dermotjones.bsky.social
#FixingFactories Manager; Innovation and Development
Works at climate action charity wearepossible.org
Maker and Facilitator
I also draw, write, strum and sing a little too
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OsmAnd is great osmand.net
Based on the brilliant Open Street Maps project
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Firefox as your browser, with Duck Duck Go as search engine is a good Goog-free solution...also cuts out the the planet eating AI gobbledygook answer at the top...plus it's one less entity harvesting your every click
Googriddence to them
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Sadly it's by no means a comprehensive list
For starters add Labour being devoutly inside the AI bubble, the Online Safety Act, and demanding a backdoor in Apple encryption
But there's good stuff too... it's just a little swamped
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Across the world, across history, many politicians have managed to make huge profits...
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Need to replace your local neighbourhood WhatsApp with its nested communities to get away from the Metaverse?
Perhaps some development funding for Matrix/Element could spin up an even better version, and one that's shaped around your needs?
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With so much of our global software infrastructure built upon open source software - often developed by passionate people in their spare time, and so many vibrant neighborhood communities (Transition Towns etc) - now feels like a good time to connect those things together
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I woke up with 'monorail' in my head....and saw this a few minutes later
The Simpsons has been a major part of my education, clearly
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Ah, hadn't realised the poverty begging ones were bots...but makes sense
Weird to have so many fake Only Fans accounts following me...I guess they're trying to build followers and then change profile...if there's a plan at all
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Me too....I wouldn't be astonished to hear that the bot plague is being funded by a bad faith rival with first hand knowledge (I never had so many bot followers on Twitter - there was/is no reason for them to follow me)