Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org

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Yikes, I really don't like the latest Firefox update for Android. This feels so unpolished and broken 🤦

Disturbing reports that Google Play is threatening to kick out Mastodon apps. See:

https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/104763960269049818

https://toot.fedilab.app/@fedilab/104765191594914330

App stores have a track record of acting capriciously & are also easy targets for gov't censors (including Trump). This is why alternatives like @fdroidorg are so important for user freedom.

If unfamiliar: F-Droid is a free & open source app you can use to install other Android apps, with focus on free & open source software. Get it here:

https://f-droid.org/

If anyone sent me any comments or messages in the last 12 hours that I didnt respond but you want a response, please resend it.

A post I made blew up here and on hacker news and I'm getting notifications rolling in on the order of several per minute. I probably just didnt notice.

Thanks to this post QOTO is currently being linked from HackerNews in the #1 spot. Our instance is getting a lot of exposure as is this very important issue.

Holy crap, google is apparently taking down all/most fediverse apps from google play on the grounds that that some servers in the fediverse engage in hate speech. At least three apps I know of anyway and I'd imagine the others will follow soon under the exact same reasoning.} Seems to be the case with Husky, Fedilab, and "subway" tooter.

this is a scary precedent if google play is going to ban any apps that can in any way be used to access content with hate speech. So what about a forum client, do they take that down just because there is a forum somewhere on the internet posting hate speech?

This is particularly worrisome because for most people Google Play is the only way they understand to install apps at all.

Picture attached of one of the notices received by fedilab.

https://toot.fedilab.app/@fedilab/104761140268193772

https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/104763960269049818

@fedilab @tateisu #fediverse #mastoadmin #freespeech #censorship

Cors Caron, heno.
Tregaron raised bog, this evening.

The impact of #climate conditions on #economic production. Evidence from a global panel of regions

An increase in global mean surface temperature by about 3.5°C until the end of the century would reduce global output by 7–14% in 2100, with even higher damages in tropical and poor regions.

PDF:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0095069620300838/pdfft?md5=31d87dd955151483c5ae25476056ef4f&pid=1-s2.0-S0095069620300838-main.pdf

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0095069620300838

#ClimateCrisis

I've been staring at this screen for 30 minutes now. The percentage hasn't updated once.

I have no idea what's going on. Windows user experience in a nutshell 😒

France suspends controversial glue-trapping of songbirds - https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/news/france-suspends-controversial-glue-trapping-of-songbirds/ good; now ban it completely forever

There was one death reported today in the #Covid19Cymru figures. That puts the 7-day average up to 0.71. But my main concern at the moment is the rise in cases: 34 new today, with the hot spot being Cardiff it seems. Anecdotal media reports are suggesting it's because people are dropping their guard; there's not a single point it can be traced to, but rather it's general. And so the big city suffers first.
Cardiff: 12
Merthyr: 4
Swansea, Carmarthen, Powys, Ceredigion (!!) :3
All others: <=1

I have heard from a fairly reliable source that the Ceredigion cluster is from a caravan park in or near Aberystwyth; i.e. it's tourists. Of course that means the local community should get back to full alertness again; I can vouch for the fact that Aberystwyth has not been a model of social distancing of late.

Choosing #TonyAbbott as #UK #TradeEnvoy ‘staggering’, says #Labour | #Australia news | The Guardian

Why are we employing a foreigner in a matter of national interest?

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/aug/26/choosing-tony-abbott-uk-trade-envoy-staggering-says-labour

#Politics