Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

Today (last Friday of July) is the System Administrator Appreciation Day. Don't forget your backups, and show your appreciation to your local #sysadmin :-) If you want to know more about DSA, the Debian System Administrator team, you can have a look at their webpage https://dsa.debian.org/ - Thanks DSA for taking care of the Debian infrastructure!

🚨Urgent Indigenous Autistic Need 🚨

Zach is a medically complex autistic Ojibwe and Ponca youth, he depends heavily on his phone for communication and engagement with the world around him. His phone is broken, and his mother (also autistic, disabled and Deaf) has no way to obtain one. $300 will get him what he needs, refurbished and unlocked. Any boosts or assistance are beyond appreciated!

@mutualaid #mutualaid #indigenous

PP: vivacious1313@gmail.com
Venmo: SuzEQ13
Cashapp: $WCAFARMPAY

An in-depth article by Nature on what we know about the SARS-CoV-2 virus and what makes the Delta variant so much more infectious.

"What has emerged from 19 months of work, backed by decades of coronavirus research, is a blow-by-blow account of how SARS-CoV-2 invades human cells"

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02039-y

#SARSCoV2 #CoronaViruses #COVID19 #Viruses #Research

In the past 48 hours I've seen "If you use a tiling window manager you're probably a racist toxic fossbro", "if you support FOSS you're likely a liberal or a toxic fossbro", "If you use emacs you're part of the problem" and uh...

Can we just stop putting people in bins based on what tools they use and, more likely, what they had available to them when they first learned how to interact with tech?

Y'all stressing me out because I've seen these funny little takes go viral and become zeitgeist material.

Brain-Computer Implants Will Let Corporations Mine Your Thoughts for Cash, Researchers Warn https://gizmodo.com/brain-computer-implants-will-let-corporations-mine-your-1847343508

I found Skype is allowed to be called "Skype for iPhone" so maybe "Mastodon for iPhone" will work and save me this headache. Still thinking about a subtitle though.

🦀 Software Developer, Rust

We're looking for two developers to join the team that develops and maintains the networking software at the core of the Tor network, keeping it secure and improving it for the future.
https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/rust-dev/

🌉 ❄️ Software Developer for Anti-Censorship Team

This developer position will be an integral part of our Anti-Censorship Team to work of our bridge distribution system, pluggable transports, and other anti-censorship technologies.

https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/software-developer-anticensorship-2/

Any #BSD devs in Texas looking for new work? Had a meeting today that makes me think we're going to need at least one more person familiar with working on any #BSD, but #FreeBSD in particular.

Also could use someone comfortable with Makefiles, networking, and shell scripts to help with CI and some releng/devops-type work.

Remote positions possible, but it's preferred that you're able to come into the office.

Boosts welcome, let me know if you think it'd be fun and you can join in! 1/2

#PeerTube v3.3 is out!

https://joinpeertube.org/news#release-3.3

@zleap thank you for your effort to support, develop and spread greatness of LibreOffice to people it is very useful.

@alcinnz Thats one of the things I like about irc: just connect and drop into the channel.

Debconf 2021 - Planning meeting : August 5th https://personaljournal.ca/paulsutton/debconf-2021-planning-meeting-august-5th

Collaborate with us on the freedom ladder, our new guide to help people take their first steps in software freedom: https://u.fsf.org/3f2 #userfreedom