Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

https://kolektiva.media/w/bLWvLeWrXQQPGXjSrjxfUC

We are so grateful to everyone who donated so far and would like to send our most sincere THANK YOU!

If you haven't yet, there's till time to share or donate to our GoFundMe here:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/espaco-mutual-aid

While the rains have stopped for now, the Jacuí river has still overflowed its banks and the floodwaters have yet to recede. Many of Porto Alegre’s water treatment plants remain completely submerged with tapwater only accesible in the far southern portion of the city.

For the sake of transparency; the subMedia collective is raising these funds which we will send to our comrade in Porto Alegre who is involved with the @espaco community center.

How we use these funds will depend on the total amount we get, but we ultimately aim to help the following spaces to rebuild: Território dos Mil Povos, Okupas Kalissa and Jiboia, Retomada da Ponta do Arado, Quilombos do Machado, Quilombo do Areal. But that the damage can only be assessed when the water levels drop.

We also aim if the money allow us to buy gear for emergency relief, such as kitchen supplies and rescue tools.

Again, we want to thank everyone who donated and shared this fundraiser within their circles, it means the world to us.

<3 The Crew at subMedia

#Trump promised to scrap climate laws if US oil bosses donated $1bn – report - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/09/trump-oil-ceo-donation "#Biden administration has taken more than 300 actions towards greater public health and clean energy, more than any other administration in US history."

Fun fact: "The Tragedy Of the Commons" is a hoax created by the white nationalist Garrett Hardin to justify stealing land from colonized people and moving it from collective ownership, "rescuing" it from the inevitable tragedy by putting it in the hands of a private owner, who will care for it properly, thanks to "rational self-interest":

https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/04/analytical-democratic-theory/#epistocratic-delusions

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Adding this to the "grossly misleading and incorrect headline" file.
Sites Reservoir might, optimistically, provide water for 100,000 people, or a far, far smaller number of corporate farms.

#water #cawater

The answer is always in the negative space

https://mastodon.roundpond.net/@arthegall/112412441364829072

Anyone in #Berlin want to talk or present a #fediverse or federation related topic at a casual meetup I am hosting at @offline next week on May 19th? Please respond here or DM me!
#ActivityPub #Bluesky #Nostr #XMPP #Matrix

Having locals who got paid to farm? The impact was dramatic. Paying farmers forced landowners to either invest in their land, or sell to someone who would.

Landowners actually started making MORE money from farming. They were more likely to keep land in farms than develop it.

My grandpa's neighborhood started growing high-revenue crops like fruits, vegetables, and nuts instead of low-ticket industrial crops. The food system became more responsive to consumer needs.

There are 2 things to know about US agriculture.

1. It’s very hard to make a living as a new farmer.

2. About half our farmland is owned by wealthy families, investment funds, & others who buy it up as an asset- but don’t farm themselves.

There IS a fix to both problems!

Thinking about: my brother surviving a campus massacre and growing up to run the covid ward of the same regional hospital while restaurant owners organized protests, seeing lab software shut itself off on the computers of colleagues from other countries, how science & school is always us trying to reach out & hold hands against it all, my brave teacher friends teaching while being put on lists, endless time my wife and I sit down & perform the calculus of where we put our bodies and swallow risk

What we better name, we can better know:

"developers experiencing code review anxiety [...] may believe that they are unable to manage their code review anxiety (low anxiety self-efficacy), believe that they are likely to break production (probability bias), and believe that this will be the end of their career as an engineer (cost bias), all of which increases their code review anxiety."

source: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/8k5a4

Reminder: instead of using StackOverflow for your questions about GTK and the GNOME software stack, use the GNOME Discourse instance:

https://discourse.gnome.org

You can also use it for applications and the overall GNOME desktop.

#gtk #gnome #development

If you're surprised, you shouldn't be.

[Market-based schemes not reducing deforestation, poverty: Report]
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-based-schemes-deforestation-poverty.amp

Challenge: Allwinner D1 put JTAG pins on the SD card socket, so I went searching for a “SD card breakout” and all I could find was a $30 PCB from Sparkfun (excluding shipping). No thanks!

Solution: use $5 free credit from #pcbway and get 5 of them made.

And it took less than 5 days to manufacture and ship.

Now that’s DIY!

(Anyone want one? I only need 1!)

An extreme opinion: #CI #tests should be self-contained. Ideally, nothing that changes state outside of the current repository should affect the success of the job.

This means your CI is only good if you keep a local copy of all your dependencies.

But you can reduce the guarantee a bit: pin your dependencies! Don't let *their* changes mess up *your* reliability, unless the Internet breaks.

This way you improve on 2 problems: reliability and supply chain safety.

#reproducible_builds #nix

@brembs @knutson_brain
@neuralreckoning

A question that came up in a recent (in-person) discussion: Has anyone compared the reproducibility or the validity of bioRxiv preprints with published journal articles? Are preprints less reliable than peer reviewed journal articles? It would seem we have enough examples now to check this.

Student protestors are portrayed as anywhere between naive and brainwashed. Now listen to this. Nothing naive here.

#Israel #Gaza #Chicago #Palestine #StudentProtests

Buy a shit-load of palm oil from Malaysia, get a free orangutan. I kid you not.

As the world's biggest importer of palm oil, New Zealand should be in line to receive a virtual buffoonery of orange apes.

Instead of playing PR games with a critically endangered species, it would be better for all if Malaysia just stopped destroying the orangutans' habitat.

https://www.dw.com/en/malaysia-plans-orangutan-diplomacy-to-boost-palm-oil-sales/a-69023254

#Orangutan #Malaysia

Last year, Kate Raworth put together a definition of capitalism. She prefaced it with:

“Let’s open up the black box of capitalism. I discussed what it means and what it does with Bernie Sanders and Martin Wolf on BBC Radio 4. Here’s how I defined it – how would you put it differently?”

Unfortunately, she put it in an image without an image description, so here follows the text in this image…

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I used to be involved in political demonstrations a lot more when I was younger. I still see their value.

People would tell me, I shouldn't expect the demonstration to 'work', ie I shouldn't expect it to change the thing I'm protesting. I don't.

My take has always been that we demonstrate mostly to change ourselves, to give each other courage and resolve to do the small day-to-day small things and work that create real change.

That's still why I get up each morning. The work still needs doing