GNU Guix: Meet Guix at FOSDEM Planet GNU

Feb 032021
 

As usual, GNU Guix will be present at FOSDEM on February 6th and 7th. Due to the pandemic, this year’s edition takes place on-line. The downside is that we’ll miss beautiful Brussels, but on the up side hopefully people who cannot join physically will be able to attend this year, and the event’s carbon footprint will be much lower.We’re happy to say that there will be several talks about Guix and related projects!Saturday afternoon, Guix Workflow…

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What the science really says: Closing schools is vital to containing COVID-19 World Socialist Web Site (en)

Feb 032021
 

As over 10,000 Chicago teachers and staff are engaged in a struggle to oppose the city’s effort to reopen public schools, the entire US media is waging a campaign to pressure educators to resume in-person schooling.

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Meet Guix at FOSDEM Planet GNU

Feb 032021
 

As usual, GNU Guix will be present at FOSDEM on February 6th and 7th. Due to the pandemic, this year’s edition takes place on-line. The downside is that we’ll miss beautiful Brussels, but on the up side hopefully people who cannot join physically will be able to attend this year, and the event’s carbon footprint will be much lower.We’re happy to say that there will be several talks about Guix and related projects!Saturday afternoon, Guix Workflow…

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Health Insurance Lobbyist Tears Up After Realizing Dianne Feinstein No Longer Recognizes His Face The Onion

Feb 032021
 

WASHINGTON—Unable to maintain his composure in light of such a tragic situation, Todd Michaels, a lobbyist for Kaiser Permanente, reportedly teared up Tuesday after realizing that Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) no longer recognized his face. “Barely a week has gone by for the last 10 years when we haven’t discussed…Read more…

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B.1.1.7 coronavirus variant is picking up a worrisome new mutation Ars Technica

Feb 032021
 

Enlarge (credit: CDC.gov) As the world races to get vaccines into arms, one of the most concerning coronavirus variants appears to be getting a little more concerning. Researchers in the UK have detected at least 15 cases of B.1.1.7 variants carrying an additional mutation: E484K, a mutation already seen in other concerning variants and one that may make current vaccines less effective at preventing infection. The B.1.1.7 variant, first identified in the United Kingdom, is already…

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Biden Appoints Warmongers PopularResistance.Org

Feb 022021
 

The corporate media has focused on Biden’s promise to overturn many of former-President Trump’s policies. But Biden pledged throughout his campaign to make “no substantial change” — and his foreign policy appointments show he meant that. Despite the media talk of justice, new policy and diversity, behind the scenes the same old U.S. militarist policies are being reinforced through Biden’s cabinet choices and their direct ties to industry-funded think tanks and military contractors.  Biden’s cabinet…

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Leftwing ban Richard Stallman’s Political Notes

Feb 022021
 

*Facebook is banning leftwing users like me — and it’s going largely unnoticed.* It seems to be yet another case of false balance. When right-wing fanatics are attacking the Capitol, false balance takes the worst thing progressives are doing, and arbitrarily treat that as equivalent to attacking the Capitol.

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‘Ethical’ Instacart Alternative Shut Down Facebook Group Where Workers Protested Pay Changes Motherboard

Feb 022021
 

The on-demand grocery delivery service Dumpling, which advertises itself as an “ethical” alternative to Instacart, had a lot going for it this summer: a rapidly growing base of loyal couriers; a worker-controlled pay model; glowing press coverage at a time when other gig economy companies faced worker-led strikes and protests against exploitative tipping policies and poverty wages.  “We’re the personal and ethical alternative to big name grocery delivery services,” Dumpling posted on Facebook in May…

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No, Getting Rid Of Anonymity Will Not Fix Social Media; It Will Cause More Problems Techdirt.

