Michel Salim @michel_slm@floss.social

The #WaybackMachine/ #InternetArchive now presents... the #WayforwardArchive! Pick your favourite URL and see what it will look like in 2046:

https://wayforward.archive.org

Do you use Zoom? The company recently announced they may begin showing ads at the end of video calls for "basic" accounts (https://blog.zoom.us/zoom-continued-access-for-basic-users-with-advertising-program/). Would you rather your work or school video calls be free from advertising and tracking? Check out Jitsi! (http://meet.jit.si)

"A new #COVID19 variant with a “very unusual constellation” of mutations was detected in South Africa. As many as 90% of new cases in Gauteng, the province that is home to Johannesburg and about a quarter of the country’s population, could be of the strain. Governments, concerned by its possible high transmissibility, called for an urgent meeting with the World Health Organisation on Friday."

That $50bn to vaccinate the whole world is sounding better by the day huh

https://espresso.economist.com/a448e9bc07513a63d834e64009143178

My company is still hiring for the engineering roles listed on this toot https://hackers.town/@pixelpaperyarn/107174070980003456

Please pass along to anyone who might be interested. This company is a fucking unicorn in this industry. Kindness makes a comeback with the skillz to pay the billz.

#hiringnow #getfedihired #pleaseboost

I really like this Intelligence^2 discussion between Yanis Varoufakis and Gillian Tett. Yanis argued that we're in a post-capitalist, #technofeudalism, while Gillian thought #capitalism can be salvaged but what we have now is not it.

One note though: apart from data portability, which is indeed insufficient due to the network effect, forcing interoperability a la #Fediverse or Bluesky (or #email) would free #SocialMedia users to move without losing contacts.

https://play.acast.com/s/intelligencesquared/canwefixcapitalism-yanisvaroufakisvsgilliantett

All Linux and Mac Computers Get Their Time Zones From the Same Database
https://m.slashdot.org/story/391297/outstanding
The whole world (windows too) depends on one man maintaing the project. In the comments you can learn that it is not a problem actually because he does it right and transparently.

Plasma 25th Anniversary Edition is here! It brings a glossier Breeze theme, a beautiful new wallpaper, new features, faster and re-designed tools and much more.

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.23.0/

#KDE25years

🎉 Happy anniversary KDE! For this occasion, I painted this artwork (using #krita on #kubuntu, of course).
→ The party continues on https://25years.kde.org/
#kde25years

I'm a firm believer of Hanlon's Razor, but over a week, Facebook has flagged a post and a comment of mine, both about Mastodon (and including a link to joinmastodon.org)

🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

Daily reminder that for many blind people, #Apple is the most useful and productive mobile operating system. It's not that Android is hard to use, but when text selection, especially on the web and in email, is from hard to impossible, and when one cannot spell check what they've written, and typing is either a minor annoyance (braille (input not registering sometimes) onscreen keyboard (very slow usually) external keyboard (yet another device to manage)), you begin to understand why people who don't enjoy customization, or getting the "most" out of a device choose iOS, especially for accessibility, and the AI of image recognition and such. And FOSS phones, like the PinePhone, won't be accessible until Orca/ATSPI can communicate with touch screens, and that won't happen without developers.

So, when you get that urge to say "I told you so you Apple sheeple, you should have been using FOSS!" Try to remember that some people don't have much of a choice.

#a11y #FOSS #PinePhone