Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Since the Murdoch family launched Fox "News" several decades ago, Big Journalism has consistently endorsed the fiction that the outlet is journalistic in nature. There was an element of truth to that early on.

Bur for the past decade and longer, Fox "News" has been a thoroughly dishonest, relentless propagandist. It accumulates power and money by poisoning our public sphere.

Yet the journalism trade persists in calling it a news outlet, compounding the dishonesty.

It's disheartening.

Since we're probably not going to have a fully-written manual by 1.3 stable, we're going to remove our help system and make all documentation online only. We'd otherwise have to update all existing help links in Tenacity, none of which exist yet.

If you'd like to help us write our manual so that we have at least some content, you can contribute here: https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity-manual

In 2019, the so-called progressives in Congress raised a hell of a stink over a Trump admin plan to cut a bunch of people off from SNAP (food stamps). The courts stopped that from happening, thankfully.

Now, a Democrat administration is preparing to do exactly the same thing - literally take food off the table of 41 million people, and Bernie, AOC, and the rest of the supposed progressives haven't said a thing.

It's almost like they only care if Repubs do it. 🤔

Evidence of an owl hunting.

#MeanwhileInCanada

This argues that - because of the "perils of a public good in private hands" - not just discussion should move from twitter to mastodon, scholarly institutions should now also create instances in the fediverse that make publicly available: papers, data & code.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00486-3

“A sugar replacement called erythritol has been linked to blood clotting, stroke, heart attack and death, according to a new study. ‘The degree of risk was not modest,’ said lead author Dr. Stanley Hazen”

Wow. This is important news if you use sweeteners that may contain erythritol. Or regularly have drinks/other products possibly sweetened with it. Check your ingredients list carefully.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/27/health/zero-calorie-sweetener-heart-attack-stroke-wellness/index.html

@lightweight

@vecrumba

We had the same problem with #Microsoft and #Github #copilot. They use #opensource code to train their models and make money off of it.

Now Microsoft is doing the same with #Bing.

Never mind #Figma and #Adobe. We should never have allowed Microsoft to acquire Github

#ChatGPT #foss #tech #technology

Terribly sad, and I have to say I'm angry that I wasn't informed. Like Bruce Willis in the Sixth Sense, I'm always the last to know.

Web hosting giant GoDaddy made headlines this month when it disclosed that a multi-year breach allowed intruders to steal company source code, siphon customer and employee login credentials, and foist malware on customer websites. Media coverage understandably focused on GoDaddy's admission that it suffered three different cyberattacks over as many years at the hands of the same hacking group.  But it's worth revisiting how this group typically got in to targeted companies: By calling employees and tricking them into navigating to a phishing website.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/02/when-low-tech-hacks-cause-high-impact-breaches/

Even after court ruled that spying on students at home a constitutional violation, California universities keep doing it. https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/college-beat-higher-education/2023/02/remote-proctoring-california-colleges/?mc_cid=d8dbcc2c61&mc_eid=5ad401b380

If you are a member of a food co-op using Foodsoft or you maintain a deployment of this software, help spread the word!

There will be a community call held on 2023-03-03 10:00 (CET).

More info on https://forum.foodcoops.net/t/foodsoft-meetup-on-2023-03-03-10-00/573

Recipe: https://git.coopcloud.tech/coop-cloud/foodsoft

#foodsoft #food #coops

My team and I so excited to finally launch THE CARTOONIST COOPERATIVE, a community-based organization meant to help comics-makers sustain themselves through shared promotion, educationals resource, skill trades, and career assistance!

Check out our beautiful website (designed by
@itsnero) to learn about how to join! Anyone making comics, is invited to be a member, including artists, writers, colorists, and letterers.

https://cartoonist.coop

I'll let Inkling and Nibford explain more:

Uber still can't turn a profit, which makes me pretty sure that no one else is going to be able to make the (moronically named) "ride-sharing" model work either.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/02/hubert-horan-can-uber-ever-deliver-part-thirty-two-losses-top-33-billion-but-uber-has-avoided-the-equity-collapse-most-tech-startups-experienced.html

Coincidentally, a friend recently went to an ER in France. They spent all day there getting treated, were handed a month of antibiotics to take after for healing and let go.

The entire bill was around $35.

We recently did an ER visit with four hours of observation, and everything was fine. A couple months later, the bills came up to around $1,200 for one ER visit with full family PPO insurance coverage at an in-network hospital.

No, the Murdoch family's Fox "News" is not going to cover the news about its slimy behavior.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-media-anchor-howard-kurtz-says-network-wont-let-him-cover-fox-dominion-lawsuit

Quite liking (self-hosted, via Docker-Compose) Forgejo! Very pretty, and quite complete. Imported a bunch of repos from my Gitlab (Community Edition) repos...

Big Journalism bans racist cartoonist from its own media but continues to support an extremist who defends him racism. Media hypocrisy has no upper boundary when it comes to confronting -- that is, not confronting -- what it means to stay on Twitter.

Some folks will say "that's okay, it's just linking, it's free speech!" or whatever. Depending on your jurisdiction, maybe that's true.

But we should be aiming for better here. Respecting whether someone wants to be quoted in a potentially-hostile context. Letting them know it's happened. Honoring their wishes if they block the person who quoted them. Etc.