Well, dear reader, we crunched the numbers, and your hunch is right. In fact, it’s probably worse than you think. The data are clear: The open-source culture that defined an earlier era of online journalism has collapsed.
Alex Murray
@alexmurray.bsky.social
Linux and free software enthusiast, husband, father, he/him
🇦🇺 Really important piece by my @qutdmrc.bsky.social colleague @antmandan.bsky.social in @aunz.theconversation.com on the ways that teenagers can protect themselves from the incredible damage to their lives that @albomp.bsky.social’s impending #SocialMediaBan will wreak.
Australia is about to ban under-16s from social media. Here’s what kids can do right now to prepare
Download your data, make plans to stay connected to friends, and decide where you’re going next.
theconversation.com
I haven’t seen this get covered in English yet so let me translate. Grok is saying that the crematories at Auschwitz’s were conceived as disinfectant chambers, not mass execution and that the law has made it taboo to acknowledge that this is what they were X is a Nazi site. Get off the Nazi site.
LDH@ldh.fr · 9mo agoLa #LDH porte plainte contre la publication de #Grok, l’intelligence artificielle du réseau social X, pour contestation de crimes contre l’humanité.
Politicians in Australia keep saying that the net zero target will cost too much, but multiple analyses, including from Treasury, show that it is actually *much cheaper* for the economy than not doing more www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Australia’s first formal treaty with Indigenous traditional owners passed in Victoria
Australia’s first formal treaty with Indigenous traditional owners passed in Victoria
Step towards reconciliation hailed as ‘a historic moment’ with premier Jacinta Allan saying it gives Aboriginal Australians the power to shape policies that affect their lives The Australian state of Victoria has taken a historic step towards reconciliation, passing the nation’s first formal treaty with Indigenous traditional owners. After two days of debate, the upper house of Victoria’s parliament passed the statewide treaty bill without amendment by 21 votes to 16, just before 9pm on Thursday. Continue reading...
theguardian.com
upgraded my lil race-off interactive to use the 10m split times! I should probably make some generic little guys too, instead of hand drawing each one
Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeseris (Tac. Agr. 42) "it is human nature to hate whom you have hurt" I think about this quote pretty much every time I read the news these days; mostly because I don't understand it at all, and yet it is clearly true
“And so the Greeks send me this horse, we’re talking about one of the most beautiful horses you’ve ever seen. So big. So strong. Normally they keep this kind of horse for themselves but they were such big fans they said sir, please take our big wonderful horse we’ll even bring it to your house”
Australia skated through the GFC and missed the class / political realignment that hit the US and Europe in the 2010s. But it looks like the post-Covid economic collapse is about to have a similiar effect. This is an extremely grim chart.
If you are lucky enough to live a long life you’ll also experience living with a disability. It’s unbelievable that it’s only then some people realise what they’ve taken for granted and who the world is built for.
Remembering and thanking Steve Langasek (a.k.a vorlon) in #ubuntu and #debian #linux
Remembering and thanking Steve Langasek
Steve Langasek is one of my heroes in open source and in life. He epitomises everything that is great about the movement - depth of technical insight, generosity of spirit, rigour in design, care for those who put their trust in us, curiosity about the future and a willingness to do hard work in the face of uncertainty to bring that future into being. Our biggest choices are all about where we spend our time, who we spend it with, and whose lives we hope to improve in the process. Steve shone w...
discourse.ubuntu.com
Spent an hour early this morning trying to debug why the advice I had written for Emacs copilot.el was failing to run - turns out the 'function' I was trying to advise was a macro... #emacs
Instead of the overhyped nothing burger news of an apparent UEFI bootkit for Ubuntu doing the rounds, instead for the podcast this week I talk about the low level details of recent vulnerabilities in needrestart and how they were remediated by our team.
@ubuntusecurity.bsky.social · 2y agoOn the latest episode of the #Ubuntu Security Podcast we dive into the local privesca vulns discovered by @qualys.bsky.social in needrestart, covering topics from confused deputies to the inner workings of the /proc filesystem and responsible disclosure as well ubuntusecuritypodcast.org/episode-242/