Notices by Kamalavelan (demonshreder@mastodon.xyz)

“The majority of people are too…”

No. Stop right there.

If you have a system set up by wolves that overwhelmingly benefits wolves and, furthermore, does so by exploiting the sheep, you cannot blame the sheep. The sheep are the victims. The blame lies solely with the wolves.

You do not birth someone into a unconscionably unequal environment and then blame them for not being strong enough to revolt against their oppressors. The blame lies always with the oppressor, never with the victim.

Does your school give the data of their kids to a random cloud provider in another country? Or does it what the capital of Switzerland does for its 35.000 students, keeping their data safe and secure in their own #nextcloud?

https://nextcloud.com/blog/next-big-open-source-win-capital-of-switzerland-moves-schools-to-nextcloud/

The KDE community is adding Matrix to its instant messaging communication infrastructure. Join our server, get a cool KDE handle and become part of the KDE conversation.

Matrix provides graphical instant messaging for desktop and mobile (with all its goodies: gifs, emojis, etc.), bridging for IRC channels, point to point encryption, file sharing, and more stuff that will help improve KDE's communications.

https://dot.kde.org/2019/02/20/kde-adding-matrix-its-im-framework

@liw Hmm. A chip needs an antenna. A lot depends on it, distance, mainly, and also signal quality.
A chip alone is not ehough - we need some compute to do the routing. That means, storage, ram and cpu.
Also, it all needs to be reliable enough to work completely unattended for decades.

As for power, I'd much rather find a way to power the nodes via off-grid renewable source that can't be turned off, like solar.

Make it discreet enough and provide ways to reliably fix it in place on the street.

It seems one can buy wifi enabled chips for less than $2 each. This would be cheap enough that one could maybe build a $5 wifi mesh network node, and get a bunch of people to distribute them all over the place.

Build the device so it can be plugged into any power socket, but provide passthrough so something else can be plugged into the device, to avoid hogging the socket.

Guerilla mesh networks? Maybe.

A time traveller from the 2000's visits a modern software company

traveller: all your laptops have 32 GB of RAM in them?! Your devs must be doing some really heavy stuff, what the hell do they need all that memory for?

guide: web browsing.

traveller: ...you fukken wat mate?

New artwork! Meet "Disco Dingo". :) Inspired by #Ubuntu release 19.04. https://www.deviantart.com/sylviaritter/art/Disco-Dingo-786327017 #art #illustration #mastoart #psychedelic

Great. Google have added a level of bureaucracy to their OAuth, requiring apps be verified before people can grant access to their accounts.

Since I missed the initial notice this was happening, and the verification process can take *weeks*, the #mailpile credentials may be disabled. Nobody will be able to download their mail for who knows how long.

Nothing anti-competitive to see here, this is fine. Just use the official Google apps, you'll have fewer problems.

In the name of security... 😞

New artwork! Meet "Disco Dingo". :) Inspired by #Ubuntu release 19.04. https://www.deviantart.com/sylviaritter/art/Disco-Dingo-786327017 #art #illustration #mastoart #psychedelic

Keep resisting.

relatable

This is so important.

#money #bills #life #mrlovenstein