Steven Roose @stevenroose@x0f.org
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@nitox I've been an environmentalist longer than I've been a Bitcoiner and I firmly believe #Bitcoin can be part of the solution of #ClimateChange. One of the big driving forces for our environmental issues are the consumption economy, an economy of evergrowing corporations and unlimited borrowing, and a political environment of big monopolies protected by politics through lobbying.
Bitcoin solves the former and while doing that, it reduces the power of government, taking a shot at the latter.
Steven Roose
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NLNet @NGIZero has approved funding for #ForgeFed !
There are many potential tasks and related projects that haven't been taken by anyone yet. This is an amazing chance to get funded for working on an awesome free software and decentralized internet project!
ForgeFed work and funding plan: https://notabug.org/peers/forgefed/issues/87
If there's a task you'd like to grab/suggest/discuss, please comment here 🙂
Oh btw our first spec draft release is coming soon 😍😍😍
--fr33
Steven Roose
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Further on the topic of how broken this all is (hackernews thread is interesting but so is birdsite one):
Curious piece of history about tobacco being used as money in the 17th century..
RT @JoanieLemercier@twitter.com
Dear @tobyheaps@twitter.com,
I see you've listed #Autodesk as sustainable, while they operate the largest coal mine of Europe and emit 270.000 tons of CO2 per day.
Gain credibility, remove @autodesk@twitter.com.
https://twitter.com/JoanieLemercier/status/1218861252178579456
People keep telling me they "need MS #Office for work because FOSS office sucks". I keep telling them #LibreOffice is good enough. I only use spreadsheets regularly, though.
Today I started working on some slides. Few slides in I'm missing the Text Formatting toolbar and eventually find it. However it disappears again whenever I click anything. Spent 10 mins trying to keep it to stay there. I can't.
This has nothing to do with lack of resources. This is just poor design. And it makes me sad.
Steven Roose
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RT @accessnow@twitter.com
If .ORG is sold to a for-profit organization, sensitive data about registrants could be sold to repressive govts or the civil society space could be censored en masse without warning. Find out more on the potential risks & why we need to #SaveDotOrg 👉 https://www.accessnow.org/warning-proposed-sale-of-the-tld-puts-org-registrant-data-at-risk/ https://t.co/SGZBgBl9yI
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/accessnow/status/1219927599369084928
RT @evacide@twitter.com
Today is a good day to read the letter that the FBI sent to MLK, trying to convince him to kill himself: https://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/11/12/7204453/martin-luther-king-fbi-letter
@Fairphone Hello! This account is not mentioned on the #FairPhone home page. This means we can't verify that this is really the official FairPhone Fediverse handle. Kind request to make it possible for us to verify this.
Steven Roose
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RT @couragefound@twitter.com
"Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been denied access to evidence and even basic items like paper and pens by British prison officials, putting his US extradition case on the brink of judicial review"
https://au.news.yahoo.com/assange-denied-access-lawyers-uk-120109037--spt.html
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/couragefound/status/1217877517752832000
Steven Roose
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Mozilla just laid off 70 fantastic people. If you can help them - open positions, offering helpful conversations and references, anything else - please say so.
Use #MozillaLifeboat as an umbrella tag for easy finding. (It's already flowing on the birdsite.)
If you've been affected, I'm happy to chat directly. Also have some open positions (see rest of this thread). But doesn't have to be today - take time to recover if you can.
Most of all: thank you folks for making the web better.
Last words on Twitter of early Bitcoin developer Tamas Blummer who recently passed away.
Having been requested so in the week before his passing, I'm committed to continue the work on some of his Bitcoin projects! Especially Murmel and DefiAds are very interesting.
R.I.P.
RT @TamasBlummer@twitter.com
Happy birthday bitcoin. It has been exciting and enriching working for you for many years.
Steven Roose
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RT @withoutboats@twitter.com
Firefox market share vs Mozilla Foundation chair salary (2.5 million/year in 2018)
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/withoutboats/status/1217558588857544704
Last words on Twitter of early Bitcoin developer Tamas Blummer who recently passed away.
Having been requested so in the week before his passing, I'm committed to continue the work on some of his Bitcoin projects! Especially Murmur and DefiAds are very interesting.
R.I.P.
RT @TamasBlummer@twitter.com
Happy birthday bitcoin. It has been exciting and enriching working for you for many years.
Steven Roose
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**Scotland: Climate activists blockade Shell headquarters**
"Activists plan to shut down the oil giant's offices for the entire day."
Steven Roose
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Hey #MozillaLifeBoat,
The foundation that I work for, pep (pretty easy privacy), is looking to hire a bunch of developers. This includes my team, who is working on Sequoia, a new OpenPGP implementation. If you are interested in that, reach out to me directly!
Steven Roose
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I've been thinking that working on marketing for libre projects would be awesome!
Is there anyone on the fediverse I could talk to about getting a leg into that industry?
And I'm not talking about just drawings and illustrations but graphics, photoediting and videos, and finally ideas / marketing strategies.
I think I could be a great asset to projects out there.
Please share!
#linux #libre #foss #floss #opensource #libregames #mastoart #art #creative toots
Steven Roose
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"This is the future, I’m afraid. An automated future where no one actually knows how things work."
https://m.signalvnoise.com/i-went-to-see-a-movie-and-instead-i-saw-the-future/
RT @Blockstream@twitter.com
Today a 500 BTC peg-in was completed onto the #LiquidNetwork. This marks the largest peg-in to date & brings the total L-BTC in circulation to nearly 600 L-BTC.
To track L-BTC stats & other information about Liquid, check out our new stats site, http://Liquid.net. 🌊📈 🚀
