leinir @leinir@computerfairi.es

For the 4th year in a row, my all-sky camera has been taking an image of the sky above the Netherlands every 15 seconds. Combining these images reveal the length of the night changing throughout the year, the passage of clouds and the motion of the Moon and the Sun through the sky. #astrophotography

📈 In 2024 Liberapay processed donations worth a total of 1 million US dollars for 1535 recipients in 56 countries.

Happy new year!

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.

Abigail Thorn, creator of the "I emailed the NHS 133 times" video a while ago, received a response to make content with 101's and this is the explanation shy she's not doing it. Long read but does cover some things that might be of community interest

https://transwrites.world/my-doctor-emailed-me-back/

Donor appreciation post: Thank you for all your generosity 💖!

We are close to reaching our first fundraiser stretch goal...

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/

... And we want to thank everybody who made this possible. You have guaranteed KDE's survival for yet another year.

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

#fundraiser #donations #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

We are at 95% of our first stretch goal!

With less than €3,000 to go, our fundraiser is about to cross the €50,000 mark, and we will be entering the final stretch of our campaign.

Will your donation push us over the line?

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/#adopt

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

#fundraiser #donations #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

UK people - the government is running a "Copyright and Artificial Intelligence" open consultation, https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/copyright-and-artificial-intelligence until 2025-02-25

Option 3, their "preferred option" is to allow AI to slurp everything, but require an opt-out (we all know how well those work!)

Option 1 (require abiding copyright law) is "not preferred" because it is "likely to make the UK a less attractive location for AI development".

If stealing shit is the basis of your business model, *perhaps this is a problem*?

As yet there are no applications for our Senior Software Dev role (£64-£75k: https://bfijobsandopportunities.bfi.org.uk/tlive_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?VACANCY_ID=1222165UlM&WVID=384536015T)

#PHP devs, come and work with us at the #BFI! It's a really nice low pressure environment and you get to watch a lot of films for free

New email footer (in green, bold):

"Please consider the environment before using AI functionality to reply to this email."

#work #email #ai

This was boosted into my feed without alt text. I’ve added alt text.

It sounds like great advice if your health insurance denies a claim.

It took less than a minute to add the alt text. Please do this.

Someone has created a petition for the UK government to legally recognise non-binary as a gender

We're certain that the UK government will refuse to act on it, but it'd be nice if such a large number of people voted for it that they couldn't ignore it

Boosts welcome

#UKGovernment #UK #petition #NonBinary #queer #LGBTQIA+ #LGBTQIA2S+ #TransRightsAreHumanRights #NonBinaryPeopleExist

UK petition: Apply for the UK to join the European Union as a full member as soon as possible

Petition: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700005

Graph tracking signatures: https://petition-track.uk/check-petition/700005

#UK #petition #brexit #UKPol #UKPolitics

This is an experiment. Please boost.

http://mastoddosnt.ddns.net/

Here's the idea: This post is going first to my followers, then, if they boost it, to other people. This domain has been registered for only this experiment. I should see in my web server's logs when mastodon instances start crawling the site for info. Then maybe also some curious humans.

I just want to play with my monitoring a bit :)

Oh look Disney pulled an episode of a TV show because it was about trans issues.
OH LOOK some genius leaked the episode!
OH they TRIED taking it down!!!
OH LOOOOOOK a bigger genius got it up on internet archive :D

The Streissand Effect is in full swing

https://archive.org/details/na-the-gatekeeper

Guess what just launched? https://writingmonth.org

I'm proud to announce #WritingMonth, a challenge to meet your writing goals in the next 30 days. Pick your own goal that best challenges you and write your novel, short stories, poems, stage or screen play, blog posts, or any other writing project as part of a growing community of writers.

Note: I had to rush development a lot to make it by the November deadline, so there are a few things still missing or incomplete, but overall the site is ready to start up our challenge. I'll be continuing to fill in new and upgraded features as time allows over the coming days and weeks.

Boosts are very welcome!

Tapping the sign again:

Being autistic does not make anyone sexist, racist, eugenicist, an advocate for gendered violence, an apologist for child abuse, or any of the things that white dudes in open source technology are starting to be held accountable for.

Being an *asshole* makes someone an advocate for abuse.

Stop infantilizing grown-ass adults.

Criticism of a sexual harasser is not ableist. You know what's ableist? Your colleagues who refuse to prioritize accessibility in FLOSS.

We are happy to let you know that 49 fantastic free and open source projects will receive NGI0 Core grants.

It's a wide variety of projects covering all 10 layers of the technology stack, from open hardware to applications.

But what unites them is they all contribute to alternatives and improvements to core internet architecture.

Together they are working on an open, resilient and trustworthy internet for all.

Come over and meet the projects! https://nlnet.nl/news/2024/20241003-announcing-Core-call.html

#NGI0 #NGI #FOSS

Mastodon, I need your help! Give me some fake facts about #raccoons for a dummy API I'm building

plz boost for reach 🦝

Can I tempt you to a story of transformation, injustice, war, and discovering your true identity? Join Rhys as he learns the world is not how he always understood, waking up in a new body with new struggles. #scifibooks #furryfiction

https://books2read.com/reborn-jfrcoates