username @handle@mastodon.social

fuckboys evolve into laymen

concluding all my incident reports with "root cause: 'out of such crooked timber as humanity is made from, nothing quite straight can be built.'"

"I don't believe in fiat currency" I say, refusing your offer of a small hatchback in exchange for my goods and services

Another month rolls by and here is our status update for July! Loads of stuff happened 🚀 https://coopcloud.tech/blog/this-month-in-coop-cloud-july/

Today I heard from @handle that the next NLNet grant application deadline is in 4 days -- I also learned that this year they have a new category called "User Operated Internet". I got really excited about this because the last time I applied to the NLNet grant program, there wasn't really a good category for my project to fit under. But "User Operated Internet" is perfect!

https://nlnet.nl/useroperated/

I spent today throwing up a rough draft of a home page for my project. In the past I have called it Greenhouse, but I am thinking now I'm going to change the name to Server Garden, because the original thing that was going to be called Server Garden is now on hiatus.

Please take a look and let me know what you think! I know it has tons of issues, but I'm still interested to hear what folks think about it:

https://server.garden/

Same goes for the development Industry in general
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RT @javierabegazo
Re: #ActivisionBlizzard Lawsuit

If you are a cisgender white man in the game industry do not let yourself end your participation with a tweet of "Gosh industry needs to change."

⚔️ You. Change it today. ⚔️

An inexhaustive list of ACTIONABLE ways to tip this power imbalance:
https://twitter.com/javierabegazo/status/1418220415424491521

the single largest polluter in the world is the us military, which, unlike coal plants in china, provides no useful service to anyone. what am i to conclude are the goals of an 'environmentalism' that concentrates on denying victims of colonialism electricity before denying its perpetrators weapons

Thanks to @aadil we now have a new and shiny blog!

We aim to publish monthly updates to keep folks informed on progress and how to get involved.

There are already two posts:

New blog, funding, beta bikemap and more announcements:
https://coopcloud.tech/blog/our-new-blog-and-some-project-announcements/

Our monthly progress in June:
https://coopcloud.tech/blog/this-month-in-coop-cloud-june/

🎉

Hi all! We're the folks behind Co-op Cloud (https://coopcloud.tech), a project which aims to build out a digital configuration commons for tech co-ops and democratic tech collectives. Our approach aims to maximise sharing, co-operation and reuse for setting up and maintaining libre software infrastructure. We have a public matrix room at `#coopcloud:autonomic.zone`, feel welcome! The project is currently in public alpha and super young ☁️ 🎩 💻
#introductions #tech #coops #coopcloud #commons

The audience award of this year's #BigBrotherAwards goes to … #Doctolib for their appointment scheduling portal for medical doctors which leaks personal information to third parties, breaking patient–doctor confidentiality.
Full laudation: https://bigbrotherawards.de/en/2021/health-doctolib

It is closely followed by #Google who received the award in the new #WhatMakesMeReallyAngry category for recently exposed large-scale manipulations of the Internet #adtech market, for starving creators and the media, and for dispossessing our digital personalities.
Full laudation: https://bigbrotherawards.de/en/2021/what-really-makes-me-angry-google
#BBA21

Just in case you wanted to do one in your neighborhood... Bolt is 2.5"x5/16", nut is 5/16". Use washers on either side of the signs to make it tougher to tear down. Bring a folding chair to get to heights you wouldn't otherwise be able to reach (which will also delay removal). Bring a friend who can look out for the jakes.