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The Linux kernel has officially decided to replace racist terminology like master/slave and black/whitelist https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-team-approves-new-terminology-bans-terms-like-blacklist-and-slave/

GIMP has quite a few features that are not very much visible to end-users and sometimes downright difficult to make obvious. Doing basic math calculations in the input fields is one of them. Basically, you can write '2467+7893', press TAB, and GIMP will compute the sum for you. So I did a video about this feature with slightly more details than that :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPoGUxddGj8

I wish more sites like Google Books with its dumb giant "Try the new Google Books" banner would realize that many folks intermittently use private browsing mode, and these obnoxious banners show up every single time.

tl;dr: Don't assume that just because you don't have a "dismiss" cookie for some banner or notice, a person is seeing it for the first time.

Have you ever wondered what the SeaGL seagull is named? Plot twist: it's nameless! We're hosting a bracket-style contest to name the seagull, but first we need (gender-neutral) ideas. Propose a name in the replies - we can't wait to read your ideas!

#SeaGL #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #NameThatSeagull #VirtualConf #Seattle

Inkscape's summer of Hackfest 2020 online starts today, July 11, at 16:00 UTC. It's the leadership focused day. We'll be talking about how Inkscape is organised, in teams, & how to join! Everyone is welcome! Hop onto the Hackfest video chat here: https://digimedia1.r2.enst.fr/b/vec-tz3-fi9

Today's chat started with "what's your favorite distro?" and finished with a discussion on trademarks in free software. Check out Bkuhn's excellent post on the latter, https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2020/jul/09/org-proliferation/

I'd also argue that seeing someone like you, who is young and doing techy/science things makes a huge difference as inspiration. So there's an argument for writing diverse characters who do what Penny did. I have no idea what characters can inspire kids now.

Of course it's only a part of the way you build that. Encouragement needs to be in Education, don't keep to the stereotype of girls don't do math. But normalising the idea of girls being able to hack was the amazing thing about Penny. I loved watching her saving Gadget constantly

Inspector Gadgets niece Penny and her hacking device disguised as a book was a part of my inspiration to get into computing in the 80s. If you want more girls in STEM write awesome characters in kids TV like Penny. Encourage girls earlier. #WomenInSTEM
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/inspector-gadgets-niece-penny-was-the-real-brains-behind-the-operation

PLUG tonight at 19:00 Arizona, UTC-7

Topic: Kubernetes and Python

Austin will intro containerization and k8s, show a containerized #Python app, then show how to use Python to interact with the #k8s API

Mtgs are virtual in #BigBlueButton info on #GetTogether page

https://gettogether.community/events/5924/east-valley-meeting/

https://phxlinux.org/index.php/meetings/14-east-valley-meeting.html

The Free Software #Stammtisch is Tue, the 21st, also in #BBB

This month we'll give resume reviews starting at 18:00

https://gettogether.community/series/30/floss-jobs-networking-event/

#LocalGroup #PLUG #FLOSSevent #FLOX

The #Nextcloud Social app recently released a third alpha - read the update, test & get involved!
https://help.nextcloud.com/t/social-alpha3-how-to-upgrade/85535

Debian 8 Long Term Support reaching end-of-life https://www.debian.org/News/2020/20200709 #jessie #LTS

Oh, just a casual #astrophotography shot of the M63 galaxy using Siril with *19,000* stacked images by community member Fabrice Faure. '

He discusses workflow a little on the topic:
https://discuss.pixls.us/t/m63-with-16-dobson-a7s-and-19000-images/19070?u=patdavid

#FreeSoftware #photography #astronomy #FOSS

We will we will... (9gag)

Awesome KDE Akademy shirt looks awesome!

Get yours: https://www.freewear.org/akademy/