We are providing access to our #WoodpeckerCI instance to those who need it, some caveats still apply.
Also, you can read about the upcoming #ForgejoActions.
Check out our docs to learn more about the state of CI on Codeberg: https://docs.codeberg.org/ci/
So, I have, off and on, been trying to figure out how to give a proper land acknowledgement for where I live, and I've been noticing that it's remarkably difficult to get a straight answer about certain basic facts about the native peoples who were originally here. I have finally figured out that a crucial underlying problem is that there are still people out there fighting King Philip's War (1675-1676) as a covert Wikipedia edit war (and maybe guerrilla action in the halls of academia) and have strong mutually exclusive opinions whether this was Naumkeag/Penobscot or Neponset/Massachusett land. Possibly also Mi'kmaq partisans stirring shit because of the Naumkeag-Tarrantine War of 1615-1619, jfc.
The FCC is accepting applications for new, low-power, community radio stations the first week of November.
This is huge, you guys, this window rarely opens (the last time was 2013), and as you know, KUZU shows one way LPFM can be a foundation to build valuable community information resources.
The Grassroots Radio folks are holding a conference in West Virginia to help folks out with this.
Please boost and share.
#radio
#community
#local
#journalism
https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/lpfm
The ants became aware of a benevolent Higher Power shaping their lives.
“I was hungry, and the Power provided.”
“I was lost, and the Power guided me home.”
“Praise be to the Power.”
Of course there was no Higher Power, just the combined effect of all individual ants working together for the good of the colony. An emergent intelligence too large for a single ant brain to understand.
Species with larger brains may fare differently.
THE JOHN A McSAMESHIT. A Canada Day anti-anthem for those that don’t celebrate. Beat by Swiss producer John Sarastro, cuts by the homie !KrymeWon. All proceeds to frontline organizers at Gidimt’en Checkpoint in Wet’suwet’en. #WetsuwetenStrong #AllOutForWedzinKwa #ShutDownCanada
https://wetsuwetenhibicin.bandcamp.com/track/the-john-a-mcsameshit
This is my regular nitpicky post that "walled garden" is really a terrible metaphor for "corporate controlled monolithic media environment."
People put up walls around gardens largely to keep things like deer and sheep out. In a lot of places, if you want flowers and vegetables, you have to have walls.
Mastodon is much more like a lot of walled gardens (IN A GOOD WAY!) than the big socials.
Revealed: record 170,000 staff leave #NHS in England as stress and workload take toll - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/01/revealed-record-170000-staff-leave-nhs-in-england-as-stress-and-workload-take-toll sunak's "plan" is pointless if he doesn't address this first by paying a decent wage to the staff we already have
🚨 Kolektiva.social SECURITY ALERT 🚨
This is an alert for Kolektiva.social users. Please read this post in its entirety!
In mid-May 2023, the home of one of Kolektiva.social's admins was raided, and all their electronics were seized by the FBI. The raid was part of an investigation into a local protest. Kolektiva was neither a subject nor target of this investigation. Today, that admin was charged in relation to their alleged participation in this protest.
Unfortunately, at the time of the raid, our admin was troubleshooting an issue and working with a backup copy of the Kolektiva.social database. This backup, dated from the first week of May 2023, was in an *unencrypted* state when the raid occurred and it was seized, along with everything else.
The database is the heart of a Mastodon server. A database copy such as the one seized may include any of the following user data, in this case up to date as of early May 2023:
- User account information like the e-mail address associated with your account, your followers and follows, etc.
- All your posts: public, unlisted, followers-only, *and direct ("DMs")*.
- Possibly IP addresses associated with your account - IP addresses on Kolektiva.social are logged for 3 days and then deleted, so IP addresses from any logins in the 3 days prior to the database backup date would be included.
- A hashed ("encrypted") version of your password.
🚨 👉 As a precaution we highly recommend that all users on Kolektiva.social *change their password immediately* to a new, unique, and strong password.
We sincerely apologize to all our users and regret this breach. In hindsight, it was obviously a mistake to leave a copy of the database in an unencrypted state. Unfortunately, what would otherwise have been a small mistake happened to coincide with a raid, due to bad luck and spectacularly bad timing.
We understand that our users and other people on the Fediverse will have a lot of questions. We will try to answer them as best we can, but please be patient and bear in mind that we may be overwhelmed with messages, and may be delayed in responding or unable to provide answers to certain questions for legal or technical reasons. As a security culture reminder, it can be extremely harmful to the individuals charged and to our community to openly speculate on the Internet about alleged criminal activity or about what law enforcement may be able to do with seized data. Our present awareness is that the seized Kolektiva data is unrelated to the federal investigation and prosecution and we are exploring legal avenues to have the seized data returned and copies destroyed.
Thank you for your understanding and solidarity
👇 Please see our replies to this post for additional information (1/?) 👇
I mean, we all already knew this, right? But still, it's nice to have some scientific confirmation.
https://phys.org/news/2023-06-economic-inequality-individual-bad-choices.html
Well, damn. The FBI has a full unencrypted backup of Kolektiva.social as of early May.
Hilariously, the FBI didn't *mean* to get a copy of Kolektiva.social. It was an accident. They were just arresting an admin, and seized the admin's electronics in the raid...
"Unfortunately, at the time of the raid, our admin was troubleshooting an issue and working with a backup copy of the Kolektiva.social database. This backup, dated from the first week of May 2023, was in an *unencrypted* state when the raid occurred and it was seized, along with everything else."
Photo Essay: A Cooperative Farm’s Long Path to Liberation for Farmworkers
Phoronix not too hard on Microsoft attacks on FOSS.
http://gemini.techrights.org/proxy?url=gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/06/30/embrace-extend-extinguish-phoronix/index.gmi
#TechRights
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Use coupon code DINGED to get 75% off until 7/1.
See all the titles at https://blog.pmpress.org/2023/03/08/75-off-these-well-traveled-titles/
There are 5 things that every fedi implementation really needs to make the user experience somewhat sensible. ALl of them are within reach, and I find it quite surprising that none of them have been implemented anywhere yet.
1. Moving posts between instances. The freedom to move instances doesn't really exist without that feature.
2. A “suspended follow” relationship for followers from defederated instances, allowing us to restore those followers when moving, or when the admins resolve their differences.
3. Bring your own domain / bring your own free subdomain. There's no reason why a single server couldn't run under multiple domains. I should be free to move instances without changing my username, just like with email. This also makes defederation user-level instead of instance-level for free. IMO, user handles should have been DNS based in the first place.
4. A built-in tool doing what followgraph does, maybe a bit more intelligently. For now, a new user doesn't really see any content on their timeline, this would massively improve discoverability and make the fediverse a lot less confusing.
5. An API endpoint for setting and retrieving unstructured private JSON data that third-party clients could use for building extra preferences and supporting features that your implementation doesn't support by default.
Final thoughts on the Red Hat thing: every supporter of the Red Hat move told me that "it's normal to want to prevent people from stealing the hard work and making a clone of it".
If you think grabbing the code and reusing it is "stealing", you don't understand FOSS.
No matter what RH clones contribute, or if they're worth it. That's not the point. The point is, RH builds their stuff using the GPL, and they have to redistribute using the GPL.
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa