Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

Torbay Trojans Training
Sunday 10th October 2021
10 am -> 13:00 p,m
Foxhole Playing fields
Pimm Road, Paignton
torbaytrojans.co.uk/

@zleap

If there is anyone here who'd like to work with me as a Research Associate from 1 Jan 2022 until 31 July 2023 or for a shorter period, full-time or part-time, please let me know.

Closing date is 13 Oct, no applicants so far so I will re-advertise if needed.

The post is on a research project at the intersection of embedded systems (SW&HW), programming languages, compilers, runtime systems and type theory. So if you know about any of these areas, it may suit you.

https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CJE549/research-associate

Facebook is a harmful presence in our lives. It’s not too late to pull the plug on it
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/06/facebook-scandals-social-media

Less than two weeks to snag the TAKE BACK THE INTERNET t-shirt before it's retired forever! Only available as part of the t-shirt pack, and with a donation of $125 in the name of privacy online, you can make it yours. Donate here: https://donate.torproject.org

Firefox now shows ads as sponsored address bar suggestions – https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/firefox-now-shows-ads-as-sponsored-address-bar-suggestions/

‘No new data is collected, stored, or shared to make these new recommendations," Mozilla says’

Meaning, of course, that Mozilla was already collecting, storing, and sharing what you typed in the URL bar.

Zuckerberg Responds to Claims That Facebook Prioritizes Profit as ‘Just Not True’

https://inkl.com/a/njGozXCJNlJ

“Excuse me, does anyone know who left this trillion-dollar publicly-traded company here?” – Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook Will Not Fix Itself
https://time.com/6104863/facebook-regulation-roger-mcnamee/

Interesting #Facebook boycott taking place on Nov 10, this time asking users to log out, rather than asking advertisers

https://thefacebooklogout.com

⚠️REMINDER: Only download Inkscape from trusted sources and be cautious about emails with links, even if they claim to be from the project. If there's any doubt go to the source. The latest, validated release will always be available for free on our website.

Boosts appreciated.

Did you miss the ownCloud Conference 2021? Then check out our roundup with links to video recordings of each talk! 👇
https://owncloud.com/news/missed-the-owncloud-conference-2021-we-help-you-catch-up/

announcement
As a result of a critical system failure on October 3rd of 2021, Misskey.io's has been rolled back to a backup made on April 4th of 2021.

In accordance with this, all account data has also been reset to the state it was in at the point this backup was made. We are greatly sorry for the inconvenience, but would like to ask users of remote instances that have followed users from Misskey.io between the above stated timespan to please cancel and re-follow the users that they have followed, as while it may seem like you are following them, this is not being correctly reflected.

Additionally, we would be happy if you could please spread the news of this post to as many people as you are able to.

Once again, we sincerely apologize for the great trouble caused by this incident and ask for both understanding and cooperation in this matter.

RE: https://misskey.io/notes/8rgl4waclb

We want to better understand end-users’ experience with #RouterFreedom and their ISPs, so we can react accordingly.

Your opinion is extremely important for us. This #survey will take only few minutes, and it will help us a lot.

https://survey.fsfe.org/index.php/628449

Open the hood of LibreOffice and explore the technology underneath! Also, check out what features are in the pipeline, with videos from our recent LibreOffice Conference 2021: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/10/07/10-more-videos-from-the-libreoffice-conference-2021/