The Desert of the Banal @gilscottfitzgerald@social.coop

Puzzled . . @mako makes a clear pitch on "Free software production needs free tools" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_nK6nP_RCY&feature=youtu.be
And is very clear on #commons and #P2P (though says most code comes from solo not collaboration!). Yet not a hint of coop ownership of #platforms to keep tools honest & open (GitHub!). Surely tools today become platforms? And platforms require collaboration even if code doesn't? So why doesn't #coop follow automatically, as we talk tools? How does libre not equal coop in FLOSS world?

PSA: We’re about to experience some serious heat. In fact, New York will hit 95 - 97F (36C+) over the weekend and many folks don’t have aircon or adequate access to cool water

Please check on your neighbors to see if they’re OK and have enough resources to make it through this. It’s sometimes hard to know when someone is overheated or maybe they’re too embarrassed to tell you, but do check anyway

If they’re elderly or infirm or if they have young children, they’re especially at high risk

With the #JanusDecision upon us, if you are in a union or consider a union job it is worth the read... #1u https://solidarity-us.org/rankandfilestrategy/

It is so sad to watch TNG & DS9 and see how thoroughly we’ve (speaking as a USian) devolved into a paranoid surveillance state in the intervening years.

There’s quite a few episodes where I found myself thinking “why don’t they check the cameras?” and then I remember that this idea actually was deeply and profoundly addressed on DS9.

From the Solarpunk Aesthetic tumblr:

Biotechnologist Marin Sawa and her University of London research group have created a proof-of-concept for printing solar cells onto paper using carbon nanotubes and cyanobacteria.

This technology is "[...] capable of generating a sustained electrical current both in the dark (as a ‘solar bio-battery’) and in response to light (as a ‘bio-solar-panel’) with potential applications in low-power devices."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-01084-4

https://solarpunk-aesthetic.tumblr.com/

Beginning June 11, no more free API key for Google Maps (now Google Maps Platform) if you don't provide a credit card.

A lot of custom Google maps that have been created over the years will likely no longer work.

Time to use #leaflet and #openstreetmap

https://leafletjs.com/
https://www.openstreetmap.org/about
https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/pricing/sheet/

#opensource

another thing that just came to mind:

If you have a WordPress install with multiple accounts, audit all of them and delete any that are not needed anymore.

Might also be a good idea to reset the password of all active/in-use accounts as a precaution.

#infosec

nu.federati.net

It seems that GNU Social instances (at least this one) may be doing twitter-style link tracking. There's a slashdot article about "Google Android DRM!!!" that is a redirect through the above instance.

Hopefully that isn't standard GNU Social functionality.

Apparently some ISPs decided @SDF was "dark web" and blocked it. How long until @tildetown gets the same thing? Your mastodon instance? Netflix?

Tired: Sombra's hacking is unrealistically fast
Wired: In the Overwatch universe, all computers use unauthenticated RDMA over 802.11 and Sombra is literally the only one who has ever noticed why this might be a problem

Currently looking for people from #tech and #infosec backgrounds to follow to make this account actively usable

if anyone has any recommendations, please let me know

Who is organizing a "solidarity with the neighborhoods" tech workers walkout until the industry stops gentrifying neighborhoods?

I'll wait. 💅🏽

I'm spitballing, but I'm also serious.

This isn't the first time this has happened; the late 1990s in SF and Seattle, same thing.

If you feel bad about it, take it from someone who worked full time in tech back then:

They've done it before, they're doing it now, they'll do it again if people let them. Tech workers especially.

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#tryst #switter #escortadvertising
#LolaHunt #phxx

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the great thing about mastodon isn't that people don't try to make witty remarks about popular toots, it's that the popular toots are all "snoozlen't: hhnnngddy the cruncy dirgus" and there just Is No Witty Response To That

@Karneolius Check my and TL of @tinker @vagnes and @jerrys

Also below of list of some recent interactions/TL posts:

@gilscottfitzgerald
@jeff
@stringlytyped
@SandPaper
@liquidSw0rds
@jotbe
@crowd42
@darrenpmeyer
@dildog
@dustofgoat
@eff
@StephenLB @galaxis
@stevelord
@rainmaker
@AlainODea
@cypherpunk
@Viss
@mastor
@Aaron
@lattera (and also bsd.network)
@sillystring
@ng0
@canadianbryan
@dethos
@0x4464

Mainly EN in this list though.
#infosec

The best way to fight back is to be you.

Don't be fearful.

Be mighty.

Be you in all your fucked up glory.

Summon your energy and be the you they are fearful of.

They don't know how to handle you when you are not afraid of them.