Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

Algorithms now decide your credit score, which patients receive medical care, and which families get access to stable housing. This hidden web of automated systems can trap people in poverty. Fortunately, a growing group of lawyers are fighting back. https://bit.ly/2WpLXYa https://twitter.com/techreview/status/1341017051398352898 #Tech #MIT

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“A female colleague and [I] had dared to discuss wage transparency and gender pay gap in the office … Unfortunately we miscalculated – our boss Matthias was beyond furious. After that office meeting, he told my colleague ‘there will be consequences.’ … I want to expose the hypocrisy and double standards in FSFE leadership. How the organisation ‘promoting’ transparency, equality and inclusivity treats employees and more specifically women.”

https://write.as/malinagalina/i-took-fsfe-to-court

https://mobile.twitter.com/malinagalina/status/1340627582434291714

More CO2 in the atmosphere hurts key plants and crops more than it helps

The familiar adage - too much of a good thing is a bad thing - applies to atmospheric #CarbonDioxide: In higher concentrations, it is a damaging pollutant. The myth that #CO2 is plant food and that “extra” CO2 therefore can’t be bad is an example of a logical fallacy. It sort of sounds right, but it’s a major oversimplification.

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/12/more-co2-in-the-atmosphere-hurts-key-plants-and-crops-more-than-it-helps/

#Food #Foodsecurity #ClimateScience #ClimateCrisis

FediEmbedi v0.11.0 is out.

New features include, updating the plugin directly from the gitlab instance via GitHub Updater.

The #wordpress plugin displays a feed of your Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube account via a widget or shortcode

https://git.feneas.org/mediaformat/fediembedi

PeerTube Admin 8: YouTube forcing ads, Monetarization of video content, alternative communities on PeerTube https://tube.jeena.net/videos/watch/20e2f774-69ad-4585-a42a-6a3a677ef918

https://tilvids.com/videos/watch/49cb67bc-21b1-4868-9e39-a6204c861701

#geotechland #peertube #pine64 #laptop #foss

Mastodon Hide Media https://diode.zone/videos/watch/0f432dd0-8e91-4a49-9de2-1879fbb3f329

Mastodon Privacy https://diode.zone/videos/watch/4ca3518f-9c06-4501-a96c-17ba51f83028

Mastodon Privacy Who Can View TimeLine https://diode.zone/videos/watch/e8f61f62-dc83-438d-9afc-6fb003300957

Hey folks, MiniDebConf India 2021, scheduled for 23-24th of January is here organized by Debian India community. The event will see talks on Debian, other Free Software projects, community and everything in between.

The Call for Proposal is for the same is on [1]. Feel free to submit talks, workshops, BoFs or share it with whosoever might benefit from it. See you there.

[1] https://in2021.mini.debconf.org/contribute/cfp/


#MDCO-IN-2021 #MiniDebConf #debian #debianindia #freesoftware

https://matrix.org/blog/2020/12/18/introducing-cerulean

#Matrix (federated IM/chat system) has an experimental new feature for reply threading. Some devs turned this into a way to replicate a #Twitter-like per-user timeline with post replies. I hope they also build an #ActivityPub bridge.
#SocialNetworks

Just tested https://flathub.org/apps/search/fluffychat on my desktop. It's brilliant. Also it's quite upsetting that it's not available for arm64, because it would scale perfectly and be a great app for the #PinePhone.

Watch my presentation on the EU governments attack on #E2EE #encryption and on EU plans to automatically search the content of your every private message for illegal material: https://youtu.be/Pqs0OPCvbgA?t=8298
@YoungPiratesEU@twitter.com
#SaveEncryption #IncriminationMachine