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   Ramin Honary (ramin_hal9001@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 06:29:24 JST Ramin Honary
   Facebook and Twitter censor Linux-related content

   According to the DistroWatch newsletter they have received multiple reports of Facebook users having their accounts suspended for talking about Linux.

   I predict that this is just the beginning of a US government crack-down on people who want to break away from the corporate-controlled propaganda, and the surveillance technology built-in to Apple, Microsoft, Google (Alphabet), Facebook (Meta), and Amazon products, or who want to run their own federated web services. It is only a matter of time before ActivityPub is classified as “terrorism.” TikTok was only the beginning.

   (begin quote of DistroWatch news:)

   Starting on 2025-01-19 Sun Facebook’s internal policy makers decided that Linux is malware and labelled groups associated with Linux as being “cybersecurity threats”. Any posts mentioning DistroWatch and multiple groups associated with Linux and Linux discussions have either been shut down or had many of their posts removed.

   We’ve been hearing all week from readers who say they can no longer post about Linux on Facebook or share links to DistroWatch. Some people have reported their accounts have been locked or limited for posting about Linux.

   The sad irony here is that Facebook runs much of its infrastructure on Linux and often posts job ads looking for Linux developers.

   Unfortunately, there isn’t anything we can do about this, apart from advising people to get their Linux-related information from sources other than Facebook. I’ve tried to appeal the ban and was told the next day that Linux-related material is staying on the cybersecurity filter. My Facebook account was also locked for my efforts.

   We went through a similar experience when Twitter changed its name to X - suddenly accounts which had been re-posting news from our RSS feeds were no longer able to share links. This sort of censorship is an unpleasant side-effect of centralized communication platforms such as X, Facebook, Google+, and so on.

   In an effort to continue to make it possible for people to talk about Linux (and DistroWatch), as well as share their views and links, we are providing two options. We have RSS news feeds which get updates whenever we post new announcements, stories, and our weekly newsletters. We also now have a Mastodon account where I will start to post updates - at least for new distributions and notice of our weekly newsletter. Over time we may also add news stories and updates about releases. Links for the feeds and the Mastodon account can be found on our contact page.

   #Tech #Politics #Censorship #FreeSpeech #Linux #Fediverse #TikTok #FLOSS #FOSS #FreeSoftware #Twitter #Apple #Microsoft #Google #AlphabetCorp #Facebook #MetaCorp #AmazonCorp

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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 13:44:41 JST Rich Felker

   in reply to

   @xyhhx @dean @foone There's a single deterministic computation producing the data to read back independent of what hardware you're running on.

   In principle you should be able to make GPU rendering deterministic/bit-exact, but there are so many layers for stuff to go wrong at and in practice it's always fingerprinting.

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   Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 08:32:27 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

   in reply to

   There will be a lot of pressure soon from investors: run ads, make premium accounts that do not actually make sense in a decentralized way, so on and so on.

   In this way, "credible exit" is the most important thing for Bluesky the organization and its community to push on *today*

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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 04:45:24 JST Paul Cantrell

   The word “nativist” always rankles me: the people to whom it refers to are never, of course, actually Native.

   Should we abandon the word? Use it mindful of how it mirrors the broken thinking it refers to?

   Regardless, let’s not lose the forest for the trees: Trump is dredging up every bucket of scum he can pull from the sediments of the Nazis, Jim Crow, the Know-Nothings, whatever primal fear he can lay hands on.

   In today's #uspol roundup from @wdlindsy: https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/113226915366416236

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   AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2024 09:04:18 JST AkaSci 🛰️

   in reply to

   Sunspot region 3664 goes away with a bang!

   As the super-active sunspot region 3664 rotated away to the backside of the Sun, it lobbed 3 more X-Class flares today.

   X1.7 - 02:09 UTC
   X1.2 - 12:55 UTC
   X8.7 - 16:51 UTC, the strongest one of this cycle.

   An X8 flare is 8 times more powerful than an X1 and so on.

   In modern times, the largest solar flare occurred on 4 Nov 2003 at X45.

   The 1859 Carrington Event was estimated at X50.

   https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/
   https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/
   31/n

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   Kevin Leecaster (greenfire@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Mar-2024 13:02:28 JST Kevin Leecaster

   in reply to

   @dalias
   ERCOT is a good example of why anecdotes can't be used to base policy on.

   In a non-regulated market in which producers may use renewable and non-renewable sources to produce electricity.
   Dynamic pricing increases investment in renewables if, under static pricing, producers mix both sources; and reduces investment if, under static pricing, producers only use renewables. In both cases, dynamic pricing improves welfare as consumers and producers become better off.
   https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0360544220308021