Dave Lane  

Seems to me that using is just as silly as using a "how strong is your password" site that requires you to enter your email so it can send you your "results"... *facepalm*

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Jan Sprinz 🇪🇺  

"Why we need GNU/Linux on mobile devices (now more than ever)", Lightning talk at #35c3

- Recording: media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9568-light
- Slides: github.com/NeoTheThird/talks/b

#UbuntuTouch #UBports #PlasmaMobile #Halium #Anbox #Librem5 #Pinephone #Android #iOS

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Dave Lane  

I don't normally say positive things involving Facebook, but I must call out the well written/spoken women who started the Grammar Vigilantes Aotearoa group on Facebook who are doing excellent work!

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Dave Lane  

So yeah, lately my standard breakfast on my "non-hungry-days" is to make what's effectively stuffing, using whatever's left over from the previous few day's dinners (e.g. rice, potatoes, pasta, stale bread, veggies, meat) and augmenting it with veggies. Helps reduce food waste, it's lush and yummy, and I think pretty healthful. Lovin' it.

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Dave Lane  

Huh, whaddaya know?
forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2

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Dave Lane  

Christine Dann's written a superb submission to our gov't on the Zero Carbon Act (far better than mine) - thanks for sharing! christinedann.org/2019/06/clim

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Wayne Mackintosh 🇳🇿🐧  

NZ national Centre for #OER is offering free course: Learning in a Digital Age. Starts 7 August. All welcome. Reserve your seat today: oer.nz/lida2019 #digitalliteracy

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Amolith  

As of yesterday #Microsoft's #DRM server is gone. If you have any ebooks through their store . . . bid them adieu ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Users will be given refunds but the books themselves will no longer be readable. If you made notes on the titles, you'll get $25 credit as a, "we're sorry you'll no longer have access to the notes you took on all those books. Here's $25 and we'll call it even!"

#DefectiveByDesign is a campaign run by the #FSF to combat Digital Restrictions Management and they work to prevent this exact kind of thing from happening.
defectivebydesign.org/

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Amolith  

Over the past month of working at Walmart, I've noticed something quite sad. The number one food item I see Americans buying is frozen TV dinners. I didn't realise it was quite as bad as it is but . . . wow. I've heard a lot of stereotypes from friends in other countries and always knew that there would be some level of truth to it but, being a cashier and actually *seeing* what these people are buying, there is a LOT of truth behind those stereotypes and it's just sad.

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Dave Lane  

Whoopsie. thespinoff.co.nz/business/16-0 Reckon meet.jit.si's looking better all the time :)

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toogley  

Why is software created using taxpayers’ money not released as Free Software?

* Tax savings: Similar applications don't have to be programmed from scratch every time.

* Collaboration: Major projects can share expertise and costs.

* Serving the public: Applications paid by the public should be available for everyone.

* Fostering innovation: With transparent processes, others don't have to reinvent the wheel.

#democracy #democratic #politics #freesoftware

publiccode.eu/

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Krille Chritzelius  

Windows Phone is dead! Its a proprietary OS so Microsoft can just kill it. Firefox OS isn't. It is still alive in #KaiOS because it's open source. #UbuntuTouch is open source too that's why it is still maintained by the community. New features, new apps, bugfixes and improvements every week. Looking forward the new hardware from Pine64 and Purism.

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Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)  
#OpenDocument Format (ODF, a real standard everyone can implement) and Free/libre software should be taught in schools; it’s not supposed to be just a matter of #privacy http://techrights.org/2019/07/15/office-365-banned/ #microsoft #de #odf
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Dave Lane  

As usual, Rod Oram is totally sensible: newsroom.co.nz/2019/07/14/6781 and is, by implication, calling out NZ National for the pandering unprincipled fools they've revealed themselves to be over the past decade or so.

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doctorow  

Cleaning women washing a crucifix, 1938 quinnception.tumblr.com/post/1

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Dave Lane  

This shows that the wilful cluelessness of local, regional, and national gov'ts who continue to proceed with systems is a) widespread in the world, and b) still deeply flawed, according to pretty much all the relevant experts. theatlantic.com/technology/arc

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Dave Lane  

Just wrote a brief submission on the Zero Carbon Bill - submissions close tomorrow, so you still have a few minutes if you want to put one it (you're welcome to copy/modify mine): davelane.nz/zero-carbon-bill-s

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Pollomostro🐣  

Finished. Another portrait of my dog.
Made with #myPaint and #krita

#commission open btw

#art #dog

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Maeve  

AOC slams Trump for racist attack on woc in Congress 

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Dave Lane  

This is something the NZ Ministry of Education should be investigating here. I think they've been way too casual about US corporate technology use in schools. zdnet.com/article/microsoft-of

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