20 days left to contribute to @bonfire ! Let's help fund the #Fediverse and support some #Developers so they can keep investing in US!

https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/bonfire/community

Something I have difficulty explaining but is critical is spending time learning things that are not useful. I spent so much of my early career learning things that would never be useful. They were dead ends.

But they were not. They were contextual and it all comes back in the end. And you just have to live your life to see how it does. That isn't a satisfying answer. But I'm so glad I wasted so much time.

Recent discussion about the perils of doors in gamedev reminded me of a bug caused by a door in a game you may have heard of called "Half Life 2". Are you sitting comfortably? Then I shall begin.

Rückschritt in der Landesverfassung Schleswig-Holstein:
Jetzt doch mit Digitalzwang?

Bisher war die Verfassung in einem Punkt wegweisend: Niemand darf diskriminiert werden, weil er oder sie keinen digitalen Zugang nutzen kann oder möchte.

Genau dieser Schutz soll nun gestrichen werden. Diese Verfassungsänderung geht in die vollkommen falsche Richtung. Der Landtag will den bisherigen Artikel 14 Absatz 2 der #LandesverfassungSH ändern und damit das Recht auf analogen Zugang zu Behörden und Gerichten streichen. Künftig soll nur noch der „digitale Zugang“ garantiert werden.

Damit würde #Digitalzwang Verfassungsrang bekommen. Wer keinen #Internetzugang hat oder Geräte oder Apps aus guten Gründen nicht nutzen möchte, könnte künftig von der gesellschaftlichen #Teilhabe ausgeschlossen werden.

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#SchleswigHolstein #Diskriminierung #LandtagSH #SHLandtag

#btw2025 #BundestagsWahl #Merz #Politik #KlimaPolitik #Migration #Demokratie #Protest #WirSindDieTöchter #widerspruchistpflicht #AntiFaschismus #Antifa #GegenRechts #NoNazis #NoAfD #AfDnee #AfDVerbot #MeinungsDiktatur #NoNazis #NazisRaus #NazisTöten #Faschismus #RechtsExtremismus
#LinkeGewalt

Instead of doing the game jam this time around, we've been making some interesting new demos! And here's GoblinShare: Secure, Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing with Goblins https://spritely.institute/news/goblinshare-secure-peer-to-peer-file-sharing-with-goblins.html

Combining Goblins, OCapN, and encrypted content addressed storage!

Back the campaign to unlock Federated Groups!

Self-governed groups with their own rules, roles & shared moderation across servers. Interoperable with PieFed, Mbin, Mobilizon, Friendica, etc.

Co-designed with @hci @hello and communities such as activist collectives and research organisations to reimagine groups when communities own their tools, can set rules, moderate spaces, and connect beyond single servers.

Support the effort: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bonfire/community?refcode=eOu_17hIxEy0HwX77wIfSA

#crowdfunding #fedigroups

And if you're wondering why I had not mentioned Ladybird, this is why:
https://hyperborea.org/reviews/software/ladybird-inclusivity/

As I'm bumbling around reading about @bonfire 's offerings and finding a way to play with it, I was reminded that Bonfire is the tech behind the pilot community at
https://openscience.network

Since that "flavour" of the Bonfire framework has been in action for a while, and I'm connecting up with academic and particularly climate science folks out on our webs today, I thought some of you might find it worth a look for escaping Google Scholar and various walled publication ecosystems.

boosts encouraged

fedi girl challenge: recommend me progressive/anti-fascist linux distributions

the only one i currently know of is elementary OS

thank you!

RE: https://indieweb.social/@bonfire/115554415257258646

We made a post + video about bringing gifting groups into the fediverse. Please boost if you like the idea 😊

https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/gifting-with-integrity-federated-digital-spaces-for-mutual-aid-networks/

I don't like to re-share contents, but a need is a need; we are at 80 percent of @bonfire campaign goal. This is a project we all should support. https://poliversity.it/@elettrona/115521896852354624

Die USA drängen auf direkten Zugriff auf EU-Polizei-Biometriedaten.
Fast alle EU-Staaten wollen ihr visafreies Reisen erhalten – doch der Preis wäre enorm: Zugang zu Fingerabdrücken, Gesichtsbildern und Identitätsdaten.
Im Rat gibt es massiven Streit: Einige Regierungen wollen klare Schranken, andere öffnen schon die Tür für automatisierte Abfragen. Ein Direktzugriff der USA auf EU-Datenbanken wäre ein Dammbruch.
Datenschutz, Rechtsgrundlagen, Menschenrechte: alles offen. Und die US-Frist 2026 ist unrealistisch.
Kurz: Die EU verhandelt gerade über den größten biometrischen Datenexport ihrer Geschichte – mit unklarem Ausgang.

https://www.heise.de/news/Viele-EU-Staaten-wollen-USA-Zugriff-auf-biometrische-Polizeidaten-erlauben-11077973.html

#Datenschutz #USA #BiometrischeDaten #Verrat #Totalitarismus

Meet @adrigen and Lee: Buy Nothing admins co-designing our Mutual Aid Networks stretch goal. Their video and article reveal why gifting communities need more than "Facebook groups but federated", they need infrastructure built for proximity, self-governance, and generosity.

Blog post: https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/federated-digital-spaces-for-mutual-aid-networks/

Back the campaign to unlock it: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bonfire/community?refcode=Xbp41jwEWUuzriwVD_Q0bQ
#crowdfunding #mutualaid

Cat's out of the bag:
FEX, an emulator I've been working on these past 4 years, is going to be part of the Steam Frame to bring x86 Windows games to an ARM Linux VR headset! 😊

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmKrKTwtukE&t=205s

Really happy to have been part of the journey and of the team that got FEX to where it is today. Can't wait for the release and community reception!

#steamframe

@M4x @bonfire Bonfire itself is not a social network, but a toolkit for building social networks. You can build *your* network to do anything you like, and it doesn't have to be like Mastodon if you don't want it to.

If I understand the intent, Bonfire will play nice with other #Fediverse places. So, more diversity and more resistance to corporate extraction of our private data and public spaces.

Personally, I'm very much looking forward to perhaps creating my own emoji-only social network 😁

Our friends at @bonfire need support. Did you already make a little contribution to their crowd funding campaign?

https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/bonfire/community

Bonfire is building a modular toolkit for communities with the decentralised, commons patterns at heart. Their suite helps you set up your group communication inside the fedi. Amazing what they already accomplished!

The have been advancing slowly but steadily. Now it's time for the next step...

Hier nur nochmal die Erinnerung daran, wie seit Dekaden ungebremst die Vermögensverteilung in D aussieht,
während die pseudochristl. Nepotisten tägl neue Pläne raushauen, euch für Diewirtschaft™ die Lohnfortzahlung im Krankheitsfall, das kleine Schon-Ersparte &blankes Existenzminimum im Armutsfall zu streichen, "Unnütze" doch bitte verrecken mögen &man Großkonzernen per Kollaboration mit Rechtsextremen im EP minimalste Sorgfaltspflicht geg. Kinderarbeit &Ausbeutung in Lieferketten erlässt.