Feb 022021
 

There’s an idea that pops up every so often among people who are upset about misinformation online but don’t actually understand the realities of online communities and the dynamics of how it all works: it’s the idea that “anonymity” is the root cause of many of the internet’s problems. We’ve spent years debunking this, though it’s been nearly a decade since there was a previous focus on this issue — and it’s now coming back.…

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RIAA Launches Brand New Front Group Pretending To Represent Independent Artists Techdirt.

Feb 022021
 

A few days ago, a friend asked if I’d ever heard of the “Digital Creators Coalition,” an apparently new group that claimed to be representing independent artists. I was unfamiliar with it, and its website provided basically no information about who was actually behind it, beyond this vague statement on its “who we are” page: The Digital Creators Coalition (DCC) is a group of associations, companies and organizations that represent individual creators, independent producers, small-and-medium-size…

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Chicago educators call for strike as district continues threats World Socialist Web Site (en)

Feb 022021
 

There is growing support for strike action as Mayor Lori Lightfoot, with the backing of the Biden administration, prepares to retaliate against educators if the Chicago Teachers Union fails to get them back in schools.

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Lincoln Project co-founder accused of online sexual harassment from 21 men, including 14-year-old Boing Boing

Feb 022021
 

Yesterday, The New York Times reported that The Lincoln Project (Republican anti-Trump group) co-founder, John Weaver, 61, has been accused by 21 young men of unsolicited online sexual messages over the years. One was only 14-years-old when Weaver first sent him messages, asking the boy about his body. — Read the rest

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Chrome 89 beta: Google presses on with ‘advanced hardware interactions’ that Mozilla, Apple see as harmful The Register

Feb 022021
 

Adding Serial API, Web NFC support, richer human interface device support Google has released a beta of Chrome 89, adding further hardware interaction APIs even though Mozilla and Apple consider many of these features harmful, as well as introducing a desktop-sharing API for Windows and Chrome OS.…

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Council Seeks To Take Crash Investigations From NYPD Streetsblog.org

Feb 012021
 

The City Council moved aggressively to rein in the NYPD on Friday, focusing its legislative ire on bigoted cops and lax discipline — but also advancing a policy long-sought by street safety advocates: taking the police department out of crash investigation in favor of a new Department of Transportation unit. The Council’s just released 12-part agenda includes the demise of the NYPD’s flawed Collision Investigation Squad and the creation of a new DOT team to…

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BOMBSHELL: Council Seeks to Take Crash Investigation from NYPD to Increase Road Safety Streetsblog.org

Feb 012021
 

The City Council moved aggressively to rein in the NYPD on Friday, focusing its legislative ire on bigoted cops and lax discipline — but also advancing a policy long-sought by street safety advocates: taking the police department out of crash investigation in favor of a new Department of Transportation unit. The Council’s just released 12-part agenda includes the demise of the NYPD’s flawed Collision Investigation Squad and the creation of a new DOT team to…

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Countless emails wrongly blocked as spam after Cisco’s SpamCop failed to renew domain name at the weekend The Register

Feb 012021
 

Plus: Second ransomware operation in the sights of Uncle Sam – and the insurance industry under fire for fueling extortionware rise In brief  Cisco’s anti-spam service SpamCop failed to renew spamcop.net over weekend, causing it to lapse, which resulted in countless messages being falsely labeled and rejected as spam around the world.…

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Warnings against overbroad changes to Section 230 Richard Stallman’s Political Notes

Feb 012021
 

*70+ Civil Rights and Progressive Organizations Warn Against Repealing or Making Overbroad Changes to Section 230 in Wake of Capitol Attack.*

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Google Play bans open source Matrix client Element, citing “abusive content” [Updated] Ars Technica

Jan 312021
 

Enlarge The latest app to catch an illogical ban from the Google Play Store is Element, an open source, end-to-end encrypted messaging client for the federated Matrix chat protocol. Google banned Element late Friday night, a ban that Element said “is due to abusive content somewhere on Matrix.” Matrix has millions of users, and as a federated chat protocol, Element does not control the content on Matrix, so this is a bit like banning a Web…

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