Pixelfed will be a year old in a few days.
I'm a high school dropout that has never taken any CS or computer classes.
Web development is just a hobby of mine, I work in the auto industry.
I'm so proud of this project, I never would have imagined that I could make something like this.
Thank you for helping me realize credentialism isn't so important as you think. ❤️
How is it that I'm only now, after 25 years in this space, finding out about Project Xanadu?! https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-xanadu-dream/
Pixelfed Embed will allow you to easily share your posts on any website.
We're rolling this out to instances tomorrow!
For NZOSS members - new draft constitution is available for review/comment: https://nzoss.nz/node/2118
@clintlalonde I respond in my newsletter: "79% of institutions reported inadequate training for faculty as one of the main barriers to online learning... I wonder about the apparent inability or unwillingness of today's professors to teach themselves how to use a computer to teach. Higher education doesn't have a training problem, it has a culture problem."
What a crazy, callous, beautiful, ignorant, and (I hope against hope) surprising species we are... https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2019/07/weight-of-the-world-climate-change-scientist-grief/
I find it somewhat distressing that so many people are wringing their hands about the possible untrustworthiness of the Frightful 5 mega-tech-corps. No duh. They're fundamentally untrustworthy. It's a waste of time to even consider them capable of remediation. We need to cut them out. Yes. Abandon them. And luckily, because of a bunch of plucky #FOSS developers, it's both possible and (in my experience) quite delightful. Full story: https://davelane.nz/megacorps
We released #PeerTube v2 yesterday!
Improvements on federation, instances presentation and a brand new JoinPeertube.org !
We're talking about live-streaming for the v3... more info here https://framablog.org/2019/11/12/peertube-has-worked-twice-as-hard-to-free-your-videos-from-youtube/
There's an old maxim: If you want to know what the government would like to do with you, first take a look at what they want to do to immigrants.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/403178/terrorism-bill-an-obnoxious-piece-of-legislation-privacy-commissioner
Hey new mastodon users. A lot of us won't follow you back unless you have posted before and have an avatar. Otherwise you look like a bot.
So, if you're getting started try dropping an #introduction post in there first before you start clicking that "follow" button a bunch.
Yes. We need to do this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlfW7aYouYQ Now.
Follow-up to my link to this documentary on Microsoft's strangle hold on the EU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duaYLW7LQvg ), see this: http://techrights.org/2019/11/09/christian-ude-on-microsoft/
FOSS & CC guy, nerd on many levels, working to democratise higher education by day, increasing digital, intellectual, & physical freedom always. Oxford commas. Spreading joy & confusion.