Gwmngilfen @gwmngilfen@fosstodon.org

Carole Cadwalladr about #Facebook's role in #Brexit — and the threat to #democracy... Great #TED talk. https://www.ted.com/talks/carole_cadwalladr_facebook_s_role_in_brexit_and_the_threat_to_democracy/up-next

Understanding environmental impact is hard.

Me and my gas-guzzling mini-van have a much lower impact than most "green car" owners... simply because I drive way, way less than average.

Planes aren't bad for the environment because they burn lots of fuel. Planes are bad for the environment because they are convenient and encourage, enable and create a market for massive amounts of travel.

Switching to advanced, super-clean vehicles won't improve things nearly as much as telecommuting would.

We live in a world where stealing our attention is the most profitable business. Yet, knowledge work demands long periods of focused attention to get anything worthwhile done. We must constantly fight to protect our attention from the myriad of digital and physical distractions. Constant distraction is our default state now unless we take active steps to create focus.

#DeepWork #Focus #Attention

Spot on

If I'm making a ginger decoction, is it really necessary to discard the solids? I'm trying to make a ginger sugar free candy for my kid who has pretty constant nausea

#plantsourcedmedicine No idea how to tag this lol

Side note: if you are my ages IE creeping towards middle age like a slug on a cabbage leaf, please please listen to younger people (ethnicity, skin colour, sexuality, gender expression etc)& support the shit out of them! It's our job!

My granddad said a thing about racism I still remember:
"Young people get to do dumb shit, thats the point of being young - but if you're old you've had time to learn and have no excuse being an arse! Never respect age if it comes with a side order of ignorance!"

'if you're a matrix.org user you should change your password now.'

It's running again, but:
'The hacker exploited a vulnerability in our production infrastructure'

https://matrix.org/blog/2019/04/11/security-incident/

#infosec #matrix

@gwmngilfen hi back from everyone! #theforeman

My #OpenLeaders mentee Heather Burns delivering yet another HIGH QUALITY talk on #privacy & #ethics

Seriously, book her for your event. Her expertise is unquestionably valuable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khohibxN0BY

If some person you know is concerned about privacy do them a favor and give them this link about VPNs: really well written and clarifying https://schub.io/blog/2019/04/08/very-precarious-narrative.html

Surviving Mars: Green Planet to introduce terraforming, releasing in Q2 this year https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/surviving-mars-green-planet-to-introduce-terraforming-releasing-in-q2-this-year.13920 #ComingSoon #Strategy #DLC

I'm looking for an #Icelandic grammar book either in English or German. More a systematic overview where I can look things up than a lesson-by-lesson textbook.

Boosts welcome, takk fyrir :)

***IMPORTANT***
Calling all EU nationals living in the UK. The UK will be participating in the EU Parliament elections on May 23rd.

Because of Brexit many EU nationals may not have kept themeslves on the voter's roll. Please make sure you are registered to vote. This election may be important for securing your rights.

https://www.yourvotematters.co.uk/faq/registering-to-vote/how-do-i-check-the-electoral-register

#politics #EU #Brexit

Today is the 50th anniversary of RFC-1, which in a sense means that programmers have now been chatting and arguing about the internet for 50 years. https://write.as/365-rfcs/50-years-of-rfcs

@bob @gwmngilfen @matrix identity servers are (currently) only for linking 3rd part identifiers (phone, email etc)

You can use https://www.modular.im/tools/matrix-migration to log into the old, and the new account, and then it will join all your old rooms with the new account and copy over some other things