Sylvain Miermont @miermont@social.cleverlibre.org

How nice this new @Framasoft funding campaign is 😍
https://soutenir.framasoft.org/en/

Being hopeful about the future isn’t some vapid techno-optimism. Quite the opposite. It’s engaging with our *actual* reality—that we have the tech now to build more functional, resilient, sustainable, and equitable systems, but now we *all* need to do the social, economic, and political work to go in that direction.

Here’s my 2022 essay on the same theme: “Resilience, Abundance, Decentralization”:

https://tinyletter.com/metafoundry/letters/metafoundry-75-resilience-abundance-decentralization

"When you're infected with measles, your immune system abruptly forgets every pathogen it's ever encountered before – every cold, every bout of flu, every exposure to bacteria or viruses in the environment, every vaccination. The loss is near-total and permanent. Once the measles infection is over, current evidence suggests that your body has to re-learn what's good and what's bad almost from scratch."

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211112-the-people-with-immune-amnesia (Nov. 2021 — how did I miss this?!)

The eruption has started north of Grindavík town. This is not a tourist friendly eruption.

https://icelandgeology.net/?p=12214

You'll find a blow-by-blow in my latest Lost Supper dispatch:

https://lostsupper.substack.com/p/a-visit-to-the-neighborhood-miller

A giant task: the hefty 12th century Lambeth Bible has now been fully digitized. https://monumentoffame.org/2023/12/15/a-giant-task-digitising-the-lambeth-bible/

BREAKING: #internetarchive has appealed a lower court judgment that blocked all #libraries from offering #spyware free #ebook + preserving them against #censorship and erasure. #surveillance

Take action to support the archive now: https://www.battleforlibraries.com/

Time traveling back to 1991 to warn tim berners-lee that his cute little hypertext invention will eventually require me to click on pictures of nightmare broccoli in order to pay a parking ticket

Bezos and Musk have it deeply wrong.
The problem isn't that we need a trillion people to have more Einsteins or Mozarts.

The problem is we don't nurture and protect the ones we have.

Stephen Jay Gould wrote: "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops".

Brian Cox reads If I Must Die, by beloved Palestinian poet, teacher and martyr Refaat Alareer, for the Palestine Festival of Literature

Refaat was killed on December 7th by an Israeli airstrike.

This was the last poem he published

#Gaza #Poetry

2016 tablet (Galaxy Tab A), perfectly working and fast with /e/OS (and with a great 7000 mAh battery)

Let's make the world more sustainable!

(80% of devices energy impact during their lifetime is from building and selling the device!)

@e_mydata @murena

No matter whether they are lying or telling the truth this is darkly funny to the extreme.

Artists using Instagram. You are currently opted IN to AI training by default.

(To opt out, um, well, there is no opt opt…)

Image/story via arstechnica.com

#instagram

Mid-November, Pouhiou represented @Framasoft to the forum #ngi2023

Here is his 5mn talk to present our work on #PeerTube and how @NGIZero @EC_NGI funds helped us .

https://framatube.org/w/cAfag3kKe3PCjxzcZRhGaU

This is a big deal:

The W3C, founded in 1994 by web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, has quit X and declared the fediverse to be their primary social media channel. Follow them at: @w3c

The future of the open web is .. the open web.

The 23andMe hack is a nightmare. 23andMe is a nightmare. Genetic databases are a nightmare. Don't do this to yourself and don't do it to your family members:

https://www.404media.co/23andme-hack-christmas-gift/

We found that the PLC code actually contained logic that would lock up the train with bogus error codes after some date, or if the train wasn't running for a given time. One version of the controller actually contained GPS coordinates to contain the behaviour to third party workshops.

It was also possible to unlock the trains by pressing a key combination in the cabin controls. None of this was documented.

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I can finally reveal some research I've been involved with over the past year or so.

We (@redford, @mrtick and I) have reverse engineered the PLC code of NEWAG Impuls EMUs. These trains were locking up for arbitrary reasons after being serviced at third-party workshops. The manufacturer argued that this was because of malpractice by these workshops, and that they should be serviced by them instead of third parti
es.

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My version of the character Ada from "Ada & Zangemann", a Creative Commons license (BY-SA) book for children and a funny story about Free/Libre and Open-Source. It's written by Matthias Kirschner and illustrated by Sandra Brandstätter. It is great to see new characters in the Free Culture, especially because Ada is so cool. 💜
You can find it printed in English, French, German, Italian → https://fsfe.org/activities/ada-zangemann/

#krita #MastoArt #FreeCulture
#CreativeCommons #fsfe