“We in Silicon Valley like to watch the ants dig harder into their dirt. They send us money as we watch.”
-- from Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, by Jaron Lanier, page 91
(Here, the ants are us. The dirt is social media. Lanier’s point is that the algorithms of social networking spaces are designed to amplify the negative, so that we become more angry and engaged. Engaged means profit.)
If you happen to be near Tübingen, germany this weekend:
The house I'm living in is doing a big summer party. We put alot of effort into the preparation and think, that it's going to be a very nice temporal space.
More infos in german on our website:
https://wohnprojekt-wilhelma.org/posts/sommerfest18.html
If you live in Münster Germany and might like to get involved in a new housing coop, please consider the "Gruener Weiler".
https://www.gruener-weiler.de/
We are looking for new members, particularly younger people and families.
A few bullet points...
Ecologically oriented community.
Car free community.
30% WBS A (social housing).
Community welcomes diversity.
Aiming for same age demographic as Münster.
Suche Job in Berlin oder remote, am besten halbtags. Kann Soziologie und Statistikdinge, Genderkram, Communitysachen. Jemand ne Idee?
Podcastempfehlung: "Das Schwarze Gold der Basilikata" - insbesondere weil ich die Gegend ein bisschen kenne machte es doch etwas traurig. Ist aber sehr spannend, weil umfänglicher als die Eindrücke die man als nicht-italienisch-sprechender bekommen kann
Hat hier zufällig noch jemand ein altes X200 rumliegen, dass nicht mehr gebraucht wird? Ich bräuchte ein Spendergehäuse. #followerpower
We discovered chocolate pudding *in glass* for the first time yesterday at tegut supermarket \o/ finally someone was brave enough to use fully recycleable packaging for this 👍
"Comparing open source infrastructure to “roads and bridges,” Eghbal provided not just a comprehensive overview of the challenges facing open source, but also a call-to-arms for more users of open source to care about its economics, and ultimately, how these critical projects can sustain themselves indefinitely."
Silicon Valley read the writing on the wall and is already hard at work to monetize FOSS in a way that will suit THEM and not the people. We need to act FAST.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/23/open-source-sustainability/
#geofact Grönlands Eisauflast drückt die Erdoberfläche teilweise unter Meeresspiegelniveau (isostasie) #geoscience
why is everyone continuing to use ACAB?
- it's reproducing discrimination
- it's based on a discriminative narrative
- it's not at all any critic of what the issue with all cops is
- it doesn't reach any other circle then our own for opening a discourse
- it is very invative for the #backfire effect, and can be through this just counter-effective
- it's simple to find a statement countering #ACAB
...
Why don't you add an RO making out of it #ACABRO?
ALL
COPS
ARE
BY
ROLE
OPRESSORS
Wow, FileZilla’s bundled installer includes a malware downloader and the dev defends it horribly.
If using FileZilla, uninstall and find something else. Even if this issue is fixed, the morally ambiguous and defensive response is very concerning.
The hell is this bullshit, MIT?
Support your local Antifa, don't move to Berlin!
Liebe TL, kennt ihr ein queer-freundliches Unternehmen in Karlsruhe, das eine Softwareentwicklerin sucht?
and if you now get a "4xx Request entity too large" when uploading the BIOS image, use SMCIPMITool instead (java software) https://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/SMS_IPMI.cfm that works at least...
You want an easier way to update your Supermicro BIOS and fix all those security issues that can only be fixed that way but the vendor charges extra for it? You can generate your license key easily: https://peterkleissner.com/2018/05/27/reverse-engineering-supermicro-ipmi/
These are not unique to mastodon, however. These are costs of running a social media website at all - fediverse or otherwise.
You're running and managing a service. Other people will rely on you to keep that service up and running. That's a much higher cost than the dollars involved.
I'm seeing a bunch of posts today about how hosting a mastodon admin doesn't cost a lot of money, and first I want to say that this is true; you can run an instance on $10-20/mo entirely reasonably.
But I don't want anyone to forget that there is a labor cost in running and maintaining an instance. It's not just pushing a button and feeding in some money, it's also monitoring your server and keeping it secure and handling reports and doing upgrades and all fo that.
