With the UK’s 6,815 co-ops employing 226,000 people, the co-operative sector employs 0.7% of the UK’s workforce, making it a significant player in the economy.
Open source is an excellent example of how something that does not directly increase GNP can fuel real prosperity[…] It is a stunning example of how both the market and the state can be bypassed by cooperative creativity. The barrier between user and provider is eroded; a direct agreement between society members is maintained… Marx would have been a Firefox user.
Upstream, makers of great podcasts on alternative economies, need some new gear to make the podcast. Help them out if you can spare something: https://www.generosity.com/education-fundraising/upstream-needs-new-equipment-urgently
The pro-capitalism argument of ‘look at these things that it has achieved’ is based on the assumption that these things couldn’t have been achieved under any other system.
I used snap for the first time today, while setting up a demo nextcloud server. All dependencies in one bundle, it was incredibly simple. Has anyone else used it, is there a catch? (aside from the wasted disk space from not sharing dependencies) Pros/cons?
We did a radio show discussing the thoughts raised by our visit to The Glassroom and the idea of a data detox.
https://soundcloud.com/restart-project-1/restart-radio-5-december-2017
I’m quite tempted by fed.brid.gy (turning your indieweb site into a first class citizen of the fediverse, basically become your own instance), but I really like being part of the #socialcoop instance. I only really actively look at the local timeline (and passively I see a bunch of interesting stuff from elsewhere that gets boosted). Would be a shame to lose that.
Our team away afternoon at the start of November was a trip to The Glassroom, a ‘pop up tech store with a twist’. It was set up in a space in central London, by Mozilla and the Tactical Technology Collective, and upon entering it looks pretty similar to an Apple store. Cool white colours and ‘products’ on pedestals, even a Genius bar (though here named the Ingenius bar).
The topics of the exhibit were personal data, personal data security, and privacy. It’s purpose was to get us thinking about the kind of information that is stored about us online, who owns that data, and what they are doing with it.
We don’t need you to type at all. We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about.
— Eric Schmidt, when he was CEO of Google
Going to start doing the 8 Day Data Detox (https://datadetox.myshadow.org/detox), should be interesting to find out what data I’m inadvertently leaking online.
Can’t wait for PeerTube to become a thing. I get antsy everytime I watch something on YouTube.