keverets @keverets@librem.one

Henrietta Lacks was a poor, Black, young mother diagnosed w cervical cancer in 1951. When her cells were collected w/o consent, scientists saw they multiplied remarkably fast.

“HeLa” cells changed #science. They’re used globally to study viruses, drugs, hormones, genes, diseases & develop vaccines. Lacks passed away at 31 w no recognition.

Rebecca Skloot’s beautiful book about her life & legacy is changing that. Now her statue will replace Robert E. Lee in NC. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/20/us/henrietta-lacks-statue-roanoke-virginia.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare #history

local news getting real

"I only go on Twitter to find people's Mastodon account info" is the new "I only use IE to download Chrome".

Kids this is a reminder to collect physical copies of your favorite media. Corporations will axe your favorite show/movie/book in front of its family and make it a felony to retrieve it. Have a library.

TIL: There is a cursed color in the Kodak ProPhoto RGB color space which, when converted to sRGB using pre-August-2020-Security-Update Android's image conversion routines, causes an integer overflow and a crash due to a rounding error. Some dude accidentally created an image (https://www.flickr.com/photos/gaurav_agrawal/48746079687/) which contains the cursed color on a single pixel. In 2020 if you set this image as your desktop on a Google or Samsung device, the device would brick & lose all onboard data https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXKvwPjCGnY

Elon suspended the account tracking his private jet & the personal account of the college student running it -- who's now on Mastodon.

Follow: @elonjet

Wikipedia’s best secret link: see articles about nearby places! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby

Raspbian should not exist, BTW. They had a little bit of cover forking Debian for performance reasons but that is long since past.

The Raspbian fork's purpose now is lock rpi users into a ghetto that prevents them from using non-rpi hardware.

#raspberrypi

As I approach the end of the year, I wanted to look back and see how many projects I have contributed to (not counting the ones that I maintain). This usually happens because I notice an issue with a project. Generally I file an issue, it's rewarding to in and fix the issue myself, plus the issue gets fixed faster since the maintainer can review and click the "merge button"! This is especially so for documentation, it is very easy to just fix the documentation and file an MR.

This is genius!

#Berlin is allowing cyclists to claim on-street parking spaces for their bikes—for free.

At the same time, they're boosting the price of on-street parking for drivers.

That sends a very, very clear message.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-07/berlin-s-new-parking-rules-set-up-showdown-between-bikes-and-cars

For those of you familiar with your seasonally-appropriate Stuart McLean canon.

(And for those who aren't familiar, are you in for a treat: https://www.canadianliving.com/life-and-relationships/canadian-living-books/article/cozy-up-to-this-short-story-from-the-classic-christmas-at-the-vinyl-cafe )

Mercator size vs. true country size
by Neil Kaye

Delta Chat is an #OpenSource messaging app that works over email @delta https://delta.chat/
Works on desktop/mobile with most every email provider https://providers.delta.chat/
Chat with folks who don't have Delta installed, just email.
Chat with bots (groups, etc) https://simplebot-org.github.io/simplebot-instances/
Share web apps in chat https://webxdc.org/
It can even be run anonymously off a flash drive https://lefherz.net/2022/08/28/how-to-setup-delta-chat-on-tails-in-4-steps/
10 Ways Delta Chat is Better than WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram https://pocketnow.com/10-ways-delta-chat-is-better-than-whatsapp-signal-and-telegram/

This tool that searches your Spotify playlists for the music on Bandcamp works great. Makes a nice list of what to get on today's #BandcampFriday where the revenue share is waived and it all goes to the artist.

https://hypem.com/merch-table

I think about this image a lot

French authorities declare the use of Microsoft Office and Google Docs illegal in schools and education markets, as they don’t follow GDPR and might disturb later competition by making students used to these proprietary solutions.

https://questions.assemblee-nationale.fr/q16/16-971QE.htm

Apparently we have new #metric prefixes, hooray!

https://phys.org/news/2022-11-earth-ronnagrams-metric-prefixes-voted.html

Can I have a 2 quettabyte drive for my laptop now?

Whenever I'm tempted to think that a new thing seems too complicated, I read newspaper articles about pizza from the early 1950s.

Learned that public libraries are launching their own local music streaming services and have been low-key obsessed ever since. My report is now up on Vice's Motherboard! https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d34px/libraries-are-launching-their-own-local-music-streaming-platforms