Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

A new analysis of satellite imagery dating as far back as 1972 reveals that mangroves in Madagascar are rebounding after decades of deforestation.

The island’s total mangrove cover is down 8% compared with 1972, but a closer look at the data shows that the rate of loss has been declining and even reversed in the last decade.

By Darren Incorvaia
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/08/50-years-of-data-show-that-madagascars-mangroves-are-making-a-comeback/

#News #Conservation #Environment #Mangroves #Madagascar #Deforestation

While you're waiting for GitHub to stop being broken, you might want to check out a self-hosting alternative called @forgejo instead at:

➡️ https://forgejo.org

Their software is a community fork of Gitea.

Alternatively, if you just want a Forgejo instance to sign up on, check out @Codeberg at

➡️ https://codeberg.org

#GitHub #GitHubDown #CodeForges #Dev #SoftwareDevelopment #SelfHosting #CommunityHosting

@hrbrmstr, hah! Indeed, I just sent a work e-mail this AM that said, "I can share this with you because it's on Codeberg and not Github"...

@vkc isn't publishing an opensource git to only one depot a kind of anti-pattern for git anyways ? I see the point for bug-tracking, but not for publication

@vkc

That sounds like the new owners.... MicroShit at it again.

The funniest thing (to me anyway) about GitHub being down is that they still point their status page to Twitter, which now famously *does not work* unless you're signed in and otherwise displays messages out of chronological order.

What a joy the centralized web is.

@luckytran An EXTREMELY important detail that is on the NYCLU web page briefing about this is that there is a very broad medical exemption, but it is ONLY for people PROTECTING THEMSELVES.

The NYCLU explicitly points out that if you are wearing a mask because you are infected and contagious and are trying to protect OTHERS, that is NOT given an exemption under this law.

They likewise point out that if you are wearing a mask because you live with someone immunocompromised and are trying to protect THEM, that is also NOT given an exemption under this law.

IMPORTANT: If you are wearing a mask in Nassau County and accosted by the police, tell them you are protecting YOURSELF.

(Which, if it's not true, it should be. The first step in not spreading it is not catching it.)

It's important to know your rights! Even though a mask ban is now law in Nassau County, NY, cops can't:

❌Make you provide a doctors note proving your disability
❌Force you to disclose private health info
❌Make you take off a religious face covering

Ugh. A friend of mine is lecturing people on the use of MS Sharepoint. How can people doing this sort of thing think that they're benefiting the world. They're just not.

JUST NOW: LA Jews & allies with #IfNotNowLA shut down the 405-S freeway on Tisha B'Av to demand an arms embargo on Israel and an immediate ceasefire.

Tisha B’Av is a day of immense sorrow.

Today, we mourn. Today, we say no more. Today, we say #NotAnotherBomb.

📸: Rocky Douieb

#ArmsEmbargoOnIsraelNow

@lightweight
@CEDO

In Europe, the Netherlands we have the CEDO, striving to get #Bigtech out of class and from children:

https://eerlijkdigitaalonderwijs.nl/

The most horrific use of weapons of mass destruction in history took place sixty-nine years ago this month, when the U.S. detonated atomic bombs over #Hiroshima and, three days later, #Nagasaki. Two hundred thousand people were killed, either by blast and heat or, later, by burns and radiation poisoning. Many others were maimed and disfigured.

What kind of person could think—as Musk and Trump do—that’s no big deal.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/musk-told-trump-that-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-bombings-not-as-scary-as-people-think-trump-thats-great/ar-AA1oJAK1

I have jury duty next week.

Covid is running rampant in the Bay Area.

I'm at higher risk.

I will wear a mask, and attempt to distance myself from others. (I wear a mask in all indoor settings.)

I revere jury duty (though I've never made it past voir dire).

It absolutely sucks that crowded jury rooms don't have mask mandates.

Masks aren't perfect (or close to perfect) protection. But they are vastly, vastly better than nothing.

I've tagged version 0.0.2 of #libcmatrix - a #matrix client library.

This release focuses on making Matrix support in #chatty more robust, simplifying some APIs and improving the documentation (which is now automatically generated at https://agx.github.io/libcmatrix/)

See https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/libcmatrix/-/releases/v0.0.2 for the list of changes and contributors.

Unprecedented number of #HeatRecords broken around #world this year | Extreme heat | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/14/unprecedented-number-of-heat-records-broken-around-world-this-year

#Environment #Climate #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange

@dynamic We live in a two party system, so you can hardly blame people who feel betrayed or ignored by one party to give the only other option a try. Personally, I think it's obvious that both parties are run by sociopaths who are fully controlled by their campaign donors & their egos. I'm just saying that if the Dems want anyone to vote for them, they should try delivering something, rather than just shaming people. I don't imagine they will tho 🤷‍♂️

#Germany introduces a new system for accessing medical data online.
The implementation by my insurer: Android, iOS, Windows, #Snap Store. Sadly, it's not open.

Sensitive data + closed software on user devices = #security nightmare.

(I'm mercifully ignoring the inevitable leak of the central database.)

When will governments and banks learn? There's no security without source code. There's no stability without interoperability.

#opensource #linux #interoperability #publicmoneypubliccode

@dynamic Unmentioned in the article is that the Obama administration oversaw the largest reduction in Black household wealth ever, while protecting the perpetrators and ensuring they got to keep their ill-gotten gains. Given recent history, I don't think the Dems should be surprised that they're losing people who they always assumed they could safely ignore as fully captured voters. The prob is w/ the Dems, not with Black voters.