🌸🌹2ck 🌱🐇 @2ck@qoto.org

Lioconcha hieroglyphica, a mollusc with a shell that looks like it has an unknown language inscribed on it.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-06-15/supreme-court-sex-discrimination-gay-and-transgender-workers

The US Supreme Court just ruled (in deciding the case Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia - for some reason, few of the articles about the decision mention that?) that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 covers homosexual and transgender individuals because punishing a trait or behavior that would go unpunished in someone of a different sex is discrimination by sex.

And it's a 6-3 decision.

It's more limited than we'd like but that seems like a good thing, and however limited it is, it pushes the norm pretty hard in a good direction.

Yes, bias in machine learning is a problem, but the problem with equipping cops with facial recognition isn't that FR struggles with Black faces - it's that cops shouldn't be using FR, even (especially) if it works well on Black people.

eof/

Hi everyone, I'm off the grind, and that also means I'm off the dole. I'm running out of money, and I'm looking for a job.

If anyone needs a sysadmin with 6 years of professional and 18 years of hobbyist experience, please send me a DM.

My toolset includes (but is not limited to) the following:

- Nginx
- Caddy
- PHP-FPM
- MySQL / MariaDB
- QEMU / KVM
- Proxmox VE
- OpenVPN
- BIND (named)
- PowerDNS
- Postfix
- Exim4
- Dovecot
- 3proxy
- HAproxy
- Quagga/Bird (limited, but still)
- Apache
- ejabberd
- Nagios (nrpe, nsca)
- IPtables
- Logrotate
- systemd
- Nextcloud
-

I'm open to learning new stuff.

Please repost if nothing else!

Blender 2.83 LTS - Features Showcase https://video.blender.org/videos/watch/97b04642-4d8a-449c-b7bc-c01f927ced00

@sean While I dont personally promote blocking at the instance level I do respect instances that do.

I think if you are blocking instances GAB obviously makes a lot of sense with even a 15 second look at their timeline.

The reason I dont personally block any instances is largely because of what happened when we were tried to decide this during the birth of Isolate GAB movement, we almost did block GAB and others.

Our LGBT community at the time came together an en masse begged me not to, which I found odd at first but their reasoning made a lot of sense. They want a way to be able to monitor high-risk GAB accounts for threats against their community. Mostly doxxing of members in their community which the disseminate among each other. Obviously they didnt feel safe simply opening a GAB account because that would expose their personal details to GAB and they didnt want that.

Later we even implemented the subscription feature for a similar reason. This way our users can subscribe to a GAB user without actually following them as a further mechanism of safety.

It really saddens me though that choice I made specifically in the interest of protecting our LGBT community from harm has brought us some hate from the community and even blocks ourselves.

To me that is a price I am happy to pay to protect those individuals though.

Overall it has made me think about fediblocks in a very different way too.

idk why there aren't time limited mutes/bans on fedi. it would make mutes so much more useful.

A 9$ computer that runs linux, hand held, full qwerty keyboard, and a touch screen... I think I need to get this!

https://youtu.be/hXDizTasY6A

#linux #debian #programming #opensource #oss #foss

#LibreUX case study - Tor moving from designing based on feedback of highly technical users to interviewing, training and running usability tests with Global South social movements.

https://logicmag.io/security/free-as-in-smash-the-surveillance-state-alison-macrina-on-library-freedom/

This "Every proof assistant" lecture series sounds interesting. I only ever heard of Agda and Coq before, and recently learned there's an Isabelle, but this series has like a dozen listed.

First out is Arend, then MMT, more to come:

math.andrej.com/category/every…

#freefilms #thinkingfilms #kubrick #nuclear #nuclearwar #drstrangelove https://archive.org/details/DRStrangelove_20130616

The reason these fake pictures "work" is because people are anxious and ready to believe the worst about the other. So it's the other side of partisan divide in the US*, or it's gay people, or it's somebody you might already feel prejudice against.

The most effective trolling doesn't fight with you. It agrees with you.

@2ck @izaya
I learned about secureboot mostly from this blog:
https://blog.hansenpartnership.com/the-meaning-of-all-the-uefi-keys/
https://blog.hansenpartnership.com/owning-your-windows-8-uefi-platform/

This is the guy behind sbsigntools and efitools (including PreLoader.efi and HashTool.efi).

I'm really glad that someone with this approach was there, figuring out how this stuff works, explaining it, and educating people that it's not necessarily evil.