Read below 👇 why you should start using LibreSpeed from now on for internet speed tests

"Speedtest and Downdetector were just sold to Accenture for $1.2 billion. (...) Ookla, the parent company of both tools, has been acquired by the global IT consulting giant Accenture (...).

The open source alternative: LibreSpeed. No tracking scripts, no GPS harvesting, no profile building, no ads and no data sold to anyone."

https://librespeed.org/

https://www.reddit.com/r/xprivo/comments/1rmalpy/news_librespeed_opensource_alternative_made_in/

#FOSS #opensource

It sounds like discord is trying to assure us that most people won't have to hand over our IDs to them because they've already been doing digital phrenology on us, so we should all just calm down.

Strangely, I find this even more motivating to leave

https://bsky.app/profile/legendofnerd.bsky.social/post/3mehtkdp4ys2h

If I could wave a magic wand and change one thing in the world, it would be that any bug report would be rejected without a verifiable repro project.

You've got all this AI, GitHub. Get on that feature.

Today, we honor the lives lost and the courage of the first responders who were impacted on September 11, 2001.

We remember not only the tragedy of that day, but the deep scars it left on families, communities, and our nation. May their memory remind us of the strength we find in unity, and our shared responsibility to build a more compassionate world.

The Executive Order “Restoring Gold Standard Science” is not only dangerous to the US science, it is outright designed to wipe out any and all scientific standards and control what gets published based on political views.

Such censorship of scientists has been attempted by failed governments of the past such as Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and early communist China, always with disastrous consequences for their citizens.

We are looking at the end of US #science as it was.

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025AV002011

#GiftArticle

Actually, #Slavery Was Very Bad

Trump’s latest criticism of #museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase #Black #history.

In what looks to be an intensifying quest to reshape #AmericanHistory & scholarship according to his own preferences, #Trump this week targeted the #Smithsonian Institution, the national repository of #USHistory & #memory. Trump seemed outraged, in particular, by the Smithsonian’s portrayal of the Black experience in America.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/trump-attack-smithsonian-slavery/683969/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxaaL95f_SfJXcsRtHcJHwD8

in case you needed a reason to volunteer at your local public library: today the librarians let me pick a theme for and then curate one of the featured displays.

time to get this town reading more space operas!

#PublicLibraries

If you're interested in learning more about how we're securing the software supply chain by bringing 2FA to millions of developers @github grab a free virtual pass and check out our panel at #GitHubUniverse.

I'll be joined by the amazing Hannah Gould, Hirsch Singhal, and Ben Vance, who will chat about our 2FA journey and share lessons for others who want to join us in raising the 2FA bar.

https://githubuniverse.com/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=speaker