I've invested some time in making Ubuntu Touch apps available on more targets through an example Snapcraft project, starting right from the default C++ Clickable project and extending it by Snap Packaging.
This also allowed for the lomiri-ui-toolkit-core24 to grow, both in capabilities and correctness for a Snap environment.
If you also want to see more of your favorite Ubuntu Touch apps on the Ubuntu Desktop then go ahead and look at this example right here: gitlab.com/fredldotme/snap-pac…
Same people: I'm going to install a VPN, uninstall TikTok, jump on the VPN, create a new Gmail account in another country, switch to the new Google Play account, reinstall TikTok, and then signup for a new account so I can start all over again.
Yes, for many, this was about keeping the flow of free dopamine uninterrupted, fair enough.
But I think the lesson here is that if we make the fediverse a safe space where people can express themselves freely, and find their community, they'll jump through all kinds of hoops.
As a Jew, I am asking you to please get the fuck off X/Twitter as an act of solidarity. This is not about this week's news in isolation--though I will note that zeit.de/kultur/2025-01/elon-mu… is the only article I've yet seen covering it correctly--but about seeing it in context with Musk having espoused many pieces of Nazi ideology over the years. I personally quit twitter a few months after he took it over, because of him espousing the Great Replacement conspiracy theory. 🧵
Investigando el clima de un exoplaneta situado a cientos de años luz, científicos encontraron un nuevo récord para los vientos supersónicos. Fuera del Sistema Solar existe un planeta denominado WASP-127b. Fue descubierto en 2016, y desde entonces los…
La Luna podría ser una de las razones principales de que la Tierra sea un oasis lleno vida en medio del hostil caos cósmico La Tierra es sumamente afortunada. La relación entre nuestro planeta y su satélite natural (la Luna) es tan perfecta que incluso…
Un hábito bastante común entre millones de personas ha sido un acierto para la salud, y no lo sabíamos hasta ahora. Al café se le atribuyen importantes beneficios, como la prevención de la diabetes tipo 2 y la reducción de riegos de padecer una enfermedad…
ICYMI, the Cheeto in Chief just pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the darknet market Silk Road, who was convicted of running the $200M narcotics market.
I saw this and have no concept of what to make of it. The J6 pardons were disgustingly shameful of course but perfectly legible — he likes his brownshirts and wants them free to terrorize his opponents. But… was Ulbricht a big supporter? Influential with some key demographic? It really looks like Trump just … enjoys crime, with this one. I am really struggling to parse it.
@jalefkowit Thanks for this context. Still kind of baffling from a "why bring this up in the first place" way, but I think @nocoursewalks in another reply was probably correct in suggesting "someone with a personal grievance about Ulbricht walked into a room he was in and said the name" and that's how we got here
Descubre gemas ocultas entre las montañas y el Alto Desierto de Oregón que invitan a vivir una aventura única Explorar Oregón es sumergirse en una mezcla de paisajes variados y experiencias diversas; con mar, valles, desierto alto, grandes ciudades,…
Un científico halló algo bastante inusual en la selva colombiana: una especie de escorpión que puede rociar su veneno en varias direcciones. Léo Laborieux es un estudiante de máster en la Universidad Ludwig Maximilian (Alemania) y el autor de un estudio…
Starting at 10 am: The Brookings Institution holds a discussion on domestic climate migration, driven by disasters like Katrina, Helene, Milton, the Los Angeles fires, drought, flood, insurance withdrawals, etc. with Abrahm Lustgarten, Shana Tabak, and Beth Gibbons, moderated by Vanessa Williamson. #USClimateMigration #climate #uspol #immigration youtube.com/watch?v=ZDRX2dnDAE…
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Abrahm Lustgarten: "The science suggests there's a shift in the global niche humans have lived in for the last 6,000 years. By the end of the century, about 6 billion people will be living outside of an ideal human habitat. In the US, that means moving towards the northern borders."
"The country is being squeezed from the West Coast and the South, and to a lesser degree on the East Coast, towards the center. Fires in the West and the Southeast, extreme humidity up the Mississippi Basin, extreme storms in the South."
Shana Tabak, Georgetown Law: "We've already sort of passed the 1.5C limit we set in international agreements. Climate change is going to affect us all. We've gone through a transition in the federal government. What opportunities do we still have at the transnational or subnational level?"
Beth Gibbons, the resiliency officer in Washtenaw County, Michigan, Ann Arbor, bordering Detroit but 65% agricultural. "The county is gaining population. When we look at climate migration models, this county and city is expected to grow."
Beth Gibbons: "We're living in a changed climate. The best way to talk with people is about the change that is already with us. One of the most forward-looking adaptation communities is Broward County, Florida. You can have great adaptation plans, with threshold analyses. Santa Cruz, Calif. has that. Plan for when a cliff erodes, time to close a road. But when they experience the impact, for example, they have trouble executing the plan."
Abrahm Lustgarten: "Housing is a key issue. We don't expect Arizona to become an unpopulated wasteland, but we expect urbanization. Cities like Phoenix, Atlanta will continue to grow."
Shana Tabak: "In Katrina, massive numbers of people were displaced. There were major disparities in who got insurance payouts, who lived on high ground. People may all think they're temporarily displaced, but only those with resources were able to return and rebuild."
