Serra @serra@social.cleverlibre.org

Here’s my big announcement!

As a human rights lawyer, I’ve spent my career supporting DV survivors, asylum seekers, and demanding economic, social, and climate justice.

I’m running for U.S. Congress in the district I grew up in because these crises are getting worse—and justice can’t wait.

Watch our launch video here: https://youtu.be/qvng-I2KcGQ

Donate Here: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/qasimforcongress-social?refcode=mastodon

@bentfreiwald von #krautreporter fragt: Wie kann Deutschland kinderfreundlicher werden? #Kinder

In Finnland darf man kostenlos Bus fahren, wenn man einen Kinderwagen dabei hat. Das ist cool – und #kinderfreundlich.

Solche Ideen sollten gesammelt werden. Was sollte sich konkret ändern in Deutschland? Was sollte man einführen oder abschaffen, damit Deutschland zu einem kinderfreundlicheren Land wird? Umfrage: https://krautreporter-magazin.typeform.com/to/TS1043gO
Ideen anderer: https://krautreporter-magazin.typeform.com/report/TS1043gO/9Ih0D76jWenfmIJU

@Ajax turned me onto the idea of fetching gitlab merge requests into your local git repo in order to search them.

I've found this super helpful for working with open source projects, and figured this may come in handy for other people too.

I added GitHub support and ported his script to a git alias.

https://memcpy.io/git-pull-request-fetching-searching.html

If trains are your thing Humble has a bundle for you: https://www.humblebundle.com/games/train-sim-world-3-mega-haul-bundle?partner=gamingonlinux (partner link)

Maybe the real social network is the friends we convinced to move to Mastodon along the way.

The FCC is accepting applications for new, low-power, community radio stations the first week of November.

This is huge, you guys, this window rarely opens (the last time was 2013), and as you know, KUZU shows one way LPFM can be a foundation to build valuable community information resources.

The Grassroots Radio folks are holding a conference in West Virginia to help folks out with this.

Please boost and share.

#radio
#community
#local
#journalism

https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/lpfm

Yet another person who just met me was shocked to hear that I haven't gone to uni. I corrected them, saying that I haven't even finished high school. They couldn't believe me.

Of course there were many reasons for it. Not only I couldn't handle it mentally (C-PTSD, ADHD-I, ED), but also physically (although I won't get into details about this illness publicly). Not to mention poverty, since I couldn't even afford books I needed to study.
Leaving reasons aside - yes, it's true that last diploma I have is from middle school I graduated in 2012. Yet it didn't prevent me from carving my own path, just the way I wanted.
(At least until now, I'm making plans to change that very soon).

I dedicate this post to everyone who's in similar situation. I know it's hard to believe, but no matter how crappy things are right now, there is a way out.
Key to success is that you have to make a first step. Nobody is going to save you like a prince on a white horse.
It's hard, sometimes painful. Sometimes you will feel like giving up. But much like trauma recovery, path to where you want to go isn't linear.

Trusting others can be hard, I completely understand it. However, aside from vocal minorites who will want to drag you down, there's a lot of absolutely amazing people who will help you along the way.

I cannot stress this enough - I wouldn't be where I am without the help I've received. Not only my amazing friends, but also... complete strangers. People willing to listen and give unbiased advice, hackers who love sharing their passion, projects and so on. Those people have earned my eternal gratitude.

It's easy to see this world in black and white, but it's really more complicated than that. It's true that it's full of sadness, tragedies, pain. But it's also full of many beautiful things, warmth, kindness and happiness. You simply need to learn how to keep your balance on this road called "life".

If you know what you wanna do and (roughly) which path to take, people will help you get there. Just make sure to return their kindness and be there for them when they will need your help in return.

You absolutely can succeed in anything, even without formal education. Take notice of job postings listing "5 years university or equivalent knowledge".
Many people assume going trough uni will guarantee them any position they want so they end up neglecting their studies. That's why they lose to dedicated self-learner who spent their time on things that do actually matter.

That's all I've had on my mind. Hope someone will find this useful 😊

Both Twitter and BlueSky - backed by untold amounts of money and white tech bros - are down.

Mastodon - run by trans furries and femboys high on anxiety - is running just fine.

Liebe #neuhier und auch #althier!
Friendly reminder: Da Mastodon nicht wie Twitter funktioniert, macht es Sinn, viel mehr zu teilen (aka retweet) als drüben, weil der Alghorithmus keine Sterne (aka Likes) bewertet.
Bitte, gern geschehen.

Mein ultimativer #Tipp an #Mastodonfrischlinge:

"Nutzt Hashtags!"

Sowohl in Euren eigenen #Posts, als auch zum Folgen (ja, man kann die abonnieren).

