Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

Computers should be simple, because the simpler the computer is, the easier it is to program, and the easier it is to program, more people can program it.

Being able to program your own computer is like a superpower. Not only can you make the computer do what *you* want and need it to do, but you also sever the dependencies which constrain what is possible and bind you to external systems and their unchecked complexity.

I know people say they don’t want to write their own software, but I try to ask why. Often the reasons have less to do with writing software and more to do with a tech industry that wants to keep selling them things.

But if you go back and look closely at the humble 8-bit micros of the late 70’s and early 80’s you’ll see a wide range of machines that shipped with everything you needed to program them, and as a result millions of people learned how and wrote the most diverse range of applications ever known. Perhaps even more miraculous, most of them were compatible with different computers and shareable via any conceivable communications medium (print, tape, vinyl, radio, etc.)

It’s hard to concisely explain how powerful this is. I’ll probably write a lot more about this when I’m out west.

The I2P network is proving its ability to keep people in countries facing information restrictions connected. We are learning more about how people want to use the network everyday.

People mirror and make accessible internet properties that may be censored, allowing access to news and services. It is a place where people can make available privacy tools that may otherwise be restricted, or put a person at risk when accessing them on the internet.

Hello friends, today we’re launching https://cooperative.computer !

It’s like dGaaS (De-Googling as a Service). Nextcloud files storage, contacts and calendar syncing and a Matrix account all for £3 per month.

- No ads
- No data mining
- No BS

AND THAT’S NOT ALL! Don’t like it? Change it! Cooperative.computer will eventually be its own cooperative where the members decide how it’s run.

Come talk to us on Matrix today! Operators are standing-by. https://matrix.to/#/#general:cooperative.computer

☁️ 💦ISSUE 03: Water Bodies 💦☁️

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ever since I started being a scientist I have been continually gobsmacked at how we are suckers for literally every scam, and the effect of all those scams defines the daily practice of science from front to back. I don't think I'll ever stop being mystified at how people can decide that being mandated to straight transfer like a 5th of every grant to the worst companies in the world is just not relevant to them.

"it's not my job, I just do the science, and every part of how I do the science is kneecapped by my decision that it isn't my job"

I have heard the arguments about precarity and unevenness of expertise and so on and so forth, but almost all of that is itself a symptom of our failure to take responsibility for the political-economic circumstances of our work

we didn't think it was important to be active in our unions to resist neoliberalizing universities. great now you get paid just enough to choose between eating and rent.

we didn't think it was important to rebuild healthy communication systems. billions of dollars later, we funded the surveillance conglomerates that power ICE, own the process by which our work is evaluated and how we maintain our jobs, and make all of our publicly funded research either unavailable to 99.9999% of the world or else subject to a pay-for-prestige APC model designed to reward playing along with a healthy dose of Matthew effects.

and now the infrastructure to support the Nelson Memo's mandate for #OpenData is not our problem. I can't wait to give Amazon total control over scientific data and a brand new shiny revenue stream that never goes down

anyway since capital is like increasingly operationalized as stuff like logistics, intellectual property, attention, and surveillance, i think it would be cool if we started including stuff like communications mediums, databases, and informational organizational systems in "the means of production" when ppl talk about seizing them.

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