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Read the inspiring story of how Eyüpsultan, Turkey switched to free software, gained independence from proprietary software, and saved money ($$$) in the process! If they did it in their city, your city can do it too! | Read more at: https://u.fsf.org/3m9

@your_huckleberry It's going to come from making less junk so we need less energy

It's not an energy production issue... it's an energy waste one.

It's not optional... we do it or we consume everything and die.

Facial recognition products are a public menace -- but law enforcement (and private companies) are moving full speed ahead to ruin lives. Because they can. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/06/technology/facial-recognition-false-arrest.html

Zoom's terms of service now include training GenAI with no ability to opt out

Check section 10.2 Service Generated Data; Consent to Use.

https://explore.zoom.us/en/terms/

Just learned this morning that Bram Moolenaar, creator and maintainer of Vim, passed away recently at 62. I’ve been a user of Vim since my 20s, so even though I’ve never met Bram his work has been an important part of my life.

https://dissociatedpress.net/2023/08/05/w-gnu_bram_moolenaar-md/

Latest comic: Tech billionaires just want to save humanity!

#tech #inequality #economy #philanthropy

Here's the backstory about how I figured out the threat a lawyer representing Trump Entertainment Resorts investors reported receiving back in 2009 and how I ultimately obtained a police report describing the threats after the FBI redacted it from docs.

Whenever I talk about #FOIA I use these documents as an example of how you can still sleuth out information from redacted documents.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/how-i-got-the-facts-the-fbi-really-didnt-want-me-to-have#.nu5958lV

There are about a dozen questions we have about self-driving cars and the massive amount of footage they collect. Chief among them: exactly what do police get access to when they get a warrant for footage? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/impending-privacy-threat-self-driving-cars

Anyone done research recently on #organic #cotton and how to tell what's legit vs. "greenwashed"?

So far I've found the "Global Organic Textile Standard" (GOTS) certification and some favorable reporting on it. Is it any good? Anything else I should look for?

(I need new sheets, and also want to find a new jeans supplier, I think.)

Just needed to report Fedi spam for the first time in a long while. It's pretty straightforward to do through Mastodon's web interface, but I thought it might be useful to post a reminder for anyone in a similar situation.

The report tool is one of the options in the pull-down menu that you access through the three dots "..." icon (with mouseover text "More") at the bottom of a post.

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moderating/#report

Giulietta Williamson (they/them), a PhD student at Cardiff Metropolitan University, is doing research on the experiences of transgender hospitality workers in the UK. You can take a short survey to help them out! Any service workers over the age of 18 who work in UK hotels, restaurants, or pubs are invited to take part in this research, whether you are transgender or not. The survey will remain open until at least the end of August.

https://cardiffmet.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_d0bVkIfmXNjEvFY

The news we need is a reversal of deforestation in Brazil, but this is nevertheless a huge improvement compared to where we, as citizens of the planet, could have been.

https://news.mongabay.com/2023/08/amazon-deforestation-continues-to-fall-under-lula/

Guido is about to take you into the world of logs and backtraces to make debugging on mobile Linux approachable at #FrOSCon this Sunday! https://programm.froscon.org/2023/speakers/474.html
#mobilelinux

Curious about the state of Linux on Mobile? Don't miss Evangelos' reflections at #FrOSCon 2023 this weekend! https://programm.froscon.org/2023/speakers/1841.html
#mobilelinux

Hey #AskFedi,

Is *anyone* out there using FOSS for accounting?

I'm struggling with Quickbooks desktop (which you can only get as a subscription now, unless you pay four figures for an enterprise license).

#Xero comes highly recommended to me, but I'm loathe to go "#cloud" for accounting. Very loathe indeed.

But while I want to try FOSS for my personal accounting, I just can't make the leap for business yet. I wish I could. But I was wondering if anyone out there already has.

#BoostPlease?

Time for an #introduction

Magpie Market is a federated platform aiming to be an alternative to #etsy; leveraging the Fediverse to help #artists, craftspeople, and others promote and sell their goods and services. We believe the #fediverse deserves a marketplace built with federation in mind.

Half of all plastics *ever* manufactured have been made in the last 15 years.

Production increased exponentially, from 2 million tons of plastics in 1950 to 448 million tons by 2015.

Production is expected to *double* by 2050.

Every year, about 8 million tons of plastic waste escapes into the oceans from coastal nations.

INFO SOURCE — https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/worlds-plastic-pollution-crisis-explained/

GRAPHIC SOURCE — https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/the-problem-with-plastics-and-recycling-bioplastics-microplastics-ocean-waste/

#Plastic #Pollution #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual

Amsterdam's city council voted to shut down the city's cruise terminal to reduce mass tourism.
The city: Yes, the cruise ships do bring in €100 million per year, but half of that is for their fossil fuel suppliers here. And they cause a lot of air travel to and from Amsterdam.

Finally, native local private in-context page translation in Firefox. This is probably going to be the thing that gets me to switch back completely: https://floss.social/@9to5linux/110816444803345201

“When vendors willfully and knowingly apply the open source term to code that is open but carries some restrictions that the currently accepted definition of open source would not permit, what they’re implicitly asking for is the marketing bump from open source with the exclusivity of a proprietary software model”
https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2023/08/03/why-opensource-matters/