No billionnaires at FOSDEM by @how

"If Jack Dorsey would donate $250 million to free software every year, certainly that would make a valuable recognition of his debt to the Ruby language and all the free software that he made a fortune on. But would it really compensate for all the assholiness Drew describes in this article? I think not. Billionaire money, although certainly long due for redistribution, should not be a way of passage downwards through the glass ceiling. They can look down upon us all they want, they’ll never be part of us, because what makes us, us, is not something that can be bought."

https://oxygen.offdem.net/t/no-billionnaires-at-fosdem/463

#fosdem #offdem

wikimedia:

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also wikimedia:

oh noooes... nasty ai generated content is littering our commons, who has time on the weekend to volunteer and clean up wikipedia pages? *sniffle*

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AI_Cleanup

what. a. circus.

#wikipedia #wikimedia #creativecommons #circleoflife

Practising Permacomputing: Call for workshop participants

"This autumn is dedicated to Practising Permacomputing; a concept and a nascent community of practice-oriented around issues of resilience and regenerativity in computer and network technology derived, among others, from permaculture principles. As part of this community, space is offered to makers and thinkers in digital culture (and other connected areas) to put the fundamentals and applications of #permacomputing into practice through a series of workshops, a meetup, and a concluding day of public presentations with guests. Join us to explore permacomputing futures!"

https://www.fiber-space.nl/project/permacomputing/

#workshop #selfhosting #datacenter #recycling #electronics #plants #amsterdam

The final ROM of What Remains is out! ??

What Remains is an 8-bit interactive fiction and adventure video game for the #NES about environmental issues, the manipulation of public opinion, and whistleblowing.

https://iodinedynamics.com/whatremains.html

More teasing... Actual final What Remains cartridges with actual final stickers. Courtesy of Broke Studio's secret headquarter under the volcano, where the carts are being assembled...

#NES #Famicom