@hacks4pancakes “Travel is fatal to prejuidce, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.” - Mark Twain
I think about this quote a lot.
The smell of death is everywhere in northern #Gaza after 'non-stop Israeli bombardments', Unrwa chief says - https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/oct/22/middle-east-crisis-live-blog-news-updates-israel-iran-lebanon-gaza-palestine-hamas-hezbollah-war "He said his staff are reporting shortages of water, food and medical care" #israel
#TedRall discussing how censorship can be dressed in national security in violation of the constitution to give us fascism under the present leadership. A kinder, gentler fascism, as opposed to the more open fascism Trump will bring.
https://rall.com/2024/10/21/biden-harris-fascist-media-censors
#BurnItAllDown
I don't think I could feel any greater 'AI' -everything fatigue. I'm catching snippets of my wife (a lecturer at the polytech) listening to a presentation in the other room (via the poly's MS Teams, naturally. 🤮 ) on dealing with 'AI' in the classroom, and it's use (illicit & otherwise) by students. The presenters are effusively pro-'AI', and I find their enthusiasm incredibly grating and it makes me sad for humanity.
Fell in Love with Fire
Watch here:
https://crimethinc.com/fellinlovewithfire
Five years in the making, this hour-long documentary explores the uprising that swept Chile from October 2019 to March 2020, showing how everyday people sustained six months of rebellion by creating extensive networks of self-determination and mutual aid.
This is an inspiring portrayal of the tactics that gave demonstrators control of the streets, the organizing strategies that enabled the movement to act effectively while remaining leaderless, and the importance of time and space in revolt. It is also a cautionary tale about how the government used the promise of a new constitutional process to recover enough legitimacy to regain control. It chronicles a high point of action in a struggle that continues today.
@jwildeboer The title made that inevitable. ;-)
On recent visits to the US (where I grew up) I was amazed at the friction I felt in most transactions. Having to add sales tax to everything mentally, paying tips, and literally every online transaction, e.g. renting a car, getting a phone SIM, was crowded with scam operators from every conceivable angle: service consolidators, speculative insurance providers, etc. The US 'system' is a chaotic mess. Every transaction seems prone to extra gotchas & not getting ripped off is exhausting there.
On Global Encryption Day, we urge Congress to get serious about protecting Americans’ privacy, and cut out the censorial sideshows.
https://freedom.press/issues/global-encryption-day-strengthen-encryption/
The maintenance was successfully completed and Codeberg is back in service. Additionally, we now have a 10G fiber interconnect to our next server, an important step towards our new setup.
"The loss of nature isn’t just a problem for plants and animals. More than half of the world’s GDP is dependent on nature, according to the World Economic Forum. Insects and birds pollinate the crops that the more than 8 billion people on Earth eat. Wetlands store and clean water. Plants and fungi maintain healthy soils and provide medicine. Forests and peatlands sequester climate-warming carbon."
https://www.npr.org/2024/10/18/nx-s1-5147426/cop16-biodiversity-summit
Installation successful, rebooting ... it will, unfortunately, take a while until the service is fully restored.
The update itself went smoothly, however, we're really struggling with crawling again.
This time, some actor is hitting the API searching for random keywords. We cannot detect and block the offending IP ranges quickly enough.
Initially, we started investigating a regression in Forgejo that causes the slowness until we noticed the new access pattern.
Forĝejo went copyleft 👍
https://forgejo.org/2024-08-monthly-update/#forgejo-is-now-copyleft
Copyleft, federation, localization, collective decision-making: signs that the project cares about people and their autonomy.
How are the campaigns spending the next two weeks? https://www.dailykos.com/story/2024/10/18/2277623/-Cartoon-Campaign-closers
Does anyone have gig work or looking to hire? I have a friend in serious need and on the verge of homelessness. He knows JS/TS/Python and is very experienced in Android development #askfedi #askFediverse #fediverse #fedi #getfedihired #lookingforwork #help #mutualaid
@dynamic The worst part is that if you ever give any money to Act Blue, ever sign any poll sent out by the Democratic Party or a member of (probably same goes for GOP, but I have no experience), or engage with them in any way that requires contact info, you get a non-stop and unstoppable stream of emails, texts, and phone calls that can make you pretty unfriendly.
I say unstoppable, because all attempts to use unsubscribe, STOP texts, and do not call replies do nothing.
Will solar PV soon be the cheapest source of electricity in most places around the world?
This Nature paper says yes.
Most surprisingly this is AFTER including short- and long-term storage costs for renewable energy sources.
Codeberg has two downtimes scheduled in the next two days, upgrading #Forgejo to the latest version as well as operation on our owned hardware.
See the notification at https://status.codeberg.eu/status/codeberg for more and up-to-date information.
Thank you for your understanding. We'll try to minimize service disruption.
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa