Cláudio Pereira @claudiop@mastodon.social
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Don't get me wrong, computers can absolutely help us regain our environmental efficiency. They just *aren't*.
Not as long as we're:
* constantly syncing everything to the cloud,
* expecting same-hour delivery,
* funding our clickbait via surveillance advertising,
* buying a new phone every year,
* using AIs because they're cool rather than useful,
* running bloated software & webpages,
* buying into "big data"
* etc
Computing is environmentally cheap, but it rapidly adds up!
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Buying a #Fairphone 4 or Fairphone 3+? Get free earbuds... if you (really) need them. So, if you already have great earbuds, make them last. If you need a new pair, they're on us. 📱 🎶
Offer ends 14th June: https://bit.ly/3DPAchp
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GNOME goes mobile! Work is currently underway to make GNOME Shell run on phones. More details on this, and many more news can be found in the current issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME!
#46 Going Mobile
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2022/06/twig-46/
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❌ No more oligarchs moving their yachts outside the EU or changing the ownership of their properties.
⚖️Criminalising the violation of sanctions across EU countries will make it possible to confiscate the assets of Russian oligarchs who try to go around them.
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That time Saturn accidentally showed everyone how much space is wasted with cars.
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Accused of Cheating by an Algorithm, and a Professor She Had Never Met
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📣 A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!
#45 Timeout!
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2022/05/twig-45/
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"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair."
Douglas Adams
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Gmail will block all third party mail clients starting from June: http://www.pmail.com/newsflash.htm
That is, unless they pay $4500 minimum for an audit :D
Stop using gmail and enabling their monopolistic practices, if you already haven't.
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Growth forecast for 2022 (%):
🇵🇹 5.8
🇮🇪 5.4
🇲🇹 4.2
🇪🇸 4.0
🇦🇹 3.9
🇸🇮 3.7
🇵🇱 3.7
🇭🇺 3.6
🇬🇷 3.5
🇭🇷 3.4
🇳🇱 3.3
🇫🇷 3.1
🇪🇺 2.7
🇷🇴 2.6
🇩🇰 2.6
🇮🇹 2.4
🇱🇺 2.2
🇸🇪 2.3
🇸🇰 2.3
🇨🇾 2.3
🇧🇬 2.1
🇱🇻 2.0
🇧🇪 2.0
🇨🇿 1.9
🇱🇹 1.7
🇩🇪 1.6
🇫🇮 1.6
🇪🇪 1.0
Spring #ECForecast ↓
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The EU continues to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people.
Over 2 million Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and Gaza Strip are in need of humanitarian assistance.
The EU will support those vulnerable people with €25 million in humanitarian aid.
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Tonight, rainbow colours shine brighter than hate!
🇪🇺🏳️🌈
Ahead of the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, we lit up our headquarters as a sign of support for the LGBTIQ community.
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Cláudio Pereira
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Exciting new milestone for Blueprint support in Workbench
It's like those 2 were made for each others !
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The difference between a closed, algorithmically-curated silo like Twitter and the fediverse.
Same post.
Twitter: ~43K “followers”, 8 boosts, 58 likes
Fediverse: ~8.43K followers, 57 boosts, 106 likes
Your thousands of “followers” on Twitter mean nothing because the algorithm (i.e., Twitter, Inc.) decides who gets to hear you.
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Tell us about a time you had a productive conversation on social media.
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RT @wilkieii@twitter.com
Successfully using entirely self-hosted+federated Riot/Matrix/Jitsi/Etherpad/PeerTube to host lectures, teleconference with students, answer questions in chat, and collaboratively edit their code. Write-up is incoming. Once I take a nap.
