Billy Smith @BillySmith@mastodon.social
OSHW designer, maker, engineer.
The Energy-Price-Point of Digital Fabrication systems for building the tooling for Infrastructure Co-operatives has fallen through the floor over the last 25+ years.
I'm currently looking for partner-founders to start a co-operative for doing this.
If you know anyone interested, please put them in touch. :D
Joined Nov 2016
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The Energy-Price-Point of Digital Fabrication systems for building the tooling for Infrastructure Co-operatives has fallen through the floor over the last 25+ years.
I'm currently looking for partner-founders to start a co-operative for doing this.
If you know anyone interested, please put them in touch. :D
Co-operative ISP. :D
Yes, i know that it's a social enterprise, but it's a step in the right direction. :D
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@humanetech
Yeah, this have happened with me before. I DMed someone and then later they deleted their account and moved on to a different instance. Now I can only see the messages I sent, their reply is gone.
@feditips
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> Don't use [DM's] for anything sensitive
In addition don't use DM's and expect them to hang around as an archive of past conversation.
If people you DM'ed with clean up & delete messages on their side, they also disappear from your inbox, breaking the conversation threads.
It can be really confusing if you are not aware of this.
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book give away, boost ok
Got "OpenGL Shading Language 3rd edition" from 2010 to give away. Just DM me and we'll get the arrangement
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Brexit reduced the geographic area on which UK citizens have the automatic right to live, work, study and retire reduced by over 90%.
With thanks to the original tweet from https://twitter.com/unlit_uplands
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@TheGibson
"If you can't fix it, you don't own it!"
#righttorepair
#righttodisassemble
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Boost this if you want to be part of an explicitly anticapitalist technology liberation movement.
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Today’s Small Is Beautiful will be broadcast from its usual address (https://small-tech.org/small-is-beautiful) and you can also watch it on our new Owncast server at https://owncast.small-tech.org (hosting courtesy Eclips.is by OTF & Greenhost).
Using Site.js (https://sitejs.org) you can now set up your own Owncast server with these two commands:
# Install Site.js
wget -qO- https://sitejs.org/install | bash
# Set up production server
site enable --owncast
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This is among the most important media files I have saved on my computer.
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don't stress yourself with hypotheticals, stress yourself with the here & now!
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@pettter @humanetech @matro @activitypub @zap Where's a good place to read more about early days IRC and moderation?
HackThePlanet launch is next Thursday, 22nd. :D
While it's being run by a UK org, it's open to global entrants,
https://sa.catapult.org.uk/events/livestream-hack-the-planet-competition-launch/ :D
Came across this software for extracting Tweets,
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@Ephaemera I've stickied the important ones. The rants about safety come off the cuff whenever something happens (such as an NBA player getting hit by a car and media calling it a "cycling accident" which I heard the best retort from Slate which was "Calling this a cycling accident is like calling being bit by a shark a swimming accident")
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Backups are not version control.
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If you’re running a well pump or other significant equipment this is about the size you’ll need: 8,000 running watts. Starting watts refers to the amount of power the generator can put out for a short time, generally when starting motors. For a generator this size “portable” is relative, since it weighs 200 lb.
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Talk to your neighbors. Talk to your friends. Form a tenants group. Start a community playgroup or babysitting coop. Start a buying club.
Plant radical ideas at the center. At the start.
Create an accompanying study group. Enshrine a space for radical self-critique.
Care for one another. Good food, manageable speed, human scale.
Protect each other and what you've built -- from cops, from liberals, from the state, from private capital, from non-profits.
OSHW designer, maker, engineer.
The Energy-Price-Point of Digital Fabrication systems for building the tooling for Infrastructure Co-operatives has fallen through the floor over the last 25+ years.
I'm currently looking for partner-founders to start a co-operative for doing this.
If you know anyone interested, please put them in touch. :D
Joined Nov 2016
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