Ambrose Andrews @znalo@librem.one

"The world remained firmly in warming’s grip last year, with extreme summer temperatures in Europe, China and elsewhere contributing to 2022 being the fifth-hottest year on record"

"The eight warmest years on record have now occurred since 2014"

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/climate/earth-hottest-years.html

Personally, I wish that the "code red" response that ChatGPT inspired at Google wasn't to launch a dozen AI products that their red teams and AI ethicists have warned them not to release, but to combat the tsunami of AI-generated SEO spam bullshit that's in the process of destroying their core product. Instead, they're blissfully launching new free tools to generate even more of it.

Vale Will Steffan

Global tributes have flowed for Professor Will Steffen, the eminent climate scientist and communicator who passed away on Sunday night in Canberra.

Three of his friends & colleagues remember the giant of a man:

#Climate #climatechange #Australia

https://theconversation.com/weve-lost-a-giant-vale-professor-will-steffen-climate-science-pioneer-198873?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1675196299-1

RELEASE: Leaked phone forensics software and documentation from Cellebrite and MSAB. https://ddosecrets.com/wiki/Cellebrite_and_MSAB

These companies sell to police and governments around the world who use it to collect information from the phones of journalists, activists, and dissidents. Both companies' software is well documented as being used in human rights abuses.

Help keep DDoSecrets operating in 2023 with a $15 donation: https://DDoSecrets.Charity

The climate emergency is changing the global water cycle #watercycle #climateemergency https://theconversation.com/new-report-shows-alarming-changes-in-the-entire-global-water-cycle-197535

Great one from Ketan Joshi well worth a read. #GlassOnion #climate https://ketanjoshi.co/2023/01/07/glass-onion-mocks-silver-bullet-solutionism-and-skewers-tech-bro-climate-saviours/ @ketan

Excellent piece from @mikejones and @bestqualitycrab for @theconversationau covering the funding issue with #Trove at the National Library of Australia (who I don't think are on Mastodon).

Trove is an #API, which I've demo'd before at places like VALA, which makes the NLA's collections easily query-able.

Trove is #digitalinfrastructure for #digitalhumanities, #socialscience, #archives, #museums and other #GLAM activities.

And it's invisible. Which means it doesn't attract the funding or attention it deserves. Trove archives over 6 billion digital items. Items which speak to Australia's #CulturalHeritage.

If Trove were a supercomputer, it would be funded. If our digitalhumanities were as sexy as #STEM, Trove would be funded. But they're the same type of thing - digital #infrastructure that helps research. Trove is #ResearchInfrastructure. And we should fund it properly.

https://theconversation.com/troves-funding-runs-out-in-july-2023-and-the-national-library-is-threatening-to-pull-the-plug-its-time-for-a-radical-overhaul-197025

plz RT!

in light of [everything], shall we do a little #NEISVoid intro thread?

if you’re looking for more chronically ill / disabled mutuals, reply here with a short intro & maybe let us know who you want to chat with!

After five days of voting and tens of thousands of ballots cast, 32 candidates were narrowed down to two PayPal billionaires. Now, in a very tight race that came down to the wire, the votes are in and a winner has been chosen.

2022’s Worst Person in Tech is…

🔮 PETER THIEL 🩸

#tech #peterthiel #elonmusk

🚨 THE FINAL TWO 🚨

Tens of thousands of voters narrowed 32 candidates down to just two.

Peter Thiel: Puppet master. Democracy opponent. Fascism funder. Palantir founder. Gawker destroyer.

Elon Musk: Snake-oil salesman. Transit and train opponent. Monkey killer. Twitter destroyer. Journalist banner.

Cast your vote to choose who takes the title of Worst Person in Tech.

🗳️ VOTE HERE: https://forms.gle/FeSbpPVERbLmCMBe7

#elonmusk #peterthiel #tech

Excellent piece by Sarah Curnow (who I don't think is on Mastodon), quoting Vanessa Teague from ANU's College of Computing, Engineering and Cybernetics, and Thinking Security, that explores the gaping holes in #MyGovAU and how identities can be forged across interconnected systems without validation.

Data breaches compound each other ...

#infosec #privacy

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-18/ato-tax-hacked-via-mygov-services-australia-exploit/101781656

#introduction
Connections are important! So posting again.
I’m here for #rustlang #embedded #linux #electronics #pcb #design and similar. #makers if you’re interested follow I’ll follow back let’s connect

BOOST for visibility please 🙏

Hi folks! Some of you might be aware by now that a new Australian-run fedi instance is being put together.

https://theblower.au

This is a joint venture between @hugh and @s0 and myself! Our current instances are small and/or niche intentionally, so this is a more general space which we can open up to the public a little more confidently.

We're starting to drop invite codes so we can check our foundations before opening the doors fully.

Please follow @geton for those!

We're all gonna need this sooner than expected so here is my proposed APA 7 style citation format for citing a Mastodon post

Lastname, F.M. [@mastodon@handle.tld] (20XX, Month DD). Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut ... [Mastodon post]. Name of instance. [URL of post]

As with the format for citing a Twitter post, the correct reference list title is the first 20 words of the post, and the correct short title is the first 5, both using an ellipsis if necessary.

I wrote about how Purism helps transforming GNOME since over 3 years, and how it's all just the start!

https://puri.sm/posts/making-a-platform-adaptive-for-everyone/

Something I was proud that we did at Linux Journal was support customer privacy to the point we rejected the giant ecosystem of ad trackers dominating the industry.

It is hard (and costly) to do and I'm pleased to see The Markup take a similar stand:

https://themarkup.org/2020/02/25/president-letter-nabiha-syed