Notices by Adonay Felipe Nogueira (adfeno@ecodigital.social), page 58

https://lwn.net/Articles/800516/

Software patents are an obstacle to freedom!

Voice your support to the GNOME Foundation against this ethical hijacking!

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/software-patents.en.html

After 2 years of work in the @FOSS4SMEs project, we present recommendations to policy makers how to uptake the usage of #FreeSoftware in small and medium-sized enterprises. Great input by @cedricth! #FOSS4SMEs #FOSS

#GitHub is blocking users based on national origin, citing US trade controls law restrictions....

People from #Iran, #Syria, #Crimea, #Cuba, and North Korea woke up one day to lose access to all their public and private repositories. There's reporting that even people *who traveled* to any of those countries in the last 2 years are losing their data...

And #GitHub has not said ONE WORD ABOUT IT.

:blobangery:

Read more: https://medium.com/@hamed/github-blocked-my-account-and-they-think-im-developing-nuclear-weapons-e7e1fe62cb74

I can't seem to stop petting the cat. Whenever I do he pushes his head into my hand to continue, as if to say "more please."

#stallman explica su disertación en el campus de #microsoft

https://stallman.org/articles/microsoft-talk.html

Nonprofit ops/infra jobs alert -- boosts appreciated:

Freedom of the Press Foundation (where I work) is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer. Budgeted base salary range is $90-$110K/year, remote-friendly for folks working in PT to ET time zones. Working in NYC office is also an option.

Responsibilities will include building out our Continuous Delivery infra using Kubernetes, and supporting the SecureDrop open source project and other technical initiatives by FPF. More:

https://freedom.press/jobs/senior-devops-engineer/

Hi!

I’m a 24 years old trans woman in tech.

I’m doing Rust, Python, but mostly JavaScript/HTML/CSS these days; I also often (help) translate projects from English to French and sometimes Esperanto (like Mastodon and Tusky).

My main project currently is Tab Center Reborn, a Firefox extension to display tabs on the side:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/tabcenter-reborn/

I have a Liberapay to continue working on Free Software projects without running out of money:
https://liberapay.com/ariasuni/

#introduction

Has anyone written up a concise explanation of the reasons why internet activists tend not to trust Cloudflare? I’m having trouble convincing one of my cow-orkers that this is actually a thing to be concerned about (when developing a website whose audience is specifically those activists, so this isn’t just a solidarity thing, it affects our credibility).

"Source available" licenses are more nonfree / dangerous than straight up traditional proprietary no-source-available software/licenses. I am actively afraid of being exposed to code under such a license: that's now information that is difficult for me to use in my work on FOSS.

@Gotterdammerung that's a cool idea. A sign-recognition engine would be amazing for accessibility. In order to train a free code AI to recognize sign reliably, you'd need a huge corpus of freely licensed video samples of people signing. So when deaf users (and anyone else who can sign) encounter the hypothetical captcha, they could record a video sample instead of a voice sample, or audit one recorded by another user against the text it's meant to represent.
@CharredStencil

One thing I've thought about a lot is captchas that could collect samples of natural language, in a range of languages, accents etc under a free license (CC BY-SA or maybe even GPL). These could gradually build up a new speech corpus to add to those being used to train free code voice recognition software (#Voxforge etc)