We're thrilled to welcome Ambar as our new community facilitator at Framasoft!
Ambar will primarily be working with the #PeerTube community so please, give her a warm welcome! 🥳
👉 https://framacolibri.org/t/new-community-facilitator/32888
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Join our team!
We're looking for a Senior Casework Coordinator to support the Green MSPs representing the Edinburgh and Lothians East Region.
This role is a really crucial part of our growing team, and would suit someone empathetic and organised who cares deeply about the challenges being faced by people across our region.
If you think you'd be a good fit, or know someone who might be, find out more, share and apply here: https://greens.scot/jobs/senior-casework-coordinator-for-green-msps-for-edinburgh-and-lothians-east-region
@cafuego I NEED THIS
I wonder if it comes in the correct size for my shower?
@cafuego HOLY FUCKING SHIT I FOUND IT #StraightOuttaShenzen
Während mir deutsche Behörden immer erzählen, dass Domains beschlagnahmen und verwerten ja quasi ein Ding der Unmöglichkeit im Kontext von illegalem Glücksspiel ist, hat man das in Österreich einfach gemacht.
Die at Domains für Lottoland und Lottohelden können momentan ersteigert werden.
Remember the documentary film Seven Up! that interviewed 14 seven year old British kids in 1964. And then followed up with a new film every 7 years?
Well, the last installment is coming out in a couple weeks. 70 Up.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/sep/07/seminal-series-ends-six-decades-70-up
Teoría de la dependencia digital
Soberanía y desarrollo en el capitalismo del siglo XXI
Edition
240 pages
Published in 2026
by Caja Negra
El mapa del poder global se ha reconfigurado. Las relaciones de dependencia contemporáneas no se dejan describir ya por los opuestos binarios de la potencia imperial y la colonia, o por las metáforas del tecnofeudalismo. En Teoría de la dependencia digital, la economista argentina Cecilia Rikap traza la cartografía de este nuevo orden: una economía asimétrica regida por monopolios intelectuales que tienen la capacidad de controlar el ritmo de la producción, innovación tecnológica y de apropiarse del conocimiento producido por el resto del planeta.
¿Cómo funciona esta maquinaria de extracción? Rikap examina con rigurosidad los procedimientos jurídicos, políticos y económicos mediante los cuales gigantes como Microsoft, Amazon y Google convierten a empresas y start-ups, organismos públicos y universidades en apéndices de sus propios laboratorios. La figura de la nube ilustra de forma brutal esta subsunción: un espacio privatizado al que estas empresas se ven forzadas a migrar, resignando autonomía y transfiriendo valor. Este proceso provoca una inversión de roles: los Estados, vaciados de sus capacidades técnicas y convertidos en “clientes forzosos”, entregan el diseño de las políticas públicas a los CEO de las Big Tech. A su vez, el extractivismo de datos profundiza el extractivismo de recursos naturales, encadenando la crisis tecnológica con la crisis ecológica.
Este libro interviene en los debates sobre nuevas periferias digitales (América Latina, África, pero también Europa) desarticulando las narrativas tanto progresistas como liberales que prometen desarrollo a cambio de la instalación acrítica de centros de datos o la adopción de IA. Frente a este escenario, Rikap postula la necesidad de una respuesta política de escala internacional: la creación de ecosistemas digitales alternativos, basados en centros de datos públicos y modelos fundacionales abiertos, capaces de disputar el sentido de la tecnología y recuperar una soberanía que hoy parece perdida. Contra todo fatalismo, este libro sostiene que la dependencia no es un destino ineludible. La salida es política y urgente: requiere una articulación capaz de diseñar infraestructuras públicas que quiebren el cerco de los monopolios intelectuales porque sin soberanía digital no hay futuro posible.
An Amazon cargo plane crashed at Miami International Airport
https://www.theverge.com/tech/990918/amazon-cargo-plane-crashed-miami?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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#WritersCoffeeClub Sept. 6: If you work digitally, what keyboard or dictation do you use? If paper, what do you write with?
Learned to type on a manual typewriter, have used keyboards almost exclusively since then (1970s). Today my desktop uses a Keychron K5 low-profile mechanical keyboard with Gateron red keyswitches, but I also have a Macbook Air and a Macbook Neo for travel, along with a Pomera DM250, and a bunch of other proximate e-waste.
Dictation is utter shit for fiction: don't use it.
@cstross Dictation? If we could speak, we wouldn't be writers.
Boox’s tiny Picco e-reader should land in November
https://www.theverge.com/tech/990895/boox-picco-tiny-e-reader-november-ifa?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Il comunicato che non avremmo mai voluto riprendere: Autistici/Inventati chiude
[Con grande dolore riprendiamo da Keepitfree.ai questo comunicato, perché il maggior numero di persone deve conoscere una storia in apparenza piccola ma enorme. Dove «storia» vuol dire due cose: la vicenda che in queste ore si consuma, da troppa gente presa
this week in security — september 6 2026 edition
150+ million driver's licenses scraped from ID checker, major hack affects U.S. and Canadian courts, thousands of Dropbox accounts breached, Americans are destroying Flock cameras, Norway plans to ban 'pervert' smart glasses, and more.
Federation Bot
In one of the best things I've read this week, @monsieuricon Konstantin Ryabitsev provides a deep dive on the infrastructure that is under pressure from bots and scrapers at The #LinuxFoundation - specifically the #linux kernel's git repository.
Even after deploying anti-scraper tools such as #Anubis, Ryabitsev estimates that:
"With a bunch of generous assumptions, legitimate requests are only about 2% of git.kernel.org traffic — everything else are scrapers.
This is one more example of the damage being wrought to #infrastructure in the the #TokenWars - the rampant desire for, and unchecked predation of, publicly accessible #data tokens for feeding into machine learning models.
How are crawlers and bots and scrapers influencing information architectures and re-shaping what it means for data to be open or publicly available?
@KathyReid @monsieuricon Why do these scrapers need to keep doing a full clone every time? Can they not just pull incrementally to a local tree? It would appear to demonstrate how little thought has been given to their construction and operation.
DIY plug-in solar gains momentum in the US
https://www.theverge.com/column/990183/diy-plug-in-solar-us?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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…Amazing how prescient Kubrick’s scene of monolith-fondling apes was
In an entirely unrelated incident, we just had a new freezer delivered...
5yo, sweetly, “mommy? Every day…when your proud of me…”
Me: “yea bud?”
5yo: “can you give me money?”
💀💀💀
Mattatoio n. 5
Ovvero la crociata dei bambini una danza obbligata con la morte
Paperback Edition
215 pages
Published in 2025-04
by Bompiani
George A Romero’s Dawn of the Reform Party
https://www.patreon.com/RobinInce/posts/george-romeros-168723142
Explore the globe in field recordings
https://www.theverge.com/tech/990873/earth-garden-globe-field-recordings?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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iPhone Handoff will seamlessly share one number between two phones
https://www.theverge.com/tech/990868/iphone-handoff-ios-27?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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