Rune @rune@mastodon.nzoss.nz

We have all experienced this. #Resist
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NASA is putting tons of fuel in metal tubes while all I need to do to get boosts is make bad posts.

@mort @sir Wait.. you used to write your config on sliced bread??

I'm done

https://chynacountdown.ytmnd.com/

@fmartingr yeah, just put your web server on the internet like a normal person

Careful! That electrical tape is load bearing!

@papa @sir Rick Falkvinge (founder of the Swedish Pirate Party) wrote some *excellent* articles on TorrentFreak on the topic:

https://torrentfreak.com/author/rick-falkvinge/

He points out things such as how authors and artists are technically entrepreneurs and we should question thoroughly the idea that a special class of entrepreneurs should get to free-ride off a small amount of work for the rest of their lives while no other class of entrepreneurs get to do that.

(Work is supposed to be trading something scarce, like the worker's time, for something scarce, like money. Copies of a recording are non-scarce. Performances are scarce.)

We're not not trapped in here with the coronavirus. The coronavirus is trapped in here with us.
https://xkcd.com/2287/

Here's the MIT E-Vent, an open source ventilator (costs $100 from parts on hand), which company Newport was going to build for USA pandemic reserves, until rival company Covidien (yes, real name) bought them out to stop competition with their own more expensive ventilator unit.

https://news.mit.edu/2020/ventilator-covid-deployment-open-source-low-cost-0326

Recently discovered an alternative for balena etcher. You can find it here:
https://gitlab.com/bztsrc/usbimager

FOSS, crossplattform, under 1mb in size, NOT electron based, no analytics crap. (For detailed infos, read the comparison chart on the project page)

I think this pandemic pretty much makes the case for it, don't you?

https://qz.com/1826043/the-coronavirus-crisis-proves-internet-should-be-a-public-utility/

Any "icon creators" here? A new FOSS app will hit @fdroidorg soon, but the author is no "graphical guy" and thus needs your help for a good icon.

So: Icon designers, please join in – everyone else is welcome to boost, as usual 😃

https://github.com/SubhamTyagi/android-ocr/issues/1

#callingOut

I' now view venture-funded vs. bootstrapped as just as important a distinction as proprietary vs FOSS.

VCs invest in companies that they think will either 1) fail or 2) as 10× as big. No one can grow 10× by organically growing their current user base with a good product—they have to change *something*. And those changes frequently harm/abuse current users.

So, I'm suspicious of #gitlab, #wire, and #keybase—#foss software can't make up for perverse growth incentives.

h/t @schlink re: Wire