Notices by neil 🍄 (neil@social.coop), page 41

@dimitrisk @strypey Currently happening to the National Health Service in the UK.

So both laptops went away in usable order, but didn’t really have the satisfaction of a ‘fix’ as such.

The other was a very recent Acer Chromebook that had been dropped and was supposedly no longer turning on. It turned on fine though. The screen was flickering occasionally but nothing too egregious so I suggested rather than prying the screen off, for which I couldn’t find that much info, but some thing suggested it was glued down, best to keep using it as is and then actually pulling the screen off if it failed completely.

One was a 2010 Macbook Pro with a swollen battery. Battery was pushing against the trackpad which was failing to click. Took the battery out and ran off mains, but still no joy from trackpad. Owner had lost the password so became a bit of a mission resetting password just to get to a login to check trackpad settings. Looked like onefinger clicking was disabled but we ran out of time before I could figure out how to navigate to the setting with just the keyboard. USB mouse would have been a help.

Had a go at fixing two laptops at today’s Restart Party, with mixed success.

Feeling a bit weighed down by the city right now. Needing some nature.

@cocoron Bit of a noob question, but in an anarchist society, how do we determine who lives where? Who gets the nice views over the beachfront, who ends up with the views over the landfill? I guess more generally, how do you fairly distribute a resource that is inherently scarce, can't be physically distributed. At present it's by unfair practice of who can pay for it. Maybe we have no fixed abode and rotate regularly? Do we reduce scarcity of nice places by making everywhere desirable?

Who's actually behind the Data Transfer Project? According to its homepage it's Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter. Seems like maybe it's a noble effort from a few devs from within those orgs, but not actually genuinely supported by any of them at a corporate level.

Because it's been going since 2017 and with the combined finances and skillsets of these orgs they could have easily figured out data portability, if they really cared.

https://datatransferproject.dev/

@douginamug There's a good German group called Anstiftung who are involved: https://anstiftung.de/

Also a big petition: https://weact.campact.de/petitions/recht-auf-reparatur

(Assuming you are still in Germany!)

@douginamug Pretty wild isn't it? I mean everyone kind of knows it happens, but it's stark to see a before and after like that.

It's linked to from this post from the European Environmental Bureau: https://eeb.org/eu-to-deny-citizens-longer-lasting-and-repairable-popular-consumer-products-media-brief/

If you want to see how industry lobbying works... a before lobbying and after lobbying side-by-side on proposed EC environmental measures to make home appliances more repairable and longer lasting.

https://eeb.org/publications/80/product-policy/96186/briefing-on-resource-efficiency-provisions-in-ecodesign-2018.pdf

Really good #redecentralize meetup yesterday.

My personal takeaways were:

- the BBC R&D team are looking into things like decentralisation and personal data stores
- I should start using my Scuttlebutt account
- Holochain sounds like it has its politics in the right place and I'd like to understand it better

@nicksellen Ah shame, give me a toot next time you're down London town

DSFL is cool, a bit out of the way but lots of nice events.

The Onion nails it 😂

"New Device Desirable, Old Device Undesirable"

https://www.theonion.com/new-device-desirable-old-device-undesirable-1819571196

REFUGEE FUNDRAISER!!!

MASS action (Migrant and Asylum Seeker Solidarity and Action) is a new UK charity that focuses on advocacy and fundraising for grassroots projects in Greece that support migrants and asylum seekers in a way that breaks dependency cycles.

MUSIC / ART / FOOD

Friday 7 December @ 6:00 pm - 11:00 pm

https://diyspaceforlondon.org/event/squid-porridge-radio-leather-head-mass-action-fundraiser/

#london

Hey, we got in Boing Boing talking right to repair in the EU 🛠️ ✊

https://boingboing.net/2018/12/04/the-eu-could-give-every-europe.html

#rightorepair

@deadsuperhero These are super cool!