Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

@Cindyjosaitis
We will never have a successful economy until the pandemic is under control.

That's all there is to it.

If people will not comply with masks and so on, shutdowns will continue.

What we need is direct cash to people in pandemic relief and help to businesses and proprietors who really need it. Almost a year of foot-dragging and bailing out their friends by Capitol Hill Republicans has done nothing but make this worse.

Republicans are also at fault for not properly funding state unemployment systems.

LibreOffice tip of the day: Create fillable form documents (even PDFs) with LibreOffice. https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-create-interactive-pdfs-with-libreoffice/

Thanks @zleap for your support to education as you reshared my #Classroom post.

Classroom Learning Platform with Telegram & Jitsi (1)

Let me share with you. I open an computer course online in Indonesia. Here's how it looks like today.

#FreeSoftware #Telegram #Jitsi #Classroom

Amazing, thanks @selea @silwol for resharing my #Messengers poll. It's 1 day left and almost 900 people participating already (and still counting!). #Signal leading currently with #XMPP being praised a lot here as alternative. Let's share Free Software more!

i know everyone made fun of that drawing of one of the characters as a baby because it was janky, but honestly seeing art mistakes in games is super inspiring to me and when i played it i remember being like "oh, you can still make cool things without being perfect, maybe what i make can be worthwhile too"

idk i just feel like it's cool to let artists be human and not perfect, even when it's like a product you're buying

@gamliel @ademalsasa I used Pidgin in the 2000s & it was great. But development in terms of XMPP really fell behind when it accelerated in the 2010s. If it works for you, fine, but expect compatibility problems especially in terms of OMEMO and a lack of important features. Btw Gajim for example allows bridging to IRC so can join IRC chats.

@humanetech @cwebber @rhiaro I'm making real groups in #Smithereen right now. This is what they presently look like in the UI. A warning though: this implementation will be mostly incompatible with the existing microblogging software. You will be able to join and leave them but not much else.