Matt Panhans @mpanhans@librem.one

The Geekathon was fantastic! Thanks to all who did the geeking and especially those who brought gear.

Cashier: Do you need bags?

Me: Do any of us NEED anything?
Cashier: Sir, I have a liberal arts degree too.
Me: Plastic, please.

Following our submission (ICCL/Open Markets/TACD) the U.S. FTC in 2022, the FTC has ordered RTB firm Mobilewalla to stop collecting RTB data
https://www.iccl.ie/digital-data/ftc-acts-against-rtb-company-mobilewalla/

In December 1876.

The first United States edition of Mark Twain's first individual extended work of fiction, the Bildungsroman The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, illustrated by True Williams, is published by the American Publishing Company. An authorised non-illustrated British edition has appeared in early June from Chatto & Windus in London (with the first review appearing on June 24 in a British magazine) and pirated editions have appeared in Canada and Germany.

https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/74

#books

Over a year ago, I wrote ”A month using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and chat”.

For something like 15 months now, Sandra and I have used XMPP via @snikket_im for probably 99.9% of our calls, messages, and video chats, running on an Intel NUC.

We both use the Snikket mobile app, and I also use @dino and @profanity in Linux.

Perhaps a fun holiday / weekend project, if you want family-friendly, self-hosted, #E2EE communications?

#XMPP #SelfHosting #FOSS #Linux

4️⃣ students from @_mason_arts will have original animations displayed on screens in 6️⃣ Metro stations as part of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s (@wmata) Art in Transit Program, beginning the first week of December! #MasonNation 💚💛 https://www.gmu.edu/news/2024-12/metros-art-transit-program-showcases-george-mason-students-work

The FuriOS 13.0.5 monthly update is here!
This release includes GNOME and Debian updates, as well as a whole lot of other goodies and fixes from us. Some of the notable ones include: battery management improvements, modem data and call fixes plus more!

https://furilabs.com/update-13-0-5/

Hi Mastodon! I’m Sheril 👋

I am a scientist working in the U.S. Senate on policies related to energy, environment, ocean, ag & tech!

I also host Serving Up Science on PBS & wrote a couple of books.

My PhD is in community sustainability & I’m broadly interested in how we make decisions about science.

A superb argument against the existence of ghosts from 1st CE Chinese philosopher Wang Chong. https://iep.utm.edu/wangchon/

If what your *goal* is to get off Twitter, then Bluesky has solved it. They solved it by building another Twitter, and this time it's open source, which is cool! And it might have this "credible exit" thing.

But god damnit it's not decentralized and it's not federated stop TELLING people that

I did a four-page short comic for Le Lombard (Belgian publisher), it was a contribution to a big book project in French, featuring 24 other comic artists; an "advent calendar" book for Christmas. And yes, you have to cut the page every day in December to reveal a new story. I negotiated to have mine published on CC-By and made it using only FLOSS .

Blog post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1055/new-comic-book-la-bd-de-lavent-le-lombard-publishing

#creativecommons #christmas #krita #comicbooks

📢 My new R package {cocoon} is available on CRAN!

This package flexibly formats statistical output in a way that can be inserted into R Markdown or Quarto documents.

✅ Directly pass t-test, correlation, and Bayes factor objects to format test statistics, confidence intervals, p-values, Bayes factors etc.
✅ Automatically calculate and format summary statistics directly from data vectors
✅ Control the formatting of numbers and labels

https://jeffreyrstevens.github.io/cocoon/

#RStats #QuartoPub #Quarto

Bluesky is the Microsoft Word of social media, which I mean in the derogatory sense, as the fediverse is the LaTeX of social media, which I also mean in the derogatory sense

MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT (1959) w/ Kim Novak and Fredric March is now on Tubi, if you'd like to lean into your melancholy.

#TCMParty #FilmMastodon

D.C. has passed ranked-choice voting.

New, by me: Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit arm of the Firefox browser maker, has laid off 30% of its staff as it goes through a restructuring, including dropping its advocacy division.

The Mozilla Foundation reported having 60 employees during the 2022 tax year, but TechCrunch has heard that the number of employees was closer to 120 people at the time of the layoffs.

More: https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/05/mozilla-foundation-lays-off-30-staff-drops-advocacy-division/

If you care about building a music library you can listen to for years to come, don't use Spotify, and buck against the trend of exploitative streaming services. Learn about where to get DRM-free audio on our DRM-free living guide: https://u.fsf.org/1lr #EndDRM #BoycottSpotify #Spotify

IT SHOULD HAPPEN TO YOU (1954) w/ Jack Lemmon and Judy Holliday is now streaming (exclusively) on Prime.

If you're looking for a deft satire of people who are famous for being famous, George Cukor and Garson Kanin did it 70 years ago.

#JackLemmon #FilmMastodon