Notices by Matthew Fennell (matthew@social.fennell.dev), page 2

I'm mid-career and I've just realised I have never received *any* mentoring on how to manage my workload, on how to explicitly recognise when I've taken on too much and how to proactively develop a system to manage saying no to more things.

Mostly I just OCAFO (Over Commit And Find Out).

What systems does everyone else use?

#AcademicChatter

@grifferz the talk was really good but it's in German - here's the English simultaneous translation:

https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-wir-wissen-wo-dein-auto-steht-volksdaten-von-volkswagen#l=eng

Feedbackd now provides a haptic API for games and browsers (org.sigxcpu.Feedback.Haptic)

6/n

phosh-mobile-settings:

- New setting to disable screen lock
- Plugins now use AdwPreferencesDialog to make them more mobile friendly

4/n

#phosh now shows the configured desktop background in the overview:

Note that some of the background files shipped for desktops as jxl can be slow to resize on slower hardware as they are meant for desktop screen size.

It is recommended to use a proper size on e.g. the PinePhone as it can otherwise consume significant CPU resources after login.

2/n

#phosh now allows to unfullscreen apps from the overview:

1/n

🥳 Big news! While half of Europe is hanging out in Hamburg at 38c3, we got bored and accidentally our web frontend.

It comes with a bunch of new features, which we'll post about in the next couple hours and days, but the one which will probably be most obvious is that we now feature a built-in, automatic dark mode based on your browser / OS preferences 🌙 .

Check it out at https://search.jabber.network !

with the news of LFGSS & Microcosm forums being shut down, we have this cynical opinion piece in Guardian - because they simply don't care as long as they can apply an unworkable band-aid solution on issues with children & social media
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/16/british-children-groomed-predators-social-media-that-ends-now

it's time for politicians to get a education course on how technology works. even plenty of progressive ones don't understand either

#Tech #Technology #TechPolicy #UnitedKingdom #UK #UKPolitics #OnlineSafetyAct

Latest crowdfunded changeset in #Mumbai #India. Took me roughly 2.5 hours (again).

> Lokhandwala - add 30 POIs (27 shops, 2 amenities, office), 2 buildings, 8 building parts, 4 entrances, 3 apartment complexes, manhole, 6 street lamps; improve 4 building geometries
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/160290609

https://osmlab.github.io/changeset-map/#160290609

#OpenStreetMap

We are sad to see that @ThePlant has decided to close the GamingonLinux forum, a result of the Online Safety Act. We warned politicians that their attempts to regulate the net in the UK would destroy the best bits of the internet when trying to tackle the worst. #OFCOM #OnlineSafetyAct #Linux

The latest crowdfunded changeset in #Mumbai #India. Took me about 2.5 hours.

> Lokhandwala - add 47 POIs, building details, 5 building parts, 5 entrances, 3 manholes, 2 poles; improve 2 building geometries
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/160160994

https://osmlab.github.io/changeset-map/#160160994

#OpenStreetMap

This utterly failed, fastboot was not able to write the userdata partition, so now I guess that phone is dead :\ well, not dead, at least. I managed to flash postmarketos using #pmbootstrap - but the phone does not boot, justshows spinning dots. Not sure where to go from here?

#postmarketos #failure

#TIL that you can subscribe to a Mastodon feed using an RSS reader, or even a podcast listening app like AntennaPod. Although that only shows OPs to the feed, not replies or comments. I'm not up on RSS readers and whether they can display fediverse threads.

Anyway, this is just another demonstration of a) the value of open standards, and b) the way different standards can be combined, forming a unified social media space with many ways in

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#OpenStandards #RSS #PodcastApps #FediverseFeeds

🇩🇪Ho, ho, ho: #Chatkontrolle am heutigen Nikolaustag erneut gestoppt (siehe Grafik) 🥂 +++ Danke an alle, die mitgekämpft haben! +++ Unser digitales Briefgeheimnis und sichere #Verschlüsselung sind unverhandelbare Grundfesten der Informationsgesellschaft!

Communities can choose freedom-respecting platforms, thereby forcing a significant number of people to use it.

But most communities are too cowardly to do that. Just try getting free software projects off GitHub, or try moving Telegram/Discord communities to XMPP. See how much pushback you get.

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🇩🇪🚨Wiederholungstäter Orban: Annahme der #Chatkontrolle steht für Donnerstag (Botschafter) schon wieder auf der Tagesordnung https://www.parlament.gv.at/dokument/XXVIII/EU/4730/imfname_11434222.pdf +++ Beschlossen werden soll unverändert der katastrophale ungarische Vorschlag: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/beitraege/chatkontrolle/#rat