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If you are arranging an event, especially one that is a bit techie, and you have the ability to: please, please create an #ical file for people to add it to their calendars! (Looking at you #open2018 ๐Ÿ‘๏ธ )

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The #bookshop kobo.com sells lots of non-DRM eBooks! :blobaww:

However, they also sell lots of DRM eBooks, all mixed together with the non-DRM, and no filter to sort them out :blobcry:

This makes it very difficult to look for non-DRM books on #Kobo.

So, to solve this problem switching.social presents the Unofficial Kobo Search page, which lets you find non-DRM books available on your country's Kobo site:

switching.social/unofficial-ko

Any feedback very welcome.

#eBook #eBooks #Books #DRM

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Yeah, that's still a terrifying violation of our privacy.

This is evil.

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I wonder if someday people will learn about historical corporate acquisitions and mergers the same way we learn about the wars and invasions of empires and nation states today.

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uspol, whiteness, cnn Show more

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The other afternoon I saw a dragon in the sky at sunset, but only had my phone with me to catch it.

Turnout at the march today was way too small.

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I've wrote a blogpost sharing an idea about:

''curating content challenging antipatterns effecting comunication and culture within the fediverse'

How can we make it inclusive as possible?
How can power dynamics that acure from:
- louder voice, higher reach, more chatty..
- some having more informations what topic is discussed where, while others don't and by that can't participate

And how can suggestions to those answers be implemented within the fediverse?
here:
frama.link/ecU9kMS2

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#deletefacebook Today is the day.

From now on my only social media account is on :mastodon:

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pol, centralism Show more

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This article is unbelievably awful, but fun because of how wrong it is.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-new-tech-avengers-1530285064

TL;DR Industry insiders aren't going to save anyone from anything. Tweaking around with "screen time" or interface design or adding extra "street cred" from a younger generation doesn't address any of the real problems with Sillicon Valley.

If any of these rich morons were actually sincere they would have to abandon their business models and start again with federated and distributed systems with no data concentration. But of course they're not going to do that.
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"These days every geek has an ICO white paper in their hands and they're pushing (their algorithm). More than half of them are broken," Sirer said. Sirer's team at Cornell is developing a green blockchain algorithm called proof-of-useful work, in which the next computer to validate a block and collect new coins is chosen based on energy expended performing a useful function in the real world."

An interesting idea, that's for sure.

cnbc.com/2018/02/23/bitcoin-bl

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Caffeine would be illegal if it didn't have thousands of years of western usage

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"Both Bitcoin and Ethereum mining are very centralized, with the top four miners in Bitcoin and the top three miners in Ethereum controlling more than 50% of the hash rate.
The entire blockchain for both systems is determined by fewer than 20 mining entities."

In other words: decentralization in the crypto space is a myth, just as it is a myth that cryptos are currencies at all.

hackingdistributed.com/2018/01

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What we really need is a federated GitHub/GitLab

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What's the decentralized state-of-the-art for organizing and promoting an #event without #facebook?

(Trying to organize some free events in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Venue organizers largely non-responsive through email.)

#ical #caldav #posse #activitypub

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Publish your own reports, photos, video, and/or audio from any and all ICE protests on Indybay. Support anti-corporate, anti-oppression independent media. Tell a friend.
indybay.org/publish.php
Make Media. Make Trouble.
#AbolishICE #OccupyICE

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VERY spicy take Show more