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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!
Details and RSVP via https://forms.gle/35MKDxBLgfT4wNaW7
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
Fucking wonderful. I get COVID on a work trip, then get laid off while still recovering.
Who needs an SRE? AWS, GCP, all the usual stuff you'd expect. Immediate start, obviously. US-based, either remote or a company that will pay relocation to a blue state (any non-swing-state is fine, other than VA or NH)
DM for CV. Tell me who you work for first for the version with unredacted history, or just DM a listing for me to apply to, let me know if you want to give you as a referral or not. If you have a redacted version I will of course provide a full one directly to the company on request.
Standard stuff: Have green card. Absolutely can not get a security clearance.
Edit: Thanks so much for all the support so far ❤️
The year is 3129. Humanity is extinct. The last LG SmartFridge is desperately emailing its last owner that they are low on orange juice. The satellites that are still left, their orbits slowly decaying over millennia, dutifully relay the message. The automated "away from office" response turns on, as it always does, notifying the refrigerator that it's owner will likely return to the office in 3-5 business days.
Somewhere in what used to be called Ohio, a pack of roombas, their local wind turbines giving out and creaking to a halt, begin searching for the next functional docking station. A washing machine in Argentina tweets: "anyone need to do a load 😏" every Saturday at 1:30 a.m. eastern standard time. The replies are filled with AI thirstposters and their hypebots.
In North America, raccoons have quietly entered the bronze age, while baboons riding domesticated battlewolves rule most of Asia. Unbeknownst to either, the octopi are mastering nuclear fusion. A weather balloon bobs and sways in the upper atmosphere, now almost entirely clear of lingering chloroflourocarbons, reporting conditions to weather stations long since destroyed in World War Five.
The Crab Nation are mostly hermits, but come out to greet their prophet every ten years on the 6th full moon of the year. A lone, curious octopus decides to observe this year's event, peering out at the festivities from her safe haven - the submerged, rusting hulk of an ancient Cybertruck. Then he appears: the hologram of Shia Lebouf powered by MetaAI. He beckons the octopus to follow. The crabs all start chittering excitedly. The time has come to invade Amazon HQ. The crows gather in huge numbers. They need more storage space for their Steam collections.
SELECT * FROM... and the query took 120 seconds"EU to water down Brexit travel checks for British passengers as new border plan delayed again"
LOL..at this stage we just keep hitting the "fudge it" button. It is time to just admit the truth. End this...
https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/border-checks-eu-uk-brexit-entry-b2581142.html
Exclusive: Entry-exit system will now start in November – with ‘relief valve’ to reduce congestionSimon Calder (The Independent)
Giant publishers are bleeding universities dry, with profit margins that rival Google’s. So we decided to start our own, says academic Arash AbizadehArash Abizadeh (The Guardian)
Labour members have opened a petition to Wes Streeting. Anyone can sign it.
"We, the undersigned, are calling on you to immediately withdraw your support for the ban on puberty blockers for trans young people."
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/open-letter-to-the-health-secretary
#transgender #LGBTQ #LGBT #Labour #trans
We're appalled that Wes Streeting plans to continue the Tories' ideological ban on puberty blockers. This move is not in the best interests of young trans people, and we will need the full unity of the labour movement to stop this.actionnetwork.org
Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees
Ars' leak analysis shows a large "Games" department and a very well-paid "Admin" team.
Content warning: UK, climate change, potential miscarriage of justice