Call me when someone goes to prison. Until then, we have to assume they'll get away with a fine (a.k.a. taxes on their fraud, a.k.a. the state participating in it after the fact), as usual. https://
"Verdict: The Surface Laptop is not a laptop. It’s a glue-filled monstrosity. There is nothing about it that is upgradable or long-lasting, and it literally can’t be opened without destroying it. (Show us the procedure, Microsoft, we’d love to be wrong.)" https://
The city of Cologne is counting cyclists in various hotspots, and publishing the live data: http://
"E.U. member states today agreed on an ambitious new open-access (OA) target. All scientific papers should be freely available by 2020, the Competitiveness Council—a gathering of ministers of science, innovation, trade, and industry—concluded after a 2-day meeting in Brussels."
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9 years in, there's apparently still nobody at GitHub who wants to render 72-character-line Git commit messages without breaking them apart.
Sending and receiving OMEMO-encrypted messages across Conversations and Pidgin now, thanks to Germán's research and experimental libpurple plugin: https://
"Today’s release completes Firefox’s transformation into a fully multi-process browser": https://
Every car should have a "courtesy horn". Or two. So much road rage is just stemming from missing means of communication. It's as if you were navigating a crowd on foot and instead of a friendly "excuse me" you could only ever shout angrily at everyone around you. https://
Success: In addition to clothing, I could even fit a sleeping bag in the main compartment of my 25L backpack for this trip. #nomadlife
"Where's your bag?"
"This is all I have."
"Ok, put it on the belt... and now, where's your actual bag?"
... according to https://
Tonight at the Berlin XMPP Meetup: "Germán Márquez Mejía introduces the end-to-end encryption technology “OMEMO” and his implementation for libpurple."
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Sternfahrt Berlin was rad. Tens of thousands of cyclists, awesome custom bikes, riding through the city and on the Autobahn, all in perfect weather.
Tomorrow Berlin will see the biggest bicycle demo ever. Here's where and when you can bring your wheels and join: http://
I'll be in PDX for two weeks from next Thursday on. Visiting friends, going camping, attending IndieWebSummit, and hitting the taprooms. \o/
Just submitted a new ESTA application, and it's "under review" now (as opposed to having been granted right away last time). Wish me luck!
... no more complaining about GPGTools not working with new macOS/Mail.app versions, if you didn't throw in some bucks!
If you use GnuPG at all, you can support the development of GPG core, as well as GPGTools and Enigmail, all at once: https://
A star (about 25 times the mass of our sun) went missing. Where did it go? https://
Btw, Kosmos Kredits are coming along nicely, meaning we'll also have a transparent, decentralized way to sustainably fund community infra.