Notices by jbz (jbzfn@mastodon.social)

"In another resignation on Tuesday, a state department official from the bureau of population, refugees and migration, Stacy Gilbert, sent an email to colleagues explaining that she was leaving because of an official finding by the department that Israel was not deliberately obstructing the flow of food or other aid into Gaza."

#FreePalestine #GenocideJoe #IsraelGenocidalState #Israel #Palestine #USPol

"Smith and Gilbert bring the total number of Biden administration officials to have publicly resigned over US policy on Gaza to nine, though Josh Paul, the first official to resign, said that at least two dozen more had left quietly, without a public declaration."

#FreePalestine #GenocideJoe #IsraelGenocidalState #Israel #Palestine #USPol

“I cannot do my job in an environment in which specific people cannot be acknowledged as fully human, or where gender and human rights principles apply to some, but not to others, depending on their race,”

#FreePalestine #GenocideJoe #IsraelGenocidalState #Israel #Palestine #USPol

🇺🇲 Two more US officials resign over Biden administration’s position on Gaza war | Biden administration | @guardian

"Alexander Smith, a contractor for the US Agency for International Development (USAID), said he was given a choice between resignation and dismissal after preparing a presentation on maternal and child mortality among Palestinians, which was cancelled at the last minute by USAID leadership last week"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/30/two-more-us-officials-resign-over-biden-administrations-position-on-gaza-war

#FreePalestine #GenocideJoe #IsraelGenocidalState

🏥 Nurse honored for compassion fired after referring in speech to Gaza 'genocide' | @AP

"Labor and delivery nurse Hesen Jabr, who is Palestinian American, was being honored by NYU Langone Health for her compassion in caring for mothers who had lost babies when she drew a link between her work and the suffering of mothers in Gaza"

https://apnews.com/article/new-york-urse-fired-genocide-israel-palestinians-55c694d6a0c64b1612262310dc208124

#IsraelGenocidalState #FreePalestine #GenocideJoe #uspol

🪦 Flood of Fake Science Forces Multiple Journal Closures | @WSJ

"Fake studies have flooded the publishers of top scientific journals, leading to thousands of retractions and millions of dollars in lost revenue. The biggest hit has come to Wiley, a 217-year-old publisher based in Hoboken, N.J., which Tuesday will announce that it is closing 19 journals, some of which were infected by large-scale research fraud."

https://archive.ph/QZxfa

#research #science #academia #journals

🛰️ Hubble Telescope Faces Threat From SpaceX and Other Companies’ Satellites | @nytimes

"Their results show that the chance of seeing a satellite in a Hubble image from 2009 to 2020 is only 3.7 percent. But the chance of seeing one in 2021 is 5.9 percent — an increase that they say corresponds to Starlink. By the date of the analysis, 1,562 Starlink satellites were in orbit. Another company, OneWeb, had lofted 320 satellites."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/02/science/hubble-spacex-starlink.html

#hubble #spacex #starlink #musk #space

⚡Tesla's Supercharger Changes Tell the EV Industry: Fend for Yourselves
— Business Insider

"I got a bounce from every email address," said Andres Pinter, a co-CEO of Bullet EV Charging Solutions, which has about a dozen projects underway for Tesla. Other contractors, he said, may be in trouble if they don't have non-Tesla projects to fall back on."

https://www.businessinsider.com/teslas-supercharger-changes-hurt-wider-ev-industry-2024-5

#supercharger #musk #tesla #layoffs

:mastodon: The Trouble with Forking Mastodon
— @news

"In light of the announcement of Mastodon’s US-based 501c3 Non-Profit, and the reveal of that organization’s board members, there has been backlash from members of the Mastodon community. Some people are even saying that this is the last straw, it’s time for a hard fork of the project!"

https://wedistribute.org/2024/05/forking-mastodon/

#mastodon #fork #opensource #fedi

🇵🇸 Libertarian right wingers threatening to apply CCP style social score to students protesting against the genocide.

Anywhere else that would be illegal, but somehow saying it on Bloomberg or Fox News feels safe.

Freedom of pigs.

#campusprotests #freepalestine #genocidejoe

🧑💻 NetBSD On The State & Future Of X.Org/X11
➥ @phoronix

「 The bad news is that to have applications running we require access to a larger open source ecosystem, and that ecosystem has a lot of churn and is easily distracted by shiny new squirrels. The process of upstreaming stuff to X.Org is an ongoing process, but it's likely we'll run into things that will never be suitable for upstream 」

#netbsd #bsd #xorg #opensource

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NetBSD-State-Of-X11-2024

🦾 Muse Book laptop features SpacemiT K1 octa-core RISC-V AI processor, up to 16GB RAM
➥ @cnxsoft

「 SpacemiT, a chip design company from China with RISC-V as its core technology, recently unveiled the Muse Book laptop based on the K1 octa-core RISC-V chip. Unlike our daily laptops, it has many interesting unique features and is mainly sold to hardware engineers and DIY enthusiasts 」

https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/04/30/muse-book-laptop-spacemit-k1-octa-core-risc-v-ai-processor-16gb-ram/

#RISCV #Laptop #SpacemiTK1 #SpacemiT

🔥 Peloton announces new round of layoffs as CEO quits - The Verge

「 Peloton’s CEO Barry McCarthy is stepping down after announcing yet another round of layoffs, this time affecting about 15 percent of its remaining workforce, or roughly 400 global team members. It’s the fifth round of layoffs to hit the pandemic darling and comes after McCarthy said on its Q1 2023 earnings call that the company was done with layoffs and that the “ship was turning.” 」

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/2/24146989/peloton-announces-new-round-of-layoffs-as-ceo-quits

#peloton #layoffs

🐍 Programming Retro Games in Python | 80s Usborne Computer Coding Book
➥ Kari

https://youtube.com/watch?v=3kdM9wyglnw

#Gamedev #Python #BBCMicro #Retrogaming

Fork it, ship it (?)

「Industry participants, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, Oracle, Ericsson, and Snap Inc. are supporting Valkey. They are focused on making contributions that support the long-term health and viability of the project so that everyone can benefit from it」

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Foundation-Valkey

#Redis #Valkey #Opensource #Bigtech

「 Fedify is a Deno/TypeScript library for building federated server apps powered by ActivityPub and other standards, which is so-called fediverse. You may already know some of the networks in the fediverse, such as Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed, PeerTube, and so on. It aims to eliminate the complexity and redundant boilerplate code when building a federated server app, so that you can focus on your business logic and user experience 」
https://github.com/dahlia/fedify

#Fedify #Deno #ActivityPub #Opensource

💰 Broadcom Ends Support For Free ESXi Vmware Hypervisor
— Slashdot

"Broadcom announced immediate end of ESXi availability. ESXi has been an important tool for many "homelab" enthusiasts -- offering simple bare metal virtualization for small setups. Unfortunately they don't offer a replacement, except for paid subscription services"

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/02/12/1816248/broadcom-ends-support-for-free-esxi-vmware-hypervisor

#ESXi #Vmware

👍 Niklaus Wirth, or the Importance of Being Simple
ᐅ blog@CACM
https://m-cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/279178-niklaus-wirth-or-the-importance-of-being-simple/fulltext

#NiklausWirth #Simplicity #Pascal

Elixir: The only Sane Choice in an Insane World • Brian Cardarella • GOTO 2017

https://youtube.com/watch?v=gom6nEvtl3U

#Elixir #Concurrency #FaultTolerance #FunctionalProgramming #gotocon

:AngeryCat: Another "Fuck them kids" from the GNU folks.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Boot-Drops-Non-Free-Bits

#FreeSoftware #GNUBoot #Libreboot