Joseph Nuthalapati @njoseph@social.masto.host

Someone Is Spamming and Breaking a Core Component of PGP’s Ecosystem - Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai: https://www.vice.com/en/article/8xzj45/someone-is-spamming-and-breaking-a-core-component-of-pgps-ecosystem

this seems pretty cool?

"Firefox 86 Introduces Total Cookie Protection"

> Our new feature, Total Cookie Protection, works by maintaining a separate “cookie jar” for each website you visit. Any time a website, or third-party content embedded in a website, deposits a cookie in your browser, that cookie is confined to the cookie jar assigned to that website, such that it is not allowed to be shared with any other website.

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/02/23/total-cookie-protection/

The #GreatGreenWall aims to restore 100 million hectares of currently degraded land, sequester 250 million tonnes of carbon and create 10 million jobs in rural areas. (by 2030)

👉 46% of African land is degraded, jeopardizing the livelihoods of nearly two-thirds of the Continent’s population.

👉 20 million people in the Horn of Africa in 2017 declared on the verge of starvation following severe drought and food crises.

👉 Millions are expected to migrate from degraded parts of Africa in the next two decades

👉 100 million population of the Sahel is expected to grow to 340 million by 2050

👉 200 million of the 375 million young people entering the job market over the next 15 years will be living in rural areas.

Results so far:

🌴 12 million drought resistant trees were planted in Senegal

🌵 15 million hectare of degraded land were restored in Ethiopia; 5 million in Nigeria

🌳 5 million hectares of land have been restored in Niger, delivering 500.000 tonnes of grain per year. enough to feed 2.5 million people

🌱 3 million hectares in Burkina Faso have been rehabilitated through local practice used by communities called Zaï

https://www.greatgreenwall.org/about-great-green-wall

#reforestation #ClimateMitigation #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice

Updated version with more uniform look ✨.

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SVG available on request.

> You want to make a webpage because they are cool.
> You want to make it yourself, by hand and for free, because *you* are cool.
> This zine is for those who have not made a site before, especially those who don’t consider themselves coders.

https://solarpunk.cool/zines/web-zine-01/

I'm working for a big tech company in California. Yesterday all employees received an email from our security guys.

We have to deactivate all personal assistant gadgets (like Alexa) during worktime in the homeoffice.

They have evidence that these gadgets are recording audio from conference calls.

Nothing new to me but notable that I've got this order.

How to remove the Raspberry Pi Foundation tone-deafly auto-installed Microsoft repo and GPG keys from your #RaspberryPi .

In terminal:
sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list
sudo rm /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/microsoft.gpg
sudo apt update

[Cf. https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/microsoft-repo-and-key-are-automatically-added-raspberry-pis ]

Sure, it's great that corporations hate the AGPL...

But have you ever considered writing software that corporations hate intrinsically?

After the crazy guy stopped the OTF mid-pandemic, the Biden administration worked fast on reopening.

Now, we demand from the European Union to build
an European Open Technology Fund.
In my personal interest it would be a transatlantic joint venture so that borders do not matter and I can apply with my US friends.

Open Protocols, Open Source, Open Borders!

An article by Julia Reda
https://netzpolitik.org/2020/wo-bleibt-europas-open-technology-fund/

#opensource #activitypub #OpenTechnologyFund

I am planning on setting up a “small business” (eventually transforming it into a cooperative, if others join) refurbishing computers, so I can make a little more money than my welfare payment.

I will, by default, be providing free operating systems for the completed computers. I will also be conducting computer literacy classes for people who really want to have a computer, but don’t feel comfortable using one.

What should I name the enterprise?

Suggestions:

Mutual Aid Computing Society
Epicurean Computers
Data Processing Freedom

Key concepts:

Software Freedom
Communist Anarchism
GNU/Linux/BSD
Cyberpunk/Solarpunk
Social Ecology
Interpersonal Friendliness, Kindness, Empathy

This is really a no-brainer, but somehow we're still having debates about this.

/sigh

https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2021/jan/28/all-countries-should-pursue-a-covid-19-elimination-strategy-here-are-16-reasons-why

Heads up #Fediverse

@k9mail is looking for funding to maintain their popular #android mail app. #k9mail hopes to raise €1,000 p/w on #liberapay to be able to work fulltime on the project.

https://k9mail.app/2021/02/14/K-9-Mail-is-looking-for-funding