Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

#gmobile 0.2.0 is out 🚀 . This version adds the udev rules and first hwdb entries to mark keys and buttons as not unblanking the screen on press (like volume rockers or menu/back capacitive buttons).

phoc 0.39.0 will make use of this. We moved things into a library rather than phoc itself so other compositors can make use of it too.

#phosh #gnomemobile #udev #LinuxMobile

https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/gmobile/-/releases/v0.2.0

🔒 While it’s powerful and convenient, Google Docs might not be right for all documents, including those that you consider sensitive, private, or that you can’t risk losing.

Here is what you can do to mitigate that risk from our digital security team:
https://freedom.press/newsletter/google-docs-locks-out-writer/

📩 Read in our newsletter:

- A national embarrassment: Press freedom under attack on campuses

- Public must have access to U.S. report on military aid

- Congress, Biden must stop advancing censorship bills

- Plus, get to know what we are reading, following 👇🏽

https://freedom.press/newsletter/a-national-embarrassment/

Reading about the Collabra psych journal and holy moly, a journal with open access fees that I can personally actually afford myself???????

Something I tell my software students a lot when they’re looking for jobs is to remember that a shockingly large number of job descriptions are written by people in HR who have next to zero understanding of the industry, the specific team, or the business need.

All they’ve got to work with is fragments they’ve heard without comprehension, coming to them through a terrible game of corporate telephone.

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It's really interesting to see health, achingly and terribly slowly, BEGIN to acknowledge the scale of the problem. Ironically in many ways health research has gone backwards in terms of not respecting or investing in high quality observations, as MDs churn out salami-sliced papers with stats they farm out to somebody else. The med school<>med publishing cycles are really something else. Can't tell you how many friends I've had consult on med papers' stats and get treated like shit by MDs.

Folks outside of science may not be familiar with this but there is an absolutely massive struggle across so many fields to think about whether our scientific conventions around evidence from the 1900s are suitable to this century. I am firmly on the side of observational causal inference; the principle of "randomization" is almost never ACTUALLY implemented in the real world and our ecological validity suffers. We need all forms of evidence. RCTs are not possible for MOST questions.

This Saturday and Sunday I'm tabling at TCAF at the Toronto Reference Library, Table 2063. It's free—if you're in the city come say what's up and buy some comics.

This is my Apple ad parody. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

https://a.wholelottanothing.org/apples-misstep/

Bugfixes for long-standing issues incoming - now deployed to Codeberg!

In Summer 2022 it was discovered that the #Gitea RSS implementation had issues for project feeds which duplicated entries.

With the help of Codeberg's financial support to #Forgejo, this bug is now fixed in the next release and already deployed to Codeberg now.

Your donation helps improving Codeberg - thank you all for your support!

Original bug report: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Community/issues/684

I would like to remind the world that you actually don't have to get into bed with OpenAI. StackOverflow was a beacon of resistance, but I guess their principles were for sale after all.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

If the bribe you’re soliciting is $1,000 in a paper bag, the FBI will arrest you. If it’s $1 billion in dark money, does that make it legal?

https://wapo.st/3UBf4Fy

Anarchists are in the corporate news again—as usual, being vilified for expressing solidarity with the oppressed and demonstrating the effectiveness of direct action.

This could be a good time to distribute material explaining the values and proposals at the core of anarchism. 🏴

We'll gladly send you copies of our outreach pamphlet, To Change Everything, for the costs of printing and shipping alone.

https://store.crimethinc.com/products/to-change-everything

New: OpenAI—a company that has indiscriminately scraped vast amounts of human knowledge to build a company valued at roughly $80 billion—has made a copyright complaint against the ChatGPT subreddit because it used OpenAI’s logo.

https://www.404media.co/openai-files-copyright-claim-against-chatgpt-subreddit/

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