Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

⚠️Google is raging war on the FOSS Aurora Store⚠️

Aurora is a staple tool for people looking to de-google their Android devices. Currently, Google has broken the ability for anonymous logins, and they’re now deleting some Google accounts used through Aurora. Proceed with caution, spread the word, and support the Aurora project if you’re able 🚀 More info: https://discuss.techlore.tech/t/aurora-store-anonymous-logins-are-removed-indefinitely/3817/12

There are now more Mastodonians than there are Belgians.

Mastodon user count:
12,042,552

Belgium population count:
11,735,535

Source: @mastodonusercount

tfw on weekend you try to work on your own software project... and work on *someone elses*. i'll send patches today.

here are patches i did for fiptool in arm trusted firmware-a (tf-a), see "fiptool_rice" branch:

https://codeberg.org/vimuser/trusted-firmware-a/commits/branch/fiptool_rice/tools/fiptool

UPSTREAM fiptool.c: https://git.trustedfirmware.org/TF-A/trusted-firmware-a.git/plain/tools/fiptool/fiptool.c?id=c0d8ee386185bf44acbc02d11d11de2963a307bb

UPSTREAM fiptool.h: https://git.trustedfirmware.org/TF-A/trusted-firmware-a.git/plain/tools/fiptool/fiptool.h?id=c0d8ee386185bf44acbc02d11d11de2963a307bb

My version (*better* error handling, cleaner code style):

fiptool.c: https://codeberg.org/vimuser/trusted-firmware-a/raw/commit/d01baac6c1f4d22d5b5deee218774cc3885c6f92/tools/fiptool/fiptool.c

fiptool.h: https://codeberg.org/vimuser/trusted-firmware-a/raw/commit/d01baac6c1f4d22d5b5deee218774cc3885c6f92/tools/fiptool/fiptool.h

More about FIP: https://trustedfirmware-a.readthedocs.io/en/latest/design/firmware-design.html#firmware-design

@trinsec I do have passion on programing, but not the one those enterprises need. I write posts for my blog monthly, mainly about some random stuff I did in the last month, like writing a simple read-only FUSE in Kotlin, dig into how email system prevents spam, record how I implemented a P2P chat system in Minecraft, etc. I do enjoy them, I did that for about 5 or 6 years, and I still want to keep doing that.

I generally hope I can turn my passion for programming into a job, which I don't suffer from. But based on situation, where I know the enterprise doesn't need a SpringBoot and MySQL master to build a product, and the enterprise knows that too, but they still want to hire a person who mastered those things and pay him/her an entry level salary, I don't think the job is the one I want. A Java programmer who masters the SpringBoot, database, cloud, knows how SpringBoot and MySQL work internally, knows how to design cloud-native applications, works 12 hours a day, and gets paid less than 2K USD per month? I would call it greedy.

While other people have workarounds, I don't like it. They simply repeat those Q&As and pretend to know everything about those things but in fact they rarely understood them. I think programing is about doing something and learning from it, not memory something and don't know how to use it.

Expert says dumping #Fukushima water a retrograde action
Tilman Ruff says the danger is that dumping the contaminated water could settle on the sea floor or concentrate up the food chain.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-26/expert-says-dumping-fukushima-water-a-retrograde-move/102400180

#TEPCO #Nuclear

This looks interesting

https://davzim.github.io/dataverifyr/

A lightweight package that verifies your data meets your specified rules, and automatically selects the correct package (DBI, dplyr, data.table etc) to carry out the checks.

#rstats

Happy Sunday!

A reminder:

The Catholic Church spent $11 mill in the NE US to fight legislation that would help victims of clergy sexual abuse get justice
In NY the Catholic Church spent $3 mill lobbying against the Child Victims Act
The Catholic Church donated over $3 mill to limit abortion access in Kansas
The Catholic Church refused to pay $20 mill to residential school survivors
- then they paid $30 mill for a new cathedral in Saskatoon

* This post was written at a drag brunch

Why do we accept these obscene levels of #Inequality in the #UK? #Foodbank demand soaring and soaring; families who only have £4 per week for #Food; better paid #NHS staff routinely bringing in food so that their colleagues can make it through the day. Meanwhile more #Billionaires and wealth at the top than ever. Yet all “normal” by now. We have #ShiftingBaselineSyndrome not just with #ClimateChange but also inequality

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/may/27/uk-food-bank-cost-of-living-crisis-getting-worse

@petersuber @mjskay if you have Open Access and also no APCs, who is paying the costs associated with publishing?

Update. The #EuropeanCouncil just adopted the #OpenScience proposal anticipated earlier this month. No #embargoes. No #APCs. #OpenLicenses. #Nonprofit publishing. #Open #infrastructure.
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2023/05/23/council-calls-for-transparent-equitable-and-open-access-to-scholarly-publications/

when John Lennon told me to imagine no possessions I just don't think he was envisioning a world where everything in my life is available only through a subscription-based model because the costs of personal property have been intentionally placed beyond my reach

@zleap @TruthSandwich @Tilopa
A fascinating piece on a recent BBC science hour podcast described a study on why people vote the way they do. The result was unsurprising to anyone with an understanding of human biology. Social approval by a peer group is more important than evidence for most voters. If someone one's church all votes MAGA, that person is more likely to vote with them. We are highly tribal social animals, and what our tribe does is very important to many of us.

‘You wake up wondering where your next meal is coming from’: UK #foodbank crisis is only getting worse

And even worse the Tories don’t care.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/may/27/uk-food-bank-cost-of-living-crisis-getting-worse