Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

@KathyReid

I feel your disappointment, but it's best to find a non-commercial community, and there's reason to put effort into making them; it seems Mastodon is a good place to start looking.

When stripped bare, #Stackoverflow is a profit-making software company that runs a website encouraging people to improve its product for free. The strategy of these companies seems to be to take over public-interest websites and pretend it's business as usual. However, whilst they are paying lip service to the altruism, they want to increase profits and market share. This is exemplified in their self-serving PR statement about attribution from back in February:
https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/02/29/defining-socially-responsible-ai-how-we-select-api-partners/

In that statement, they use the word power a lot. That's what's really important to them.

I would like to remind the world that you actually don't have to get into bed with OpenAI. StackOverflow was a beacon of resistance, but I guess their principles were for sale after all.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

If the bribe you’re soliciting is $1,000 in a paper bag, the FBI will arrest you. If it’s $1 billion in dark money, does that make it legal?

https://wapo.st/3UBf4Fy

Anarchists are in the corporate news again—as usual, being vilified for expressing solidarity with the oppressed and demonstrating the effectiveness of direct action.

This could be a good time to distribute material explaining the values and proposals at the core of anarchism. 🏴

We'll gladly send you copies of our outreach pamphlet, To Change Everything, for the costs of printing and shipping alone.

https://store.crimethinc.com/products/to-change-everything

New: OpenAI—a company that has indiscriminately scraped vast amounts of human knowledge to build a company valued at roughly $80 billion—has made a copyright complaint against the ChatGPT subreddit because it used OpenAI’s logo.

https://www.404media.co/openai-files-copyright-claim-against-chatgpt-subreddit/

https://kolektiva.media/w/bLWvLeWrXQQPGXjSrjxfUC

We are so grateful to everyone who donated so far and would like to send our most sincere THANK YOU!

If you haven't yet, there's till time to share or donate to our GoFundMe here:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/espaco-mutual-aid

While the rains have stopped for now, the Jacuí river has still overflowed its banks and the floodwaters have yet to recede. Many of Porto Alegre’s water treatment plants remain completely submerged with tapwater only accesible in the far southern portion of the city.

For the sake of transparency; the subMedia collective is raising these funds which we will send to our comrade in Porto Alegre who is involved with the @espaco community center.

How we use these funds will depend on the total amount we get, but we ultimately aim to help the following spaces to rebuild: Território dos Mil Povos, Okupas Kalissa and Jiboia, Retomada da Ponta do Arado, Quilombos do Machado, Quilombo do Areal. But that the damage can only be assessed when the water levels drop.

We also aim if the money allow us to buy gear for emergency relief, such as kitchen supplies and rescue tools.

Again, we want to thank everyone who donated and shared this fundraiser within their circles, it means the world to us.

<3 The Crew at subMedia

#Trump promised to scrap climate laws if US oil bosses donated $1bn – report - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/09/trump-oil-ceo-donation "#Biden administration has taken more than 300 actions towards greater public health and clean energy, more than any other administration in US history."

Fun fact: "The Tragedy Of the Commons" is a hoax created by the white nationalist Garrett Hardin to justify stealing land from colonized people and moving it from collective ownership, "rescuing" it from the inevitable tragedy by putting it in the hands of a private owner, who will care for it properly, thanks to "rational self-interest":

https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/04/analytical-democratic-theory/#epistocratic-delusions

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Adding this to the "grossly misleading and incorrect headline" file.
Sites Reservoir might, optimistically, provide water for 100,000 people, or a far, far smaller number of corporate farms.

#water #cawater

The answer is always in the negative space

https://mastodon.roundpond.net/@arthegall/112412441364829072

Anyone in #Berlin want to talk or present a #fediverse or federation related topic at a casual meetup I am hosting at @offline next week on May 19th? Please respond here or DM me!
#ActivityPub #Bluesky #Nostr #XMPP #Matrix

Having locals who got paid to farm? The impact was dramatic. Paying farmers forced landowners to either invest in their land, or sell to someone who would.

Landowners actually started making MORE money from farming. They were more likely to keep land in farms than develop it.

My grandpa's neighborhood started growing high-revenue crops like fruits, vegetables, and nuts instead of low-ticket industrial crops. The food system became more responsive to consumer needs.

There are 2 things to know about US agriculture.

1. It’s very hard to make a living as a new farmer.

2. About half our farmland is owned by wealthy families, investment funds, & others who buy it up as an asset- but don’t farm themselves.

There IS a fix to both problems!

Thinking about: my brother surviving a campus massacre and growing up to run the covid ward of the same regional hospital while restaurant owners organized protests, seeing lab software shut itself off on the computers of colleagues from other countries, how science & school is always us trying to reach out & hold hands against it all, my brave teacher friends teaching while being put on lists, endless time my wife and I sit down & perform the calculus of where we put our bodies and swallow risk

What we better name, we can better know:

"developers experiencing code review anxiety [...] may believe that they are unable to manage their code review anxiety (low anxiety self-efficacy), believe that they are likely to break production (probability bias), and believe that this will be the end of their career as an engineer (cost bias), all of which increases their code review anxiety."

source: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/8k5a4

Reminder: instead of using StackOverflow for your questions about GTK and the GNOME software stack, use the GNOME Discourse instance:

https://discourse.gnome.org

You can also use it for applications and the overall GNOME desktop.

#gtk #gnome #development

If you're surprised, you shouldn't be.

[Market-based schemes not reducing deforestation, poverty: Report]
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-based-schemes-deforestation-poverty.amp

Challenge: Allwinner D1 put JTAG pins on the SD card socket, so I went searching for a “SD card breakout” and all I could find was a $30 PCB from Sparkfun (excluding shipping). No thanks!

Solution: use $5 free credit from #pcbway and get 5 of them made.

And it took less than 5 days to manufacture and ship.

Now that’s DIY!

(Anyone want one? I only need 1!)

An extreme opinion: #CI #tests should be self-contained. Ideally, nothing that changes state outside of the current repository should affect the success of the job.

This means your CI is only good if you keep a local copy of all your dependencies.

But you can reduce the guarantee a bit: pin your dependencies! Don't let *their* changes mess up *your* reliability, unless the Internet breaks.

This way you improve on 2 problems: reliability and supply chain safety.

#reproducible_builds #nix