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If you're mad about Google killing short links all over the Internet, and are saying things like "let's scrape it all before it goes down", I suggest checking out https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveTeam_Warrior. Some chaotic good people are well ahead of you in terms of planning, and have a VM image you can run to lend some compute and bandwidth to the effort. It's like SETI of old, but for praxis against internet vandals like Google.
(context: https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/)
Understand how you will be impacted by our decision to turn off the serving portion of Google URL Shortener.developers.googleblog.com
"Six million people at risk from extreme heat in England, campaign group warns"
Friends of the Earth says older people and young children are most at risk in heat-vulnerable neighbourhoodsGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
FloofTube is accepting new signups for furries/scalies of the Internet to publish floofy content!
There was a minor glitch with the signups that was preventing new users. That has now been fixed.
Join today!
https://flooftube.net/signup
"I want to remind the court once more that my reasons for taking action were not beliefs or opinions. Earthβs life-support systems are breaking down due to human activities, whether we believe it or not." - Cressida Gethin, court statement
She was sentenced to four years in jail.
KTqtpi, Aurorius, CD, and Mira at FWA24
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Long COVID rates have declined, especially among the vaccinated, study finds
In large study, rates of long COVID fell from 10% to 3.5% for the vaccinated.
Ah joy ... Google is turning off its URL shortener and breaking every link that ever used it:
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/
A quick search on lore.kernel.org:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/?q=goo.gl%2F
...turns up about 19,000 messages with affected links. That's a lot of history that is going to become harder (or impossible) to find.
Understand how you will be impacted by our decision to turn off the serving portion of Google URL Shortener.developers.googleblog.com
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
βYoung people donβt 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)
*peek*
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You are SO fucked!
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)
βToday 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.β
Michel Forst, the UNβs special rapporteur on environmental defenders, who attended part of the trial.
βWhat sort of country locks people away for years for planning a peaceful demonstration, let alone for talking about it on a Zoom call? Weβre giving a free hand to the polluting elite robbing us of a habitable planet while jailing those whoβre trying to stop them β it makes no sense.β
Greenpeace UKβs programme director, Amy Cameron
If itβs possible to hold #FossilFuel companies to legal account for their role in #ClimateBreakdown and extreme weather in Franceβ¦then why not the UK?
Case alleges French companyβs 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 didnβt 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 shouldnβt overuse emojis in social media.
π Taken from the UKβs 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 targetedβ¦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)
I think NAT is to blame for a lot of the internet being the way it is. Without NAT (which I have been able to avoid, myself) one can tinker with running a small web site at home, for fun. If nothing else it helps understand it all. Even something totally silly like my weather station here at https://yfenni.cymru
(Yes, missing a few days, it needed new batteries
So IPv6 may save us yet.