goran @goran@oour.org

Always program like you have 1kb of ram

In case you have a study loan in the USA.

There. I said it.

I lol'd

Explanation: the entire Burger King and Taco Bell chains in Finland (as well as some other national restaurant chains) are owned and operated by a cooperative which is run by the Left alliance (descendant of the old Communist party), and funds them as well as various other socialist and marxist activities

TIL about https://lichess.org/ , one of the world's most popular chess servers, run entirely on free software by a nonprofit, ad-free, supported by donations with a budget of ~$420K/year according to https://lichess.org/costs

They've been around since 2010.

As awesome as this is to see, imagine how many free/open nonprofit alternatives to Big Tech platforms would exist if, down to the municipal level, we decided to support them with funding & infrastructure.

Find out how good you are at placing historical events in the right order with this cool new game based on Wikidata's data:

https://wikitrivia.tomjwatson.com/

This is awesome!

When I see "we care about your privacy" I get a weird creepy vibe from it.

Like, why? Why the hell do you care about my privacy? What business of yours is my privacy?

Why don't you go ahead and care about something else? My privacy was just fine before you started "caring" for it.

Capitalists: Capitalism is the most efficient economic system ever devised

Also capitalists: “Lufthansa confirmed that 18,000 flights had been flown empty to keep slots”

how come the retort is always "if you don't want companies using your code, don't release it as free" and never "if you don't want your code to break, don't pull code from an internet rando"

tfw Mozilla goes in on crypto nonsense, and the original creators of the Firefox browser call them out on their bullshit.

I'm still looking for a #coop in Europe to join as a software developer.
Can anyone recommend one, or know of a co-op directory of sorts? Or maybe you're setting up a co-op and like an extra pair of hands to make it happen?

Boosts welcome!

Over 170 people, projects, and organisations have signed the web0 manifesto since last night…

https://web0.small-web.org

…how about you?

#web0

Trickle-down economics is the theory that if I eat both my lunch and your lunch, this will somehow eventually prove nutritious for you too.

(It’s the lie we tell starving people to keep them from slitting our throats.)

E-mails stored on US servers for over 180 days are considered abandoned and can be viewed by law enforcement without warrants under the ECPA.
All that is required to obtain the content of the emails by a law enforcement agency is a written statement certifying that the information is relevant to an investigation, without judicial review.

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I need privacy. Not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are.