leinir @leinir@computerfairi.es

So the government put out its guidance for how schools should treat trans pupils - and, unsurprisingly, it's useless and transphobic.

This is in the draft/consultation phase, which means they're taking feedback. If you're a teacher, or have a kid, or are a current student, or have any other reason they might listen to you, might be worth filling it in: https://consult.education.gov.uk/equalities-political-impartiality-anti-bullying-team/gender-questioning-children-proposed-guidance/

Big #ReBoot news!

The master tapes have been found by the ReBoot Rewind documentary crew and they need our help with finding a working D1 tape deck to digitize them.

Crossposting this from Facebook:

🚨THE MASTER TAPES EXIST AND WE NEED YOUR HELP🚨 THIS IS NOT A DRILL🚨

Hey you, YES YOU! We have some good news to share!

For years, there have been rumours circulating about the status of the original PAL D1 masters of ReBoot and whether they still exist. After visiting Mainframe Studios yesterday to take a look through their ReBoot archives, we’re happy to confirm that the masters are all here, for every episode of the show!

Getting a proper digital transfer of the D1 masters is high priority item for us. It would mean having the entire series in the best possible picture and sound quality, presented as accurately as the day it was rendered. There’s also a library of additional ReBoot content (animation tests, toy commercials, Electronic Arts video game footage, IMAX content) that is currently stuck on the D1 format and we need to preserve it for the future. This would obviously benefit the documentary but ultimately, it would benefit the fans the most!

Here’s where we need help. We need a working D1 tape deck to capture all these tapes. Mainframe hasn’t had one for years. We haven’t been able to find anyone in Vancouver, British Columbia, or even all of Canada that has one of these tape decks. We’d greatly prefer buying or renting one of these decks so that the tapes can be captured locally, without needing to ship them.

If anyone has a lead on where we might be able to get one of these decks, please contact us!

Contact info:
📧 Email: rebootrewinddoc@gmail.com
🔗 Facebook post: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=122132598986070529
🔗 Instagram: https://instagram.com/rebootrewinddoc

#tv #video #retrocomputing #retrotechnology #retro #tech

The last time Facebook embraced an open federated standard they did it for precisely long enough to saturate server-to-server contacts between an already existing userbase and their stuff, then shut off that federation and told anyone cut off by it to just come to Facebook instead.

This is literally something they did. This is in their playbook.

The people running the stuff behind the scenes were blindsided by it; it was an executive decision. Those people wanted to build the thing in good faith and the Business Plan was to let them until the time was right to strike.

That we're again going "It seems to be done right, let's give them a chance" is a little infuriating considering I was pretty impacted by the fallout of the last time.

The gender today is the smell of two a.m. just before it starts to hail and sound of contented purring.

If you use dropbox--they've opted everyone INTO third party AI tools. Go into your settings and turn it off.

@TechConnectify This isn't really directly to you, it's to admins reading you and seeing all this.

HEY MASTODON ADMINS, INSTALL FEDIFETCHER IT'S GOOD FOR YOU

https://blog.thms.uk/2023/03/introducing-fedifetcher

It's easy and it works, runs as a cron, fills in the missing replies to posts. I've been running it for a year. You want it.

Don't sleep on these first results from the world's largest universal basic income experiment ever. (23,000 cash recipients with 5,000 getting UBI for 12 years)

1. Entrepreneurship skyrocketed thanks to the UBI functioning as both startup capital and spending power for people to be customers at those businesses.

2. NO INFLATION!

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/12/07/1217478771/its-one-of-the-biggest-experiments-in-fighting-global-poverty-now-the-results-ar

so a group of russian queer activists residing in germany opened an official petition to the bundestag to help trans people from russia easily flee to germany. it's not some change org shit, it's literally on bundestag's website.

but the issue is, we need at least 5000 votes for it to be reviewed.

you don't have to be a citizen of germany for your vote to be considered. please take a second to vote. lives depend on your decision.

http://quarteera.de/petition

A reminder: furry is punk, furry is counter-culture. The fandom exists as a backlash to the social rules imposed by our society. This group is the most genuine, most empathetic collection of people you will find in a world where being genuine, lifting others up, and having empathy are seen as weakness. We are all here for many different reasons but we are all in this together.

For the love of life people just switch to firefox. Chrome sucks. No, Brave sucks too. Get out of there, and get Firefox with uBlock Origin.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

#firefox #chromeSucks #noBraveSucksToo

It's #BandcampFriday, the day where Bandcamp waives their fees and all the profits go towards the artists!

As usual, if you haven't checked out my music I'd recommend my album "In Flux" to start!

Bandcamp Friday's are the best way to support independent artists. On average, when someone buys a copy of "In Flux" it's the equivalent of 1700 individual streams on Spotify!

https://diym.bandcamp.com

This though 👀👀 hands up if you also like being pet like a puppydog or perhaps a kitty

Please help us get to 10k, sign and share, we want to see if the gov are still using the same copy and paste reply 😂

#RejoinEU

Petition: Hold a referendum on re-joining the European Union https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/648807

I dream of a world in which everyone can engage in their weird niche hobbies with reckless abandon and post about them online, fully embracing their cringe and letting everyone else in to enjoy.

Remembrance has become a performative act here in the UK, a means by which people demonstrate their patriotism to each other and pay lip service to the dead, all while ignoring the human cost of conflict.

If poppy disease makes you feel sick, give a couple of quid to SSAFA instead. SSAFA is the Armed Forces charity. They've successfully managed to avoid being politicised and have stayed true to their mission.

https://www.ssafa.org.uk/

#UK #remembranceday

When somebody asks "does this software need to be accessible to people with disabilities?” the answer you're looking for is “any level of discrimination is unacceptable and illegal.”

The #Tories are a real & present danger to #democracy as it now seems they are seeking to widen the definition of 'extremism' to include anyone who is 'undermining' Britain!

Such a catch-all phrase will likely give the police the ability to shut down pretty much any dissent:.

The leaked document states: 'Extremism is the promotion or advancement of any ideology which aims to overturn or undermine the UK’s system of parliamentary democracy, its institutions & values'!

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/04/plans-to-redefine-extremism-would-include-undermining-uk-values

Software influences energy consumption. Knowing how to minimize it can improve battery life and is greener for the environment.

Learn how we are working on this at KDE in 'Measuring energy consumption of software' from #Akademy2023, now available online.

https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/9HTwqF9tETTRgmSiBgAssw

https://youtu.be/43KoxjpNVKA

@kde

As a few people have asked. Here's the link to the organ patreon.

Situation is that one third of our triumverate has sadly had to drop out. This has left us £300 odd a month short on rent.
We've mainly been trying to do it using our own cash. But this is a bit much.

It's all still starting out so we don't have much to offer in return yet bar our eternal gratitude.
Our plan is to do a Christmas/New year/both broadcast. So Of course, patrons will have access to this early, as well as any other stuff we do.
We'll be looking to include supporters in the newsletter. As well as offering other things/tiers.

If you are in the East Midlands area of the UK. Physical help is always appreciated. Mainly for lift and shift. but building work, electrical/wiring, soldering & various other things are always going on.

Please boost this as best you can.
The sooner we can get sorted, the sooner we can start making content and growing things <3

Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@EMCOA1934

Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/EMCOA/membership