leinir @leinir@computerfairi.es

We are happy to let you know that 49 fantastic free and open source projects will receive NGI0 Core grants.

It's a wide variety of projects covering all 10 layers of the technology stack, from open hardware to applications.

But what unites them is they all contribute to alternatives and improvements to core internet architecture.

Together they are working on an open, resilient and trustworthy internet for all.

Come over and meet the projects! https://nlnet.nl/news/2024/20241003-announcing-Core-call.html

#NGI0 #NGI #FOSS

Mastodon, I need your help! Give me some fake facts about #raccoons for a dummy API I'm building

plz boost for reach 🦝

Can I tempt you to a story of transformation, injustice, war, and discovering your true identity? Join Rhys as he learns the world is not how he always understood, waking up in a new body with new struggles. #scifibooks #furryfiction

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I'm looking at a $20-25k bill for surgery mid next year. I'm not asking for donations, but please consider sharing this post and purchasing a book from the links below! Every sale is that little bit closer to my goal, so please consider helping out!

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My print books can be purchased through my website: https://www.jfrcoates.com/

Six years ago I had the idea to make an open source oscilloscope, a scope I wish I had when I started playing around with electronics. Three years ago it was a working proof of concept that I documented online, hoping I'd find people who were interested in making it happen. I did, and I can't express how grateful I am for it! Through our shared efforts, I'm so proud to announce that ThunderScope is finally ready for your lab bench: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eevengers/thunderscope

#terrypratchett

Quite some years ago, we brought the #OLPC AKA the 100$ laptop to Rwanda [1]. A surprising thing happened. The laptops were often without battery power in the morning. A thing that wasn’t anticipated. It had two reasons. One was the keyboard LED. It was used by the parents to have a light at home. The other was a bigger surprise. The parents used the mesh networking to discuss market prices for their produce. Fascinating. 1/3

[1] https://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Rwanda

I've seen the Ursula K LeGuin quote about capitalism going around, but to really appreciate it you have to know the context. The year is 2014. She has been given a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Awards. Neil Gaiman puts it on her neck in front of a crowd of booksellers who bankrolled the event, and it’s time to make a standard “thank you for this award, insert story here, something about diversity, blah blah blah” speech. She starts off doing just that, thanking her friends and fellow authors. Allis well. Then this old lady from Oregon looks her audience of executives dead inthe eye, and says “Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximize corporate profit and advertising revenue is not the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship* She rails against the reduction of her art to a commodity produced only for profit. She denounces publishers who overcharge libraries for their products and censor writers in favor of something “more profitable®. She specifically denounces Amazon and its business practices, knowing full well that her audience is filled with Amazon employees. And to cap it off, she warns them: “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words” Ursula K LeGuin got up in front of an audience of some of the most powerful people in publishing, was expected to give a trite and politically safe argument about literature, and instead told them directly “Your empire willfall. And | wil help it along"

#writer #LeGuin