Brant Gardner @bgardner@mastodon.sdf.org

If you can't fix it, you don't own it.

Repair:
- Is better than recycling
- Saves you money
- Teaches engineering
- Saves the planet

https://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto

I want to spend time on #emacs #orgmode again in 2020.

Will you help me secure free time by donating through https://liberapay.com/bzg or https://github.com/sponsors/bzg or https://paypal.me/bzg ?

Don't be afraid to give too much, it won't probably compensate for the hours spent !

🙃 🙏

#emacs #orgmode 9.3.1, a bugfix release, is out. Enjoy! https://orgmode.org

People need to know that they do NOT HAVE TO PAY for having a website, shell access, gopher site, free radio shows...
AND you do not have to pay by selling your soul and attention by advertizing!
Free - as in freedom/freespeech AND free as in free beer for decades are available at
https://sdf.org/ and at
https://tildeverse.org/
Yes, they solicit donations, but not ravenously upon your attention span.
You can have a website. You can be a radio DJ with a scheduled show!! Come on! Boost!

@SDF
Your Patron Lifetime Membership Level is a lifetime membership for only $36 one-time with all features of the 'users' account. That's much better then having Black Friday every day. Thank you! 😎🤗😇

https://sdf.org/?join

Some associated links:

Firefox Firefox Multi-Account Containers extension

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/

Electronic Frontier Foundation Privacy Badger

https://www.eff.org/privacybadger

While you are there, install HTTPS Everywhere to force SSL connections

https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere

There's a petition to Save the .org top level domain. Apparently, ICANN could still stop it from being sold.
https://savedotorg.org
I know, petitions rarely work, but I also know that _sometimes_ they do.
Please consider signing if you _run_ anything there, or if you _use_ or _care about_ anything that's on a .org domain. Also, boosting this to others who follow you, would be very much appreciated.
#SaveDotOrg

Linux terminal for beginners

#GeekHumour

Ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives

For facebook, twitter, gmail, yahoo, youtube, instagram, google play, google docs/calendar/maps, amazon books/kindle, ms windows, ms office, office, steam, minecraft, patreon, internet(!), grooveshark...
https://switching.software/

To everyone who still makes text-based tutorials, thank you!

I'd much rather follow a text tutorial than wait 15+ minutes for a video tutorial to load.

Your work is very much underappreciated. Thanks again! 💜

I think Wine (and emulators in general) are going to be key for keeping control of our computers from being wrestled away from us. Personal Computing (not just PCs but computing in general) is being subsumed by cloud providers and subscription models and I for one am not about to give up the idea of Personal Computing.

If there's anything that I've learned from 30+ years in computing is that corporate interests are never in the users long-term interests. Ever.

Big move from GNu maintainers: "We believe that Richard Stallman cannot represent all of GNU. We think it is now time for GNU maintainers to collectively decide about the organization of the project. The GNU Project we want to build is one that everyone can trust to defend their freedom."
http://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/joint-statement-on-the-gnu-project/

For me, retrocomputing is at least as much about "human-scale" technology as it is about nostalgia.

"Web-scale" is all about turning humans into a commodity, and I'm tired of being a commodity.

@codesections @schlink non-POSIX shells should *only* be used in interactive mode and should not be the basis of new shell scripts