On my way to day 2 of the #matrixConf, and I'm so looking forward to a day full of discussions about the social impact of our work, how it works behind the scenes, and how projects use Matrix in their products.
And you can join the fun remotely too, at 2024.matrix.org/watch!
#opensource #Gnome #linux
Inspired by Google's move to remove @organicmaps from the Playstore without warning, I finally decided to move my > 3,000 Google Maps saved places to Organic Maps. To facilitate doing this for others' benefit, I made a quick webpage to convert your Google Maps GeoJSON data to GPX and KMZ files that render well in Organic Maps.
rudokemper.github.io/google-ma…
ArcaneChat (previously known as #DeltaLab) an alternative Delta Chat client for #Android is now available in official F-Droid store!
If you already have it you can securely continue to upgrade it now from F-Droid (or #IzzyOnDroid) thanks to #ReproducibleBuilds which ensures the apk matches the source code and not me nor F-Droid is manipulating the binary 🎉
f-droid.org/en/packages/chat.d…
#encryption #decentralization #anonymous #email #ArcaneChat #DeltaChat #fdroid
When someone is deliberately misgendered, you know it, and you tolerate it, you are contributing to the dehumanization of all trans people.
That person will learn that they can get away with it and will start to do so with other trans people, moving the bar on what they think "deserves" dehumanization to wherever is convenient.
Those watching will learn that it is acceptable to misgender people.
No. I don't care if you are marginalized. I don't care if you yourself are trans. Don't. do. it.
#blocklist update:
Added ts.net to my spammy-subdomains.txt list. While I have been aware of this for the past year, the number of subdomains on fedi has increased and the spam risk is too great (at least one person reported spam).
I should have added this months ago, to be honest: free easily-created subdomains and partially-managed hosting (networking) all in one for a product with sufficient popularity without heavy moderation of spam generally spells out a terrible place way to run an instance. Get a domain name.
For more about spammy-subdomains, see the supplementary blocklists section of my fediverse blocklists.
Moreover, I’ve had an increase in requests to add entries to shared blocklists. I normally don’t take requests for shared lists except in extreme situations, and in those cases I only do overrides as part of the process documented in the article. If I think an override is controversial, I ask a couple sources most likely to disagree; if multiple sources are opposed to adding an entry that overrides consensus, I don’t.
The point of FediNuke is to show what basically everyone agrees should be blocked, and that leaves out a lot of awful (and less-awful) entries. The goal isn’t to make a blocklist that’s enough; it’s to make a blocklist whose entries you probably agree with. As the docs say, this list is not comprehensive. It’s a huge compromise. There’s a reason why our blocklist isn’t just FediNuke; FediNuke is a list to compare other lists to, or a starting point for blocklist-skeptics. If you choose to trust FediNuke (and it’s fine if you don’t; I’m not “making” anybody use it on principle), then your list should eventually be a superset of what you import from it.
I’m making a 13.7 billion year long timeline with 5th graders mostly to teach them the difference in scale between billions and millions— but also to get them curious (I hope) about the way things bunch up and cluster together. I need more ideas for “significant events in the history of the universe/earth”
Nothing too technical.
Texas has purged about 500K eligible voters from voter rolls
Nebraska potentially changing its Electoral count to winner take all so they all go Red
Georgia is requiring 5-6M votes be counted by hand
Red states have closed more than 10,000 polling locations in Black/Latino neighborhoods
This is how Republicans are organizing to steal the election
Vas a una tienda de zapatos y cosillas de senderismo que es chiquita, independiente, linda.
No tienen de tu talla.
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Российская Федерация — светское государство. Религиозные объединения отделены от государства. Обеспечивается светский характер образования в государственных и муниципальных образовательных организациях.
Знаете, что это за экстремистский текст?
Things I didn't have on my cyberpunk dystopia bingo card: restarting Three Mile Island to power Microsoft AI
The Mastodon canary token story continues.
The token has been pretty much dormant for the last few months (except for hits from Google), but now we have a new player in the game. The ByteDance spider, ByteDance being the company behind TikTok.
Secret calculator hack brings ChatGPT to the TI-84, enabling easy cheating
Tiny device installed inside TI-84 enables Wi-Fi Internet, access to AI chatbot.
arstechnica.com/information-te…
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