Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

Hack Club Grants Encourage Open Source PCB Designs by Teens - [Hack Club] is a nonprofit network of coder and maker clubs for teenage high schoo... - https://hackaday.com/2023/06/15/hack-club-grants-encourage-open-source-pcb-designs-by-teens/ #printedcircuitboards #opensourcehardware #stemeducation #hardware #pcbhacks #students #grants

Police have set up cameras in the yard of a Las Vegas family who called 911 to report an alien sighting.
https://www.8newsnow.com/investigators/las-vegas-police-set-up-cameras-at-house-where-family-called-911-to-report-aliens/ #UAP #UFO #Nevada

Nothing to see here, just a Debian system with a bunch of packages installed

Maybe this explains why the US has so few laws to protect people from company's that was to extract all their personal data

"US: Yep, We're Buying Your Data, Including Your Embarrassing Secrets"

https://www.pcmag.com/news/us-yes-were-buying-data-on-us-citizens-including-their-embarrassing-secrets

@zleap even if he’s convicted, it only gets home confinement I’m going to go rob a bank. My faith in the rule of law is slim if any.

Spectrum 48+ Manual #zxspectrum #retrogaming

READ: https://archive.org/stream/NH2021_spectrumplusmanual.pdf/page/n25/mode/2up

@SrRochardBunson @Hey_Beth @Patrickoldhiker

What's terrifying is how far back #WhiteChristianNationalism has had power in the US. I was just reading about the sedition trials in WWII, how the Christian Nationalists teamed up with actual Nazis, and got funding from Germany to promote white nationalism. It's a virus that refuses to die.

The #RedditMigration just got spicier 🌶

#Lemmy now has 135,369 accounts. That is tracking with my expectations.

But while #Kbin had ~7,000 accounts yesterday, it’s just shot up to 30,930 accounts.

While Lemmy is the 5th most used server software on the Fediverse, Kbin is now in 10th place and it’s growing at a faster rate than Lemmy.

A few days ago, I predicted that the #RedditMigration would result in 150,000-300,000 new accounts being created on the Fediverse. That expectation has already been met.

This #RedditMigration is fundamentally changing the course of the Fediverse. It’s moved the Fediverse from being primarily about microblogging to having more eclectic use cases.

While the #TwitterMigration validated that decentralized social media can appeal to millions of people, the #RedditMigration has validated that decentralized social media has man varied applications – both in the software and use case sense.

SOURCE: https://fedidb.org/software

@saramg

That was me. I gave it up at 60 because I'd solved the same problems and had the same arguments with managers so many times it was getting boring.

At one point I did try moving up (as some people see it) to project management, but I didn't enjoy it and wasn't any good at it.

Now I play my guitar and write science fiction.

It's wild to me that there's currently so much panic & fear about what #AI *might* do to "destroy" humanity, yet - at the same time - so little attention to the way that human behaviors are already, knowingly, putting billions of people & global biodiversity at tremendous risk. 🌍 #climatechange

Examples of the kind of secondary abuse I've experienced personally from other admins on the Fediverse:

1. Telling a Jew that "it's not antisemitic"

2. Telling them that we should allow antisemitism because the original poster is part of another marginalized group.

3. Complaining about "weaponized antisemitism", usually through saying how often Jews complain.

4. Saying it's a safe space for all, but then telling a Jew "If you don't feel safe, you should leave"

5. Asking for more information about why something is antisemitic, then ghosting on them when they provide it

6. Saying that it might have been antisemitic, but that a Jew said something in a mean way, so it cancels out.

7. Finding a quote from a Jewish extremist group, or claiming that they "need to ask their Jewish friend" before accepting that the speech is antisemitic.

8. Whatabouting the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and saying Israelis (or all Jews) should be quiet unless this is "solved".

#antisemitism

Hey #RedditBlackout / #RedditStrike peeps,

Once again Louis Rossman knocks it out of the park with his summary of the #Reddit situation. In short, u/Spez thinks "You are noise". Nothing but noise, of no value. Lets keep up the strike and show him he's so so terribly wrong.

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

Trans women athletes have no advantage, report finds

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/01/26/trans-women-no-unfair-advantage-elite-sport-new-report-finds/

A new report has found trans women do not have any advantages over any other women, when competing in elite sport, if existing rules are followed.

#transgender #trans #lgbtq

We have co-signed @LaQuadrature 's open letter in solidarity and to express support for upholding our digital rights. The use of privacy-preserving technology to defend against surveillance and tracking should not be criminalized.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2023/06/14/encryption-protects-our-rights-privacy-is-not-a-crime_6031695_23.html

Special counsel Jack Smith wants a "speedy" trial of Donald Trump in the classified records case.

NPR says many factors could prevent that. Here's a look at what's next in the case: https://www.npr.org/2023/06/14/1182182584/trump-documents-case-legal-steps-jack-smith

#Trump #TrumpIndictment #USPolitics #News

@mmiasma @wasootch

I just read All Boys Aren't Blue, by George Johnson, which I understand is a frequently banned book.

I thought it was mostly a love letter to his wonderful and supportive family.

It did depict how he was molested by his older cousin and assaulted in college.

The man never had consensual sex with another man until he was 25. It did describe that encounter.

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Hi #OpenScience folks. We're making excellent progress with our Research England funded project on computational reproducibility. We've now made 5 manuscripts reproducible using Markdown. See examples here:

https://github.com/AMTdeBruin/Bilingual-switching-ageing

https://github.com/bakerdh/SizeAdaptation

The question now is what we should do next. We have a really nice pipeline for automatically building markdown files on Github. But the process of making papers reproducible is time consuming.