Do you remember your first FreeBSD install?
Many in our community remember when installing an operating system meant waiting on physical media, dial-up downloads, or carefully tested CD distributions, long before pulling source took seconds.

We’d like to hear your story:
• Was your first FreeBSD install from a CD?
• Do you remember your first release?

Share your experience in the comments.

🔗 Wayne Self’s original reflection: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/wself_been-thinking-about-how-much-access-to-software-ugcPost-7431565320290619392-RHVM/

#FreeBSD #OpenSource #BSD #Community

Far too many people, myself included, relied on #facebook for #community

Now this roll out of disabling accounts and asking for video selfies to prove identity are going to leave a lot of those people in a quandary. Submit a selfie or lose connection to community.

I refuse, and i'm not sad about no longer being able to access facebook because I am done with the trolls and bots. But I am devastated that i've instantly lost connection to local groups and old friends with whom I never exchanged numbers, because we relied on facebook.

I dont know how to build community without it.

I mean I know i'll get over it, i'll find other ways of connecting and i'm sure I can ask my eldest daughter to message old friends with my number for me, but right now this feels incredibly cruel and intentional. Meta know that people will panic about losing their communities and connections and upload those video selfies.

Hey, you, reader:

Ever been browsing someone's blog, website, repo -- even their social web profile -- and thought to yourself "Wow, that's really neat. I love what they did here!"

Consider telling them! Someone on here made a post a while back encouraging people to do just that, and I've tried to make a conscious habit of contacting the authors of neat little indie and smolweb sites.

Email, guestbook, comment; whatever it might be, consider reaching out somehow to share your appreciation. You might be surprised at how much it makes their day.

You might also be surprised to discover how much making their day makes yours, too.

#IndieWeb #SmallWeb #Community #Blog #Blogging

Train of Hope, the centre for the #Ukrainian #refugee #community in #Vienna, is asking the public for donations. Public funding has been cut to zero.
https://www.trainofhope.at/spenden/
Für example, €100 pay for a week of tea and coffee.

For residents of #Austria: Your donation is tax deductible.

Hey anarchists, leftist, people that like building and maintaining community. I wrote a mini zine about community care and conflict management as a sort of springboard for people to work on this, and I have two books for the last page which is a list of reading recommendations, I have some good books on there like on Repentance and Repair and What Does Justice Look Like.

But I would like more than two! So if anyone has some suggestions (they can be from very different angles from this, and don't have to be books!) please send them my way! Boosts welcome.

#CommunityCare #Community #Anarchism #Zine