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The #Forgejo monthly update was published ✨ It is a high level overview of the project activities.

Forgejo may become a hard fork of Gitea; user research is on the way to figure out the scope of moderation in Forgejo instances; a new requirement for tests was added to the development workflow; the "You pushed on branch" user experience was improved; the migration of translations to Weblate began.

https://forgejo.org/2024-01-monthly-update/

Latest comic: The AI Journalism Awards

#comic #cartoon #cartoons #technology #AI #journalism #news #media #tech

For our users that work within education, we recommend having a look at learntools. It allows to replace commonly used proprietary solutions in schools with a privacy-respecting digital classroom suite.
https://codeberg.org/lerntools/base

Read all about it in the most recent #CommunitySpotlight on our blog: https://blog.codeberg.org/letter-from-codeberg-looking-into-the-new-year.html

📣  We at #Flameshot are looking for C++ contributors to join our dev team. If you are looking for a real contribution or even a weekend/evening hobby coding, there are enough low-hanging fruits among our feature requests and bug reports that can satisfy any taste

Please consider contributing and spreading the words.

🔁 Please boost for reach

#CommunitySpotlight from our recent blog post https://blog.codeberg.org/letter-from-codeberg-looking-into-the-new-year.html:

What to do with things you do no longer need? Do you want to avoid using #eBay?

Check out the self-hosted flohmarkt (German for flea market) for the job, an ActivityPub-based federated small trade platform. With the active development being less than a year old, you should expect some unfinished touches, though, but it's ready to give it a try!

All the best to the contributors!

I am looking for a technical writer with a strong Intel/networking background and the ability to take the deep technical content my group creates and convert it into multiple more accessible pieces. For example, the VexTrio paper we released this week. Our work is designed for experts in the security industry. The person I'm looking for can use it to create writings for consumers and customers. If that's you, text me here or on LinkedIn. #threatintel #infosec #cybersecurity

Appreciate boosts for reach.

"Humiliation for Nazis" the sexist words in the English language

Same as it ever was

I just had to email my 16-year-old's teacher to explain that he did not use AI for an assignment. (I watched him complete it!)

I also included multiple references for why no one should be using AI detectors in education.

TurnItIn is making $$$$ by lying to schools.

Today, we have a veneer of female advancement, full civil liberties and empowerment narratives. But most gender historians argue patriarchal oppressions have simply shape-shifted into more pernicious and invisible forms. Liberal laws guaranteeing equality, pay equity, and safety conceals the fact that female economic, social and sexual dependence on men remains firmly entrenched.

https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/the-patriarchy-is-a-modern-invention-not-the-natural-order

Numerous iOS apps are using background processes triggered by push notifications to collect user data about devices, potentially allowing the creation of fingerprinting profiles used for tracking.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/iphone-apps-abuse-ios-push-notifications-to-collect-user-data/

Join EFF’s India McKinney, PEN America’s Jacqueline Allain and New Moon Network’s Melodie Garcia this Tuesday, Jan. 30 for Woodhull Freedom Foundation's “The Road Ahead: Navigating Legislative Censorship in 2024.” Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-road-ahead-navigating-legislative-censorship-in-2024-tickets-793192278457?aff=oddtdtcreator

If San Francisco’s Proposition E passes, we can expect the police to use untested and potentially dangerous surveillance technology on the public for a full year without oversight. We believe police should know how surveillance tech works before unleashing it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/san-francisco-vote-no-proposition-e-stop-police-testing-dangerous-surveillance

One mistake the GOP made is to cater to a small, vocal part of the base.

The two mindblowing books I read in the past few weeks (attached) opened my eyes to how small these partisan ecosystems are.

Some of the people insisting that Biden should do X or Y do not realize that they, too, are speaking for a very small subset of the voting population.

"We can’t keep using tools of oppression and expect to raise free people."

Watch Akilah S Richards, author of Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work, on Connection and Rehumanizing with the Radical Recovery Summit.

https://blog.pmpress.org/2024/01/23/akilah-s-richards-connection-and-rehumanizing/

#FOSDEM 2024 will be happening in a bit more than 1 week in Brussels!

Catch my talk "From phone hardware to mobile Linux" on Saturday morning or "Open Source for Sustainable and Long lasting Phones" (together with @agnes007 in the big Janson room!) on Sunday afternoon!

Or come by the postmarketOS (+friends) stand in the AW building!

I hope to see you there!

Links:

https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2234-from-phone-hardware-to-mobile-linux/
https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-3362-open-source-for-sustainable-and-long-lasting-phones/
https://fosdem.org/2024/stands/

I have a #chip which doesn't exist on the internet.

Can the Fediverse help me find a #datasheet ?

It's marked as AM330, from the Chinese company Amicro Semiconductor. The website has no info, but it seems to be a #microcontroller for navigation.

Makes sense, I found it inside a #robot #vacuum, OEM model KK320.

I'd like to reprogram the robot, but I need to know at least the pinout. Help, Fedi!

#askfedi #electronics

If we really wanted to change the world, we'd make politicians' internet search histories public record

Seeing multiple articles about Amazon/Ring having decided, all on their own, out of the goodness of their corporate hearts, to stop handing video footage over to cops without a warrant, and zero of these articles have reported on what impending legal, PR or regulatory shitshow is barreling toward them to inspire this sudden change of heart.