Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

More details about this release can be found in our release notes: https://release.gnome.org/44/

And on our announcement: https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-44-released/14606

#GNOME44 #GNOME #ReleaseDay

It's expensive to be poor. It's ironic but true. You get charges and fees for everything. Higher interest rates. Overdraft fees. Late fees. Having only enough to buy what you need right now instead of buying in bulk. Losing your job because you can't afford to get your car fixed. Losing your car because you don't have a job. Even your mental faculties are drained, as you are forced to continually eat low-nutrition foods, "sleep" in miserable conditions, and be exposed to toxins and lack of medical treatment. The lack of liquidity wipes you out. Life really does kick you while you're down.

You can't tell someone trapped in that vicious cycle to "just" get a job or "just" make responsible decisions. Sometimes, no amount of good decision-making can stop the vortex sucking them down. So the next time you are tempted to place moral judgment on someone who lives in poverty, think twice.

Signed, someone who has been both a Have and a Have-Not.

What a great talk by @mako describing how #FOSS' brilliance is sometimes co-opted by the proprietary world where they succeed creating a (self-interested) market for things that communities do gratis out of kindness & trust... https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=vBknF2yUZZ8

Hello! It's time for an #introduction !

I'm the #fediverse embodiment of the #FOSS Governance Collection.

Ever need examples of how other FOSS projects or non-profits do things like voting, privacy policies, codes of conduct, and stuff like that? Then we're the project for you!

The collection is fully catalogued and searchable, thanks to the excellent @zotero #FreeSoftware project.

Follow us to stay up to date on news about the project!

Wow. This is a big deal. https://www.gregpalast.com/reagans-treason-october-surprise/

@joshbressers recently pointed out that few people understand what it's like to maintain free and open source software. I'd like to collect stories of that. If you'd like to contribute, however briefly, please see this git repository:
https://gitlab.com/larswirzenius/foss-stories/

(Boosts welcome.)

Just so we’re clear here, Florida wants to ban children from discussing their periods but also wants student athletes to report their periods, in case you were still unclear about how fucking dumb these people are.

If you're interested in this stuff, I highly recommend @histoftech 's "Programmed Inequality" and #nathanensmenger 's "The Computer Boys Take Over".

I genuinely believe that for those of us interested in #retrocomputing, it's important to be aware of how the field of computing got to be as amoral and unethical as it is. Retrocomputing isn't just about clever but forgotten technical ideas.

Huh, who knew? Apparently the matrix chat ecosystem has 60 million users (probably more now): https://news.itsfoss.com/matrix-sixty-million-users/

Book publishers with surging profits struggle to prove Internet Archive hurt sales - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/book-publishers-with-surging-profits-struggle-to-prove-internet-archive-hurt-sales/ publishers' greed reallly knows no bounds...

So ChatGPT is basically just natural language programming where you don’t know what data and algorithms you’re working with and can’t predict the exact result you’re going to get.

Sure sounds like progress to me!

🤓👍

#ChatGPT #openAI #artificialIntelligence #ai #machineLearning #ml #largeLanguageModels #llm #statisticalModels #probabilisticModels #glorifiedMatrixMultiplication

.@metpoliceuk found to be institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/21/metropolitan-police-institutionally-racist-misogynistic-homophobic-louise-casey-report no, really? gosh, I'm so surprised to learn that... #uk

Can anyone remember an amazing early #FOSS graphical tile project with quirky branding from back in the mid-2000s - I can't quite remember the name (used the tiles on my desktop with glee, as they were rich and superb in their design). The branding featured weird cut outs of JFK driving a school bus making absurd statements about how great this library was. It was quite amusing & over the top...

Every few years, I remember that https://ProjectMF.org/intro.html exists, dust off my old blue box/signaling test set, dial in, and stick it to Ma Bell like it’s 1972.

I no longer have a POTS line, so I had to use a Bluetooth-POTS simulator box with a cellphone. But it works.

Here’s a quick audio sample I just recorded: https://www.mattblaze.org/audio/ProjectMFsample.mp3