Strange Attractor @strangeattractor@refactorcamp.org

'Open hardware and software to help communities measure and analyze pollution'

https://publiclab.org/

This is really cool.

A breakthrough in the right to repair movement sees it to be legal for people to #hack and bypass #DRM protecting firmware. Big win I'd say #infosec #security #privacy https://gizmodo.com/its-now-legal-to-hack-drm-to-repair-your-own-devices-1830002757/amp

@Elmkast Historical reenactment of the toot in question:

Have some more portuguese music: Moonspell - Os Senhores da Guerra
https://youtu.be/mqyyeI0b29Q

José Cid - O Caos
https://youtu.be/13s4NdT3lhs

Valete - À Noite
https://youtu.be/D52Vbu3g15E

Funny how identity variables change in their ranked importance over time as you age. Looks, intelligence, gender identity, sexual orientation, and race are probably the top 5 in that order when you’re young. By 40, they recede into the background and barely break the top 10. The top 5 at 40 are likely major highly personal life-story-defining battle scars (both honorable and shameful). The next 5 are probably wealth/class identity, health identity, home ownership, parenthood, eldercare provider

Remember when I said I want to help get out the vote, but I can't easily travel to volunteer since I have a toddler?

2 initiatives I found:

http://progcode.org/ open source get-out-the-vote tools, and other organizing tools that are looking for developers to fix tickets!

http://www.votefwd.org/ handwriting letters to voters who might not otherwise vote, is a shockingly effective intervention according to their trial

Going to try to do as much as possible of these in the last few weeks!

@strangeattractor In the Chemokine Nomenclature Subcommittee of the International Union of Immunological Societies we trust.

Here's a fun TIL: Because the ratio of terms in the Fibonacci sequence approaches phi, and because phi is close to the ratio of km to miles, you can approximate conversion between distances with adjacent Fibonacci numbers.

So 2 km ≈ 1 mile, 3 km ≈ 2 miles, 5 km ≈ 3 miles, 8 km ≈ 5 miles, 13 km ≈ 8 miles, etc, etc

Tired: brutalist architecture
Wired: brutalist architecture consumed by plants

random midday disco band in the street == classic Montreal

OK, is there a food and cooking-based instance yet, please?

I think toots would be excellent for sharing short recipes.

Looking for more sources of audio/visual material in #publicdomain or #CreativeCommons or licenses giving similar freedom for creative (re)use.
Other than the 'classics' wikimedia, archive.org, ccsearch, openclipart, gutenberg.org, librivox, freemusicarchive, fontlibrary, freesound

Retoot to write a list together!

For the #OpenDesignCourse for refugees, starting on Monday.

The developers of the #Mastodon appsneed to step up their #accessibility. I'll try to file a few issues but don't wait for me. Label those buttons! Let me know if you would like me to test any updates. Let's make Mastodon usable by everyone!

https://refactorcamp.org/media/cgVddn1bgf7ZcwiaMK0