Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

"We now work in an open source world; here's the data"

'... Nearly 40% of teams using open source lack the internal skills to test, use, or integrate that software. ...'

#OpenSource

https://www.zdnet.com/article/we-now-work-in-an-open-source-world-heres-the-data/

i am so tired of bad news

NEW: The Mississippi House's white Republican supermajority passed a bill removing power from Jackson's majority-Black elected judges and giving it to judges and prosecutors appointed by an all-white cast of state officials to oversee the capitol district.

Jackson's mayor called the legislation "plantation politics" and compared it to "apartheid."
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/30916/white-appointed-capitol-courts-in-jackson-step-closer-after-mississippi-house-approval

Tonight in #therapy we talked about Religious Trauma Syndrome (#RTS). It was a *rough* session. Rough.

I've been going to therapy every week for 3 years now, peeling away layers and digging deep. Tonight my shovel hit something solid: The Church. Specifically, the evangelical church. The source of emotional vacancy in our family.

Grief. Anger. Trauma. Unacknowledged harm on so many levels.

Tonight was rough. Goddamn.

#ExFundie
#ExvangelicalGrief
#Exvangelical
#ChurchTrauma

Lot of people recommending FastMail and it does sound good but sorry, there's no way I'm using a cloud service hosted in Australia, AUS has the worst digital surveillance laws of any nominal democracy in the world

Abortion Pills Could Be Banned Everywhere Within Days. Here’s What You Need to Know. - VICE https://apple.news/AQnpguvp7T9iGEnXEkHvNeA

Probably due to #TwitterDown, Mastodon is currently seeing an increase in new users to almost 1000 new users per hour, from the normal recent baseline of around 300. This is nowhere close to previous surges which reached as high as over 5000 per hour.

As has been noted, many users created accounts here and drifted back to Twitter. It seems many of these existing accounts are reenergized, so the actual impact of this latest meltdown may be greater than the numbers indicate.

#twittermigration

Via Kylie Robison of Fortune:

SCOOP: #Musk has emailed staff following #Twitter outage

“Please pause for now on new feature development in favor of maximizing system stability & robustness, especially w the Super Bowl coming up. We should also pause on transitioning away from Sacramento, consolidating Atlanta & reducing GCP usage until at least next week.”

Suggests massive glitch might be related to consolidating data centers, reducing GCP usage, which could be a way to reduce costs

Former Trump paid-liar-to-media Sanders was just elected governor of Arkansas, but she's apparently already auditioning for her next gig at Fox "News" -- https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/gop-rebuttal-bidens-state-union-address-was-indistinguishable-fox-news-monologue

‘Is it a sin to learn?’ #Afghan women grapple with #Taliban edicts. - Christian Science Monitor

Many young women had expected to contribute to Afghan society as trained professionals, so the Taliban’s clampdown on girls’ and women’s #education comes as both a shock and a challenge.

ChatGPT is a data #privacy nightmare, and we ought to be concerned | Ars Technica

Also, #OpenAI offers no procedures for individuals to check whether the company stores their personal info, or to request it be deleted. This is a guaranteed right in accordance with the #GDPR —although it’s still under debate whether #ChatGPT is compliant with GDPR requirements.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/chatgpt-is-a-data-privacy-nightmare-and-you-ought-to-be-concerned/#p3

@rbreich The self-fulfilling prophecy of CONservative governMENt… Claim “government is the problem” and when elected, make it so!

Chrissy Teigen was right about trump being a pussy ass bitch. lol

"Anika Collier Navaroli, a company whistleblower, brought forward new testimony alleging that conservatives influenced the social network. The company changed its policies to accommodate former president Donald Trump’s rule-breaking tweet, according to Navaroli, and the Trump White House asked Twitter to remove an insulting tweet about the president, posted by the television personality Chrissy Teigen."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/08/house-republicans-twitter-files-collusion/

elon just constantly disconnecting/re-connecting the sacramento data center even after they left a big sign saying, "vital to maintaining twitter"

The Political Theater Behind the State of the Union Data Privacy Push

Biden’s speech calling for better data protections got a standing ovation from both sides of the aisle. So, where’s a federal privacy law?
#Biden #privacy

https://www.wired.com/story/sotu-privacy-congress-biden/

#Twitter Glitches Pile Up as Key Features Fail - NYTimes

The problems began around 4:45 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, when users who tried posting messages saw a notification that said they were “over the daily limit for sending tweets.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/08/technology/twitter-glitches-features.html

When reality collides with far-right conspiracist fantasies, #Twitter censorship edition:

https://www.truthorfiction.com/twitter-files-hearing-trump/

#MastodonNews Feb 8, 2023

#TwitterDown right now...

Ars Technica: Twitter experiencing international outages; most users can’t tweet or DM >>> https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/02/twitter-experiencing-international-outages-most-users-cant-tweet-or-dm/

When Ars reporters attempted to tweet, an error message was generated saying that a daily limit of tweets had been reached, even from accounts that had not tweeted that day. According to Twitter, users typically have to tweet 2,400 times to reach the platform’s daily limit.

Archive: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1d5Q6oyzrlfXBEhHsLI9cxltdFV_XPrZWQj1mj8Ivc7Q/edit?usp=sharing

#twittermigration

Senior Twitter employees admit under oath that Twitter made exceptions to its racism policies to accomodate racist tweets by Trump, even going so far as to change their polices to avoid having to enforce them on Trump's tweets.

This is fucking disgusting. These are asylum-seekers.

https://www.clickorlando.com/news/politics/2023/02/08/bill-allowing-florida-to-fly-migrants-around-the-us-passes-state-senate/