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Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
@Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:

I discovered when I graduated from Computer Science I prefer people to programming.

I do stuff with @librecast a #HumanRights project masquerading as a FOSS project. Trans Rights are Human Rights.

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Been on the Fediverse since 2017

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@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... We've never had equal representation in Westminster or the EU for that matter.

When we were in the EU Scotland only had 5 MEPs.

I voted No in the Scottish Referendum in 2014. Mainly because I wanted Scotland to stay in Europe. So despite now living in France, I still have family in Scotland. I'm no longer legally a European. Scotland as a whole voted to stay in the EU. That's not equal representation.

Scotland needs independence.
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When I was a teen and starting at university, I remember the browser wars seemed lost in the 1990s.

Microsoft and Internet Explorer seemed to dominate. Nowadays I'm on Linux and there are other options.

That's thanks to folks not accepting the status quo and being unreasonable. It's thanks to the folks who built the software we use and who supported them.

Things can change, but it takes people and community.

It takes will and intention.

You need to be honest about where you stand.
Adam Dalliance · 1w
No need for a robot to summarise Laurie's feed at the moment of course, because its entirely people telling him to stop feeding their Mastodon posts into a surveillance capitalist's robot without th...
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@nprofile1q... I think Laurie is revelling in the attention. So blocking at individual and defederation at instance level seems to be a good idea.

When children do anti social things in their friends group they risk ostracisation by that group.

This is no different.
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Adam Dalliance · 1w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqtlqlv4ktw83eewd4rawr64g4ssrrpujn99t9y4tkze2say4zsgzqwj6jqn Dunno about revelling in attention. Seems like he replied for a bit then logged off to ignore the blowback to me. But blocking seems to be right for those who care enough. The larger q...
Vivaldi Browser · 3w
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Emeritus Prof Christopher May · 3w
It seems appropriate today to highlight the call by Wendy Hall for more females to get involved in computer science... Numbers of females being educated in computing has halved in the last 10 years,...
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@nprofile1q... The encouragement needs to start from an early age. Little boys of my generation got Amigas and Commodore 64s and learned coding from typing in the code from magazines, fixing bugs. In some cases from the age of five.

Whereas many women had obstacles put in their way, or had never had that grounding as their parents had no idea.

Girls need that encouragement and support. But STEM education is still highly gendered.
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It occurs to me that there are other voices we should be listening to that aren't European or American in our internet spaces.

So Fediverse who else should we be reading when we worry about Internet Freedom?

About the centralisation dangers and censorship on the internet?

Who are we drowning out?

EDIT: :BoostOK:

Like seriously, if you have a suggestion please reply. I'm enthusiastically asking.