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@joepie91 be excellent to each other, unless it forces you to engage with problematic beliefs you might hold

I was just reading thenewstack.io/what-happens-to, about the contributor dynamics of formerly-open-source projects that were closed down, and their community forks.

There's not very much concrete data in this article, but it does suggest something very interesting: that there seems to have been a set of people who *wanted* to contribute to a project, but were somehow unable to when it was under corp-centralized stewardship, and only became able to when there was a multi-stakeholder fork.

Clearly the license was not originally a problem. So what was? Was the governance of the original project hostile to external contributors on an organizational level?

rape apologia 

If your response to a discussion about rape and sexual assault is something to the effect of "that is what we have the legal system for" or "they should have gone to the police", then you frankly need to shut the fuck up and actually listen to a victim some day, because you clearly have *no idea* what you are talking about.

In unrelated news, guess what the response in some CCC circles was to the protest at

Alien Intruder is a new game for DOS where you save people from aliens and get to the exit. It's free, really easy to pick up, and it's always fun for me to fire up DOSBox to play a new game

usebox.net/jjm/alien-intruder/

Wat voor dag is het vandaag?#annaWilGraagWeten

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Update: I got some help. Thanks for sharing!

Is there someone at #38C3 with Android forensic skills and is willing to analyze a Fairphone that was seized by the German police who decrypted the contents with Cellebrite? I'd like to know if there are traces of the access and possible manipulations.

DM me if you want to help

:BoostOK: Boost OK

i've been told my whole life that bugs are weird or scary or gross. i took it to heart, rarely sharing my interest in them. hiding that i find them beautiful and fascinating. but being on here, seeing so many share my excitement has really helped me fully embrace my love for all things creepy and crawly. i love your bug pictures and i love your appreciation for them. thank you for that, even if no one else in your life appreciates bugs, i do.

#bugs #insects #beetles #spiders #invertebrates #bees

@jstevenyork it’s in the interests of the billionaire owned centralised social media to destroy any alternative because it show a different possibility so of course we hear ‘Mastodon is dead’ all the time. #Mastodon doesn’t have to be the biggest to win it just has to exist.

using antivirus software is like if you had a book of all the objects in the world that aren't safe to eat and you walked around putting random objects from the ground into your mouth after checking to make sure they weren't in the book

My mom, who is in her 70s, and not particularly tech savvy, just explained that she hates Google now, because the first results are always AI, which just pulls from other sources and is usually inaccurate.

So let’s stop assuming that non-techies, older people, and mothers and grandmothers are too naive to see through the hype. Mostly it’s the tech bros and finance douches who are too stupid to actually understand what they’re boosting.

Meta, somewhat subtoot, queer theory 

I enjoy reading theory and creating new analyses of the world, and the queer experience, and my experience, etc.

But I'm so surprised by how I constantly see people come up with very specific theories (that may or may not be entirely correct! That's not the point here) about e.g. who is and is not allowed to use certain words like transmisogyny to describe their experiences (but this dynamic has happened before in previous discussions)

And they are SO certain, so assured that they're right. And everyone else in the queer community must immediately be onboard with the theory and with its new rules about who is allowed to use what words. Even while there are several other queer people arguing the opposite, in good faith.

What I want to say is this: theory is useful and important. But also, don't use it as a bludgeon to create rifts in the queer community.

Queer and trans people of all kinds (transfems, transmascs, non-binary people, furries, etc) are my siblings, fighting my same fight. Specific details about how they experience their oppression may be different, and it's useful (and fun!) to think about that. What's not useful is to argue about those details, or what the best name for them may be, in a way that further divides our communities.

If that starts happening, maybe it's time to reconsider, if not the theory itself, then at least your communication strategy.

can you immediately recognize the difference between ❤️ and ♥️ in your emoji font of choice, or are you normal

grim 

"I don't like talking about politics."

Well, you better get over that fast, if you want to make it through the next decade alive

Kinda wild that “no one should die for shareholder profits” isn’t a universal belief.

Apparently one of my skills is "mimicking the sounds of inanimate objects", like rusty playground swings, rubber duckies, and powertools.

(And a full range of cat sounds, but those are not 'inanimate')

Visual Artists:

Has knowing about #AI generated art had an impact on your art?

That is, have you shifted the focus or style of your work? Have you felt the need to make "making of" or process gifs/videos/image sequences to show how your work is created (to make it clear it is human made?)

Do you now use (or not use) certain elements/tools to distance your work from AI images? (For example, switching back to pen and paper.)

Check all that apply:

#aiart #art #artists #drawing

From the archive earlier this month: For the GRP 127 Tour du Brabant Wallon in Belgium SGR at multiple locations had difficulties finding locations for placing waymarkers, because of a lack of fences and trees. They solved that with those handmade wood carved maps before a section without signposts. This is the one near Chapelle du Rond Chêne in Tourinnes-la-Grosse.

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