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Why do I volunteer? - A small article to celеbrate the International Volunteers Day
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Woord van de week: infuuts | Vlaanderen.be
https://www.vlaanderen.be/team-taaladvies/woorden-van-de-week/infuuts?utm_campaign=Taalpost_2546&utm_source=Nieuwsbrief&utm_medium=email

It's so depressing how orgs like #Mozilla squander volunteer goodwill for nothing. They'll never recover from this self-inflicted damage:
«Mozilla’s translation bot on Support Mozilla (that is currently overwriting user contributions is based on the closed source, copyright infringing LLM, Google Gemini. This is in spite of Mozilla claiming that they are at the forefront of open source AI, and belies their exhortations to choose to build open source AI and data sets»
https://www.quippd.com/writing/2025/12/08/mozillas-betrayal-of-open-source-googles-gemini-ai-is-overwriting-volunteer-work-on-support-mozilla.html

Trump Is Not To Blame For Democrats Electing Violent Extremists (Mark Hemingway/The Federalist)
https://thefederalist.com/2025/11/07/trump-is-not-to-blame-for-democrats-electing-violent-extremists/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251109/p29#a251109p29

AMC Networks says it is reducing its 1,800 person workforce by "less than 5%" through voluntary buyouts (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/amc-networks-workforce-voluntary-buyouts-1236610587/

AMC Networks Sheds 5% Of Global Workforce Via Voluntary Buyouts
AMC Networks, which is navigating the transition from linear TV to streaming, is shedding about 5% of its global workforce through voluntary buyouts.

"I would like to propose that IPs of [NTP] pool-members should not be allowed to host [Tor exit nodes] simultaneously under the same IP."
or put another way, "my employer paid for this whizzy firewall but it complains when we make it talk to a free service run by a volunteer because of other software the volunteer runs. Please educate your volunteers about how they need to go about providing this free service to us."

Before a law enforcement crackdown hobbled it in 2021,
"the Base" established itself as one of the most active neo-Nazi accelerationist groups
— a term for groups that seek to hasten societal collapse by violent means.
Now the Base has rebuilt, to the extent that last year it earned a spot on the European Union list of sanctioned terrorist groups.
A sudden burst of activity in Ukraine has renewed suspicions that the Base and its leader,
Rinaldo Nazzaro,…

Neo-Nazi group with US links may be backed by Russian intelligence
Before a law enforcement crackdown hobbled it in 2021, the Base established itself as one of the most active neo-Nazi accelerationist groups — a term for groups that seek to hasten societal collapse by violent means.Now the Base has rebuilt, to the extent that last year it earned a spot on the Europ...

Glen Gordon’s departure is a loss for JAWS (and Freedom Scientific / Vispero):
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/glen-gordon-13a625133_today-is-a-very-sad-day-for-me-since-after-activity-7392923860024614912-B9tr

Today is a very sad day for me, since after nearly 32 years, it’s the first day that I’m no longer working on the JAWS screen reader. I’ve voluntarily resigned my position at Freedom… | Glen Gordon
Today is a very sad day for me, since after nearly 32 years, it’s the first day that I’m no longer working on the JAWS screen reader. I’ve voluntarily resigned my position at Freedom Scientific/Vispero because I found myself unable to continue working for a company that’s changing in ways that are moving away from my personal values. As recently as the 2025 NFB convention, I was thinking that I’d be working on JAWS far into the future. Much to my surprise, a recent influx of new Exe…

Doing #Gentoo these days feels like being a small cell of unpaid volunteers opposing the enshittification of software. On one side, we're put up against a horde of full-time corporate developers. On the other, against young ambitious volunteers with lots of free time. And both can rapidly spew tons of mediocre code, and doing things wrong is so much easier than doing things right.
(Just to be clear, I'm not saying every corporation or every youngster does things wrong — there are people who care on the other side too.)

Trump Freed Drug Kingpin Now Accused of Groping His Nanny (Amber Levis/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-freed-american-drug-kingpin-jonathan-braun-accused-of-violent-and-sexual-crimes/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250909/p184#a250909p184