If you don’t onboard contributors proactively, then you're selecting project members for their social engineering abilities.
New blog post on #onboarding in #FOSS projects, reflecting on the "Pull Request Hack":
antonin.delpeuch.eu/posts/the-…
The Pull Request Hack is not enough
Years ago, I read The Pull Request Hack, a blog post advocating for a radical way of collaborating on FOSS: “Whenever somebody sends you a pull request, give them commit access to your project.” The post is really worth a read.Antonin Delpeuch
Thank you SO much Conversation! I've been trying to tell people for a number of years now that their worries about a declining birth rate are not well founded.
Fears that falling birth rates in US could lead to population collapse are based on faulty assumptions
"...The population collapse narrative hinges on three key misunderstandings. First, it misrepresents what standard fertility measures tell us about childbearing and makes unrealistic assumptions that fertility rates will follow predictable patterns far into the future. Second, it overstates the impact of low birth rates on future population growth and size. Third, it ignores the role of economic policies and labor market shifts in assessing the impacts of low birth rates..."
I would add to the faulty reasoning:
~ the replacement theory concerning POCs.
~ fear of women in the work force
~ loss of a base for pyramid scheme capitalists
~ environmental stress from loss of habitat to housing, etc.
Fears that falling birth rates in US could lead to population collapse are based on faulty assumptions
While the changes in population structure that accompany low birth rates are real, the impact of these changes has been dramatically overstated.The Conversation
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EXTREME adorbs!
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Playing Video Games Has an Unexpected Effect on Kids' IQ, Study Discovers
#News #ScienceAlert #Humans #Intelligence #Learning #Games #Gaming #VideoGames #Children
Playing Video Games Has an Unexpected Effect on Kids' IQ, Study Discovers : ScienceAlert
Researchers have linked spending more time playing video games with a boost in intelligence in children, which goes some way to contradicting the narrative that gaming is bad for young minds.David Nield (ScienceAlert)
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@Jay Bryant I agree, its not just video games, but games of any sort have this value in maintaining and boosting intelligence, advancing neuron connections, pattern recognition, mathematical prowess etc. Video games add the ability to do so at one's own timing pace when there is no one locally to participate with.
This why games like Scrabble, Chess, etc. are also important learning tools, whether in traditional form or as videogames. The same of course applies to even more complex games and systems in computer games and online games where you have to deal with numerous other factors and adapt and develop strategies on the go due to random things like terrain in movement, resource management etc.
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Home.
#analogphotography #filmphotography #analog #home #livingspaces #newzealand #nz #eos500 #canoneos500 #minoltasr7 #sr7
Recent comic: Cutting out the Middleman
I suspect that some readers might interpret this cartoon as a call for Luddism, but mostly it's a reflection of thoughts I've been having lately about out-of-control data harvesting and a growing surveillance state.
#tech #technology #privacy #data #comic #cartoon #surveillance #consumers #corporations
Focusing on being a little bit more Neo Luddite and cooperate with our peers
That's the key, IMHO.
This is a view taken from the roadside on my way home from Portree. I do this journey at least twice a week. It never fails to thrill me.
It’s a view looking towards the coast of Minginish from a point high above the main road between Sligachan and Dunvegan near Struan.
We do this drive of necessity as we need to collect laundry and food several times a week. Portree is the nearest supermarket. This is the shortest route...
#isleofskyescotland #MistyIsle #view #Minginish #scenic
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Cool wood carving art by Romanian artist!
Click link to see more awesomeness!
Enchanting Chainsaw Sculptures by Gabi Rizea
Gabi Rizea is a Romanian artist who wields a chainsaw as his sculptor's blade. The above work from a few years ago is what has most captured the Internet's attention and drawn appreciation from around the world.Neatorama
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This article is adorable! Patrick Schlott is a hero!
"According to Pew Research Center, 98% of Americans own a mobile phone. Despite how common they are, cell service can be spotty—or even nonexistent—in many areas, such as long stretches of rural Vermont. Patrick Schlott, an electrical engineer, realized this after moving to the area. Hoping to help the community, he used his skills to install free public telephones in strategic locations. “Think payphones without the ‘pay’ part,” writes Schlott..."
