Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

If you missed our Small is Beautiful live stream with David Heinemeier Hansson today, the recording is now available to watch at https://small-tech.org/small-is-beautiful

#SmallIsBeautiful #SmallTech

EU agency says AstraZeneca vaccine is 'safe and effective'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56440139

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Want to help with a great FLOSS conference?

#SeaGL organizational meetings for the November conference have started, the next is this time next Monday (2021Mar22 @ 17:00 (UTC-7))

Last year we had volunteers from 4 continents for our first virtual event. 2021 should be hybrid, so especially need volunteers from the #PacificNorthwest

Committees include PR, programming, finance, logistics, volunteers, tech

https://seagl.org/get_involved.html

#FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #FLOX #Seattle #Portland #Cascadia

This is a long shot, but I want to put the power of social media and federation to the test.

My son wants to become a commercial airline pilot when he’s grown up. It would be awesome if we could find a commercial pilot in the fediverse that we can follow and ask questions of.

If everyone who reads this could boost it, it would be much appreciated and it would mean the world to my son if he could get in touch with a real-life commercial pilot! ✈️

#pilot #flying #airline #jet #boeing #airbus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_al-Assal_chemical_attack

You've never heard of this chemical attack. Why? It has all the hallmarks of the Ghouta chemical attack that happened in August the same year and was blamed on Assad by the western media. Yet it's far, far harder to pin this attack on Assad as it hit a government-held area and even killed at least 16 Syrian government troops.

I am 95% certain that the rebels committed this attack and that this at the very least sets a precedent that they have access to and a willingness to use chemical weapons. Therefore it is not a stretch to go from there and make the conclusion that they most likely committed the Ghouta chemical attack and the later one in 2017.

Judge rules Google has to face lawsuit that claims it tracks users even in Incognito mode

https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/13/22329240/judge-rules-google-5-billion-lawsuit-tracking-chrome-incognito-privacy

#Verge #RSS #News #Bot

Professor Marty Makary blasts @CDCgov for claiming to “follow the science,” but giving advice that is seemingly “paralyzed by fear.”

“Liberate vaccinated people to restore their relationships and rebuild their lives." https://washex.am/3cljs5v https://twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/1370056714876248064 #News #Science

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GNU MediaGoblin 0.11.0: Punky Magmalian has just been released, removing support for Python 2, reinstating audio spectrograms and adding a handful of smaller fixes: https://u.fsf.org/3aa Support MediaGoblin at https://u.fsf.org/313

Some Schools Are Blocking Replit to Prevent Kids from Coding
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1369938698494697476

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@zleap
A lot think that switching out of Fakebook is too difficult.

Until they get the (#)fediFlyer. *wink*

No words can express the feeling when we physically see the weights lift on a person when we describe Fedi. Its happened a number of times, now.

We have something very special in the Fediverse and need to defend it – vigoriously.

@witchescauldron

[news] Did you know that there are now more than 40 plugins available for #PeerTube instance administrators? To support the installation of these plugins, we have just created a new page in which we will often highlight a plugin selection.

➡️ https://joinpeertube.org/en/news#plugins-selection-1

Site.js version 16.1.0 released

One regression fix and two improvements to sync.

Get it from: https://sitejs.org

Release notes: https://github.com/small-tech/site.js/releases/tag/20210311151254

#SiteJS #SmallTech #SmallWeb

Though the FarmData2 project is still in the planning stages, the Dickinson College team focuses on engaging students by providing them experience that, based on research, is likely to increase their interest in contributing to H/FOSS groups in future.

#GNOMEChallenge

Instant Messaging: It's not about the app - #XMPP provides sovereignty of your communication

Read a comment in this blog post:
https://xmpp.org/2021/01/instant-messaging-its-not-about-the-app/

#openstandards #opensource #decentralisation #interoperability

Blue Origin will upgrade New Shepard rocket with the ability to simulate lunar gravity - Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin will be providing NASA with a valuable scientific tool ahead of the U.S. spa... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/CwAB3SfoVmY/ #commerciallunarpayloadservices #northropgrumman #artemisprogram #lockheedmartin #spacetourism #unitedstates #lunarlander #spaceflight #blueorigin #newshepard #outerspace #aerospace #jeffbezos #science #space #moon #nasa #tc