⛵️holly 🇺🇸➡️🇯🇵 @holly@v.st

Packed all the stuff.
Going #OFFDEM Brussels soon.

From the "Why":
“a growing discontent with the evolution of #FOSDEM: cultivating social grouping, accepting questionable sponsors that fail to address our concerns against surveillance capitalism.”
https://ps.zoethical.org/t/why-offdem/2867

Topics and Details
https://ps.zoethical.org/c/cooperation/offdem

Sat #activitypub
https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/socialhub-at-offdem/456/

If you're still on FB, you might check for what "off facebook activity" they've recorded on you: https://www.facebookcorewwwi.onion/off_facebook_activity

Matrix response to Moxie's blogpost on the "“The ecosystem is moving” as a reaction to his talk:

https://matrix.org/blog/2020/01/02/on-privacy-versus-freedom/

#federation #messaging #36c3

In the past, I’ve called out @fosdem for having Google as a sponsor: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/100974215641531155

So this year, they added Facebook also: https://fosdem.org/2020/about/sponsors/

FOSDEM is about open source, not freedom.

Why is this a problem? Read this: https://ar.al/2019/01/11/i-was-wrong-about-google-and-facebook-theres-nothing-wrong-with-them-so-say-we-all/

#fosdem #SurveillanceCapitalism

Really appreciating the accurate PDP-11 minicomputer racks in _Control_. Too bad you can't toggle in programs on the front panels.

Openstreetmap is reaching the point that it is just more information rich and beautiful than google maps and that is awesome

"For centuries, Islamic designers and craftsmen have made geometric patterns just by drawing straight lines and circles with a compass and straight edge... Tilemaker lets you build layers of lines and circles, mimicking their actions. As you experiment drawing different intersections of line segments and circles you will discover new patterns, just as they did!"

This (free) app is super fun and it seems it was created to share a bit of Islamic culture/history.

https://tilemaker.teachalmasdar.com/