Alex Schroeder 🐝 @kensanata@octodon.social

#murten #switzerland

The blog post is here, pulling together stuff I've been reading and saying over the last few day. Thank you all for linking all this interesting stuff. https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2018-06-24_Capitalism

I've listened to nearly 2h of introduction to Karl Marx' Capital, in German. I think I need to learn more! It makes me see Free Software in a new light. I don't want to make sure Free Software developers will get paid. That's how capitalism stays strong. We need to transfer that money to other modes of production. I don't want to work for the profit of capitalists, I want to work for my own specific wants and needs. Free Software! I need to write a blog post. #marx
http://rabe.ch/2018/06/19/eine-einfuehrung-in-marx-das-kapital-in-zwei-teilen-2/

I still wonder whether I should invest the time in putting old photo albums I pulled down from Flickr back up. If I use the exact images I re-downloaded from Flickr, they lack the metadata, timestamps in particular, and thus they order will be all wrong. If I use the original images, I have to find them again in my old folders and iPhoto archives. Gaaah! Not something I look forward to. So maybe in the far future, haha.

I just uploaded a bunch of pictures from Murten, Switzerland and Hamburg, Germany, in case you want look at more than the handful I posted already.
https://alexschroeder.ch/gallery/

"The present moment is one where companies are obscuring the depth of their technical processes to quietly profit off surveillance, oppression, and depression. The future is one where technology is reclaimed by everyone; it is open and welcoming and asking to be built by hand. I want us to grow towards that future with everything we share." https://coolguy.website/writing/the-future-will-be-technical/background%28%29.html
I'm liking this manifesto already.

Damn, those parentheses really do throw off Mastodon. Let's try this: https://coolguy.website/writing/the-future-will-be-technical/background%28%29.html

"I find the discussions about technical matters to be liberating and self-empowering, and I identify as “non-technical”. To be sincere, it was in the slow accumulation of technical knowledge and skills that I became excited about the future again. […] This feels antithetical to how people approach the internet today, but I don’t think that’s the case for the future."
https://coolguy.website/writing/the-future-will-be-technical/background().html

And if your interested in the stuff that isn’t going too well in Germany, have a German rant about politicians in parliament that do nothing but complain instead of, you know, making new laws and solving problems. In German, as I said. https://www.zeit.de/kultur/2018-06/csu-asylstreit-cdu-horst-seehofer-populismus-deutschstunde

If you’re interested in moving to #Germany: http://german-eye.blogspot.com/2016/11/advice-for-emigrating-to-germany.html
(Aimed at US citizens but applicable in general.)

Understanding fascism, art, critics, and thinking about judging artists and art works, only tangentially related to D&D. This blog post is about "The Worst Critic In The History Of The World."
https://dndwithpornstars.blogspot.com/2014/09/d30-ways-to-be-worst-critic-in-history.html
This is the same Zak I linked to a few days ago. These blog posts are golden.

"Europeans must therefore ask themselves the question: has Trump’s US become a hostile power? If the answer to that question is yes, the consequences for Europe – and for Britain – would be enormous. That’s why so many policymakers and politicians prefer not to ask it." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/27/donald-trump-nato-europe-ally

How does the budget compare to fascism? Was Hitler good for the budget? Was Pinochet good for the budget? Franco? Salazar? I don’t care!

“it's on the shoulders of technologists to learn the lesson of EME: contributing to technologies that stop the public from adapting or auditing their tools is a profoundly unethical act, one that widens the gap between people with disabilities and the (temporarily) abled people who don't (yet) need to make those adaptations.” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/disabilities-vs-drm-world-cup-edition
#drm #copyright