Free Soft&Hardware Enthusiast @goatwildernesscollective@librem.one

Washington Is Giving #Tax Breaks to #Data Centers That Threaten the State’s Green #Energy Push
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In 2019, #Washington adopted legislation requiring electric utilities to go carbon-neutral in a decade.

Yet lawmakers continued to promote the growth of energy-guzzling data centers with generous tax incentives.

#News #Taxes #PNW #Environment #Electricity #Power #Government #Regulation

https://www.propublica.org/article/data-centers-clean-energy-washington-state

EVERY TIME YOU TACK-WELD A BATTERY INTO AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE, THE GOD OF REPAIRABILITY AND HARDWARE MAINTAINABILITY COMES INTO YOUR HOUSE AND PISSES IN YOUR SOCK DRAWER

My experiment with non-centered new window placement on Plasma was concluded after a week.

My conclusion: My eyes are naturally resting on the currently opened stuff. Having a window open voluntarily in a place where I don’t currently have anything is hard to predict, and invariably resulted in me having to wait for the window to appear, and then drag it to a sensible place to use it.

A bit annoying on a laptop, absolutely horrible on my ultra wide monitor. Back to centered windows I go!

We just landed support for connecting / disconnecting #Bluetooth devices via quick settings on #Phosh's current development branch:

#LinuxMobile

Earlier this cycle Teemu Ikonen added support for displaying track position / length and a progress indicator to #phosh's media player widget 🥳 :

BREAKING!

The Antifa Turtle on #Twitter shared a Twitter API okta leak that shows there is a list of "protected accounts", all of them right wing, who are allowed to break #X Terms Of Services without consequence and includes a list of whitelisted slurs they are allowed to use.

The whistle-blowing Twitter account was suspended by mods shortly after.

#elonmusk #freespeech #whistleblower #leak @UnicornRiot @freedomofpress @OffTheHook

So thanks to @rmader@mastodon.social we managed to get the front camera in the Pixel 3a working with a libcamera/pipewire stack 🥳 Thanks to @flamingradian for the work on the whole port!

https://gitlab.com/sdm670-mainline/linux/-/merge_requests/1

#postmarketOS #LinuxMobile #Pixel3a #Snapshot #GNOME #GUADEC

To Boldly Go.

#Harris2024

Alpine 3.20.2 released

This release includes various bug fixes and security updates, including a security fix with low severity for OpenSSL CVE-2024-5535

https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.20.2-released.html

#AlpineLinux

Starbase launch tower 2 module 3 was stacked this morning.

7/18/24

Congress is set to vote next week on a law that will allow industry groups to own copyright in the laws we all must follow. We need you to tell them to oppose this outrageous proposal. https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-don-t-let-anyone-own-the-law

USB & Thunderbolt Improvements Land In Linux 6.11

Greg Kroah-Hartman on Friday sent out all of the USB/Thunderbolt subsystem feature updates destined for the Linux 6.11 kernel of which there are many different patches across the board...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.11-USB

Major blow to the concept of software updates today.

Remember when developers would make an effort to bundle all their new features and bugfixes into a single stable build, and test that release thoroughly before sending it to users? We called it "shipping."

Shipping is old-fashioned now, and continuous deployment is in, which is why 5% of any given app is busted this week -- but don't worry, it'll be a different 5% next week.

JAAAAAAA! Mehr als 67.680 Menschen in Deutschland wünschen sich eine #Vermögenssteuer. Mit eurer Hilfe haben wir die erforderliche Anzahl an Unterschriften bei der Europäischen Bürgerinneninitiative (EBI) #TaxTheRich für Deutschland erreicht – ein wichtiger Etappensieg!

Damit die EBI erfolgreich ist, müssen wir nun zum einen mithelfen, dass weitere EU-Länder ihr Quorum erreichen – es braucht mindestens sieben. Sagt vor allem euren Freund*innen in Belgien, Dänemark und Italien Bescheid!

Außerdem müssen EU-weit länderunabhängig eine Million Unterschriften gesammelt werden, deshalb ist auch jede weitere Unterschrift aus Deutschland wichtig – teilt also bitte weiter so super wie bisher!

Für jeden Anlass die passende Kleidung im Schrank zu haben. So wichtig. #crowdstrike

Ah yes, let's ship a kernel driver that parses update files that are pushed globally simultaneously to millions of users without progressive staging, and lets write it in a memory unsafe language so it crashes if an update is malformed, and let's have no automated boot recovery mechanism to disable things after a few failed boots. What could possibly go wrong?

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"As our country continues to reel from this horrific event, we in Congress have taken action by enacting a nationwide ban on all roofs, roof terraces, and balconies." https://www.theonion.com/congress-bans-roofs-1851592883

"Despite countless past warnings, the Secret Service failed to heed the real threat posed to the former president by the hundreds of millions of firearms in the hands of everyday Americans." https://www.theonion.com/investigation-finds-secret-service-failed-to-account-fo-1851592934

I’m now seven days into a ground-up rewrite of Movement, the community firmware for Sensor Watch, and this 2.0 update is going to be off the chain. Case in point: tonight I got FAT12 emulation working, which means the little file system on the watch can now mount as a USB mass storage device, for easily getting files off the watch. Read-only for now, but again: just seven days in.