Chris Bol @chris@mastodon.chrisbol.nl

Hello, World!

This is the first blog post about Marmota, a distributed and Free Software alternative to Spotify (and by extension the majority of the music streaming services)

https://blog.marmota.nefixestrada.com/posts/weekly-1/

Boosts and feedback appreciated!

RT @openstreetmap
The humble "node". A basic element of our map data. As of today we have >5 ,000, 000, 000 of them! https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Node 

@djoerd @arjenpdevries

Zie:

Kamer kritisch over 'ondemocratische' brexit-noodwet - https://nos.nl/l/2268769

En dan:
Naomi Klein 's Shock Doctrine.

https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_shockdoctrine,_de_opkomst_van_rampenkapitalisme

A great explanation of what Solid is and how it would work https://ruben.verborgh.org/articles/redecentralizing-the-web/

Whoa, I just realized MIT has their own Mastodon instance! The future is now!

https://mastodon.mit.edu

Wikipedia cofounder: How and why I transitioned to Linux–how you can, too
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18949818
#hackernews #tech

Hey fediverse admins, have you made sure your instance is being counted by https://the-federation.info/ ? I love being able to respond with that stats site URL when people say "nobody uses federated social networks" elsewhere on the web :) It now counts nodes running any one of 36 server apps, across 9 federation protocols, including #OStatus, and #ActivityPub, reporting about 2 1/2 million users.

Any #activitypub projects that might be interested in this #funding?

https://nlnet.nl/news/2018/20181201-NGIZero.html

#nlnet

I was wrong about Google and Facebook: there’s nothing wrong with them (so say we all)

https://ar.al/2019/01/11/i-was-wrong-about-google-and-facebook-theres-nothing-wrong-with-them-so-say-we-all/

It’s always difficult admitting you’re wrong. But sometimes you have to in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. So, today, I admit that I was wrong about Google, Facebook, & surveillance capitalism in general being toxic for our human rights and democracy … it simply cannot be true given how they are endorsed by some of the most well-respected organisations in the world.

Adding @conservancy and “Copyleft Conference” to my personal list of surveillance capitalism whitewashers sponsored by Google and its ilk.

It’s not fucking rocket science, people. If you’re sponsored by the wolf, it’s highly unlikely that you’re working in the interests of the sheep.

#SurveillanceCapitalism

@bob @aral

This is similar to when Coca-cola sponsors nutrition studies.

"Nextcloud is a counter-model to typical cloud-solutions from big US vendors like Microsoft" says Der Spiegel in their article about why the German Federal Government chose #nextcloud as their secure file exchange solution.

http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/open-source-software-nextcloud-baut-die-bundescloud-a-1203261.html