Man Installs Free Pay Phones in Parts of VT Without Cell Service
Patrick Schlott, an electrical engineer, installed free-to-use public telephones in a rural area of Vermont without cell service.Regina Sienra (My Modern Met)
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These engineers have waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much time!
Does anyone else hear The Sorcerer's Apprentice playing in the background?
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Monitoring your system doesn’t have to be ugly. Btop++ proves it.
Btop++: Linux System Monitoring Tool That is Definitely Better than Top
A sleek terminal-based system monitor that gives you detailed insights to your resources and processes.Abhishek Prakash (It's FOSS)
A compost heap in Finland has yielded the country’s first giant virus. Bigger than some bacteria and packed with hundreds of mysterious genes, it might hold clues to early life and new biotech tools.
Gabriel Almeida explains in the eLife Podcast: elifesciences.org/podcast/epis…
Episode 99: June 2025
In this episode, we hear about giant viruses, monkeys who wash their food, sepsis in infant pigs, how cancers can cause extra tentacles to grow in hydra, and the impact of speaking multiple languages on the structure of the cortex.eLife
quizás... busques el "equilibrio digital"?
materialidad? minimalismo? sostenibilidad?
algunas pistas en nuestro repaso mensual de #SábadodeComunes
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Hay un sábado de común denominadores | Sursiendo
En el presente #SábadodeComunes abordamos temas tan diversos como las luchas laborales frente a las grandes plataformas, el control estatal sobre la tecnología…sursiendo (Sursiendo)
I was just doing some random reading and learned that the artwork we see for shows on Netflix is personalized by the algorithm! 🤯
gibsonbiddle.medium.com/a-brie…
A Brief History of Netflix Personalization - Gibson Biddle - Medium
This essay details Netflix’s progress from its launch in 1998 to the recent launch of its “I feel lucky” button—a merchandising tactic in which Netflix members rely totally on Netflix’s…Gibson Biddle (Medium)
90% of people on this planet use languages with non-Latin or accented scripts. We should support international characters in usernames on the Fediverse so that people can use their own names or words in their own languages as their usernames.
github.com/swicg/activitypub-w…
Tracking support for non-ascii characters
One of the benefits of using Webfinger is that it's possible, at least in theory, to use non-ascii characters for usernames. Unfortunately, there are not a lot of services that support them -- at l...evanp (GitHub)
A username has, in my view, two requirements:
1. It must possible to type
2. It must be easy to disambiguate
Unicode fails these two requirements. A Japanese user would have trouble typing an Arabic username, a Chinese user would have trouble typing a Russian username. Even a Japanese username for a Japanese user might not be straightforward, as the input systems are quite complicated. On the other hand, everyone has access to the Latin alphabet. Secondly, Unicode is full of homoglyphs.
@Gargron Hackers and scammers are having a field day with homoglyphs because they allow links to be invisibly faked, making phishing attacks so much easier.
The price of being online is eternal vigilance!
@Gargron
The display name supporting Unicode is probably sufficient; but I'm no expert on i18n.
Debian had a discussion about non-ASCII usernames recently: lwn.net/Articles/1000485/
@evan
Debian opens a can of username worms
It has long been said that naming things is one of the hard things to do in computer science. T [...]LWN.net
sometimes, i think about all the airplanes flying around, and i can hardly believe it...
i'm not too far from ORD, and some days i can hear a plane taking off every few seconds.
En este #SábadodeComunes abordamos temas de #SoftwareLibre, de “Minimalismo digital”, de la materialidad de las tecnologías, Fediverso, #CulturaLibre... y más...
con aportes desde
@derechosdigital
@ElSaltoDiario
@gastonsitio
@ElenaMusk
@matizeta
@tunubesecamirio
sursiendo.org/2025/08/hay-un-s…
Hay un sábado de común denominadores | Sursiendo
En el presente #SábadodeComunes abordamos temas tan diversos como las luchas laborales frente a las grandes plataformas, el control estatal sobre la tecnología…sursiendo (Sursiendo)
Fedicon Livestream
Let's get this party started!
