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Cake day: June 15th, 2020

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  • Lots of great conversation here, I also work somewhere where this is required. If I didn’t need my phone for access to chat, I just wouldn’t use it for work. Alternatively, my phone has a work profile so I use that for any work related or non-FOSS apps. My IT guy even approved of my methods and said do the minimum and never more with tech.



  • I understand on a current technical side why this is not possible, but the post still has some merit in that misuse of original posts can lead to legal action.

    Right now, all content posted online is generally accepted as unlicensed, free to use however one pleases, works. This was fine at the beginning, but as the internet grew, control of one’s data increasingly got more difficult to control - once social media became the dominate form of communicating, it was all over.

    Early blogs still have copyrights posted on them that, legally, can be enforced and respected. So if each user was able to indicated in meta data their choices, with most defaulting probably to a free license, then there is some level of control returned to the user, regardless of protocol and how things get replicated on servers.

    Licenses include reproduction, and the way activitypub works can make that quite murky (its being republished on servers) but that is not all it covers.

    OP, I think this is a very interesting topic to discuss, thanks for bringing it up!


  • These kinds of lists always make me laugh, because it takes a very specific world view and experience and assumes all must be like that. Atomic Habit I do agree partially on, but you know two books that have recently changed my life? Certainly not on the list here.

    4,000 Weeks by Oliver Burkeman and The Little Book of Listening by Donna Duffey et. Al.

    As someone who feels outside the domimate traits of society, Sensitive: The Hidden Power and The Power of Quiet are also books that changed my life in that I am embracing my own traits and talents, rather than struggle to adopt those more commonly sought after.



  • "Home Depot said in a recent press release that it plans to make its gas-powered tools relatively obsolete in the next several years, instead replacing them with battery and electric powered upgrades.

    Most of its gas tools are outdoor equipment; think weedwackers, lawn mowers, leaf blowers, and trimmers. It aims to replace these with battery power by the end of 2028. At that point, Home Depot wants to see 85% of its outdoor lawn equipment sales to be driven by rechargeable battery power in the U.S. and Canada."

    If this is for rentals, I gotta say that’s a big win then for the environment.







  • So from my understanding, methane is produced solely in the decomposition of the matter, so yes it does bring down methane emissions. The second part about carbon is, from my understanding, just saying that, as plants do, remove carbon from the air and convert to oxygen.

    But I was actually coming here to check about lomi composting. Since moving I’ve had some trouble keeping up with composting since my city does not deal with waste from large apartment complexes, so no curbside composting. I have plants too so this actually might be helpful if I can find it used…