Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

Harvard’s Library Innovation Lab has made available a 16TB archive preserving the government data sets on data.gov in a purge-free environment. https://lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02/06/announcing-data-gov-archive/

hey is there like, a social template for writing to a company and asking "what are your values, how sustainable is your revenue model, basically what safeguards do you have to prevent becoming a haven for bigots/selling out to some rapacious venture capital firm who will then scrap it for parts and start charging customers out the ass?"

i was just going to, like, write that, but is there some better way to go about it?

#AskFedi

So not only the #Seattle Children’s Hospital illegally suspend gender affirming care for those 19 and younger

not only did they remove gender affirming care materials from their website

they removed those gender affirming care materials from their website on January 16th, 4 days before the inauguration and nearly a week before the Executuve Order they are allegedly complying with was signed.

#seattlechildrenshospital #trans #transrights #protecttransyouth

Going back to this past summer for a repeat

#SilentSunday

Hey #Portland #RetroComputing folks: The place I store much of my stuff was burglarized, trashed, and many items were stolen. The most valuable was a NeXTstation Turbo Color.

If you see one floating around, please let me know.

I don't have the serial number or anything identifying, other than the HDD is failed :(

In #spoonieTown the heating and cooling all run through the floors so the bones of the building are the right temperature, you aren't just pushing air around to fix things.
Imagine: warm cozy footfalls on a cold winter day; and a long cool floor to lie on in a summer heatwave.
*happy sigh*

Heroic anti-fascist community defense in Lincoln Heights, #Cincinnati a historically black neighborhood.

They chased off armed Nazis, confiscated and burned their flags, and slashed the tires on their jeep.

These look like they might be the same Nazis who were marching in a historically black downtown area of Columbus, Ohio a few months ago.

https://youtu.be/_85CRMbHGAs

#news #antifascist #ohio #blackmastodon #bipoc #communitydefense

Dear admins,

If your site is listed on fedidb and you’re a EU citizen you can use GDPR to get it removed. I use a service called https://www.datarequests.org/. They essentially generate a template for you to send to: hello@pixelfed.org.

I would suggest you do this regardless of whether you mind being included. Maintainers of projects like this need to learn about consent.

Please reach out if you have any questions.

Best,
Zoë

If you know someone with a cheap smart watch you probably want to warn them that it has no authentication. Anyone can access activity, heart rate, location, menstrual, sleep data. This includes those kids smart watches / bands.

Brands likely to be impacted: Ryze, IDO, Cove, bfit Move, BoAT. I haven't purchased these devices but it's highly likely. There's probably 5 million of these things out there or more.

https://sprocketfox.io/xssfox/2025/02/09/ido/

“Hoofdredacteuren spreken mooie woorden over persvrijheid en democratie, maar de gewone journalist die de straat op moet is sinds de ruk naar rechts van 20 jaar geleden schuw geworden. Het benoemen van het kwaad wordt vooral overgelaten aan columnisten”

https://www.volkskrant.nl/cultuur-media/hans-geleijnse-onderzocht-hoe-de-nederlandse-pers-over-het-fascisme-schreef-en-ziet-onthutsende-parallellen-met-nu~bf89ca4c/