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Inside Igalia: Scaling a Co-op Beyond 100 Members

Igalia is a tech co-op with 140 members living all over the world. Everyone makes an equal wage, no one is a boss or manager, and the goal is for everyone to be a partner. Also they've been in business for 22 years. How do they do it? Find out in this great talk by Valerie Young. [video with transcript]

https://geo.coop/articles/scaling-co-op-beyond-100-members

Microsoft is trying to get all email users, including governments, to migrate to their cloud-based solutions. This makes their email cloud _THE_ prime target for nation-state/state sponsored hackers. Yet Microsoft appears to be leaving gaping security holes in the setup of their email services: https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/01/in-major-gaffe-hacked-microsoft-test-account-was-assigned-admin-privileges/

There’s a new abolitionist Kickstarter campaign…

The Warehouse from @pmpress by James Kilgore and Victor Lu:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ww3/thewarehouse

#abolition #bookstodon #books

The biggest mistake venture capital funded startups make is accepting venture capital funding

Introducing: The Warehouse: A Visual Primer on Mass Incarceration.

This book is a concise, illustrated primer by one of mass incarceration’s sharpest opponents, James Kilgore & information artist Vic Liu.

Learn more, preorder, and see all the rewards at http://tinyurl.com/WarehouseKS

#massincarceration #abolition #books

New blog post, implementing battery charge limits in GNOME https://vdwaa.nl/gnome-upower-charge-thresholds.html

And the obligatory reminder: I'll do a presentation about all this at #FOSDEM, hope to see you there :)

https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-3557-the-state-of-video-offloading-on-the-linux-desktop/

#FOSDEM2024

The #Forgejo monthly update was published ✨ It is a high level overview of the project activities.

Forgejo may become a hard fork of Gitea; user research is on the way to figure out the scope of moderation in Forgejo instances; a new requirement for tests was added to the development workflow; the "You pushed on branch" user experience was improved; the migration of translations to Weblate began.

https://forgejo.org/2024-01-monthly-update/

Latest comic: The AI Journalism Awards

#comic #cartoon #cartoons #technology #AI #journalism #news #media #tech

For our users that work within education, we recommend having a look at learntools. It allows to replace commonly used proprietary solutions in schools with a privacy-respecting digital classroom suite.
https://codeberg.org/lerntools/base

Read all about it in the most recent #CommunitySpotlight on our blog: https://blog.codeberg.org/letter-from-codeberg-looking-into-the-new-year.html

📣  We at #Flameshot are looking for C++ contributors to join our dev team. If you are looking for a real contribution or even a weekend/evening hobby coding, there are enough low-hanging fruits among our feature requests and bug reports that can satisfy any taste

Please consider contributing and spreading the words.

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#CommunitySpotlight from our recent blog post https://blog.codeberg.org/letter-from-codeberg-looking-into-the-new-year.html:

What to do with things you do no longer need? Do you want to avoid using #eBay?

Check out the self-hosted flohmarkt (German for flea market) for the job, an ActivityPub-based federated small trade platform. With the active development being less than a year old, you should expect some unfinished touches, though, but it's ready to give it a try!

All the best to the contributors!

I am looking for a technical writer with a strong Intel/networking background and the ability to take the deep technical content my group creates and convert it into multiple more accessible pieces. For example, the VexTrio paper we released this week. Our work is designed for experts in the security industry. The person I'm looking for can use it to create writings for consumers and customers. If that's you, text me here or on LinkedIn. #threatintel #infosec #cybersecurity

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"Humiliation for Nazis" the sexist words in the English language

Same as it ever was

I just had to email my 16-year-old's teacher to explain that he did not use AI for an assignment. (I watched him complete it!)

I also included multiple references for why no one should be using AI detectors in education.

TurnItIn is making $$$$ by lying to schools.

Today, we have a veneer of female advancement, full civil liberties and empowerment narratives. But most gender historians argue patriarchal oppressions have simply shape-shifted into more pernicious and invisible forms. Liberal laws guaranteeing equality, pay equity, and safety conceals the fact that female economic, social and sexual dependence on men remains firmly entrenched.

https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/the-patriarchy-is-a-modern-invention-not-the-natural-order

Numerous iOS apps are using background processes triggered by push notifications to collect user data about devices, potentially allowing the creation of fingerprinting profiles used for tracking.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/iphone-apps-abuse-ios-push-notifications-to-collect-user-data/

Join EFF’s India McKinney, PEN America’s Jacqueline Allain and New Moon Network’s Melodie Garcia this Tuesday, Jan. 30 for Woodhull Freedom Foundation's “The Road Ahead: Navigating Legislative Censorship in 2024.” Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-road-ahead-navigating-legislative-censorship-in-2024-tickets-793192278457?aff=oddtdtcreator

If San Francisco’s Proposition E passes, we can expect the police to use untested and potentially dangerous surveillance technology on the public for a full year without oversight. We believe police should know how surveillance tech works before unleashing it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/san-francisco-vote-no-proposition-e-stop-police-testing-dangerous-surveillance