Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

Fossil Footprints Reveal Humans in North America Earlier Than Previously Thought
https://www.usgs.gov/news/fossilized-footprints-reveal-human-habitation-north-america-thousands-years-earlier-previously

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🇬🇧 EU research projects funded with taxpayers' money simply disappear from the web. My question yields results: EU is now testing regular archiving https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/questions/reponses_qe/2021/003337/P9_RE(2021)003337_EN.pdf #Pirates #transparency

@gitea has joined fediverse. They are in the planning phase of adding federation to Gitea. Does this mean we will be able to file issues, pull-requests and follow repositories in other Gitea instances? We will see.

گیتی به فدیورس پیوست. در توییتر نوشته‌اند که می‌خواهند فدریشن را به گیتی بیاورند. آیا این به این معنی خواهد بود که توسعه‌دهندگان امکان فایل کردن issue، ارسال pull request و فالو کردن رپوزیتوری در سایر اینستانس‌های گیتی را در آینده خواهند داشت؟ به زودی خواهیم دید.

If you use #GMail, #Google keeps records of everything you buy, even if you delete the email receipt, and even if you didn't buy the product from them. Here's metadata from my takeout showing price, delivery address, description, vendor, etc. #privacy

My book "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is a critique of Big Tech connecting conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies (proposing a way to deal with both) is now out in paperback:

https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-8135e6744d59

Signed copies here:
https://www.darkdel.com/store/p2024/Available_Now%3A__How_to_Destroy_Surveillance_Capitalism.html

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Facebook Grew Marketplace to 1 Billion Users. Now Scammers Are Using It to Target People Around the World. https://buff.ly/3u1pQHp

We're excited to announce the official release of GNOME 41! After six months of work from the GNOME community, this release brings many exciting updates!
https://youtu.be/V5jP1ym7nhM

See the release notes for all the details: https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/41.0/

#GNOME41 #releaseday #OpenSource

Rwanda to develop national curriculum for autistic children

https://au-ti.com/2021/09/22/rwanda-to-develop-national-curriculum-for-autistic-children/

#autisticchildren #Education #Africa #Autism #Rwanda

Facebook forced troll farm content on over 40% of Americans each month

“One camp doesn’t realize the Pages are run by inauthentic actors… They tend to love these Pages. They like how entertaining the posts are and how they reaffirm their already-held beliefs.

The other camp does realize the Pages are run by inauthentic actors. They hate the ever-loving shit out of these Pages. They hate these Pages with a passion that even I find impossible to match.”

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/09/facebook-forced-troll-farm-content-on-over-40-of-all-americans-each-month/

#facebook

Did you miss Bri Hatch presenting "10 Vim Tricks" last year? You can watch the video any time at https://archive.org/details/SeaGL2020-Bri_Hatch-10_Vim_Tricks

Stay tuned for the #SeaGL2021 agenda!
#seagl #flossconf

Creating Partitions In Linux Using fdisk (and other tools)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPYfoFSXB9A

Games That Emphasize Emergent Narrative
https://www.emergentmage.com/articles/guide-to-games-that-emphasize-emergent-narrative

(submitted by amichail)