I changed my avatar!
I was this guy before:
Another important take-away from my meetings already: calling MEPs is way more effective than e-mailing them.
E-mailing MEPs with a standard e-mail from a template can actually be counter-productive.
If you can, please *call* your MEPs. You can find your MEP here:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/map.html
If you'd rather e-mail, please write two-three paragraphs in your own words, from your e-mail address. Even if it's not as slick as the template, it will work way better!
This is what could happen if the European copyright law is approved tomorrow.
And it is fucking freaking.
Wikipedia has gone dark today in Spain :(
Instead of the normal articles, a note informing about the European Parliament vote that will be held tomorrow is shown.
We can do these things in parallel, and we can take the various victories we can get, and we won't know on which track they will come. But they will add up.
I find a lot of my disagreements with fellow activists are about "X is *more important* than Y for winning our cause". Usually they aren't mutually exclusive, and to really win, we usually need X *and* Y. To get there, we need a diverse set of contributor types and to value all.
I'm in Strasbourg, lobbying hard. Updates soon, but was able to talk to Axel Voss, the main guy behind the current (bad) versions of #Art11 and #Art13. Doing my best to #SaveYourInternet.
Lessons from today:
- Pro-Art11/Art13 MEPs do not know how copyright law works (no surprises there, the copyright law is a mess!)
- Wikimedia Commons is a very good example of a service that could suffer very much.
- As during #ACTA, MEPs are not entirely against sitting down and discussing the issues.
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My usual method: describe what I'm doing in the middle of the source code I'm touching, but do not comment out the description. Monday morning I come in, hit compile, and get a bunch of errors in all the places I was working on on Friday. Works like a charm! 👌
Last friday, before leaving the office, I left myself a message in an unpushed commit with the ideas I was trying to implement. Now I'm really proud of my past self.
The #bookshop kobo.com sells lots of non-DRM eBooks!
However, they also sell lots of DRM eBooks, all mixed together with the non-DRM, and no filter to sort them out
This makes it very difficult to look for non-DRM books on #Kobo.
So, to solve this problem switching.social presents the Unofficial Kobo Search page, which lets you find non-DRM books available on your country's Kobo site:
https://switching.social/unofficial-kobo-search/
Any feedback very welcome.
I love this project: a riverbed in Amsterdam was drained and the ~700,000 found objects dating from the 1300s to present were photographed and presented online:
#Commons Camp 2018
from 22 to 26 August 2018 in Grenoble - France
The CommonsCamp aims to create a meeting place for French and European activists, commoners and municipalists for the transition based on the commons. in France and Europe.
More info here: https://frama.link/commonscamp2018-en
Sign-up here: https://ue2018.org/ (in French)
Every big city will have the same shops, the same cafés, the same food, the same drinks... It makes me really sad :_(
The first Starbucks in Granada has just opened and it is next to the most famous and traditional ice-cream parlour in the city, Los Italianos. It is frustrating and sad :(
Good morning.
I just had a dream where I had to type a number but NumLock was off and I got garbage in my terminal instead.
Even in my sleep.
EVEN IN MY SLEEP.
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Small watercolor and pen fox! #art
@xiroux Nay. It is not inclusive, makes implicit assumptions about the audience.