Kevin Hoerr @kjhoerr@cybr.es

have you heard about Lakay Nou, the philadelphia autonomous zone led by Black philadelphians who are houseless?

the name roughly translates to "our home" in creole

for updates and donation needs follow @ lakaynou1 on twitter

"Geek culture isn’t suddenly left wing... it always was. You just grew up to be intolerant. You became the villain in the stories you used to love ..."

Important ASA (Admins Service Announcement) for Mastodon and generally PostgreSQL admins: Due to some changes in glibc some distribution upgrades will cause PostgreSQL text indexes to become corrupted, potentially leading to unique indexes not being correctly enforced and inconsistent application data.

THIS WILL ALSO HAPPEN IF YOU DO NOT UPDATE YOUR POSTGRESQL, A DISTRO UPDATE IS ENOUGH!

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Locale_data_changes#What_Linux_distributions_are_affected

People often ask me why I'm so critical of white America.

The question that needs to be ask is why aren't we all critical of white America.

Their hate, intolerance and refusal to be reasonable has resulted in an incalculable loss of life, talent and keeps a country of virtually unlimited resources in a states of cycling economic crisis.

Public officials do this because they are allowed and encouraged to do this.

But yeah, let's keep pretending we don't know what the problem is.

This week's http://History.Expert posts:

👗 https://history.expert/bizarre-silk-gown/

✒️ guest post by @MoMartin https://history.expert/the-scoundrel-the-reformer-and-the-mystic/

🙀 https://history.expert/we-were-promised-cats-with-jetpacks/

📚 If you like studying/writing about history and would like to guest blog, @ me.

It seems like a lot of people are uncertain about what symptoms coronavirus actually has, so I thought I'd share this info I found from the WHO/CDC. Especially because it's not like all the other illnesses are on vacation, and it's best not to panic if you happen to get sick.

Firstly, if you're sneezing and have a blocked nose, you do not have coronavirus. You have a cold.

Secondly, if you have a headache, fatigue, and muscular aches, it's more likely that you have flu. These are common symptoms of influenza but only sometimes present in coronavirus infections.

The symptom to watch for is shortness of breath. Only coronavirus causes this. It's a respiratory infection which can cause pneumonia. This is what makes it dangerous, so watch out for it.

Advice is to seek medical help if you have difficulty breathing or have an uncontrollably high fever.

Otherwise, stay home, keep hydrated, and get plenty of rest.

a visual aid from the #WHO on how to recognize #coronavirus #COVID19 symptoms versus symptoms from a cold or the flu

One of the 0.21 roadmap items is the ability to federate reports with other #funkwhale pods and ActivityPub projects.

I've got a working prototype in the video below, showing a report federating from Funkwhale to Mastodon, and from Mastodon to Funkwhale. Federation from Funkwhale to Funkwhale is implemented and works too (with support for our reports category, like "Invalid metadata" or "Takedown request").

Hopefully, it will make moderators job easier and help increase the safety of the platform.

If you're interested, the feature itself is rather small : https://dev.funkwhale.audio/funkwhale/funkwhale/-/merge_requests/1049/diffs (less than 500 added lines, which I consider small for a feature that involves federation :D)

Block mastodon.social

The entire domain

"I use Linux as my operating system," I stated proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. He swiveled around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision. "Actually," he said with a grin, "Linux is just the kernel. You use GNU+Linux!" I don't miss a beat and reply with a smirk: "I use Abyss, a distro that doesn't include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. It's Linux, but not GNU+Linux."

The smile quickly drops from the man's face. His body began convulsing, he foamed at the mouth, and he dropped to the floor with a sickly thud. As he writhed around he screamed, "I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT'S STILL GNU!" In a cool fashion, I replied "Abyss uses the LLVM compiler suite, GCC uninvolved."

With a sickly wheeze, the last of the man's life was ejected from his body. He lied on the floor, cold and limp. I've womansplained him to death.

Latest blog from #OpenInsulin

https://openinsulin.org/how-much-will-it-cost-to-install-and-run-a-small-scale-insulin-production/

from their , live event will be Friday Feb 28, 2020

"On Friday, Open Insulin will go live on Youtube to present our new blog on insulin production cost. With a small scale production system no bigger than a dining table, 13,000 people with diabetes could be served and get insulin at $6/vial! "

Someone doing a Mass Effect charity marathon for the Wet'suwet'en resistance to the Canadian government

https://www.twitch.tv/gutiangang