Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org

Sinn Fein in N #Ireland has urged voters to use the May 23 #EU election to register their rejection of #Brexit. Comments of Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-48260047

How did the scam of "Brexit Party" get my name and address? Is #cambridgeanalytica buying info? Also, they pretend to be giving ballots or something; misidentifying their spam. Illegal? Maybe. Disgusting, just like #brexit

#FreeSoftware has a lot of potential in the developing world.

In rural India, 12 villages use #FreedomBox to host free digital services. Activists have re-purposed old computers into FreedomBoxes, mounted them on posts, and served entire villages with free wi-fi and digital services.

These rural #FreedomBox networks got covered in the Times of India.

READ: ‘Every old computer is a potential server that can bring Internet connectivity to an entire village’

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/events/hyderabad/every-old-computer-is-a-potential-server-that-can-bring-internet-connectivity-to-an-entire-village/articleshow/67833580.cms

peak tech up at google I/O where in a slide from a presentation about machine translation, apparently nobody can be bothered to translate the word "German", as in the language right (it's "Deutsch", not "Deutsche") and apparently the Indonesian in there ("bahasa") just translates to "Language", like not the Indonesian language, just any language.

Jeff Bezos made $50,000,000,000 last year, or about 2.5 million times his Amazon employees.

But no, let's blame average Americans for getting haircuts and eating at restaurants for humanitarian crisis-level lack of access to basic necessities like healthcare, affordable housing, food, non-lead-filled water, education, childcare, etc..

Fuck off.

A good writeup on the right-to-repair movement, focusing on Jessa Jones, a stay-at-home mom who taught herself to fix phone and tablet motherboards after her kids flushed a new iPhone down the toilet.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/may/08/sidestepping-apple-the-third-party-tinkerers-fighting-for-your-right-to-repair

#subscribetoipadrehab

How to #clean your #ears | Life and style | The Guardian

The advice is basically, don’t.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/may/05/how-to-clean-your-ears

#Health #Hygiene

"At the forthcoming European Elections, every #UK #Labour candidate favours a second #brexit referendum and would vote Remain. Add in the sentence handed down to Julian #Assange , and it is time to send a message." https://off-guardian.org/2019/05/03/send-labour-a-message-vote-brexit-vote-galloway/

#brexit means #gmo #cancer and #chlorine inside your food -- things that #eu forbids for health reasons https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/05/03/post-brexit-farming-glyphosate-and-gmos/ @glynmoody

The country's worst Prime Minister in recent history, owing to her #brexit insistence, has decimated her party. https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/05/03/uk-conservatives-lose-over-1200-local-seats-local-elections #uk

#Biodiversity #crisis is about to put #humanity at risk, #UN scientists to warn | #Environment | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/03/climate-crisis-is-about-to-put-humanity-at-risk-un-scientists-warn

This isn't quite the bug report I wanted to wake up to:

All Firefox extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert on 2019-05-04:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548973

@iankenway I'm not sure a casual survey outweighs an official national vote. While that **may** be true it is hardly a lie to cite the sentiments on a national vote, though it is a good reason to encourage a revote.