🇬🇧 Amazing news from the European Parliament: 💥 Parliament negotiators have agreed to aim for stoppig #chatcontrol and guaranteeing secure encryption! Let’s not relent now...

Read more: patrick-breyer.de/en/historic-…

Wow - where does the time go?

Pleased to say its been a fruitful 7 months - and we've some some serious levels of architectural awesome going to hit @thunderbird soon!

The FCC pushed back the application window to Dec 6-13 to allow community groups more time to prepare applications for new, low-power, community radio stations.

When they first announced the opportunity -- a window that has not been open in a decade y'all -- the news was clearly huge, so now they are giving people six more weeks to prepare their applications.

As you know, KUZU shows one way LPFM can be a foundation to build valuable community information resources.

Please boost and share.

#radio
#community
#local
#journalism

fcc.gov/media/radio/lpfm

Low Power FM (LPFM) Broadcast Radio Stations

In the following sections, we provide some basic information about Low Power (LPFM) radio stations (licensed service) and the related application processes.

^www.fcc.gov

Uff sogar #DHL startet jetzt mit #NFT s und einer *Trommelwirbel* #Kryptobriefmarke…🙃🫠🫠

deutschepost.de/de/k/kryptomar…

#CryptoBullshit #KeinPilzToken

🇺🇸 Oh, nice! Finally a music recognition app at #FDroid – freshly arrived: f-droid.org/packages/com.mrsep… No more tracker-ridden Shazams etc. I didn't try it yet, but maybe you want to take a look?

🇩🇪 Eine Musik-Erkenner App bei F-Droid? Na, das ist doch mal was! Schluss mit den vertrackerten Shazams & Co? Hab sie noch nicht getestet, aber schaut doch mal

Audile | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

Music recognition app

^f-droid.org

🔄 Devátý díl se věnuje kompozici, zbavení se symetrie a dalším tajemstvím DALL-E 3. Prozkoumejte limity a možnosti tohoto úžasného AI nástroje. #AIlimits

Pokračuje desetidílný seriál, co má už mezitím rozepsaný jedenáctý díl :)

Klikněte 🔽🔽🔽
365tipu.cz/2023/10/15/dall-e-3…

Good news! Prav app is now available to download from the F-Droid app store, a repository of Free Software apps we recommend for #android users. If you do not already have F-Droid, you can get it from f-droid.org.

#prav #fdroid #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #coop #xmpp 

Thursday. What a concept.

#meme #parody #krita #MastoArt #sketch

A large group of scientists has collaborated to produce the "2023 State of the Climate" report. And guess what, it's not pretty...
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Life on planet Earth is under siege. We are now in an uncharted territory.

For several decades, scientists have consistently warned of a future marked by extreme climatic conditions because of escalating global temperatures caused by ongoing human activities that release harmful greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. Unfortunately, time is up. We are seeing the manifestation of those predictions as an alarming and unprecedented succession of climate records are broken, causing profoundly distressing scenes of suffering to unfold. We are entering an unfamiliar domain regarding our climate crisis, a situation no one has ever witnessed firsthand in the history of humanity.

In the present report, we display a diverse set of vital signs of the planet and the potential drivers of climate change and climate-related responses. The trends reveal new all-time climate-related records and deeply concerning patterns of climate-related disasters. At the same time, we report minimal progress by humanity in combating climate change.

Given these distressing developments, our goal is to communicate climate facts and policy recommendations to scientists, policymakers, and the public. It is the moral duty of scientists and our institutions to clearly alert humanity of any potential existential threat and to show leadership in taking action.

The effects of global warming are progressively more severe, and possibilities such as a worldwide societal breakdown are feasible and dangerously underexplored. By the end of this century, an estimated 3 to 6 billion individuals — approximately one-third to one-half of the global population — might find themselves confined beyond the livable region, encountering severe heat, limited food availability, and elevated mortality rates because of the effects of climate change.

Big problems need big solutions. Therefore, we must shift our perspective on the climate emergency from being just an isolated environmental issue to a systemic, existential threat. Although global heating is devastating, it represents only one aspect of the escalating and interconnected environmental crisis that we are facing (e.g., biodiversity loss, fresh water scarcity, pandemics). We need policies that target the underlying issues of ecological overshoot where the human demand on Earth's resources results in overexploitation of our planet and biodiversity decline.

