Dave Lane @lightweight@mastodon.oeru.org

Essential watching for anyone even vaguely interested in "IP", particularly Copyright. https://invidio.us/watch?v=1Jwo5qc78QU

The Munsters - 1964 https://atomic-chronoscaph.tumblr.com/post/190735542948/only1920s-1960sgifs-the-munsters-1964

Impressed by the polish shown by a release candidate of #Armbian 20.02 running on my #PinebookPro Early exploration of the provided XFCE4 18.04.3 makes it look quite functional.

I just really want a nice Linux tablet that I can take notes on for school. Anyone know of any tablets that are easy to root, or Linux-first tablets?

I meant handwritten notes 😬 sorry y'all

"Microsoft is fine, actually. They've changed. Big Bad Evil Microsoft is a thing of the past."

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-irs-decided-to-get-tough-against-microsoft-microsoft-got-tougher

I'm very impressed by btrfs' RAID capabilities. Still getting my head around subvolumes, but seems to have beneficial implications for btrfs' snapshot abilities... New home server is running on a pair of SSDs with RAID1 & a couple big spinning disks for precious family data (R1) & device backups (R0)...

Public, listed corporations, with the rights of people in most markets, are "engines of inequity". They exist to privatise profit and socialise cost. They are anti-Commons, except to the extent that they can leverage the Commons to achieve greater inequity on behalf of their shareholders. As such, it is not in their nature to be allies of "open". They are exploiters, at best. People, if they hope to increase equity (or save our planet), should shun them & instead contribute to communities.

University of Tasmania is starting development on a new micro course - Complementary Medicine Today #CMT101. Looking forward to seeing more OER goodness from our Tasmania!

For folks not wanting to use Youtube to what this exposé on Microsoft and its colonising of the EU, thanks to @ITwrx for providing this alternative link: https://itwrx.org/ITwrx-news/microsoft-cyber-attack

The thought occurs to me: what if we had a "no Xmas tree strike" this year... by my back of the envelop calculation, that'd be a few hundred million carbon sequestering, oxygen belching trees... towards our climate-change-arresting global tree planting goals. Not an inconsequential amount.

Pixelfed Embed will allow you to easily share your posts on any website.

We're rolling this out to instances tomorrow!

#pixelfed

It's so beautiful to see masses of people switch to Mastodon / the fediverse. Big hope feels.