the real raccoon ⓋⒶ @therealraccoon@octodon.social

One connects to all of your devices and accesses the data, the other is a hardware standard.

Inspiring! From The Guardian: "The cleanup operation is under way across the Caribbean. One organisation that is trying to help is the Humanitarian Open Street Map Team which compiles open sourced maps of disaster zones. So far they’ve mapped 150,000 homes affected by the storm and their information is being used by The Dutch red Cross and Map Action to determine what needs to be done. They’re also on the case for the Mexican earthquake and Bangladesh floods."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2017/sep/10/hurricane-irma-millions-brace-for-impact-as-superstorm-reaches-florida-live?page=with:block-59b5fbf7e4b0e3ccf89ec59d#block-59b5fbf7e4b0e3ccf89ec59d

When so many of our #IT colleagues rely by default on products and services by Google And Apple, what hope is there of ever educating laypeople on the importance of #privacy, #freedom, control of their own data and the trade-offs they make every day in exchange of convenience and ease of use?

Building better co-operative businesses

"The Hive is a new business support programme from Co-operatives UK and The Co-operative Bank, for people wanting to start or grow co-operative or community enterprises. Our mix of online resources, advice and training can help you build a better co-operative business."

https://www.uk.coop/the-hive/

Robots taking jobs isn't the problem. Living in a society that only values people if they are doing something that gives them money is the problem.

Living in a world where 'nazis are bad' has somehow become controversial is also a problem.

Another City Comes Out for Converting Local Businesses into Worker Cooperatives

"Last week, the city council said that establishment of cooperatives keeps wealth flowing more broadly within the community. They suggested that when local business owners begin to consider if they may want to retire, conversions to worker cooperatives should be encouraged."

https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2017/08/09/another-city-comes-converting-local-businesses-worker-cooperatives/

A people-owned internet exists. Here is what it looks like

"Up in the mountains west of me, a decade and a half ago, the commercial internet service providers weren’t bringing high-speed connectivity to residents, so a group of neighbors banded together and created their own internet cooperative."

https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/a-people-owned-internet-exists-here-is-what-it-looks-like/2017/08/08

I'm so tired of living in a cyberpunk dystopia without all the cool things

it's clear that #f-droid is safer, better vetted than #GooglePlay

https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/07/stealthy-google-play-apps-recorded-calls-and-stole-e-mails-and-texts/

nope nope nope nope nope http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/tech-company-workers-agree-microchips-implanted-hands/story?id=48818529

@cwebber I am not being facetious when I recommend https://conversations.im/. That is what I recommend to folks with this issue.

Of course it is available at https://f-droid.org/packages/eu.siacs.conversations/ as well.

I have a friend trying out https://chatsecure.org/, (iOS + #OMEMO), so that will probably be my recommendation for fruit phones.

I know it sucks to use one's mobile data when wifi should suffice, but whatcha gonna do (aside from self-hosting a web client...)?