Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

Releasing Debian 11 doesn't mean Debian 10 "buster" is abandoned. Debian supports the previous version for at least twelve months following a new release, before it moves to the LTS and eLTS teams for further maintenance #ReleasingDebianBullseye

There should be a "registered false rape accusation" database much like we
have a "registered sex offender" database.
-RiverCard, Dec 2014

Millions of drops of rain pounding on a roof is soothing while a single drop
of water dripping from a faucet becomes extremely irritating.
-yawatt, Sep 2016

Facebook shut down German research on Instagram algorithm
https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/13/22623354/facebook-instagram-algorithm-watch-research-legal-threat

(submitted by LogicRiver)

This Week in @gnome 5 "Freeze Frenzy" is out! And we establish a new record of 18 news reported for a single week 🎉

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2021/08/twig-5/

"I cannot succinctly convey how interesting I find this.... The large-scale change of one of the basic premises of internet design, from a peer-to-peer system to a strictly client-server system, happened by accident."

https://computer.rip/11.html

I am really, really at my wit’s end regarding job hunting. Nowhere seems willing to hire me - not even the places I thought I was qualified for. I don’t have nearly enough money to pay my share of rent, the landlord is talking about raising rent or we might have to move. I don’t know what to do.

For jobs, I don’t even get interviews. The one place I had an interview with I just got rejected. I’ve been looking since May. What should I even do?

Archaeologists discover 4k-year-old ancient city in Iraqi desert
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/archaeologists-discover-4-000-year-old-ancient-city-in-iraqi-desert

(submitted by andyxor)

I have some exciting professional news to share!

The Sloan Foundation has generously funded "Collaborating on Software Archiving for Institutions" #CoSAI, with 3 streams of work:

1) technical development on open source, decentralized toolkit for software archiving & replay; 2) community building and education on software archiving; and 3) optimizing machine and human workflows

Psyched that this is a big collaborative project, feat. the one and only @wilkie

Read more: https://guides.nyu.edu/blog/NYU-Wins-Major-Grant-From-Alfred-P-Sloan-Foundation-To-Expand-Capabilities-For-Archiving-Digita

#memeirl

Reached out to a few projects regarding Groups federation, looking forward to working together on compatibility.

#pixelfed #groups #activitypub

Uber asked contractor to allow surveillance cameras in employees homes, bedrooms.

#Uber #SurveillanceCapitalism #Privacy #workersrights
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/08/uber-asked-contractor-to-allow-video-surveillance-in-employee-homes-bedrooms/

Users Can Be Just As Dangerous As Hackers https://thehackernews.com/2021/08/users-can-be-just-as-dangerous-as.html

The IBM PC, 41 Years Ago
https://www.os2museum.com/wp/the-ibm-pc-41-years-ago/

(submitted by userbinator)