Michel Salim @michel_slm@floss.social

Iceland has lost its first glacier to rising temperatures. Now, scientists are planning to install a memorial near the sad pile. https://earther.gizmodo.com/scientists-wrote-a-eulogy-for-icelands-first-glacier-lo-1836542745 #climateChange #ScientistsForFuture #FridaysForFuture

In the US, the Telecommunications Act of 1934 allows monitoring of communications by individuals, but it prohibits sharing what one learns with third parties. We could apply the same standard here: you can have a camera. You can't gossip about what it records on Nextdoor or share it with third parties without a warrant.

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Fedora Silverblue has proven to me that it’s possible to use Linux using 99% of my apps as flatpak apps.

issue one of the fediverse tribune is done!!

https://bune.city/2019/07/the-fediverse-tribune-issue-1/

2015 Slack breech was still active

they've reset some passwords today

"we determined that the majority of compromised credentials were from accounts that logged in to Slack during the 2015 security incident"

#majority does NOT imply all

https://slackhq.com/new-information-2015-incident

keybase CTO had a negative experience due to this issue

https://keybase.io/blog/slack-incident

#InfoSec

I found a book I want to read on the Internet Archive. I can’t copy it. I must “borrow” it. This illustrates the artificiality of it all. Most of all because in Switzerland 8 have the right to make a copy for myself and my close friends and family. DRM and the artificial rules around it deny me the benefits of the digital age and deny me my rights for the monetary gain of a few corporate heads and software engineers. This isn’t right!
And already they are trying to change the law. 💰🙈
#DRM

50 moon songs in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/moon-songs/

#NASA #MoonLanding #ApolloII #ScienceIsReal #ActualMoonWalking

50 years ago today humans stepped onto the first non-earth celestial body

Happy 50th to the Apollo 11 moon landing

today is a great day to visit a science museum

https://www.space.com/relive-apollo-moon-landing-real-time.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11

#NASA #MoonLanding #ApolloII #ScienceIsReal #ActualMoonWalking

Well that was easier than expected. Installed Ubuntu 18.04.2 on the Raspberry Pi 4, then effectively converted it to an elementary OS install. Pretty whack.

The darkest of UX patterns. Interrupt what people actually want to see (their feed) with a thing that sounds like it’s good, with a big obvious blue button that will make it go away, while uninformed users are actually “opting in” to invasive, privacy-destroying tracking.

RT @chrismlacy@twitter.com

Is this a question? Because it doesn't seem like I'm able to say "no".

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/chrismlacy/status/1152157191652048896

Rust compiler added to Android tree
https://android.googlesource.com/toolchain/rustc/

(submitted by ndesaulniers)

if you ask someone "are you a fascist" they'll be outraged you'd dare accuse them of such a thing

and yet, if you ask "should we have a Strong Leader with Absolute Power to Bypass Petty Bureaucracy in order to Purge Undesirables and Restore Our Country's Manliness" then an alarming number of Americans say "yes"

(as shown by their votes in 2016)

amazing that fascists have been the villains in our stories for generations, yet apparently all we've learned is that the /word/ "fascist" is bad

If you ask people "should illegal border crossing carry the death penalty?" they will say "no, of course not"

but if you point out how many have died in CBP custody, the same people well say, or imply, that the victims deserved it for illegally crossing the border!

(which isn't even true for many of them: seeking asylum is not a crime!)

it's just amazing to me how eager some people are to throw away their own capacity for moral reasoning in order to justify their government's atrocities.

Whoa, just learned that this Roman dude Marcus Terentius Varro had the germ theory of disease in 27 BC:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Terentius_Varro#Works

"...there are bred certain minute creatures which cannot be seen by the eyes, but which float in the air and enter the body through the mouth and nose and cause serious diseases."

Lucky guess? or... TIME TRAVELER?

Mozilla plans on adding a new dedicated social tracking protection component to their tracker protection system. This feature is currently under development, but is targeted for the Firefox 70 release.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/mozilla-firefox-adding-a-new-social-tracking-protection-feature/

How to #support open-source software and stay sane

Releasing #lab-built open-source software often involves a mountain of unforeseen work for the #developers.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02046-0

#opensource #opendata #software #science #openscience

@kaniini The only reason one should be looking at Gab stuff is as part of an infiltration operation. What we need to know is what they say to one another when they think they're safe, not what they say when they know anyone can read it.

Racket is an acceptable Python https://dustycloud.org/blog/racket-is-an-acceptable-python/