical* for the survival of freedom and autonomy of everyday people, *especially* in this political environment.
Christine Lemmer-Webber
So I have an announcement. I sent an email to my work saying that I wanted to be able to focus on my work on taking advancing the federated social web to the next level. Read: better security / abuse resistance, richer interactions, virtual worlds.
How will I be funded to do this? I don't know. I do know that the state of the political world scares me enough that I feel I have to do this. If you want to support me: https://www.patreon.com/cwebber
Wish me luck. More updates soon.
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✖️❌ :needle: ❌✖️
CrossSkitch is out now on itch.io!
https://vivaizix.itch.io/CrossSkitch
It's a drawing tool styled after embroidery, inspired by my late great-grandma and my karelian heritage.
Mouse only, play in your browser!
✖️❌ :needle: ❌✖️
(also, if you post/tag your creations #crossskitch i'll think about them every day forever)
#indiegames #gamedev #pixelart
˗ˏˋ Doug Belshaw ˎˊ˗ 🇪🇺☠️✊
Spurred on by others, including @adamprocter, I've been recording 'microcasts' for those who support Thought Shrapnel on Patreon.
I'm aware that some people might not know what this means, so I recorded a public one:
Baldur Bjarnason
“Just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions, study says“
There is a hard limit to how much of an effect lifestyle changes alone can have. https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10/100-fossil-fuel-companies-investors-responsible-71-global-emissions-cdp-study-climate-change
˗ˏˋ Doug Belshaw ˎˊ˗ 🇪🇺☠️✊
@ton @doctorow Yes, but 'walkaway' doesn't rhyme with 'ignore' 😂
Good point. And I must read Cory's new book.
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