Dann erscheinen Posts mit diesen #Hashtags in Eurer #Timeline.

“I didn't spend a decade trying to convince people to use MDN over the shovelfuls of low-quality SEO-farming craptext on W3Schools, only for them to be presented with shovefuls of low-quality AI craptext on MDN” — @avdi

https://github.com/mdn/yari/issues/9208

🚨 Kolektiva.social SECURITY ALERT 🚨

This is an alert for Kolektiva.social users. Please read this post in its entirety!

In mid-May 2023, the home of one of Kolektiva.social's admins was raided, and all their electronics were seized by the FBI. The raid was part of an investigation into a local protest. Kolektiva was neither a subject nor target of this investigation. Today, that admin was charged in relation to their alleged participation in this protest.

Unfortunately, at the time of the raid, our admin was troubleshooting an issue and working with a backup copy of the Kolektiva.social database. This backup, dated from the first week of May 2023, was in an *unencrypted* state when the raid occurred and it was seized, along with everything else.

The database is the heart of a Mastodon server. A database copy such as the one seized may include any of the following user data, in this case up to date as of early May 2023:

- User account information like the e-mail address associated with your account, your followers and follows, etc.
- All your posts: public, unlisted, followers-only, *and direct ("DMs")*.
- Possibly IP addresses associated with your account - IP addresses on Kolektiva.social are logged for 3 days and then deleted, so IP addresses from any logins in the 3 days prior to the database backup date would be included.
- A hashed ("encrypted") version of your password.

🚨 👉 As a precaution we highly recommend that all users on Kolektiva.social *change their password immediately* to a new, unique, and strong password.

We sincerely apologize to all our users and regret this breach. In hindsight, it was obviously a mistake to leave a copy of the database in an unencrypted state. Unfortunately, what would otherwise have been a small mistake happened to coincide with a raid, due to bad luck and spectacularly bad timing.

We understand that our users and other people on the Fediverse will have a lot of questions. We will try to answer them as best we can, but please be patient and bear in mind that we may be overwhelmed with messages, and may be delayed in responding or unable to provide answers to certain questions for legal or technical reasons. As a security culture reminder, it can be extremely harmful to the individuals charged and to our community to openly speculate on the Internet about alleged criminal activity or about what law enforcement may be able to do with seized data. Our present awareness is that the seized Kolektiva data is unrelated to the federal investigation and prosecution and we are exploring legal avenues to have the seized data returned and copies destroyed.

Thank you for your understanding and solidarity

👇 Please see our replies to this post for additional information (1/?) 👇

@SheDrivesMobility

Schade, dass die genannten wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten nicht verlinkt sind. So was stelle ich leider öfters fest (z.B. auch, wo bei Tagesschau und Deutschlandfunk über die hier erwähnte Studie berichtet wird). Bin aber bzgl. Gössling et al. hier fündig geworden:

https://www.mdr.de/wissen/tempolimit-autobahn-weniger-unfaelle-weniger-co-zwei-weniger-kosten-100.html

Link zur Publikation:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800923001131?via%3Dihub

Genossenschaften sorgen in #Frankfurt übrigens nicht nur für günstige Wohnungen, sondern auch für bezahlbare Lebensmittel.

"Die Kooperative" versorgt euch wöchentlich mit leckerem, regionalem und frischem Bio-Essen. Die Preise mussten dabei seit 2019 nicht mehr erhöht werden, die genossenschaftliche Kooperation mit den Landwirten zahlt sich aus - probiert es mal aus und schlagt der #Inflation ein Schnippchen 😎

(Im Bild: Inhalt einer kleinen Gemüsekiste)

https://www.diekooperative.de

My goodness! ❤️

"How to Dragon your Train" from various artists.

(reposted from the other site) #htdyt #furryart #furry #train #railway #dragon

Bitte merkt euch: wenn CDU/CSU von Landwirten reden, meinen sie eigentlich Schweinezüchter, wenn sie von Ernährung reden, meinen sie eigentlich Fleisch; wenn sie von Verkehr reden, meinen sie eigentlich Auto und wenn sie von Energie reden, meinen sie eigentlich Kohle & Atom.

Rewe mit schöner Message (Und nicht so schöner Message im Hintergrund lol) https://feddit.de/post/1170972

I wrote about this site the other day: https://writefreesoftware.org/

I've been in touch with the author, Drew DeVault, and I told him he should get translations. The site is currently only in English.

It's a new site that teaches Free Software ideology and gives practical advice for getting into the movement. Without the rigamarole. It has a lot of potential.

Contact ddevault on libera IRC, if interested in translating the site. More contact info available on Drew's blog: https://drewdevault.com/