While @Codeberg is working on fixing the outage, you can get Forgejo container images and binaries from an alternate location:
https://code.forgejo.org/forgejo/-/packages/container/forgejo/versions
Hi. Yes, we have a full outage right now (status.codeberg.eu).
This acknowledgment comes from the social media manager that _isn't_ a system administrator. I can't share more details right now, so all I have to say is the following for now: It has been a weird and challenging week, sorry for the inconvenience. ~n
Does your institution have a CompSci department? Or do software development training? Why is it not a standard project for such department to run such services for the benefit of the institution?! It'd be a massively useful real-world teaching opportunity, with huge cost benefit for the institution, too. Seems like a total no-brainer to me. Anyone able to explain why we don't see this everywhere already?
It sorta amazes me to see educational organisations - especially those based in Canada - using Zoom for online educational events. What's wrong with BigBlueButton? It's at least as cost effective (for us, it's $0! Use ours!) because it's fully #libre and we host our own (you - or your institution - could, too).. And it's a community-run project led by Canadians! Unlike Zoom, which is built for corporate drones, BBB is built for education from the ground up. I can't see what's so hard about this.
Open letter to "Forests" after they offered me a 100% discount for publishing one of my papers:
Dear Ms. Kira,
I am sorry but I no longer trust your journal. I was asked to referee a paper that was clearly badly flawed. I pointed out the flaw and you published it anyway. As far as I can see Forests is a predatory journal and I don't want anything to do with it.
Kind regards,
Euan Mason
#TechRights has new articles showing #Microsoft has been losing a lot of money on Azure and lying about it to shareholders.
https://techrights.org/n/2024/10/17/Microsoft_is_hiding_losses_again_Azure_Collapsing.shtml
There are certain... I don't know, let's call them "foundational tenets" in library work. You'll find many of them in the Five Laws of Library Science, but there are many more beyond those. Some pop up through the course of a career and others are learned in schools.
But there is one that stands near the top I'd like to share with you. It goes something like this:
"It is better to have no information than it is to have wrong information.”
And once you understand that, you'll understand why I, as a librarian, have a massive problem with AI.
‘I’ve seen the dark, fat grease stuck to the leaves’: oil and gas encroach on #Peru’s uncontacted peoples - https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/oct/17/ive-seen-the-dark-fat-grease-stuck-to-the-leaves-oil-and-gas-encroach-on-perus-uncontacted-peoples "The government is auctioning off plots of pristine Indigenous reserves for fossil fuel projects, with campaigners warning of a ‘silent genocide’"
"No one trying to steer Liberia’s tribunal from Washington has admitted that the US and its corporate interests fueled the mass violence, which killed as many as 250,000 Liberians. While purporting to champion accountability, Washington has neglected its own complicity."
https://africasacountry.com/2024/10/when-justice-means-impunity
Comrades, the #Guix Science channels have moved from GitHub to Codeberg 👇
https://codeberg.org/guix-science/
Migration was very easy and complete, with pull requests migrated without loss. We have yet to see how contributors can resume work on PRs opened pre-migration, but it looks great so far!
@klmr @tomstoneham @publictorsten
This is in keeping with the TechBro mantra, "Move fast and break things."
Which is how we have quickly gotten to a world full of broken things.
Coinbase’s “Stand With Crypto” lobbying group has released a list of 39 candidates they endorse. After noticing some conspicuous absences, I discovered they’re just endorsing candidates with a high likelihood of winning — presumably to later claim a blowout in favor of crypto.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #CitationNeeded #USpol #USpolitics #Coinbase
"Under continuous high global consumption, cultured meat results in less warming than cattle initially, but this gap narrows in the long term and in some cases cattle production causes far less warming, as CH4 emissions do not accumulate, unlike CO2."
"Enshittification isn’t merely the result of greed or foolishness — it is the inevitable consequence of a captive userbase.
A service that isn’t federated is unfit for purpose, and the managers who decided not to federate it demonstrate by their acts that they are not worthy of our trust."
#CoryDoctorow, August 2023
https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/06/fool-me-twice-we-dont-get-fooled-again
I wonder how much organisations who've invested in software development to integrate generative LLM services into their products and services will be willing to fork out when #bigtech starts to recoup the massive (eye watering) cost of those services? Clearly, bigtech is expecting that some will end up paying a LOT, and bigtech has a LOT of experience of how much they can mint with lock-in.
Big Tech is borrowing a page from Big Tobacco's playbook to wage war on your privacy, according Jake Snow of ACLU of Northern California . We agree—but there’s still time to stop them. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/preemption-playbook-big-techs-blueprint-comes-straight-big-tobacco
Just updated a couple Gitlabs and upgraded my Forgejo from 8.0.3 to 9.0.0. Every day with #libre software makes me feel like a kid in a candy store. This stuff just keeps getting better.
For those still wondering about why they were "not allowed" to scan the other QR code: I suspect this is related to potential abuse vectors via QR codes (yes, we know, requiring the hacker to spoof it via a fake app instead of an ebook is not the answer).
Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIcbAMO6sxo or read https://www.revk.uk/2020/01/eicar-test-qr.html for some background.
~f
#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