Serra @serra@social.cleverlibre.org

🚨 GDPR complaint against X (Twitter) over illegal micro-targeting for chat control ads!

The platform unlawfully used the political views and religious beliefs of its users to determine whether they should see an ad campaign from the EU Commission.

https://noyb.eu/en/gdpr-complaint-against-x-twitter-over-illegal-micro-targeting-chat-control-ads

On this day, 22 years ago, the #Rockbox project started, co-founded by me. We wrote an open source firmware for mp3 players. On its 10 year anniversary 2011, I wrote this:

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2011/12/07/ten-years-of-rockbox/

Since 2015, the Earth League (of which I'm a member), Future Earth & WCRP have published "10 New Insights in Climate Science" to COPs. This year's is out now as an accepted manuscript:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/global-sustainability/article/ten-new-insights-in-climate-science-20232024/F7F1C10C07FD241BFE30ACC4BA555A56
Some headlines:
* Overshooting 1.5°C is fast becoming inevitable, greatly increasing risks
* Fast-shrinking carbon budget calls for fossil fuel phase-out
* Concern: the uncertain future contribution of land and ocean carbon sinks
* Climate and biodiversity emergencies are linked
* Justice

Wishmas, we need to talk about how trains work

it's happening!!!

from now until the end of the day on Friday, all my PDF zines are 50% off with the discount code WIZARDPDF

print zines are 30% off with the discount code WIZARDPRINT

https://wizardzines.com/

I just received #TristanPerich’s newest circuit album, “Composition for Three Small Speakers”. This is part of Tristan’s 1-bit music series. https://tristanperich.bandcamp.com/album/composition-for-three-small-speakers

high risk, low reward

#Caturday

Portal: Revolution is an upcoming fully-featured Portal 2 prequel mod https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/portal-revolution-is-an-upcoming-fully-featured-portal-2-prequel-mod/

#Portal2 #PuzzleGame #Linux

Published today: 👉 The latest Emissions Gap Report of the UN's Environmental Programme.

⚡ Its exasperated title is: "Broken Record. Temperatures hit new highs, yet world fails to cut emissions (again)" 💥

And indeed a broken record, but is anyone listening?

The figure shows that even the already existing fossil infrastructures are enough to blow right through 1.5 °C carbon budgets, and that is without the expansions and new developments so many are supporting.

https://www.unep.org/resources/emissions-gap-report-2023

#HirschhausenUndADHS setzt sich tatsächlich mit der Thematik auseinander, statt #ADHS voreilig als TikTok-Trend abzutun. #ARD #ADHD https://www.daserste.de/information/ratgeber-service/hirschhausens-check-up/sendung/hirschhausen-und-adhs-100.html

“My god. The weapon is armed, the countdown has begun, and the only known copy of the override code is stored on this old Nokia 5510 with an empty battery. We’re doomed.”

“Everybody chill the fuck out. I got this. Just gotta crack open the old cable drawer. Here you go.”

“You have a Nokia 5510 charger, but why?! That phone hasn’t been sold in over 20 years!”

“Let’s just say, I always knew this day would come.”

“Wow. Your decision to never throw away cables just saved humanity honey…honey…time to wake up honey…”

https://blog.do-foss.de/kolumne/koordinierungsstelle-digitale-souveraenitaet-und-open-source-wieder-ausgeschrieben/

@sovtechfund (funded by the German government) just announced a €1M grant towards the @gnome project, an open source desktop environment.

Imagine a world in which governments don't spend billions of dollars in licensing fees every year to make Microsoft richer, and that money instead goes towards _public code_ that belongs to all of us.

That may seem utterly implausible - but every example like this brings us one step closer to it being inevitable and irreversible.

https://foundation.gnome.org/2023/11/09/gnome-recognized-as-public-interest-infrastructure/

pov: you wanna learn about content blocking but there’s a buncha nonsense in the way

🎨 browsers are user agents 🦾

i did a talk for @igalia about why customisation is important for the web, with a focus on userstyles, userscripts, and bookmarklets:

• how to make them
• why people make them
• what we learn from them
• how they can be improved

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLFQejlPf6U

Do any friends have a company in Germany that could hire a junior web developer at the moment? Either as a junior or intern?

I've a friend who's desperately in need of work so she can retain health insurance and stay in the country, after her last internship fell short of 6 months (company failed).

If you know of anything, please reach out! Boosts welcome!

#GetFediHired #fedihired

Every argument about undefined behavior in a nutshell

Discord: Where knowledge goes to die™.