Notices by Adonay Felipe Nogueira (adfeno@ecodigital.social), page 151

GitHub now offers unlimited private repositories on its unpaid, regular accounts: https://blog.github.com/changelog/, https://github.com/pricing

This is nice, sure, but: If at all possible, please consider using other services – your local hackerspace might have a git server, or people around here might open theirs to you if you ask – or you could host it yourself, if you have the capability and resources. #git #github

#ActivityPub implementors please ping me if you have not been invited to the preparation discussion for the AP round table at #FOSDEM2019

boosts appreciated. Direct invitation from people already there most appreciated :)

Okay... The public Internet is gone.

Good, one less shitty site to read and waste my time on.

This year Conservancy brought in seven new member projects—four that help free software developers write more great free software and three that help introduce new people to free software. Help us keep growing in 2019! https://sfconservancy.org/news/2018/nov/20/90k-donation-match/

A quick example of developing with #TLS (#HTTPS) on #localhost without certificate errors using mkcert:

https://source.ind.ie/hypha/spikes/deployment-1#simple-tls

(Part of the #Hypha Deployment 1 Spike: https://ar.al/2019/01/05/hypha-spike-deployment-1/)

@AmarOk do you know what's happening with the #Ring #PPA with the name change to #Jami? Do I need to change to a new PPA? If so, do I need to uninstall, and reinstall?

Oh wow, Steve Klabnik (author of #theRustProgrammingLangauge book and #rust core team member) is leaving Mozilla. https://words.steveklabnik.com/thank-u-next

Key quote:
> I could say a lot of things here, but I won’t get into the details. What’s really important is this: I’m not proud to be a Mozillian anymore.

I've heard some negative things about Mozilla lately, but this is something that personally moves the needle in a anti-mozilla direction more than, e.g., ads on the new-tab page

FOSDEM is kept free as in beer also by the community helping out, please help us by volunteering https://volunteers.fosdem.org/

#ProTip before you start a long session online, put an album of music on. Not a playlist, just one album. Ideally one about 40-45 minutes long. When that album finishes, the sudden silence gives you a "kick" (like in #Inception) that lets you know you've been online for a long time, and it's time to take a break.

'#Google used a “Double Irish” with a “Dutch Sandwich” structure to steer its international profits away from higher tax jurisdictions.'
In 4 years, it's equivalent to the #GDP of #Slovenia. https://news.bloombergtax.com/transfer-pricing/google-cuts-taxes-by-shifting-billions-to-bermudaagain

Internet slowed to 150kbps.

Checked all the mac addresses connected. Found one I didn't recognise.

Removed it. Later Internet returned to normal - it was an unrelated fault. But it still bothered me until this morning what that other address was, until I plugged something back in.

The roomba has wireless. Little fucker.

wow, this is a new one

if you need my “personal data” to pay your staff then you need to find a more ethical fucking business model

Google moved 19.9 billion euros ($22.7 billion) through a Dutch shell company to Bermuda in 2017, as part of an arrangement that allows it to reduce its foreign tax bill, according to documents filed at the Dutch Chamber of Commerce.

... The subsidiary in the Netherlands is used to shift revenue from royalties earned outside the United States to Google Ireland Holdings, an affiliate based in Bermuda, where companies pay no income tax.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-taxes-netherlands/google-shifted-23-billion-to-tax-haven-bermuda-in-2017-filing-idUSKCN1OX1G9

#TaxEvasion #Theft #FuckOffGoogle

> In their writing on homelessness, social psychologist Devon Price has said that "laziness,” at least in the way most of us generally conceive of it, simply does not exist. “If a person’s behavior doesn’t make sense to you,” they write, “it is because you are missing a part of their context. It’s that simple.”
- Anne Helen Petersen
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/anneh