Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

News and social media rarely give a full picture of what happens inside protest movements. But based on my experience on campuses and at protests, the overwhelming majority of protestors are there to call for an end to the suffering in Gaza and Israeli crimes against Palestinians.

15/17

Incredible example of lying with graphs from Caltrans. The bike lane pilot on the Richmond–San Rafael Bridge reduced collisions, but they made it look like collisions increased.

Specifically, they divided collisions by vehicle miles traveled. But California's goal is to reduce vehicle miles traveled. So they took two good things achieved by the pilot, and made them cancel out to look like a bad thing. #BikeTooter

I've spent the week reading like 50+ papers on learning to remember what I know about how people learn and this is what I know:

-people are bad at deciding what to learn
-people are bad at studying. We choose the worst ways to study and we hate the most efficient ways
-people give up on learning so much. Like more than anyone believes
-people aren't clear about what their goals really are for learning and if you try to get people to set goals they don't want to
-teachers truly work miracles

oh and also this is basically a point about relying on generative AI these days. It's literally named the Generation Effect in learning!!

"Basically, any time that you, as a learner, look up an answer or have somebody tell or show you something that you could, drawing on current cues and your past knowledge, generate instead, you rob yourself of a powerful learning opportunity. Retrieval, in effect, is a powerful “memory modifier” (Bjork, 1975)."

"In the night of the 29th of April anarchists started a tire fire on the train tracks in St-Henri. The action was done to disrupt train traffic momentarily in solidarity with Palestine and the anti-capitalist 1st of May."

https://mtlcounterinfo.org/tire-fire-for-palestine/

EU plan to force messaging apps to scan for #CSAM risks millions of false positives, experts warn - https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/02/eu-csam-scanning-council-proposal-flaws/ of course, as we have been saying for years...

#Frontend developers around? We'd appreciate a helping hand with improving the Codeberg dark theme (also w.r.t. colour contrast), or even more contributors to Forgejo.

If you're interested, please say "Hi".

Colorado’s two largest cooperatives are each poised to leave their long-time power suppliers — Xcel and Tri-State — and strike out on their own.

https://coloradosun.com/2024/04/30/core-united-power-xcel-tri-state-breakup/

#Forgejo v7.0.2 was just released! This is a bug fix release.

We strongly recommend that all installations are upgraded to the latest version as soon as possible.

Check out the release notes and download it at https://forgejo.org/releases/. If you experience any issues with this release, please report to https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues.

#Orangutan seen treating wound with medicinal herb in first for wild animals - https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/may/02/orangutan-seen-treating-wound-with-medicinal-herb-in-first-for-wild-animals-max-planck-institute-sumatra "Sumatran ape applied sap and leaves to open cut after suspected fight with another male, say scientists" properly protecting these amazing creatures is long overdue

@lwriemen

Also this (CW: creepy crawlies): https://robdunnlab.com/projects/

@lwriemen

I'm just going to leave this here: https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1890/070062

…and here are my #FreeSoftware bits for April:

https://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/Free_Software_Activities_April_2024.html

#LinuxMobile #phosh #debian

So apparently I've acquired a new hobby and it's designing card games. Not what I would have expected. This is the second one I've made this month. It's a rummy type solitaire game with an animals-and-biomes theme.

Cloud storage firm DropBox says hackers breached production systems for its DropBox Sign eSignature platform and gained access to authentication tokens, MFA keys, hashed passwords, and customer information.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dropbox-says-hackers-stole-customer-data-auth-secrets-from-esignature-service/

That overturning of Arizona's hardline abortion ban? It isn't what you're being told. https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2024/05/01/arizona-1864-abortion-law-not-repealed/73533621007/

Now is a good time to get involved with #Forgejo, because the roadmap for the next release is being determined.

Get involved, be it as a designer, frontend or backend developer, translator, user researcher or by helpin to triage bugs and determining feature priority.

Reach out if you need onboarding.

The new comics section at In These Times is up with work from Brian McFadden, Jen Sorensen, Tom Tomorrow and this one from Lubchansky

https://inthesetimes.com/article/the-founding-fetus-society-comics

“License plate readers are not documenting crime — they are documenting the perfectly legal activity that is driving your car on a public road,” EFF’s Dave Maass told The News & Observer. “It’s capturing more information on innocent people in that neighborhood.” https://www.newsobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article286920890.html