𝔖𝔥𝜉𝔏𝔏𝔎𝔯 @[email protected]

Going Live in 1h! (15h00 Paris time, today) https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2020/en/live.html

DMs, Circles, Instagram Import, MicroUI & S3 Support have been in development for a while.

They will ship as beta features this week on supported instances!

#pixelfed

It was just announced that https://mstdn.jp (200,348 accounts) and https://mastodon.cloud (59162 accounts) are shutting down at the end of June! that is more then 6% of fediverse accounts disappearing overnight.

I would like to do anything in my power to figure out how to prevent this from happening.

Brilliant project that tidies up public domain ebooks.

Gutenberg and Internet Archive are wonderful resources, but the texts are poorly formatted for actual use, especially on ereaders.

This is a volunteer driven initiative to bring these texts up to date with modern standards and make them look as good as possible on the page.

https://standardebooks.org/

The new MomentUI is live!

https://pixelfed.social/p/dansup/167366302959276032?ui=moment

For the next week, you can download Civilization VI for free on the Epic Games Store:

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/sid-meiers-civilization-vi/home

New #introduction:

Hey! My name is Blair Vidakovich. Online, I call myself 'vidak'

people also used to call me 'bootlicker' because my big blog, which i am rehosting soon, was called https://bootlicker.party

I live in Perth, Australia. I lived in Sydney for about half a decade, and did a lot of stuff there, too.

I am an active libertarian communist. I have been a radical communist activist since age 16. When I was 16, I hung a red and yellow hammer and sickle flag from my English Literature school block, the B block, at Hale School here in Perth.

My family roots are from the Swan Valley. I am a slav, and my family comes from Yugoslavia :-) Discovering anarchism / libertarian Marxism really set me free from the rigid Catholicism of my slavic family, but I still share an amazing joy for life like they do :-)

In Sydney, I helped organise big protests, ran unsuccessfully for local council in Leichhardt, occupied the Villawood detention centre, gave seminars on Marx and Marxist philosophy---and, for some weeks, I was the sole person organising a state upper house election campaign in Victoria for Socialist Alliance.

Actually I did even more than that, but, I suppose, by now, you're thinking, "I get it. You're a communist. You can stop now" XD.

I love computers and philosophy. I am still yet to submit by thesis for my PhD in philosophy, on Hegel's Philosophy of Nature.

I am proficient in Common LISP, 6502 Assembly, and Smalltalk. I am now trying to get into Ada, so I need to find some sort of project to start creating in it :-)

I have been a Linux user since age 14. These are the distributions I used, in the order in which I used them: Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, Gentoo. I am still using Gentoo, and I am going to be migrating from Gentoo to GNU GUIX in the very near future---to which I will port the Hurd kernel, following some instructions and some previous attempts logged online.

I absolutely love electricity. I taught myself university level electronic engineering when I was recuperating from being diagnosed with schizophrenia. I have schizophrenia, but it does not really affect my life too badly. I take 20mg Abilify and 30mg of Lexapro every day.

Anyway---I absolutely love all sorts of transistorised circuits, be they amplifiers, oscillators, synthesisers---anything analogue. Actually that is the primary lens through which I see computers. The digital world is indeed piggybacking on the analogue electronic world, for me.

I have built many radios and incredible other analogue projects. My next project in the electronic visual field is going to be one I have been planning since 2013. It is a fully hand-soldered discrete transistor computer. When my blog gets back up, i'll link you all :-)

I dream of a worldwide communist revolution. Only then will we be able to rid ourselves of the muck of ages, and leave the pre-history of human kind :-)

Our real history is going to be the one we make after capitalism :-)

Why is this article by Prof. Erin Bromage the first thing I've read that (felt like it) gave me the tools to asses my own covid risk?

Have I been in a bubble & this stuff is everywhere?

Are the "I'm an expert because I'm loud and I'm going to tell you what to do" voices drowning out the "here's good information" voices?

Is it because it's not "news" (In the "it's not clickbait or outrage fuel") sense)?

Was I just not ready to listen until now?

https://www.erinbromage.com/post/the-risks-know-them-avoid-them

I recently got the early bird version of @hund @iokeyboards new 65% ISO, hotswap, RGB underglow PCB.

Although it being an early adopter model I have to say that it is already really matured! Everything worked out of the box; the soldering joints of the components are all perfect and the hotswap doesn't feel flimsy at all!

It is a perfect board for newcomers and tinkerers who don't like the awkward and time consuming process of (de-)soldering their switches!

As the release of GTK4 inches closer, one final item we're working on is WebKitGTK, and we can use your help! Learn how you can join us in building WebKitGTK for GTK4:

https://blogs.gnome.org/engagement/2020/05/19/help-grow-webkitgtk/

Trump says he’s taking hydroxychloroquine against Covid-19 despite FDA warnings https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/18/trump-taking-hydroxychloroquine-covid-19-fda-warnings #Coronavirusoutbreak #DonaldTrump #USpolitics #USnews

Android is killing the one thing on the platform that Does Not Completely Suck: #Termux

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23224669

Android is already a fucking blight on Humanity. It and the rest of Google can DIAF.

#PinePhone #PineTab #Purism I'd REALLY like to see a sane, fully-Linux, sensible hardware keyboard-option tablet. The form factor's wonderful, the execution, OS, and app landscape, on both Android and #iOS have been abysmal.

Here's my long-standing feature request:

https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/lqgtwy_rhsfbdh5cdxb1rq

wow, an incredible read! 😲

The Confessions of Marcus Hutchins, the Hacker Who Saved the Internet
https://www.wired.com/story/confessions-marcus-hutchins-hacker-who-saved-the-internet/

Drive is going to be huge for Pixelfed, a real Google Photos alternative 😁 #pixeldev

The PeerTube content bootstrap fund:

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2020-05-15-peertube-bootstrap-fund/

Please boost!