Crypto anarchy in a nutshell:

"Technology doesn’t change what people want in the world, it just removes the use of violence to get there."
"We can either rail against the inevitable, or use these tools to build the world we want."

https://elaineou.com/2017/08/03/a-hundred-years-of-crypto-anarchy/

Turns out the operating system running on the new Nokia 8110 4G phones is a fork of FirefoxOS: https://www.kaiostech.com

It also turns out that the company behind it appears to already be in violation of B2G's license (MPL) by currently not providing the source code.

If you'd like to see location tagging in Mastodon (e.g. I'd love to have it for my photo posts), plz give this issue a thumbs-up: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/281

Meanwhile in India: http://m.dw.com/en/28-million-apply-for-90000-jobs-with-indias-railway-company/a-43203142

This is why I love Arch Linux:

Feb 23: IBM releases a great new open-source font called Plex.
Feb 26: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ibm-plex-fonts

Same procedure as every year: http://shouldipanicsell.com

Anyone knows if it's possible to hide or change the "owner" etc. labels shown next to users' names in GitHub comment headers? I think it sends the wrong message when an org owner is shown as repo owner of a repo that is actually owned/managed by a community member.

Kind of in the mood for using floppy diskettes now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNiuassKZvA

Hey Mozilla, how about you switch your employees' email, calendars, chats, and whatever else from Google and other proprietary, privacy-invading services to self-hosted OSS products first, and *then* send me emails asking me to sign some anti-Facebook petition?

It boggles my mind that so many blockchain/DLT advocates publish blog posts on Medium and use Twitter over Mastodon. You can always do both, but why not do decentralized Web first and sync to central silos second?

Huh, I had totally missed that Wire pivoted from personal messaging to business team chat platform: https://wire.com/

The timing of this concerted anti-Facebook campaign is rather interesting. FB recently changed the timeline algos to contain much more actual social content from friends and family, and I see hardly any propagandistic political links anymore. Twitter otoh is worse than ever.

If you tried to switch to Mastodon in the past, but found yourself lost in the fediverse, here's a great writeup for you: https://theoutline.com/post/2689/mastodon-makes-the-internet-feel-like-home-again?zd=1&zi=uiatp7...