Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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LibreOffice won the Best Community 2020 award at the recent DINAcon (Digital Sustainability Conference). We're super proud of our worldwide community and everyone involved – so if you help out in the LibreOffice project, this is for you! https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/12/22/best-community-2020-libreoffice-at-dinacon/
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How do you know when something is complex? When a free and open source person tells you that it’s simple.
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@zleap Thanks for the suggestion! Will do.
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Trump Appointee Seeks to Cut Off Funding for Global Internet Access Group https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/19/us/politics/trump-appointee-seeks-to-cut-off-funding-for-global-internet-access-group.html
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Don’t expect breaking up Google and Facebook to solve our information woes https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/12/dont-expect-breaking-up-google-and-facebook-to-solve-our-information-woes/
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Move from a public cloud to your own, private cloud!
We got you covered with easy migrations from Dropbox, Google and Microsoft ⬇️
https://nextcloud.com/blog/easy-migration-to-nextcloud-from-insecure-and-privacy-unfriendly-platforms-now-available/
Good grief, great article and something we can and should use to strengthen the argument for using privacy tools and sites such as the fediverse.
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Your Credit Score Should Be Based on Your Web History, IMF Says https://gizmodo.com/your-credit-score-should-be-based-on-your-web-history-1845912592
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Another release!
This one has some various improvements, bug fixes.
There are also some big changes in how the feeds are handled internally: they are now cached and should provide better performance and make the app feel smoother. Might still have some rough edges but it's a much better base upon which we can build further.
Check out our latest release here:
https://gitlab.shinice.net/pixeldroid/PixelDroid/-/releases
Translations (weblate.pixeldroid.org) and issue reports (GitLab or here) welcome!
With ❤️, happy holidays!
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@flav > what's the point of the Fediverse if instances are blocking each other because they can't deal with different opinions?
I'm not sure, I was added to a blocklist for arguing with a Gnome developer who claimed "Pleroma is for racists, by racists, and the developers have encouraged this". I bring up that he was a "Gnome developer" to show you the sheer caliber of bigbrain on this guy. Oh and he's a self identified autist, that may also explain working for Gnome (as a diversity hire).
Regardless this is consistently the behavior I see from Masterdongs. "Block this person because I told you so! why won't you block them? now I'm blocking all the people who won't block the people I block" among other harebrained logic like "words are actual violence" and "the fediverse is inherently racist because only smart and rich people can enter it" and "the software known as Pleroma is racist"
I'm not sure, I was added to a blocklist for arguing with a Gnome developer who claimed "Pleroma is for racists, by racists, and the developers have encouraged this". I bring up that he was a "Gnome developer" to show you the sheer caliber of bigbrain on this guy. Oh and he's a self identified autist, that may also explain working for Gnome (as a diversity hire).
Regardless this is consistently the behavior I see from Masterdongs. "Block this person because I told you so! why won't you block them? now I'm blocking all the people who won't block the people I block" among other harebrained logic like "words are actual violence" and "the fediverse is inherently racist because only smart and rich people can enter it" and "the software known as Pleroma is racist"
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Facebook says it fights for small businesses—but studies on the shadow business of behavioral advertising show that this is just not true. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/facebooks-laughable-campaign-against-apple-really-against-users-and-small
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@zleap @flavy @rixty_dixet If you're on reffering to London UK that's not even British majority anymore.
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British businesses have called on Boris Johnson for more financial support and clearer decision making as they battle to survive the latest wave of coronavirus restrictions https://on.ft.com/2KqC5Lp https://twitter.com/FinancialTimes/status/1341118778109816837 #BorisJohnson #coronavirus
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Torbay Covid 19 Restrictions
Tier 2 restrictions
https://www.torbay.gov.uk/health-and-wellbeing/public-health/coronavirus/restrictions/
#torbay, #devon, UK, #covid, #Restrictions, #tier2
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The Fediverse has a lot of blind or partially sighted members who use screen readers to listen to posts. Large groups of emoji make life difficult because the reader reads aloud each emoji's text description back to back.
✅ You can make your posts more accessible to blind users' screen readers by only using individual emoji, and avoiding large groups of emoji.
For example 😃 is fine but 😀 😆 
😁 👍 😃 😜 🤗 
causes problems.
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At 4:30 PM tomorrow, 22nd December, will be addressing the India International Science Festival. This Festival brings together members of the scientific community and aims to deepen people’s connect with science. http://nm-4.com/IqtkI4 https://twitter.com/narendramodi/status/1341026538406379520 #India #Narendra #Modi #Science
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Really would help if Democrats win both Georgia Senate races. Otherwise, McTurtle will sit and look grumpy as he watches America burn. Then he'll blame Biden to try and win more seats in 2022.
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[CONTENT FROM @EYnews] In an increasingly fragmented world, companies used to operating on a global scale could find themselves restricted to local or state-level operations. https://bit.ly/34ySC6W https://twitter.com/techreview/status/1341032162829713409 #Tech #MIT
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"The fact is that AI doesn’t work until it works for all of us. If we hope to ever address racial injustice, then we need to stop presenting our distorted data as 'ground truth'" - Deborah Raji https://bit.ly/2K8f2VJ https://twitter.com/techreview/status/1341011689295278082 #Tech #MIT #AI
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Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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