Day 1 of FediCon
Take it from someone who's already been through this.
Steam Survey for July 2025 shows Linux approaching 3% gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/stea…
#Steam #SteamOS #Linux #SteamDeck #LinuxGaming
Steam Survey for July 2025 shows Linux approaching 3%
Valve released the data for the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for July 2025, showing the Linux user share making gains towards hitting 3%.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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Photo Stock Eternal Enchantment: Narcissus and His Reflection | Adobe Stock
Téléchargez la photo Stock Eternal Enchantment: Narcissus and His Reflection et découvrez des images similaires sur Adobe StockAdobe Stock
Make Kodi great with these builds!
Best Kodi Builds to Spice Up Your Experience in 2025
Pimp your Kodi with a new skin and additional features by using one of the Kodi builds of your preference.Abhishek Kumar (It's FOSS)
I really like goldenrod — its big plumes and bright colors, and the way it sways gently in the breeze. Beezels on teasels are fun, too. 🌾🐝
#BikeTooter #wildflowers #bees #bloomscrolling #Colorado
Happy International Friendship Day!
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) will shut down operations after losing federal funding due to a $9 billion funding cut passed by the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives. The CPB, created in 1967, distributed funding to NPR, PBS, and over 1,500 local public radio and television stations.
Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content
Mastercard have today released a short statement to clarify their position on adult content across game stores.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
When I co-created Serving Up Science with the wonderful people at WKAR, we never imagined the reach our little show about #food and #science would have. We connected with classrooms, rural towns, big cities, and curious minds across the country - all because of public media. 1/2
cpb.org/pressroom/Corporation-… #uspol
Corporation for Public Broadcasting Addresses Operations Following Loss of Federal Funding
WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations following the passage of a federal rescissions package and the release of the Senate Appropria…cpb.org
Serving Up Science
We'll give you science-backed tips to make your favorite foods even better.www.pbs.org
i feel sorry for all the people who lived through the era of non-standard QWERTY layouts.
you spend a week typing on your dad's Silicon Logistics eQuill+ and get used to pressing SHIFT and SYMBOL LOCK to convert the percent key to a hash symbol. then you get home to your Perry & Samson Electro-Mechanical TypeScribe and whoops, your muscle memory kicks in when you try to type a hash! you've actually just pressed ALT and SUPER to turn the ½ key into a less than or equal to symbol! time to get out the correctional fluid and move the carriage back one character, which is achieved by pressing a key labelled something obtuse like "CRG. REV."!
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Switch 2, sure, but -- have you plugged a tiny piano into a Nintendo DS and used some powerful homebrew software and custom scripts to make a handheld experimental music instrument?
A little-known Nintendo DS piano peripheral meets homebrew sound:
NordVPN launches Call Protection. Scammers beware!
news.itsfoss.com/nordvpn-scam-…
NordVPN Takes on Phone Scammers with Scam Call Protection Feature
NordVPN is taking the fight to scammers.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)
Never lose your phone again. 🧭
#PhoneTrack for #Nextcloud lets you monitor device locations in real time: privately, securely, and on your own server.
📍 Live tracking
🗺️ Geofencing & alerts
📩 GPX import/export
🤝 Share with others
And more!
👉 apps.nextcloud.com/apps/phonet…
PhoneTrack - Apps - App Store - Nextcloud
The Nextcloud App Store - Upload your apps and install new apps onto your Nextcloudapps.nextcloud.com
Doug Webb FOSDEM
in reply to Antonin Delpeuch • • •nice piece. It feels like making the best with the tools we've been given.
New organizational tools would enable new modalities ( Bernie voice: "I am asking you once again to read 'Governable Spaces' by @ntnsndr ")
Nathan Schneider
in reply to Doug Webb FOSDEM • • •