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Signal  

Right now there are a lot of new eyes on Signal, and not all of them are familiar with secure messaging and its nuances. Which means there’s misinfo flying around that might drive people away from Signal and private communications. 1/

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NoVaLUG  

Signal isn't just for Vice Presidents, NoVaLUG now has a new Signal chat room: signal.group/#CjQKIGYAYkoVLdiH

We also have XMPP: https://novalug@groups.sendero.snikket/?join

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Matt Panhans  

@SeanCasten Do people have a right to privacy? Are you also against end-to-end encryption in things like messaging? Some people are against Signal Messenger because it can be used by criminals.

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Timothée Giraud  

Introducing {maposm}, an R package that extracts, modifies and merges sets of layers from OpenStreetMap for cartographic purposes.

On github: github.com/riatelab/maposm

The package is not on CRAN, but it is on r-universe: riatelab.r-universe.dev/maposm

#RStats #rspatial #GISChat

A map of Castries in Saint Lucia. The map is in a circle, we can see roads, buildings, water bodies and green areas. The map is colorful.
A map of Castries in Saint Lucia. The map is in a circle, we can see roads, buildings, water bodies and green areas. The map is in black and white colors.
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Bardia  

after many days of work, here is another functional demo of #GNOME shell running on the secondary display connected to the #flx1. it took many hours to build the app and make everything act nice and not crash and integrate cleanly. still a long way to go but i think it is a good time to showcase the progress in the past 7 days.

i hope to get this ready and done by 13.0.9 which is the next release but obviously no promises.

#debian #furios #furilabs #FuriPhoneFLX1 #LinuxOnMobile

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Brian Bilston  

Here’s to another relaxing Sunday.

Day of Rest     Blessed Sunday, day of rest,  a day on which to catch your breath  and put the busy world on pause,  while cracking on with all the chores.    The hoovering, the weekly shop.  The housework, laundry, washing up.  The futile war on disarray –  Sunday, such a restful day.    A chance to let yourself unwind, to spend some precious family time  when on your phones or arguing  about the state the bathroom’s in;   to shake off last night’s beer and wine  by being made to run the line  at your youngest’s football game,  while getting yelled at in the rain.    Long may the reign of peace prevail  so you can answer work emails  and start the coming week less stressed –  blessed Sunday, day of rest.  Brian Bilston
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ProPublica  

Trump Vowed to Clean Up Washington, Then His Team Hired a Man Who Pushed a Scam the IRS Called the “Worst of the Worst”
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Frank Schuler was a leading promoter of a tax deduction derided as a scam by prosecutors, senators and the IRS. Now he’s a senior adviser to the General Services Administration, which manages the federal government’s property.

propublica.org/article/frank-s

#News #Tax #Scam #Trump #IRS #Government #USPolitics

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Neil Brown  

Microsoft is introducing ads into a free version of Office, which seemingly only lets users save to OneDrive.

In other news, LibreOffice is also free, doesn't have ads, and lets you save your documents wherever you want. I use it every day for my work. It is available here:

libreoffice.org/

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useR! 2025 Conference  

UseR! 2025 Call for Proposals is open until March 3rd! We invite R users and developers from around our region and the world to submit abstracts for useR! 2025.
Deadline: Monday 3rd March 2025

useR! will be held from August 8th to 10th at Duke University in Durham, NC, USA.

user2025.r-project.org/call
#RStats

Text about the useR! 2025 call for abstracts featuring drawings of people engaged in science activities.
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Matt Panhans  

"Our digital lives are actively abusive and hostile, riddled with subtle and overt cons. Our apps are ever-changing, adapting not to our needs or conditions, but to the demands of investors and internal stakeholders that have reduced who we are and what we do to an ever-growing selection of manipulatable metrics."

Great summary of the importance of changing the trajectory of the tech industry, by Ed Zitron in his article "Never Forgive Them."
wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-

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Matt Panhans  

This was an interesting read:

America’s “First Car-Free Neighborhood” Is Going Pretty Good, Actually?
dwell.com/article/culdesac-tem

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David Zipper  

I joined NPR's Here & Now to discuss car bloat:

“There's been no accounting through regulations or taxes to push people who are buying a car to consider the societal impact...When you don't price [negative externalities], you end up with people buying more big cars than is societally appropriate."

#cars #safety

wbur.org/hereandnow/2025/02/12

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Corey S Powell  

My friend Martin Ratcliffe recently shared his photo montage of the 2023 annular solar eclipse over Bryce Canyon, Utah.

I may be biased, but I think it's spectacular (and it got selected for an astronomy picture of the day).

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231019.ht #science #photography #art

This timelapse series captured on October 14 is set against the sunrise view from Sunset Point, Bryce Canyon, planet Earth. Of course on that date the New Moon caught up with the Sun in the canyon's morning skies. Local temperatures fell as the Moon's shadow swept across the high altitude scene and the brilliant morning sunlight became a more subdued yellow hue cast over the reddish rocky landscape. In the timelapse series, images were taken at 2 minute intervals. The camera and solar filter were fixed to a tripod to follow the phases of the annular solar eclipse.
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danah boyd  

Many of us are aghast at the unprecedented dismantlement of the US administrative state. All around me, people are trying to connect what’s happening to historical events. Here's my attempt to offer a few possible frames for sense-making right now: www.zephoria.org/thoughts/arc...

A commissioned image from artist Pawel Kuczynski depicting the American flag as a series of pipes leaking data with workers trying to repair it.
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Will McKinley  

Welcome the Marx Bros. to the public domain!

Their first film THE COCOANUTS (1929) is now on Tubi in a P.D. transfer.

Distributor Shoreline Entertainment's website says their classic film P.D. titles are “legally sourced from the owner,” which may explain why the transfer looks so good.

#MarxBros #TheCocoanuts #Film Mastodon #PublicDomain

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Daniel Gultsch  

I don’t usually do this kind of evangelism, but if you’re looking for a reason to try #XMPP on #GlobalSwitchDay, now’s the perfect time: #Conversations_im is currently free on Google Play!

play.google.com/store/apps/det

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Matt Panhans  

@postmarketOS Wait hold on, an iPhone?! 😯

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Signal  

Coming soon: When you add a linked device (Desktop or iPad), bring your whole chat history + last 45 days of media. The transfer process is end-to-end encrypted & completely optional.

Don't want to leave the past behind? We leave you to your own devices.

signal.org/blog/a-synchronized

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Jason Koebler  

You can watch the Trump administration play DEI whac-a-mole with employee policies and public websites on GitHub, which is automatically cataloguing all of the changes the 18F agency is frantically making to its internal and external webpages:

404media.co/github-is-showing-

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Will McKinley  

Richard Donner’s INSIDE MOVES (1980) is on Prime if you need some positive energy in your life.

John Savage, Diana Scarwid, and David Morse lead a quirky ensemble in this tale of second chances and the power of found family.

#InsideMoves #FilmMastodon

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