Max Mehl @mxmehl@mastodon.social

I have encountered more image descriptions on Mastodon in 24 hours than I have in Twitter in a couple of years. Seriously. I'm not exaggerating.
As a blind person, this means a lot to me. If you read this and you describe your images, thank you so, so, so much on behalf of all of us. If you don't, now you know you'll be helping random Internet strangers make sense of your posts by typing in a few more words than usual.

#RouterFreedom in #Europe keeps us busy! The recent EU guidelines are differently interpreted in national states. #Greece is a positive example while #Germany effectively endangers the freedom users had since 2016. And in #Austria, the government has the historic chance to safeguard these essential user rights now!

👇 A thread with the most recent and important events 👇

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Prototype Fund Schweiz vergibt bis zu 100'000 CHF. Bis 16. Mai bewerben und #FreieSoftware entwickeln: https://gnulinux.ch/prototype

Moxie is a jerk, but sometimes Moxie channels being a jerk into useful activity.

https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/

Where VIM Came From - Two Bit History: https://twobithistory.org/2018/08/05/where-vim-came-from.html

Wir bieten eine unbefristete Vollzeitstelle für GNU/Linux-Administration. Deine erste Aufgabe wird das #OpenSlides-Backend (https://openslides.de/) mit Docker sein.
Bewerbung, gerne mit Beispielen Deiner Arbeit, bis zum 28.04.2021 per Mail an personal@intevation.de (Annette Menke)
https://intevation.de/jobs/20210409-admin/

Every now and then I mention https://publiccode.eu/ to people and realize that not everyone has heard about it yet.

Here it is! Sign it, share it, email a politician or something.

I just became a monthly supporter of @fsfe in response to yet another attack by Daniel Pocock on #FreeSoftware organizations doing good work for the movement (not only #FSFE but also #Debian).

He has a long documented history of harvesting and abusing email addresses for his own personal vendettas; so this latest one with the #RMS GitHub repos is nothing new.

https://github.com/rms-support-letter/rms-support-letter.github.io/issues/6450

With a groundbreaking resolution, #Dortmund has committed itself to the use of #FreeSoftware. An overwhelming, cross-faction majority of the city council has paved the way for "Public Money? #PublicCode!”

https://fsfe.org/news/2021/news-20210331-01.html

@do_foss

#RouterFreedom Activity Package: The #FSFE has launched an activity package for organisations and individuals to raise awareness and empower them to advocate for users' device sovereignty in their countries.

Because it is the time to establish this right in all 27 EU member states, we need the help of organisations and individuals!

https://fsfe.org/news/2021/news-20210330-01.html

Statement on Richard Stallman rejoining the FSF board

https://fsfe.org/news/2021/news-20210324-01.html

Do not miss @fsfe @mxmehl 's talk today at #LibrePlanet "REUSE: Simple steps to declare your copyright and licenses"

https://libreplanet.org/2021/speakers/#4663 #nt

In our second #FSFE20 publication we interview Reinhard Müller - who has contributed as a volunteer since 2002 in various roles from local activities to the European core team - about what motivates him to participate in the @fsfe since two decades and ongoing:
https://fsfe.org/news/2021/news-20210305-01.html