keverets @keverets@librem.one

They recently performed with an orchestra. It was recorded, and the BBC appears to be letting anybody listen to it (at least I can stream it over here in the US).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0022k5m

My beliefs are simple, and hardly radical: Libraries are critical infrastructure. Access to information is a human right. When you buy a book you should truly own it. When a library buys a book, they should be able to lend it. Readers should be able to read without any third parties spying over their shoulders, or preventing them from accessing the materials they have legally obtained.

🇨🇦 THIS ⬇️

"The most important thing about carbon pricing is that it works."

"The 2nd most important thing about carbon pricing is that it is fair."

"The 3rd most important thing about carbon pricing is that it is the least expensive way to fight climate change."

-- Jesse McCormick, Senior VP, First Nations Major Projects Coalition

#FirstNations #indigenous #NDP #cdnpoli #poilievre

The Fediverse's social reading platform BookWyrm lets you import your account data from Goodreads, LibraryThing, StoryGraph, OpenLibrary or Calibre. There are step by step instructions for how to do this here:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/importing-your-data-into-bookwyrm-from-goodreads-librarything-storygraph-openlibrary-or-calibre

If you're wondering what the heck BookWyrm is, it's a Fediverse alternative to Amazon's Goodreads. There's an intro article here:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/bookwyrm-a-social-network-for-people-who-enjoy-reading

#BookWyrm #FediTips #GoodReads #StoryGraph #LibraryThing #OpenLibrary #Calibre #Books #Fediverse

I sort of love that these two vehicles have the same bed size.

The Kei's is actually a bit more useful because you can fold down the sides.

An electric Kei could be a game changer in cities.

Mozilla is truly an advertisement company now. From the bottom of my heart, fuck you, everybody at Mozilla.

The Internet archive lost its appeal in the HACHETTE case. What a huge, devastating loss for all of us.

#InternetArchive

no no no *you* can't freely scan through the collected works of humanity, that right is reserved for the large language models.

Last week’s electricity generation in the UK had a record low carbon intensity of 58g/kWh. So far this year the carbon intensity has averaged 118g/kWh, representing a 76% reduction since I created https://grid.iamkate.com in 2012:

The Android evil-genie promise: You may have an open source phone OS. But if you actually compile it from source yourself, you will be banned from running any software. Or at least, they'll try as hard as they can to ban you from running software. Also, if you decide you want to build or even *download* the source, you're going to need to purchase a dedicated 1 TB SSD to check out the repo, and also download our forked version of git to check it out with

Spotted in #ottawa

❝Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. […] Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and that Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time. But when it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks simply say that the most abundant atom in the universe is hydrogen. And no one ever wonders how we know.❞ — Jeremy Knowles, discussing the complete lack of recognition Cecilia Payne gets, even today, for her revolutionary discovery. (via alliterate)

OH WAIT LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT CECILIA PAYNE

• Cecilia Payne’s mother refused to spend money on her college education, so she won a scholarship to Cambridge.

• Cecilia Payne completed her studies, but Cambridge wouldn’t give her a degree because she was a woman, so she said to heck with that and moved to the United States to work at Harvard.

• Cecilia Payne was the first person ever to earn a Ph.D. in astronomy from Radcliffe College, with what Otto Strauve called “the most brilliant Ph.D. thesis ever written in astronomy.”

• Not only did Cecilia Payne discover what the universe is made of, she also discovered what the sun is made of (Henry Norris Russell, a fellow astronomer, is usually given credit for discovering that the sun’s composition is different from the Earth’s, but he came to his conclusions four years later than Payne — after telling her not to publish).

• Cecilia Payne is the reason we know basically anything about variable stars (stars whose brightness as seen from earth fluctuates). Literally every other study on variable stars is based on her work.

• Cecilia Payne was the first woman to be promoted to full professor from within Harvard, and is often credited with breaking the glass ceiling for women in the Harvard science department and in astronomy, as well as inspiring entire generations of women to take up science.

• Cecilia Payne is awesome and everyone should know her.

(OP: Matthew Gardner)

The promised writeup of how I discovered that the Feeld dating app was protecting private data by doing client-side filtering: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/70061.html

On One Wheel, the now defunct quarterly unicycling publication by the Unicycling Society of America, claimed that someone named Ben Dova survived the Hindenburg by fast rope descent for most of the way to the ground before gravity did the rest. Can't be real, right? Well

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Dova

Do not run multiple blockers just use ublock origin
https://infosec.exchange/@AAKL/112989621877545179

The trend of building surveillance into all new smart TVs is "incredibly invasive and little understood,” EFF’s Jacob Hoffman-Andrews told @arstechnica. "Nobody wants a snooping and snitching television, but lately that's all you can buy.” https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/tv-industrys-ads-tracking-obsession-is-turning-your-living-room-into-a-store/

Okay bicycle people: I know of Strava and would like to try something like it. But I would prefer something that is open source, community run, and maybe even something I could self-host. Any ideas?

#Cycling #Strava