Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org

#lizwarren recognises that Rupe #murdoch profits from systematic and intentional breakdown of society -- something he contributed to in the #uk as well with #brexit https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/05/14/denouncing-fox-news-hate-profit-racket-warren-turns-down-town-hall-invite

Legend has it that Douglas Engelbart invented the mouse in 1968.

But did you know that German television manufacturer Telefunken released a "rolling-ball" device just a few months earlier?

From a technical perspective it actually closely resembles the kind of mouse that we ended up using until the late 90s.

The German patent office declined a patent due to a "lack of inventive step".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_mouse#Rollkugel

Julian Richer, owner of #British #hifi shop Richer Sounds is handing over the business to his employees 😎

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/may/14/richer-sounds-staff-julian-richer

Mobilizon : let’s finance a software to free our events from Facebook !

https://framablog.org/2019/05/14/mobilizon-lets-finance-a-software-to-free-our-events-from-facebook/ #Framablog #TootOuRien

We have less than 60 days to finance Mobilizon. Less than 60 days to promote our project of a free and federated alternative to Facebook events ; and to know how much we need to invest ourselves in it.

Change the software of the people who change the world?
From climate walks on …

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

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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