Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

Sad news that guitarist Bernie Marsden has died.

Our paths crossed briefly in 1978, the year that Whitesnake, the band he’s most closely associated with, formed.

A short thread.

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America’s rightwing billionaires have a plan to utterly destroy the American middle class and make this country permanently safe for the morbidly rich. Will we let them get away with it?

https://hartmannreport.com/p/is-vivik-ramaswamy-a-different-kind-e3d

In the US, the positive rate of #COVID19 testing is rapidly approaching the third-highest rate of the pandemic. The CDC says we're at 13.4% and still rising. That's less than a point away from the July 2022 and November 2022 peaks. There is some evidence COVID in wastewater may be moderating, but it'd be premature to conclude we've peaked. The risks of infection are quite high right now, and it's worth being a bit more careful this weekend. #WearAMask

Several years in the making, GitLab is now very actively implementing #ActivityPub! 🙌

https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/11247

The end-goal is to support AP for merge requests (aka pull requests), meaning git.alice.dev can send an MR to gitlab.com/Bob/project.git

First bite-sized todo on the implementation path there is ‘subscribe to project releases’.

Smart move by GitLab; through ActivityPub they’re getting a distributed version of GitHub’s social layer.

@fediversenews #fediverse #GitHub #git

Fact Check: Lyme Disease Is NOT HIV/AIDS https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2023/08/fact-check-lyme-disease-is-not-hiv-aids.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Health #FactCheck #Science

Saw some asshole griping about people promoting for sale things they make here on Mastodon.

So I blocked his stupid ass instead.

Look. Some folks lost their ENTIRE LIVELIHOOD when Twitter went tits up.

Save the arguments about building on other people's platforms for another time. Because for many, this is immediate, desperate, and is the difference between eating this week or not.

Don't be a dick.

We need a better model for how we create the future than just idiots trying to make money.

UK prime minister set to anger environmental groups by missing event that will focus on sustainable development https://www.ft.com/content/8dca9c9a-578a-4fd8-82ee-2d4d96200923

Time’s Running Out: How to Get Your Share of Facebook's $725M Privacy Settlement https://uk.pcmag.com/social-media/146478/how-to-get-your-share-of-facebooks-725-million-privacy-settlement
Meta is accused of sharing users’ personal data with third parties without their consent, but to get a chunk of the settlement money, you need to submit a claim.

"'We do not share SAT scores or GPAs with Facebook or TikTok, and any other third parties using pixel or cookies,” said a College Board spokesperson. 'In fact, we do not send any [PII] through our pixels on the site....'

After receiving this comment, Gizmodo shared a screenshot of the College Board sending GPAs and SAT scores to TikTok using a pixel. The spokesperson then acknowledged that the College Board’s website actually does share this data."

https://gizmodo.com/sat-college-board-tells-facebook-tiktok-your-scores-gpa-1850768077

#privacy #pii

Ransomware Wipes Out Data Access for 'Majority' of Danish company CloudNordic's Customers
https://uk.pcmag.com/security/148342/ransomware-wipes-out-data-access-for-majority-of-cloud-providers-customers
The company has to essentially start over and rebuild its systems. 'I don't expect that there will be any customers left with us when this is over,' an exec says.

Lesson, don't rely entirely on someone else's computer to store all of your data. Have your own backups...