mara @mara@systerserver.town

"A room, a bar and a classroom: how the coronavirus is spread through the air.

Here is an overview of the likelihood of infection in three everyday scenarios, based on the safety measures used and the length of exposure":

https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-10-28/a-room-a-bar-and-a-class-how-the-coronavirus-is-spread-through-the-air.html

"i use linux as my operating system," i state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. he swivels around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision.
"actually," he says with a grin, "linux is just the kernel. you use GNU+linux."
i don't miss a beat and reply with a smirk, "i use alpine, a distro that doesn't include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. it's linux, but it's not GNU+linux."

the smile quickly drops from the man's face. his body begins convulsing and he foams at the mouth as he drop to the floor with a sickly thud. as he writhes around he screams "I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT'S STILL GNU!"
coolly, i reply "if windows was compiled with gcc, would that make it GNU?" i interrupt his response with "and work is being made on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. even if you were correct, you won't be for long."

with a sickly wheeze, the last of the man's life is ejected from his body. he lies on the floor, cold and limp. i've womansplained him to death.

A great sounding call for contributions from the Engines of Difference workgroup. The deadline is in two days though!

"Otherwise Practices With/In Computing

In this call for contributions, we want to know the cusps, potentials, tunings, and boundary-making practices that critically push the extractive and the exclusionary, the connective and the networking, and the potential-inclined practices of computing."

https://enginesofdifference.org/2020/09/18/call-for-contributions-otherwise-practices-with-in-computing/

Le Conseil d'État autorise Microsoft à héberger les données de santé des Français malgré l'invalidation de l'accord Privacy Shield et les recommandations de la CNIL https://droit.developpez.com/actu/309820/Le-Conseil-d-Etat-autorise-Microsoft-a-heberger-les-donnees-de-sante-des-Francais-malgre-l-invalidation-de-l-accord-Privacy-Shield-et-les-recommandations-de-la-CNIL/

For everyone worried about #dmca issues with #github re #RIAA and talking about the need for further #decentralization of code forges, consider giving #forgefed by @fr33domlover your love and support.

https://forgefed.peers.community

There are various requests for feedback on #feneas forum https://talk.feneas.org/c/forgefed/10

And open issues in #gitea and #gitlab to upvote, contribute and comment on. See this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24893100

Here's the forgefed code: https://notabug.org/peers/forgefed

Boosts appreciated.

Hello, I’m the reel2bits project main developper (a #FOSS self-hostable #soundcloud like with #ActivityPub federation).

It’s written in python/flask/vuejs and I need help because of health issues I’m unable to work a lot on it anymore, if you are interested to help me on some of the issues and more specially the ActivityPub part, you can contact me through:

boosts appreciated, thanks.

C'est triste à lire...

https://framablog.org/2020/10/21/la-place-du-numerique-a-lecole-releve-de-la-place-de-lecole-dans-la-societe/

Mon frère, enseignant au primaire au Québec, me dit que c'est pareil ici. :(

GNU Jami, a video, voice and text communication software, released a new version with major improvements. Read more at: https://u.fsf.org/363

Congrats to the MAS and Bolivian people, and Elon Musk keep crying as your stock plummets on news your lithium-stealing fascist coup of Bolivia w/ US-backed imperialism fails. https://telesurenglish.net/news/bolivia-several-figures-aknowledge-arces-victory-in-the-polls-20201019-0014.html

#Chile resiste
"9 meses con trauma ocular, 9 meses con mi herramienta de trabajo dañada, 9 meses en rehabilitación, 9 meses sin visión de mi ojo izquierdo, 9 meses de lucha por sanar. En Chile manifestarse cuesta un ojo de la cara. ¿Que tanto vimos para que nos dispararan a la cara? Justicia, reparación, verdad y NO REPETICIÓN"

La fotografa chilena Nicole Kramm, quien fue alcanzada por una bala de la policia en su ojo izquierdo el 31 de diciembre de 2019 mientras caminaba junto a sus colegas.