Beth Gibbons: "We have to be able to talk about housing. We have a housing crisis, it's everywhere. In Ann Arbor, they're trying to build 40,000 units in 10 years. 18 of 20 new housing developments are full electrification. There are 28 developments across the county, we want them all to be electrified. We're really thinking about the coupled approach to housing."
Abrahm Lustgarten: "We have an extraordinary backlog of justice issues. I don't know how we dig out of that hole. Redlined communities in Los Angeles are 10 degrees hotter. Flood control infrastructure, water treatment infrastructure. The availability of funds to address those problems is so dependent on local property tax systems. Poorer neighborhoods just don't have the tax base to make the changes."
Beth Gibbons: "Climate work is hard. Good social work is hard. It was a relief to feel support from the federal level for the last couple of years. Not having federal support is the reality we're going to be in. We'll make it work.
Your budget is a reflection of your values. You can't make it a conversation of climate versus housing. You find ways to do integrated work. That's what's necessary. In Michigan, we've had strong state leadership."
Abrahm Lustgarten: "Most people who move don't think about climate change directly. Surveys from real estate firms at a very local level find people are thinking about the flood or wildfire risk. And there are climate activists like Collette Pichon Battle who see it. She moved back to her community to save it, but she has learned about the undeniable fate of the Louisiana coastline. There are going to be places that will simply disappear or become uninhabitable."
Abrahm Lustgarten: "In [conservative] communities, there's no shortage of grievance about how their agricultural opportunities used to be different. There was more water, less heat. There were more animals when they hunted. It's less denialism than what you think the solutions are to the problems you see."
Beth Gibbons: "I'm frustrated by the language of 'climate refugees'. It's not a real term. When climate and migration are combined, it creates a greater fear of migration. We need to not encourage a reaction of fear and othering. Our futures are linked."
Shana Tabak: "I also dislike the 'climate refugees' framing. Legally, there's no such thing. I would like this question of climate and habitability to take place within the context that none us are able to escape the climate."
Abrahm Lustgarten: "Communicating on climate is really hard. The media has done an awful job historically, is improving, but has a long way to go. The journalism business is under threat. And the issue is generally overwhelming, even to journalists."
Abrahm Lustgarten: "I find myself wavering from disaster porn like Uninhabitable Earth, it's the impending apocalypse, to an emphasis on solutions. There are different audiences for different approaches. Some people will see the Los Angeles fires and start paying attention. Some won't."
Shana Tabak: "We've seen unprecedented numbers of people on the move in the past 10 years. We've also seen unprecedented global warming. The work I do is to get global leaders to see the connection. Even the previous administration, which was open to these conversations, there was no such thing as a 'climate visa.' We need to do a much better job of creating more migration pathways."
First in-person audience question is about the climate-pollution-driven insurance crisis.
Abrahm Lustgarten: "How much time do we have?
"Insurance companies tell me they don't know how to evaluate crisis risk. Their business model doesn't support investing in something they can't qualify. Over the long term, we're going to see insurers pulling out of the property insurance market countrywide."
Abrahm Lustgarten: "California has subsidized coverage for a lot of the homes that burned in the #LAFires, and the claims will likely bankrupt the system. And that's a huge problem for the 5th largest economy in the world. What's scarier is what if before they've figured out how to fix the system there's another fire, and another, and another?"
Abrahm Lustgarten: "If states are going bankrupt because they're trying to pay for disasters after they happen, they don't have money to invest in adaptation, if the federal govt is pulling back on adaptation... We need exponentially more investment, but it's not headed in the right direction."
Adam Hasz, Brookings fellow with Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.): "People are moving to places that are increasingly vulnerable, like Texas and Florida. Shouldn't we be seeing people moving in the opposite direction?"
Internal migration has been cited as a key channel by which societies will adapt to climate change. We show in this paper that this process has already been happening in the United States.
Lately, Thursday’s been the busiest night for extracurricular tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events in Tampa Bay. Check out what’s happening this Thursday — that’s TOMORROW — in the area!
Here’s what’s happening in the thriving tech scene in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, January 20 through Sunday, January 26, 2025! This list includes both in-person and online events.
Feels kinda strange to post about it here but I got an mbe last week. For services to technology and women in the information technology sector. Very odd day! Nice tho.
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NEW: The Trump administration has fired members of the Cyber Safety Review Board, a committee that was lauded for its investigation into the Microsoft hacks of 2023, and was working on the recent Salt Typhoon telco hacks.
One source called it a “horribly shortsighted” decision.
UPDATE: In case you thought this was not a politically-motivated decision, here's what DHS just told us:
“Effective immediately, the Department of Homeland Security will no longer tolerate any advisory committee which push agendas that attempt to undermine its national security mission, the President’s agenda or Constitutional rights of Americans.”
@mattblaze sounds exactly like typical corpo jargon to me.
"In the era of imperialism, businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of successful businessmen."
-- Hannah Arendt “Imperialism: Part Two Of The Origins Of Totalitarianism”, (1968)
Wir freuen uns über das erste Presse-Echo zum Start von @OpenCloud ! Neben Artikeln von golem.de und dem Linux Magazin Online gab es auch zahlreiche Berichterstattungen in der Tagespresse.
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