Joseph Nuthalapati @njoseph@social.masto.host

"Working towards a future where communities can assemble their own social networks like lego blocks, to cultivate safe and private spaces while being interconnected with the rest of the "fediverse" and the internet at wide on their own terms."
-- we've just updated our new bonfire homepage :)
https://bonfirenetworks.org/

List of Useful Free Software Graphics Resources

Sharing is very appreciated.

PIXLS
https://pixls.us

LibreAV
https://libreav.org

Libre Graphics Tools
https://libre.graphics

L. Graphics World
http://libregraphicsworld.org

L. Graphics Meeting
https://libregraphicsmeeting.org

L. Graphics Club
https://libregraphics.club

LibreArts
https://librearts.org

Open Source Design
https://opensourcedesign.net

O. Source Publishing
http://osp.kitchen

Beautiful Open
https://beautifulopen.com

#FreeSoftware

Watching people work on their projects is one of my absolute favourite things on the fedi, and it lifts me up more than you can know.

I wrote an article about the need for low-carbon and #sustainable #computing and the path towards zero-carbon computing.

tl;dr:

** The problem:
* By 2040 emissions from computing alone will be close to half the emissions level acceptable to keep global warming below 2°C. This growth in computing emissions is unsustainable: it would make it virtually impossible to meet the emissions warming limit.
* The emissions from production of computing devices far exceed the emissions from operating them, so even if devices are more energy efficient producing more of them will make the emissions problem worse. Therefore we must extend the useful life of our computing devices.
** The solution:
As a society we need to start treating computational resources as finite and precious, to be utilised only when necessary, and as effectively as possible. We need frugal computing: achieving the same results for less energy.
** The vision: please read the article, I'm out of characters.

https://wimvanderbauwhede.github.io/articles/frugal-computing/

Great video by Dr. Vandana Shiva, 'Alternative Noble Prize' winner, who explains in 87 seconds concisely how #Open #Source #Software and Open Source #Seeds are the same: "they are a way of spreading prosperity and knowledge in society rather than creating scarcitiy and povertiy."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfNCCJECpss

Here's a little thing that may not be obvious to many people....

When you install an open-source app from Google Play or the Apple app store, there is no guarantee that what you install actually matches the public code.

@fdroidorg are doing a great service. They independently build the public source code for apps from scratch, review for common issues, and publish their builds. Thanks to "reproducible builds" it's possible to verify they do not tamper with the code.

https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Security_Model/

Being able to monitor all the DNS queries everything in your home is making via pihole is an enlightening experience.

Turns out the little security cameras we have are some of the chattiest devices we own, second only to our @Samsung TV, which the pihole is blocking ads and metrics from with wild abandon :)

Because fuel tax basically never covers the externalities (pollution from burning it, plus the cost of the road infrastructure), car travel is heavily subsidized by everyone who isn't driving a car, and this fact is very rarely talked about in the mainstream.

New beta: K-9 Mail 5.739

https://forum.k9mail.app/t/beta-k-9-mail-5-739/1129

Perhaps there is no perfect way to convey how absurdly obscene it is that a single person can "have" over a hundred billion dollars.

But "You Are Jeff Bezos" is damn close:
https://direkris.itch.io/you-are-jeff-bezos

Also, perhaps there is no perfect way to satirize #DonaldTrump.

My little parody of the aforementioned game is definitely not even close:
https://rys.io/you-are-donald-trump/

A sad day for #FreeSoftware, #Kerala forgets its legacy in leading the world and falls for Google's 'free of cost' service.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/kite-rolls-out-g-suite-platform-for-online-classes-in-kerala/article35217726.ece

I think we should educate teachers and general public about dangers of surveillance capitalism where you pay with your data, privacy and even at the cost of losing our political agency to big companies. #Google is providing 'Free of Cost' only because they know to make money out of people's data and has a monopoly in online ads. Would you join me?

Q: What is an experienced Emacs user?
A: A person who wishes that the terminal had pedals.

Das #Fediverse - als Schaubild. Hier nun die endgültige Fassung. Vielen Dank an @imke!

What uses the most energy in your life? How can we, as a society, make it easier for you to eliminate or reduce that thing?

Individual and community action are entwined.

TIL: #gitea has a migrate function to make it super duper easy to migrate projects off of #github. That's pretty awesome.