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NVIDIA transitions fully towards open-source GPU Linux kernel modules
It's a bit of a Linux news day today - it happens - but this one is good news we can all be happy about. After earning a bad reputation for mishandling its Linux graphics drivers for years, almost decades, NVIDIA has been turning the ship around these past two years, and today they made a major annou
“Young people don’t take well to bigoted leaders who attack LGBTQ+ rights, outlaw abortion, cozy up to gun manufacturers + oil execs, and support a rapist for President."
"If you want to be cool so badly, try giving a damn about other people beyond yourself. Might open a few doors."
AOC responding to #Republican attempts to make voting for them appear radical to students.
This should be the #Democrat message on repeat. Appeal to the future, not the past.
I just wrote to my MP expressing my concern about the 5 year sentence given to Roger Hallam (and co) of Just Stop Oil and I implore you to do the same.
Campaigners receive longest ever sentences for non-violent protest after being convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisanceDamien Gayle (The Guardian)
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You've caught the ire of these two absolute powerhouses...Best start beggin'
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I dream that one day this travesty of justice will be avenged. Non-violent protest to alert others to #ClimateBreakdown should not be punished with 5 year prison sentences.
It will be the CEOs and boards of #BigOil companies in the dock for knowingly polluting and frying our planet and in the process killing untold numbers of humans, animals and other life forms.
Campaigners receive longest ever sentences for non-violent protest after being convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisanceDamien Gayle (The Guardian)
“Today is a dark day for peaceful environmental protest. This sentence should shock the conscience of any member of the public. It should also put all of us on high alert on the state of civic rights and freedoms in the United Kingdom.”
Michel Forst, the UN’s special rapporteur on environmental defenders, who attended part of the trial.
“What sort of country locks people away for years for planning a peaceful demonstration, let alone for talking about it on a Zoom call? We’re giving a free hand to the polluting elite robbing us of a habitable planet while jailing those who’re trying to stop them – it makes no sense.”
Greenpeace UK’s programme director, Amy Cameron
If it’s possible to hold #FossilFuel companies to legal account for their role in #ClimateBreakdown and extreme weather in France…then why not the UK?
Case alleges French company’s exploitation of fossil fuel contributed to deaths of victims in extreme weather disastersDamian Carrington (The Guardian)
Five years in jail for a climate protest when the jails are literally so full that they are early-releasing murderers and robbers.
This is not justice, this is state oppression.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c880xjx54mpo
Five activists have received prison sentences of between four and five years over the disruption.Tom Symonds (BBC News)
Random fursuit photos from the archives.
A group of MadeFurYou suiters on a bridge in Berlin during Eurofurence in 2022.
These pics were somewhat hampered by the very bland overcast sky. I tried to photoshop a better sky in but it didn’t look natural so I abandoned the idea.
NEW: A researcher found traffic light controllers on the internet with no authentication at all, potentially allowing hackers to create traffic jams by messing with the lights.
The researcher says that company who make the devices (Q-Free) threatened legal action instead of working to fix the bugs.
It's unclear how widespread these devices are, and how many of them have no authentication. But this research shows that some parts of our critical infrastructure are still poorly protected.
This is why you shouldn’t overuse emojis in social media.
🔗 Taken from the UK’s Royal National Institute of Blind People https://www.rnib.org.uk/
Content warning: comic processing trauma from bullying, verbal abuse, queer slurs
Stop being fixated on trying to do nothing wrong.
Just focus on doing something good, even if it's one thing.
You will fuck up. You will make mistakes. That is life.
But if you at least try to do good, you will do good
A new study published Tuesday in Cell Reports Medicine reveals that bowel movement frequency significantly influences physiology and long-term health, with the best outcomes linked with passing stools once or twice a day.AFP (ScienceAlert)
There is a pro-transgender Labour revolt against health secretary Wes Streeting. You can sign the letter.
https://trans-express.lgbt/post/756244126854512641/there-is-a-pro-transgender-labour-revolt-against
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
Labour health secretary Wes Streeting has continued the transphobic policies of the previous Conservative government. Now Labour members have published and open letter anyone can sign. Wes Streeting...crossdreamers (Tumblr)
With the R515 driver, NVIDIA released a set of Linux GPU kernel modules in May 2022 as open source with dual GPL and MIT licensing. The initial release targeted…Rob Armstrong (NVIDIA Technical Blog)
The Matrix.org Foundation joins the FOSS community and advocates of digital sovereignty in calling on the European Commission to sustain its funding for the Next Generation Internet program.
The European Union must keep funding free software: https://matrix.org/blog/2024/07/17/ngi-open-letter/
#Advocacy #Policy #EU #FOSS #OpenSource
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsJosh Simmons (matrix.org)
Elimination of most Next Generation Internet funding 'incomprehensible,' says OW2 CEO Pierre-Yves GibelloBrandon Vigliarolo (The Register)
“As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you, and climate change is one of those exceptions.”
– Al Gore
"Labour must ramp up renewable energy to meet 2030 climate vows, says watchdog"
CCC says delays and reverses under Rishi Sunak have left UK drastically off track from Paris commitmentsFiona Harvey (The Guardian)
Colorado Furries:
The 6th Annual Blue Sky Picnic and Sunset Grill Day is coming Saturday, July 27 (weather permitting) and we'd love to see you there!
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The 2024 Mount Blue Sky Sunset Grill Day is scheduled from Saturday, July 27. Details and Rules Help us determine how many people to plan for by answering the question below.Google Docs
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snapdragon X elite added DRM to actual drivers.
It needs a signed proprietary blob in a specific place to use the gpu or else it'll enter a "protected" mode
basically, no gpu if linux.
come. the fuck. on
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Disabling-X-Elite-GPU
While many have been excited around the prospects of laptops powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite SoC, the Linux support so far still leaves a lot to be desired..www.phoronix.com
The urge to please others is very strong in a lot of folks, #fediverse, particularly those who are survivors of abuse. It's a survival tactic that develops to avoid offending anyone, but it also results in diminishing the person to the point of non-existence.
Don't get me wrong, it's ok to want to do nice things for people now and then. But if you find yourself doing things you don't really want to do just to make other people happy, that's usually a bad sign. Setting boundaries can feel like you're being selfish sometimes, but it's so important for your own well-being. You're worth it! 😊❤️
The Data Is In: Return-to-Office Mandates Aren’t Worth the Talent Risks
Highlighted points:
- Nearly three-quarters of executives say return-to-office (RTO) mandates are a source of leadership conflict.
- Lack of work-life balance ranks among the top five reasons employees quit.
Of course, to most of us, this is “yeah, duh” stuff. But here is yet more data to back it up. #RTO #WFH https://www.gartner.com/en/articles/the-data-is-in-return-to-office-mandates-aren-t-worth-the-talent-risks
It mildly terrifies me that a lot of things we think are natural are just things that were invented by American advertising agencies in the 40s and 50s
The nuclear family, diamond engagement rings, owning a motor car, etc are all works of fiction that we have subsumed into being part of our culture, instead of it being astroturfed by a bunch of skilled marketers