To address the overexploitation of our planet, we challenge the prevailing notion of endless growth and overconsumption by rich countries and individuals as unsustainable and unjust. Instead, we advocate for reducing resource overconsumption; reducing, reusing, and recycling waste in a more circular economy; and prioritizing human flourishing and sustainability. We emphasize climate justice and fair distribution of the costs and benefits of climate action, particularly for vulnerable communities. We call for a transformation of the global economy to prioritize human well-being and to provide for a more equitable distribution of resources.
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It's wonderful to see these scientists boldly calling for system change in the face of a planetary overshoot emergency. Now if only someone will listen...

FULL REPORT -- academic.oup.com/bioscience/ad…

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Degrowth

here we go again

#urbancycling

New blog post: Enhancing Accessibility with AI and ML

We discuss how to specialize #AI for understanding UI for #a11y testing, the importance of algorithm and data integrity, and how #ML can be used to simplify #a11y testing. deque.com/blog/enhancing-acces…

An insightful interview with Arab Jewish historian #AviShlaim, who dreams of multiethnic democracy. Shlaim believes the roots of this conflict are in the violent assertion of the Israeli ethnostate and its brutal erasure of Palestinian Arab people, communities, and culture.

english.elpais.com/internation…

Did you know intersex people are as common as redheads?

Did you also know that infants are often forced into operations just to ensure they conform to society's notion of gender?

Let's learn about Intersex identities this #IntersexAwarenessDay 💛💜💛
gendergp.com/celebrating-inter…

What happens when #Android manufacturers prefer battery life over proper functionality 😮

This is from the android issue tracker about OEMs stopping background workers unexpectedly ✋

dontkillmyapp.com

I genuinely feel like #Protomaps is not nearly getting the attention it deserves

protomaps.com

We can drop a single file on a static host and get stylable vector maps? Magic ✨

In combination with Maplibre it's a game changer for 99% of web map use cases 👏

#OpenStreetMap #MapLibre #Maps #Mapstodon

Big things happening in the Bangladeshi garment industry as the Minimum Wage Board prepares to make its *once every five year* decision on setting a new minimum wage for garment workers.

The minimum wage is now 8,000 taka per month (£60). This is a poverty wage and workers want/need it raised to 23,000 taka (£172) but the factory owners are saying no.

Critical couple of days ahead so if you want to learn more and support garment workers, check this out:

tansyhoskins.org/bangladesh/

Bangladeshi garment workers fight for a living wage

How you can help end poverty wages in Bangladesh.

^{Tansy Hoskins (Tansy E Hoskins)}

Velký úspěch pro @Pirati! Plošné šmírování soukromých zpráv nás všech, neboli #ChatControl, jsme dostali PRYČ z pozice Evropského parlamentu k legislativě pro ochranu dětí.

Teď je třeba o zachování našeho soukromí přesvědčit ještě národní vlády.

pirati.cz/jak-pirati-pracuji/p…

GET LAMP, the documentary I created 13 years ago, is available for free, but the GETLAMP.COM website didn't make that clear. Now it does, linking to the Internet Archive's set of .ISO files.

getlamp.com

We are pleased to announce the release of the 2024 versions of JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion! Check out the What’s New pages and download the latest version for all the new features and improvements.

JAWS: support.freedomscientific.com/…

ZoomText: support.freedomscientific.com/…

Fusion: support.freedomscientific.com/…

#JAWS #ZoomText #Fusion

ÚLTIMA HORA | El Constitucional anula una ley de Ayuso que limitaba el derecho a la eutanasia de personas con discapacidad

eldiario.es/madrid/constitucio…

El Constitucional anula una ley de Ayuso que limitaba el derecho a la eutanasia de personas con discapacidad

El Tribunal Constitucional ha establecido en una sentencia que la Comunidad de Madrid de Isabel Díaz Ayuso invadió competencias estatales para limitar el acceso a la eutanasia de personas mayores con discapacidad.

^{Alberto Pozas (elDiario.es)}

Coming in November. Following up my previous monster video on #curl: the corresponding version for #libcurl: "mastering libcurl"

The exact date is not set yet because man, this takes work and I'm only about half way.