George Mari @GeorgeMari@social.cleverlibre.org

Crazy!

A 150 ft. Iceberg passing through Iceberg Alley near Twillingate, #Newfoundland, #Canada. A great view for your morning coffee.
More images/info on Iceberg Alley: https://bit.ly/3HhjdcX

*NOTAM pilot info system goes down, grounding flights nationwide*
TV pundits: this could be a cyberattack
Engineers: somebody probably saw a beige 486 in the corner of the data center and unplugged it

@whereisthespai @hacks4pancakes you need to have 3 password managers going so that each manager contains the master pw of the other 2. Like RAID5 for passwords!

"Self-Hosting Is the Ultimate Privacy Power Move"

When you use a third-party service for your needs, whatever those needs may be, you’re always taking on a certain degree of privacy risk.

https://www.howtogeek.com/846979/heres-why-self-hosting-a-server-is-worth-the-effort/

"...will better align instruction with assessments" means "will facilitate teaching to the test." Imagine being so clueless about learning, or so beholden to the imperative of corporate profit, that you talk about this as if it's a good thing.

Be advised: Do not dip your toes when you're sittin' on the dock of the Bay (because tens of millions of gallons of raw or partially treated sewage are in the water). https://sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/sf-bay-sewage-storms-17706344.php via
@sfchronicle #cawx #cawater #sfbay

8. Misclassifying workers is ILLEGAL!

And in 2019, corporations paid $226 million in fines for breaking the FLSA.

But they saved $4 BILLION

That's an 18x return on investment.

So it is a pervasive practice.

https://popular.info/p/director-of-first-impressions-how

The remains of more than 100,000 Native Americans are held by prestigious U.S. institutions, despite a 1990 law meant to return them to tribal nations. Here’s how the ancestors were stolen — and how tribes are working to get them back. https://t.co/0dvhwIJSQb @ProPublica @nbcnews

The sky already looks amazing despite the air quality 🌋

However, there are multiple reports via DM on LinkedIn and IG about infringement regarding my tech doodles. I share them as Creative Commons, but replacing my sig with somebody else's is totally not cool.

Don’t underestimate your public #library! I found out this week that among the physical books, DVDs, CDs, newspapers, and magazines that you can lend in the library, they offer a lot of digital services like specialist magazines, a catalogue of eBooks, audiobooks, online learning videos, and - not to forget - the entire service of #pressreader with national and international newspapers and magazines. I’m so thrilled to have it for little money! And I appreciate what taxes can be used for.

Hey there #BlackInStem! @ProPublica is hiring a Director of Enterprise Tech and Security. Salary: $140k-$165k. Do I work for ProPublica? No. Do I read their news stories and collaborations? Yes. Am I impressed by their work? Yes. h/t: @taliabuford Apply here: https://www.propublica.org/jobs/director-of-enterprise-technology-and-security

.@ProPublica
is hiring a director of enterprise tech & security to strengthen and modernize our IT tools and infrastructure.
📌 NYC
✅ needs: technology mgmt experience, risk assessment + dynamic problem solving ability
💰 $140K-$165K

Apply: https://www.propublica.org/jobs/director-of-enterprise-technology-and-security

There are three important legal developments in the news that impact Trump. You may have heard Fox News and their ilk gloating about one of them. Well, I’m here to help arm folks with a way to respond and to talk about the other more positive developments.
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/legal-developments-and-a-speed-bump?sd=pf

I mentioned this in a private message to someone recently about why a small handful of servers block qoto. I wanted to reiterate it here for the new comers on QOTO who dont know the history:

So there are some servers out there that demand every server int he network block every instance they do, and if a server doesnt block an instance they block then they block you in rettatliation.

Their reason for this is quite flawed but it goes like this.. If we federate with a bad actor instance and we boost one of their posts then their users will see it and defeat the purpose of the block. The problem is, this isnt how it actually works. If they block a server and we boost it, they wont see the boost, thats how blocks work.

The issue becomes even more complicated when you consider the fact that these servers, by virtue of their policy, have huge block lists where they block tons of major servers. So in order to satisfy them we too would have to block a huge number of servers.

This means you have a choice, you either join a server that isnt blocked, but has a huge block list themselves, or, you join a server that doesnt block and be blocked by a small handful of servers. Obviously that means on QOTO you will have bigger view of the world than you would on any of these others servers. In fact QOTO has onne of the largest federation footprints of any server in the network.

I want to also explain why we choose the decision we did. Years ago when this controversy started and servers across the fediverse started blocking there was a divide of people taking sides. WOTO was one of the few servers that didnt take sides and allowed people read content from any server (but with strict hate speech rules). This caused a huge influx of people,s pecifically from the LGBTQ community, onto our server. It turns out many people relied on us not-blocking for their physical safety. There were big name biggots (like milo yanappolus) who were on the network. They used their accounts here to watch his account for doxing so they could warn themselves and their community and protect themselves accordingly. In fact we added a feature just for them called subscriptions which allowed them to monitor accounts without following them so they could do so anonymously.

In tthe end for the safety of the LGBTQ community here we refused to engage in mass server blocking and instead encouraged our users to block servers on an individual basis and provided access to block lists for them to do so. But some really misguided servers blocked us anyway.

Thankfully the servers blocking us are few and far between and are limited to only the most excessive and aggressive block lists. As I said, QOTO has one of the largest federation footprints on the fediverse,

#mastoadmin