Notices by h (h@social.coop), page 6

The means of memorisation must be seized and distributed.

"GitHub and Medium take down database of ICE employee LinkedIn accounts"

https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/19/17480912/github-ice-linkedin-scraping-employees

#Shithub

@gc
The feature set of GNUNet and IPFS does not map features one-to-one, GNUNet is more oriented towards resource sharing, IPFS is more oriented towards document persistence.

So freedom, in that regard, if it's not really read/write in the real world and actually-existing networks, it's a relative matter.

@gc Filecoin and IPFS are by Protocol Labs, a VC-funded startup. All the IPFS code is FOSS, so you can take it and create a separate network that doesn't interact/federate with the capitalist network.

The IPFS code (written largely Go and Javascript) is a lot more portable and easier to understand and modify than GNUNet, which is written in C++ and is mostly for Linux/UNIX only.

@gc

GNUNet.
https://gnunet.org/node/2013

IPFS
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/goodbye-http-faster-safer-decentralized-internet-ipfs/

Filecoin
https://filecoin.io/

Winter temperatures in Alliance, Nebraska can drop to -20°F (the record low is -40°F/C), but retired mailman Russ Finch grows oranges in his backyard greenhouse without paying for heat. Instead, he draws on the earth's stable temperature (around 52 degrees in his region) to grow warm weather produce- citrus, figs, pomegranates - in the snow.

via Kirsten Dirksen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD_3_gsgsnk

via Barrett Brown
https://twitter.com/BarrettBrown_/status/1005574507938091008

"Max Blumenthal is still trying to get the rest of the press to notice that #Apple and #Google both have little-known homeland security divisions that worked on contract for vast surveillance/propaganda apparatus. Not having much more luck than I did" https://social.coop/media/haoCrHCNPlf3iSzkH_s

FramaGit is a free Git hosting alternative that doesn't suck.

https://framagit.org

@Framasoft are guys with good politics, and even though theirs is still a centralised server, and a self-hosted solution would be better (as long as you don't use MAGAFA servers or IP addresses) this is probably a second best option for small projects who don't know how to, or can't afford to handle their own Git web interface.

#git #gitlab #framagit #github

FramaGit is a free Git hosting alternative that doesn't suck.

https://framagit.org

@Framasoft are guys with good politics, and even though theirs is still a centralised server, and a self-hosted solution would be better (as long as you don't use MAGAFA servers or IP addresses) this is probably a second best option for small projects who don't know how to, or can't afford to handle their own Git web interface.

#git #gitlab #framagit #github

ICYMI: Freedombone is a home server system that enables you to **easily** self-host a variety of free software applications.
It's awesome that the Freedombone supports Gogs, the web based #Git management tool.
A great alternative for many people who aren't heavy git users and want to use a completely decentralised and lightweight system.

Here's how to use Gogs on Freedombone
https://freedombone.net/app_gogs.html

Questions? Just ask @bob

#gogs #github #freedombone #freesoftware #foss #floss

@bob

Shoutout to Freedombone then, that needs to be promoted with more insistence!

@switchingsocial @eladhen

Get this in your head, free software isn't free if people can't use it. Lower the bars to adoption, help your community to install, or acquire services, don't just shame them for being unable to use Free Software. Bare lists of software that exists aren't nearly enough.

We already know there are shackles, we already know that keys to those shackles are somewhere else.

Instead, help people to navigate the complexity and difficulty of freeing themselves.

Consider all the projects out there pulling Javascript/Python/Ruby scripts from Github during install.

RVM in the Ruby world for example.

It's a bloody mess.

People who "don't see what's the problem with centralisation" or "centralisation doesn't solve everything" are the same people wouldn't see the problem with a train running full steam ahead coming in their direction as long as they could make a profit from standing on the rails track.

Ignore.

As others have pointed out one possible option is git-ssb:
https://social.coop/@bhaugen/100140415

For those #IPFS-inclined, there's some projects which help with rehosting and managing git repos over the p2p network

1 https://github.com/larsks/git-remote-ipfs
2 https://github.com/larsks/git-remote-ipfs
3 https://medium.com/@alexberegszaszi/mango-git-completely-decentralised-7aef8bcbcfe6

We're almost there

#FuckMicrosoft #FuckGithub #github #git #ssb

Canadian researcher Dr. Evelyn Forget says guaranteed income “works as an antidepressant.”

"Hospitalizations due to mental illness fell as much as 8.5 percent” during a UBI trial in the 70s. Today, depression rates are climbing along with inequality. The U.N. agrees that we need to focus less on chemical imbalances and more on power imbalances."

(via Vice, FWIW)

https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/a3akm4/why-basic-income-is-a-mental-health-issue

#mentalhealth #ubi

imagine unironically using the term "mebibytes"

#CNN is giving Steve Bannon a 60 minute #propaganda opportunity. How Bannon is considered newsworthy escapes me https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-bardella-cnn-bannon-interview_us_5b12b29ee4b0d5e89e200267

This would be a good time for Mastodon to consider compatibility with a plugin framework.

This way, some stuff can be just hacked out and someone else can run a trending topics thing and and live their own life.