Daniel Kochmański @jackdaniel@mastodon.social

~1 million Creative Commons images on 500px.com are dissapearing tomorrow!

If you have the resources please install the Archiveteam's Warrior program and select the 500px project! https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveTeam_Warrior

irc is #500pieces on efnet

thank you (boosts very appreciated)

Protest against #Article11 and #Article13 in Berlin on Sunday: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/wednesday-eu-committee-voted-break-internet-sunday-berliners-take-streets-say-no

#SaveOurMemes

In TWO DAYS, the #EU votes on #Article11, a copyright rule that would take away Europeans’ right to freely link to their own news sites—unless they use a giant, probably American, service to do so https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9k8vd5/europe-link-tax-copyright-reform

Hey #FreeSotfware lovers!

We need you to help us grow #PeerTube into the YouTube alternative it can become.

Spread the word about #JoinPeertube https://joinpeertube.org, and fund the development of important features on https://frama.link/joinpeertube

Peertube, an ActivityPub based alternative to YouTube, is running a crowdfunding campaign https://www.kisskissbankbank.com/en/projects/peertube-a-free-and-federated-video-platform

Comes at an important time, with YouTube blocking legitimate videos on (incorrect) copyright grounds, such as MIT's OpenCourseWare videos and the Blender Foundation's videos https://torrentfreak.com/youtubes-piracy-filter-blocks-mit-courses-blender-videos-and-more-180618/

This is very important:
https://juliareda.eu/2018/06/saveyourinternet/

"Article 13 of the Copyright Directive will force internet platforms (social networks, video sites, image hosts, etc.) to install upload filters to monitor all user uploads for copyrighted content, including in images – and thus block most memes, which are usually based on copyrighted images.

(...)

It will come down to every single vote. (...) The NGO EDRi has made a list of key swing votes: https://edri.org/files/Copyright_JURI_MEPs_undecided.pdf."

This will affect #Fediverse.

Sure, I could ask Google, but I'm boycotting them. Except when I have no other choice. Which is most of the time, of course.

"If a person can’t get out of bed, something is making them exhausted. If a student isn’t writing papers, there’s some aspect of the assignment that they can’t do without help. If an employee misses deadlines constantly, something is making [it] difficult. Even if a person is actively choosing to self-sabotage, there’s a reason for it — some fear they’re working through, some need not being met, a lack of self-esteem being expressed."

https://medium.com/@dr_eprice/laziness-does-not-exist-3af27e312d01

RT @busse@twitter.com: Specific “Do’s and Don’ts” for encouraging #diversity in #opensource from @nlapalice@twitter.com #TakeOffConf2018
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/busse/status/1004994606373703681

Protip:

When designing a user interface, imagine some old woman using it, say Margaret Hamilton, and she's clicking your app's buttons and saying to you, as old people do,

"Young whippersnapper, when I was your age, I sent 24 people to the ACTUAL MOON with my software in 4K of RAM and here I am clicking your button and it takes ten seconds to load a 50 megabyte video ad and then it crashes

I'm not even ANGRY with you, I'm just disappointed."