Michael Downey 🇺🇳 @downey@floss.social
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FLOSS.social admin. Director of Community, DIAL #OpenSource Center at United Nations Foundation. LibreHealth steering cmte, OSUOSL adv brd, OSI advocate circle.
Joined Apr 2018
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A few folks have asked how they can support the expenses of running the FLOSS.social #Mastodon instance. There are not a lot of expenses right now (€5/month) but if you're interested in chipping in, you can now become a FLOSS.social "Monthly Supporter"! Donations accepted via CommitChange, who run the free software Houdini Project to manage transactions. 🙂
Thanks!
"Don't lose faith in humanity. Think of all the people in the world who have never played you a single nasty trick."
- Elbert Hubbard
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"Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional."
- H. Witte
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"Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy, and mutual valuing."
- Rollo May
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"Understanding is a two-way street."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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Very excited that we'll be presenting some new research by @DIAL_Community on gender #DiversityandInclusion in #OpenSource within the #ICT4D sector at Mozilla Festival next month. Come join us at #MozFest!
"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."
-- Viktor Frankl
... Thoughts leaving #XOXOfest
Can someone help me understand this dichotomy? I'm truly stumped.
Selective enforcement of rules unfairly applies bias to penalize marginalized people
vs.
Selective enforcement of rules is needed to prevent criminalization of marginalized people
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#Kubernetes is only available in Docker for Windows or Docker for Mac. Why can't #Docker support #Linux?
Adding a few others:
Glitch coming in at 2nd longest TOS behind Snap, with 7,845 words & 45 minutes
#XOXOfest sponsor MailChimp with 4,751 words and 30 minutes
Reply and add other proprietary services!
Appreciated the #XOXOfest reminder of how much freedom we're surrending to tech giants under the guise of free speech or to "make things for others". You are the product. The Internet wasn't designed with this in mind, folks.
"Art dismantles power. Otherwise, it's propaganda."
-- Cameron Esposito at #XOXOfest
Let's get this started!
#XOXOfest
#XOXOfest attendees who'd rather not use Slack are welcome to join us on IRC (yes, it still exists!) at https://www.irccloud.com/invite?channel=%23xoxofest&hostname=irc.freenode.net&port=6697&ssl=1 or ircs://irc.freenode.net/#xoxofest
All right, #XOXOfest, bring it on; help me believe in humanity again. Ready for some recharging creativity & inspiration.
Michael Downey 🇺🇳
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Protip for Chrome users: to improve your security when using Google Chrome, uninstall it and use a browser that’s not from a company which makes its money from spying on you 24/7
Michael Downey 🇺🇳
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I reckon it's right about time to start boycotting Google. With the recent AMP and anti-URL crap, it's clear to see they are abusing their monopoly.
Let's stop using and recommending Chrome by default and set your default search engine to DuckDuckGo (or similar). Turn on your adblocker to starve them of income (Better Blocker is good as heck).
The best way to send a message to a corporation is to take their income from them, so do whatever you can to do that.
Is there any example of "#OpenSource complicity" with bad actors as currently defined, that *doesn't* involve permissive/non-reciprocal licensing? So far, all the examples I've heard of involve profiting from proprietary stuff derived from #FLOSS.
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