☀️ Solarpunk Adept 🌹 @adeptomega@sunbeam.city

Fundamentally, I believe that users should be able but not required to control traffic that enters and leaves their devices. This should be a fundamental right every person with a connected device should be allowed to excercise.

Corporate interests that increasingly have the loudest voice in these discussions don't seem to hold that view, and the long term prospects of internet users' safety and autonomy are increasingly worrying me

Repaired a large hole in my hoodie pocket! Trying to learn better how to maintain and repair things I own these days. Sewing for clothing repairs is going to be a big part of that. 💙

"hmm, the open office thing we're doing to save money is causing focus problems, what's the solution"
"put the cubicles back?"
"don't work employees for 8+ hour days?"
"horse blinders but for people?"
"YES. HORSE BLINDERS. joe i always knew you were the ideas guy around here"

https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/17/open-offices-have-driven-panasonic-to-make-horse-blinders-for-humans/

squeaks impatiently for brushie

Please RT, Boost, share this post (very close to hitting goal, thank you all my guardians)

*hugs you all* here is the gofundme link for my car crash if anyone can help me. I am scared to ask and humbled having doing so. thank you all for any and all help yall can provide in my dark days. https://www.gofundme.com/name-change-help-for-a-transgender

4th day boost. will be ending in a few days. anything helps including sharing.

love you all. thank you soooo much *one arm hugs softly everyone*

Bootlickers: We don't need #rightToRepair, #Apple et. al. would never stop us from repairing our devices!

Apple: https://boingboing.net/2018/10/04/welcome-bootlickers.html

also to sploot

Bodily autonomy should override intellectual property in all cases. If it can be shown beyond reasonable doubt that a piece of tech is essential to your continued survival (e.g. pacemakers, artificial hearts, insulin pumps), then you should be the only one who gets to say who can and can't audit its software and read the full technical documentation. The ability to access it yourself shouldn't be something you can waive by signing any contract, it should be fundamental and non-negotiable.

A young female welder adjusts her goggles, Groton, Connecticut, 1943. Photograph by Bernard Hoffman. https://t.co/GEYuKBjFQp