Erik Albers @3rik@mastodon.social

Great read for #climate activists: "The carbon footprint sham"

https://mashable.com/feature/carbon-footprint-pr-campaign-sham/

The article argues that the "#Carbon #footprint" is a brilliant PR #campaign by British Petroleum #BP who wants you to accept your personal responsibility for the globally disrupted climate that in fact they are producing.

“The strategy is to put as much blame on the consumer as possible, knowing the consumer is not in a good place to control the situation. It basically ensures that nothing changes.”

Just when you think you have seen it all you find "The Internet's own #Open #Source #Drum and Bugle Corps" (#OSDBC), an "organization bringing open source to drum corps" and a collective effort to perform together online.

"All of the content OSDBC produces—including guides, documentation, sheet music and virtual performances—is released under Creative Commons licenses so other groups can replicate the project."

I hope one day they perform the #FreeSoftware #song 🎵

https://opensource.com/article/20/11/open-source-drum-bugle-corps

Today the #European #Parliament called on the Commission "to establish a consumers’ ‘right to repair". In paragraph 6 (g) the EP also acknowledges the problems of #software #obsolescence. Unfortunately it misses the chance to tackle the problem with an obligation to publish the code under a free licens after the product's support end: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-9-2020-0318_EN.pdf

#upcycling

Die Absurdität digitaler Geschäftsmodelle zeigt sich immer wieder am eindrucksvollsten im Smartphone Segment:

#Android übermittelt monatlich 260 MB an Mobilfunkdaten auch wenn das Gerät gar nicht benutzt wird - um Werbebanner "im Hintergrund vorzuladen", die folglich nie angezeigt werden...

https://www.golem.de/news/klage-gegen-google-android-soll-260-mbyte-mobilfunkdaten-pro-monat-uebertragen-2011-152134.html

Are you tired of a centralised Internet where even the #FreeSoftware and #OpenSource video recordings and #streams are hosted and brought to you by Youtube aka Google?

Then join me in supporting #PeerTube and help to develop and integrate live streaming: https://joinpeertube.org/roadmap/

We are getting close to reach the target. You can make all the difference!

@Framasoft

I really like this year's keynote of the #ActivityPub #Conference by @darius "Let’s Play and Win Our Own Game"

https://conf.tube/videos/watch/b8d6c88a-0e73-46dd-9e35-d4645bb12db8

In particular the point he is making that we need to "Provide more infrastructure, not just software": Users need good #service #providers aka #infrastructure. Both are the implementation of the #Free #Society we aim for, enabled by the developers and their software.

#decentralisation #fediverse

Julia Reda fordert einen Europäischen Open Technology Fund: "Wir müssen viele verschiedene, langfristig angelegte Förderstrukturen für #OpenSource-Technologien aufbauen, für sichere und ungefilterte Kommunikation."

Es ist "von enormer Wichtigkeit #FreieSoftware Komponenten über lange Zeiträume instand zu halten, stetig zu verbessern und laufend auf Schwachstellen zu überprüfen."

"Und die Ausgestaltung des Programms muss in den Händen der Zivilgesellschaft liegen."

https://www.heise.de/meinung/Edit-Policy-Wo-bleibt-Europas-Open-Technology-Fund-4926188.html?seite=all

I just learned about a new "#indexed #collection of #governance documents from #FOSS projects": https://fossgovernance.org/

Besides being very useful in itself, what I really love is that they use one of my favourite #FreeSoftware solutions for it:

"The collection lives in #Zotero, which means not only is the collection completely catalogued and indexed, but also each doc comes with a #snapshot so you can use the collection #offline and search the contents of all of the governance docs at once."