Native Americans are asking The Apache Software Foundation, "…to take the necessary steps needed to express the ally-ship they promote so deeply on their website, to act in accordance with their own code of conduct, to “be careful in the words that [they] choose”, and change their name."

It'll be a big change, but IMO one that's necessary and overdue.

https://blog.nativesintech.org/apache-appropriation/

#OpenSource

Link to twitter below:
https://twitter.com/RobertRMorris/status/1611450270365392904?s=20

The thread is about AI text/chat and mental health, but this is the post that stood out to me.

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while procrastinating on my computer in a quiet room, I noticed that whenever I opened https://twitter.com/sw.js in Firefox, I heard a quiet but distinct buzzing sound, that would disappear as soon as I tabbed out of the page.

I found that it—of course—applied to all Firefox and Chromium source-view or plaintext pages with white backgrounds and a good amount of text.

amusingly, it fades out as I select more text on the page, or make the window smaller. even more amusingly, as I zoom in to the page, the buzz gets lower in frequency.

it seems that somehow spatial frequencies in the display image are coupling to audio frequencies of some buzzing element in my monitor, and these plaintext pages with the default zoom level happen to make this effect particularly noticeable!