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There have been rumours
 what a terrible blow to indie authors in the UK who’ve been treated so badly! #publishing #bookstodon #unbound @bookstodon Authors await overdue payments as publisher Unbound goes into administration | Books | The Guardian theguardian.com/books/2025/mar

in reply to Sarah Matthews

So, very sadly this has become an almighty scandal as after setting up a new company, Boundless, and reassuring authors that they’ll get paid their royalties a letter has been sent out to say that’s not going to happen after all! The stories I’ve read from authors and former employees over the past 24 hours have been appalling. I’ve been a huge fan of Backlisted podcast over the years which is how I heard about Unbound as they started off recording from the Unbound London office and one of the presenters is an Unbound founder, and although the podcast has not been connected with Unbound for 5 years now I feel they have benefited from the goodwill of the Backlisted listeners . I honestly thought Unbound were one of the better publishing ventures out there because of the association. How wrong I was #bookstodon #publishing #backlisted #Unbound

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in reply to Sarah Matthews

Read a letter from authors affected by the collapse of Unbound in The Bookseller this week:“What Unbound’s demise has shown, to a quite alarming degree, is how little tangible, active advocacy is available to authors in this situation 
 As authors, all we expected was for our books to be published in line with Unbound’s stated mission – and for their sales and profits to be honestly and accurately reported. Readers simply expected the bare minimum any customer expects from any business; delivery of the product they had paid for.”
#unbound #Boundless #publishing #bookstodon
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🚹 Content Creators, Beware! 🚹

The YouTube channel VSTProStudio (youtube.com/@VSTProStudio/vide
) appears to have uploaded numerous allegedly stolen tutorial videos—and has even falsely claimed copyright on some of our content.

Stay vigilant and protect your work! ⚠ #CopyrightInfringement #YouTube



May I present, the Internet. Blinks just like on the show. (IT Crowd, search Moss The Internet box if you are not familiar)


Wir suchen fĂŒr meine Abteilung einen Product Owner Netzsicherheit (idealerweise fĂŒr #Oldenburg )! Wir entwickeln Leittechnik fĂŒr Stadtwerke - die zentrale Steuersoftware fĂŒr Strom-, Gas-, Wasser- und FernwĂ€rme-Netzwerke.

Bei Netzsicherheit geht es um Berechnungen, um die Sicherheit eines Stromnetzes zu gewĂ€hrleisten - also was fĂŒr echte #Mathematik -Nerds!

Bei Fragen zu der Stelle könnt Ihr euch bei mir melden!

#GetFediHired #JobAlert #JobSearch #Hiring #SCADA #Energy
kisters.eu/de/job-vacancy/prod






#WeDistribute has a great write-up on how to stream to #Peertube and #Owncast
And has a section for incorporating chat into your stream.. which I might do.
#stream #streamer
wedistribute.org/2024/05/strea















I own an embarrassingly large number of Topre keyboards, typing right now on one I just got this week. This is beyond insanity.
theverge.com/keyboards/633344/

in reply to Paul Haddad

Tell me a good Topre keyboard to buy so I don't buy this $3600 one. Please help.
in reply to John Gruber

Topre is fine, I have two, but I prefer Gateron KS-33 low-profile switches now. Try Keychron or Nuphy.




PSA to all people organizing #resistance against authoritarians.

This is what I think should be your primary method (see the GIF).

Stop reacting to your opponents, make your opponents react to you.

Mass is great and you can't make it without organizing a lively community, but it should not be the end goal.

This is from my experience. I was one of the core organizers of youth protests in Lithuania in ~2004 when we successfully impeached our authoritarian-leaning russian-financed president.




New Privacy Guides article 🔒đŸ‡ȘđŸ‡ș
by @jonah :

With the political changes
happening in the United States right now,

You might be seeking Europe-based tech alternatives to trust your data with.

Moreover, if you are an organization dealing with data from Europeans, it could be wise to start the move for GDPR compliance now, in the eventuality the EU–US Data Privacy Framework it relies on were to change...

Whatever the reason,
you can check some of Privacy Guides' recommendations in this excellent article-list by Jonah: privacyguides.org/articles/202


#PrivacyGuides #Privacy #USpol #EUpol #EU #GDPR #Encryption #E2EE



To people who use #HomeAssistant, do you need #NodeRed to get the most out of it? Found this guide to setting up HomeAssistant in #Docker that helped me get both installed, but Node-Red's interface is pretty much unusable with a #ScreenReader, and I'm thinking of uninstalling it.
#SelfHosting #SelfHosted #RaspberryPi #RaspberryPi500 #RPi #RPi500 #Linux #Stormux #ArchLinuxARM
@selfhosting @selfhost @selfhosted
in reply to Lanie Molinar Carmelo

not anymore. The interface for automations used to basically be a choice of YAML or having a massively incapable automation GUI. Node Red was really a stop-gap but it’s not needed as you can do pretty much everything in the native automation GUI now.



You know shit has hit the fan when random tech platforms advertise themselves as "made in Europe"

(for two decades, the #1 thing to do for any European tech startup that managed to gather a bit of money was to incorporate in Delaware and open an office in either NYC or SF, so they could pretend to be good cornfed Kansas boys or whatever)

#1


Bei Wirecard waren es 1,9 Mrd., Stich!

heise.de/news/Diskrepanz-in-Ge




Ich werde wohl zum Jahreswechsel bei #Köln sehr viele kleine (80 cm) Birnen- und ApfelbÀume abzugeben haben.

Es handelt sich um seltene bis sehr seltene, robuste, alte, ĂŒberwiegend lokale Sorten, die alle mal zu großen "landschaftsprĂ€genden" BĂ€umen heranwachsen wollen. Ideal fĂŒr Guerrilla-Pflanzung als LandstraßenbegleitgrĂŒn, auf dem Friedhof, etc.

Ihr könnt Euch ja schonmal ĂŒberlegen, ob ihr fĂŒr sowas ein PlĂ€tzchen findet.

#Landschaftspflege #GuerillaGardening #Naturschutz #garten

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As mountain glaciers melt, risk of catastrophic flash floods rises for millions − World Day for Glaciers carries a reminder
theconversation.com/as-mountai

#ClimateDiary


Putin Murders 900,000 Russians!

It's easy to get lost in the number of dead Russians

What could be built with 900 thousand pairs of hands

One worker builds 10 mÂČ of housing per year. 900 thousand people at a time produce 9 million mÂČ - this is 180 thousand cozy apartments of 50 mÂČ. 900 thousand people could build 4.5 gasified satellite cities with 100 thousand residents each, with parks and schools

9,000 schools with 1,000 students each
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia

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