Steve Hammett @bitflips@social.cleverlibre.org

For those who didn't follow the whole story or drama so far about Red Hat/IBM. Here we go:

1. Red hat blog that started storm https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/furthering-evolution-centos-stream

2. Oracle said they will set enterprise Linux free https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/blog/keep-linux-open-and-free-2023-07-10/

3. SUSE announced RHEL fork https://www.suse.com/news/SUSE-Preserves-Choice-in-Enterprise-Linux/

4. More info from Rocky Linux https://rockylinux.org/news/keeping-open-source-open/

5. Also from Alma Linux https://almalinux.org/blog/our-value-is-our-values/

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h/t @Marktech

Friends. I’m looking for work. I’m a UX designer/researcher, information architect, and UI designer/developer. I bring over two decades of experience to the table. I’m also an accessibility/usability expert.

If you have a need I’d love to talk with you. If you know folks I’d love a boost. Thank you! 🙌🏻

My website:
https://markwyner.com/

Fresh case study:
https://markwyner.com/my-work/texas-a-and-m/

#UX #Design #Research #IA #InformationArchitecture #UI #UIDesign #OpenToWork #Accessibility #Usability #A11y

Children raised under UK austerity shorter than European peers, study finds - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jun/21/children-raised-under-uk-austerity-shorter-than-european-peers-study wow, tories have literally stunted the growth of a generation....

See also: https://www.damninteresting.com/how-miss-shillings-orifice-helped-win-the-war/

A billionaire goes missing while on a vanity mission and the world loose their shit; 78 people die off the coast of Greece whilst fleeing for their lives and the response from those same people is a shrug.

I stopped supporting Spotify with my money because it hands so much of it to Joe Rogan. What about you? (I switched to Deezer.)

https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7zz9z/spotify-rogan-rfk-vaccine-misinformation-policy

'Driscoll is a victim of McCarthyism. The office he holds is now a mere electoral toy to be enjoyed by a favoured faction. And those people in Newbiggin and Ashington and anyone else who might be looking on with half an eye will see nothing but machine politicians serving themselves. This was the swamp out of which Nigel Farage emerged.'

Notes on a scandal: this is how Starmer’s bullies took out Jamie Driscoll – and why it matters | Aditya Chakrabortty | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/08/jamie-driscoll-labour-keir-starmer-north-of-tyne-mayor

"The only dangerous minority is the rich"
Pasteups in NYC

#Solidarity with University of #Kent academics who were told a few months ago their jobs were safe, only to told now, they're not.

#UCUrising

https://www.change.org/p/keep-your-promises-kent-university-no-compulsory-redundancies?recruiter=1309775166&recruited_by_id=5181f130-0471-11ee-8eb4-658d589ca0a2&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=petition_dashboard

FYI - the marking and assessment boycott of #UCUrising is STILL ON. Our employers haven't budged, only 3 uni VCs have stuck their head above the parapets to call for talks, all the while students are seeing their degrees massively diluted as huge swaths of work goes unmarked.

6 weeks of this shit and still nothing. We fight on.

Anywhere on the UK coast.

If you're into ebooks, @gutenberg_org just joined Mastodon! They have over 70,000 free ebooks, if you're not familiar with the site. https://www.gutenberg.org/

Office bastard organises Friday afternoon meeting https://newsthump.com/2023/05/26/office-bastard-organises-friday-afternoon-meeting/

True !

Work has to be publishable - I've struggled with ML applied to biology. CS reviewers want novel models, bio reviewers want novel biology. If you sit in the middle, both are disappointed.