George Mari @GeorgeMari@qoto.org

Do I know anyone whose employer would be interested in sponsoring a high school robotics team in Toronto?

My nephew's current fundraising strategy seems to be to ask family members for money, and as someone without a lot of money who also doesn't think that school extracurriculars should be restricted to students with well-off families, I was trying to think of what else I could do to help.

I personally think they should build robots that will fundraise for them. Maybe a lemonade-making robot that could staff a lemonade stand? But I guess they first need enough funding to get to the point of being able to design & build such a thing!

On 8 December, politicians in the UK will be debating a petition that reached almost 3 million signatories rejecting mandatory digital ID. If you’re based in the UK, contact your MP through Big Brother Watch’s tool to oppose the plans for a digital ID system. https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/no2digitalid/#emailMP

Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out as it has around 1 billion users with all sorts of personal data.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/leak-confirms-openai-is-preparing-ads-on-chatgpt-for-public-roll-out/

So, after stealing data from all books, artists, source repos, Wikipedia, Forum posts, & everything else created voluntarily by humans, it is now being sold back to the highest bidder with all your personal data Remember, they are also asking for government IDs & burning all plants resources they come with Ads. such a big idea!

Black Friday, the day when every retailer you’ve patronized in the last 5 years decides to spam you, is the perfect day to start reading “Run Your Own Mail Server” by @mwl

https://mwl.link/run-your-own-mail-server.html

We found 23 new apartment complexes built on Mariupol’s ruins, now sold on Russian sites to Russian families — while Ukrainians fight to reclaim their homes.
See the investigation unfold on YouTube: https://youtu.be/8_MnE3s_CKs?si=UX6F2J8BBmbMvwmT

The entire software department at work was fired yesterday. I had already quit and today is my last day. While I already have a new position starting next week, the rest of the department is looking. There are QA, frontend ( #angular ), and backend ( #python #Django) engineers, technical writer and software compliance specialists, UI/UX designers, SREs, our manager. If you're #hiring #remote in #Germany or on-site, I'd love to forward contact details. #getfedihired

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It's flu SZN people

Some helpful advice for all you software devs:

- You cannot solve social problems with code

- You cannot improve a system until you understand why it works the way it does

- You cannot produce tools for someone else without understanding how they work and what they are trying to accomplish

Friends, we gather to honor the dearly departed icons of the early web. 🖥️⚰️ Though they have vanished from our screens, their spirit endures both in our memory & in the Wayback Machine, preserved across 1 trillion pages of web history.

👀 Pay your respects in full resolution ⤵️
https://archive.org/details/in-memoriam-web-mascots

#Wayback1T

🎉 We're very happy to announce our new release KeePassXC 2.7.11 and... *drumroll* that the KeePassXC version 2.7.9 has been awarded a CSPN Security Visa by the French National Cybersecurity Agency (ANSSI). 🎉❤️🔒
See our blog post for more information: https://keepassxc.org/blog/2025-11-23-2.7.11-released/ #VisaSecu #KeePassXC

New post: Transport Evolved Sunday Musing: Automakers Say They Want Smaller EVS – But Do Consumers? https://www.transportevolved.com/2025/11/23/transport-evolved-sunday-musing-automakers-say-they-want-smaller-evs-but-do-consumers/

#iNaturalist is hiring four #remote positions

https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/jobs

#GetFediHired

The exodus of corrections officers from federal prisons to ICE comes amid shortages of critical supplies, from food to personal hygiene items, for both staff and inmates.

It threatens to make the already grim conditions in these prisons even worse.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-bop-federal-prisons-corrections-officers?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Prison #Labor #Union #Government #ICE #Immigration

I really need more sales to cover my rent and bills this November/Native American Heritage Month! Buy some beadwork for yourself and for gifting-- every sale helps <33

Boosts also appreciated 💕

Online store → https://cvkvlv.com

Goal for November: $2030/$4000

Mvto!! (Thank you!)

#MutualAid #IndigenousMutualAid #Indigenous #Artist #FediGiftShop #ArtForSale

Flew to Washington, D.C. 6 hours ago.

Missed this due to unexpected changes in how they’re anonymizing flights.

HOPE has been banned from St. John's University. https://www.2600.com/content/hope-conference-banned-st-johns-university

LibrePods unlocks Apple's exclusive AirPods features on non-Apple devices. Get access to noise control modes, adaptive transparency, ear detection, hearing aid, customized transparency mode, battery status, and more - all the premium features you paid for but Apple locked to their ecosystem.

AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem

https://github.com/kavishdevar/librepods

Come be my colleague at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. We're hiring an assistant professor in Ocean Biogeochemical Modeling. 🌊

Career Opportunities at the Un...