Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

When we talk about the climate emergency, we focus in on CO2, a long-lived gas whose release will eventually roast our planet and boil us all in our own skin. But a potentially more important threat is methane, which 84 times more greenhouse-y than CO2.

Thankfully, methane's effects taper off quickly as the gas breaks down, which means that if we can get a handle on methane release, it will cease to be a threat in short order.

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Reuters has just published a first-of-its-kind analysis of a dataset of observed methane emissions from different oil and gas companies' facilities and wells, imaged by high-resolution satellite cameras.

https://www.reuters.com/article/emissions-methane-idUSMTZSPDEH8EU9J79K

The worst liars are Shell, Chevron, Conoco Phillips, Marathon Oil and Exxon Mobil. Contacted by Reuters, spokescriminals representing each of these companies defender corporate genocide with a string of lies, each more risible and ghastly than the last.

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Torbay Covid update 17/8/2021 https://personaljournal.ca/paulsutton/torbay-covid-update-17-8-2021

Here’s the first bike I fixed up this morning during my first shift as a volunteer mechanic with Free Bikes 4 Kids! They’re getting bikes in the hands of kids and essential workers this summer and you can help out even if you don’t know anything about wrenching on a bike - https://fb4kmn.org #Bikes #MastoBikes

One of the most frustrating aspect of working from home, is that some of the colleagues does not know how to communicate.

A Simple Way to Build Collaborative Web Apps
https://zjy.cloud/posts/collaborative-web-apps

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How Has Social Media Impacted Our Mental Health? https://gizmodo.com/how-has-social-media-impacted-our-mental-health-1847326546

Looking for people who want remote paid contract work including

- front-end web design (html, JavaScript)
- Someone with experience making charts in d3.js
- a sysadmin to do some light server maintenance type work (setup to make sure everything is running correctly, some nginx server setup, general make it not burn down stuff)
- Mechanical turk type work (this one only requires English fluency)

We can work in French if you have some English
Inexperienced/entry level people are fine

Debian celebrates our 28th Anniversary today on #DebianDay! https://bits.debian.org/2021/08/debianday-2021.html This was only made possible with the support of our Contributors, Developers, and Users. Thank you! Let's all enjoy some Debian! #DebianDay #debian (P.S. #ReleasingDebianBullseye) :)

Nerds Don't Respond to Marketing; Try Technical Documentation Instead
https://hackernoon.com/nerds-dont-respond-to-marketing-try-technical-documentation-instead

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♲ @muse@diaspora.glasswings.com:

They said they wanted cheeps!

Helio is an open-source, cross-platform, distraction-free music composition suite that runs on computers and on mobile devices (!).
if you have a phone or a tablet, but no computer - you can still make music with libre software!

Something tells me once can be incredibly productive with this...

https://helio.fm/

#FOSS #OpenSource #Libre #Music #MusicProduction #MIDI #Android #Linux

Cybersleuths find men who allegedly attacked officer during US Capitol riot https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/14/jeffrey-smith-us-capitol-attack-lawsuit-david-walls-kaufman

How to Boost Innovation
https://www.persuasion.community/p/-how-to-boost-innovation

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People on the Internet are presumed male until proven otherwise.
-Bubbleny, Jul 2015

#Pine64 PineNote is a community supported 10.3-inch e-Reader based on Rockchip RK3566 SoC

https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/08/16/pinenote-reader-community-supported-rockchip-rk3566/

@lupyuen No guarantees yet I have found over the years that the support you do get tends to be superior to most paid services.

I've been playing on and off with Godot, an open source 2d/3d game engine. I increasingly think that game engines offer the most exciting examples of new or more supportive/powerful desktop paradigms, particularly for personal software.

https://medium.com/swlh/what-makes-godot-engine-great-for-advance-gui-applications-b1cfb941df3b

@zleap seeing how they have taken Kabul it would seem they have intentions of running somewhat cleanly. Take note, they are NOT a western country. So a western version of our democracy would probably not work.

If they will recover on their own with some sort of democratic process that would be really great.

I suppose we'll have to wait and see, however the Trump administration did this horrible and this could have been handled way better or more slowely

Sri Lankan teenager builds solar-powered tuk-tuk from scraps [video]
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-58192468

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