Chris @slackz@mastodon.social
community organizer, programmer, anarcho-socialist
Real resistance and solidarity is happening in Portland, OR right now.
As the Trump admin is kidnapping children and terrorizing families, we will do EVERYTHING we can to stop this.
Occupation of #ICE detention center in #PDX is happenimg NOW and is ongoing. SHUT. IT DOWN.
If a similar action is not beimg held near you, make it happen.
Portlanders, get tf doen to 4310 SW Macadam Ave if you can. Stat. We have ppl on the ground. We need bodies. We need support
Committed organizers and community members gathered tonight in Portland, OR for a vigil - recognizing the atrocities being committed to children and families seeking asylum and safe entry. It is unconscionable and we will not accept it. We will fight back.
An indefinite occupation has begun at the #ICE detention facility. Folks will be there round the clock, occupying the space and fight back against this authoritarian nightmare.
If you are in the Portland area, get down to 4310 SW Macadam Ave, Portland, OR 97239
Folks are gonna be there round 24/7 for the foreseeable future.
Come out and fight back with us! ICE is not fucking welcome here and we will do everything we can to resist these horrifying policies and hold those who have committed these crimes fiercely accountable.
THE PEOPLE UNITED WILL NEVER BE DEFEATED
5.2 GB compressed archive of email communications over the past 10 years. Just enabled emailed forwarding and cleared out everything in there.
Need to go through and update far too many accounts. Will be a good security audit though :)
holy shit, it's happening. Just downloaded my gmail archive.
Moving over to protonmail.
Happy African Liberation Day!
I support the All-African People's Revolutionary Party and other organizations working toward a united African continent and diaspora free from colonialism, imperialism, and capitalist exploitation:
https://aaprp-intl.org
Today feels like a good day to reread Kwame Nkrumah's Class Struggle in Africa; such incredible analysis and vision - exposing how Britain used class dynamics to reinforce colonial control. All systematically applied to help liberate Ghana
Pretty sure the first linux distro I used seriously was Slackware 11; so my intro to FreeBSD via version 11.1, feels proper.
lol, even slipped in the fortune motd, which I believe came stock for login shells in Slackware. Love the simplicity and stability that weaves through these separate, but connect, *nix neighbors
Trying to create some accessible intro material to promote to folks in our local area and beyond; what is Mastodon? why should people care? why does organizing.social exist?
Really hope this is useful for folks; please lemme know if you have any feedback; tried to keep things real brief to not overwhelm ppl new to #mastodon, but super down to post a short series delving into more detail and diff topics.
TIA!
There is no revolution without our tiny, radical animal frens
Love you Sammie. Hope your days are filled with giant trees, many nuts, and a plethora of opportunities to build political consciousness and mobilize the squirrel masses.
Hey all! Excited to announce a very new (and poised for content) #mastodon instance: https://organizing.social !
Hearing about all the amazing upgrades in @Gargron's 2.4 announcement inspired me.
This will be a space for #CommunityOrganizing - to share news, campaigns, calls to action, and work with others to be as effective as we can with our varied, but interconnected, struggles for global justice
Invite link (max 25 users)
https://organizing.social/invite/uQbqH9Df
Please join and share!
<3 Mastodon
#Mastodon v2.4.0 is 🎉 finally out! 🎉
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v2.4.0
The changelog is long, but here are some highlights:
- Better offline support
- DMs column
- New profile options
- Hide who you follow if you want
- 120% better report UI for mods
- Narrower privacy policy!
- High contrast theme
- Web Push API opened up to app developers! Easy push notifications possible in all apps now
- Performance improvements
- Various fixes and improvements 😋
When Amazon pays workers in Singapore and elsewhere a median of $2 / hr, it's not technical innovation, it's heinous exploitation.
Fuck Amazon. Fuck Jeff Bezos. Fuck the people standing by and doing nothing to address this.
When companies mention leveraging "services" like Amazon's Mechanical Turk, engineers of conscience need to push the fuck back hard.
Saw this blurb on Rainforest QA's about page... when I heard about QA test processes built around human testing, I was like wtf?!
Did some research:
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/amazon-mechanical-turk/551192/
This shit is unconscionable and programmers should not be sleeping at night if they let this exploitation creep into their company's stack.
SUPPORT WORKERS' RIGHTS!
https://github.com/ckuttruff/orghub
"Copyright © 2018 Christopher Kuttruff
The source code for this project (all code existing within the src/ and migrations/ subdirectories) is licensed under GPLv3 (see LICENSE.txt). All other dependencies and linked libraries are under their respective licenses"
lol sometimes I feel like I shoulda signed up on https://functional.cafe
Maybe time to add an instance to #pinafore :P
Is it possible to use a copyleft license for a project that uses #clojure / leiningen (and thus the Eclipse Public License)?
I am searching around and super hazy on details esp with the differences with linking, distributing, etc. Just looking for guidance, not legal advice
To be clear, this will be a web app (hosted on a central server) and not really distributed, but the compiled js, etc will def make it client side. This is a FLOSS project and I just want to ensure the code stays open...
@yogthos just picked up the 2nd edition of Web Development with Clojure. Looking forward to diving in and you've already won my attention in the intro.
The most exciting thing about programming for me has always been crafting something functional, simple, and elegant.
Coding is art and a bonsai tree is a beautiful symbol :)
Between this statement and the DRM-free ebooks alone... Pragmatic is doing it right.
Lol wow google. At least you're being up front about it now...
searches duckduckgo for protonmail? #SoLost
https://www.thedailybeast.com/report-google-removes-dont-be-evil-line-from-code-of-conduct
[According to a new report in Gizmodo, Google removed its unofficial motto, “don’t be evil,” from its code of conduct in late April or early May. Using the Wayback Machine, the site determined that the phrase had appeared at the beginning of its corporate code of conduct on April 21, 2018, but had disappeared from that spot as of May 4.]
