Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

"Paying for things with money is praxis" how messed up have things gotten for this to make sense ffs

OpenFlexure is an open source laboratory-grade microscope used to diagnose malaria and cancer. In this interview Julian Stirling, one of the core developers, tells us how the project evolved from its academic roots to a diverse community of people who use it, build it, sell it, teach it & develop it.
OpenFlexure is manufactured in many places to build local capacity. The next step is medical device certification, a slow but worthwhile process.

https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250806-openflexure-interview.html

#NGI #NGI0 #openhardware

🐧 Finally, my new search software is finished
🐧 Twice as fast and user friendly as the corpo shit, but free and empowering and only contains useful information
🐧 This is going to change the world
🐧 I call it Andrew's New Userfriendly Search

Like, saying to your mate down the pub "Oh you should get on Jabber" versus "You should get on ecks em pee pee"

One of these words sounds like a thing for talking about whatever with your mates, the other sounds like a thing for bollocking around with config files so you can talk to other people who bollock around with config files about bollocking around with config files

The worker-owned cooperative technology consultancy @hypha.coop has been a long-time supporter of DWebYVR initiatives and we would love to thank them again for helping us with #DWebCampCascadia 🎉🎉🎉 dwebyvr.org/thanking-cam...

Hypha Co-op + DWeb Local-First...

the Linux-compatible tax package I switched to is
https://www.mytaxexpress.com/index24.html

It's a desktop app, not an online service. I don't really want to share my tax data with online services and their backing US cloud-services providers. So works for me.

It's CRA-certified. A list of CRA-certified packages is at

https://www.canada.ca/en/services/taxes/income-tax/personal-income-tax/how-file/tax-software/find-software.html

Someone here pointed me to that tax software months ago, so thank you, forgotten Mastonaut.

I used Intuit TurboTax for several years, until 2024, when I went looking for, and found, a certified, very affordable, Linux-compatible tax package, produced by a Canadian small business.

Intuit noticed I didn't buy TT this year, and emailed me a survey to try to understand why.

Completing that was a LOT of fun. Repeatedly explaining that yes, I bought it 15x in a row, not buying it because they're a US company with shit data privacy, & nothing is getting me back.

#elbowsup #Linux #Canada

SCAM ALERT

An elderly adult may go up to you and pinch your nose without your consent then claim to have stolen your nose

Do not attempt to pay them to reacquire your nose

They do not have your nose

Their supposed proof is just their thumb in between two of their fingers

Do not engage them
You still have possession of your nose

Someone on the internet is wrong, but, I must not be pedantic. Pedantry is the mind-killer. Pedantry is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the pedantry has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Is there a Fediverse alternative to Meetup? They are definitely following the bait-and-switch plan where they let you get used to a lot of no-pay features, then start charging for them (what Doctorow calls "enshittification"). A number of groups I'm in use Meetup, but the rising costs have us all looking for other platforms.

Any suggestions?