Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Zork I, II and III now open source! Very cool. #retrocomputing
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/11/microsoft-makes-zork-i-ii-and-iii-open-source-under-mit-license/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@UnicornRiot/115500031591516706

Recorded just a few months after police killed George Floyd and then brutally reacted to protests, 73 videos worn by 45 Minneapolis Police officers showcase three dozen hours of officer interactions and tactic discussions while illustrating MPD’s antagonistic relationship with the community.

On RNZ right now, they're talking about how the software used by pharmacists is not even remotely fit for purpose. Imagine that. Why isn't that sort of thing being sorted by an openly licensed (available to all) system developed by a consortium of companies - that can be scrutinised by anyone - because it's too important to be entrusted to the proprietary gain of any one company. This stuff is a no-brainer. Some things are far too important to be dependent on a profit motive.

Out this month. The anthology brings together essays, interviews, and roundtable discussions by and with 18 trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive birthing people, who share their experiences with conception, pregnancy, fertility treatment, and more. https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1828

A new GTK 4 development snapshot with lots and lots of features is available: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/releases/4.21.2

#gtk #gtk4 #release #announcement

A reminder: today is the Trans Day of Remembrance. For those unfamiliar, this is when we remember trans people who were killed by acts of violence.

On a day like this, and in the current broader crisis as well: it can be hard to remember that you are loved and to allow yourself to feel that love. Please take extra care of yourselves today.

Practicing both compassion for ourselves and compassion for each other is incredibly important in grief. Although many of us have lost people directly, there are also many who have not and who want to support those in their lives who have.

Here are a couple of resources that will hopefully help.

Self-compassion in grief:

https://www.apenneyforyourthoughts.com/mental-health-topics-1/self-compassionduringgriefandloss

Compassion for others in grief:

https://www.cedarcounselingandwellness.com/kindness-in-crisis/

#TransDayOfRemembrance

Texas GOP Had A Legal Path To #Gerrymander. Trump’s DOJ Ordered Them To Take The Blatantly Illegal Path Instead - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/19/texas-gop-had-a-legal-path-to-gerrymander-trumps-doj-ordered-them-to-take-the-blatantly-illegal-path-instead/

A Chinese immigrant has died in ICE custody.

He was found hanging with his hands and feet tied behind him in the “hog tie” position.

Deaths within these camps continue to rise, with more people dying in the last nine months than in the entire previous four years.

Chaofeng Ge did not deserve this

No one deserves this

His family are fighting for answers

One thing is clear… these camps must be shut down

https://www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee-death-family-questions-hands-feet-tied-11066992

#uspol #abolishice #fascism #dhs

When Hegseth wanted the Pentagon Press corps to sign a document effectively violating their first amendment rights… they all walked out together.

They showed solidarity.

Imagine if the White House press corps did the same thing?

They should all walk out until Trump apologizes for saying “Quiet Piggy” to a fellow reporter.

Don’t cover him. Don’t give him airtime.

Full. Media. Blackout.

#uspol #journalism #misogyny #fascism

Children are not adults.

Girls are not “barely legal women”

Women are not “piggies”.

You can’t grab us by the p*ssy or touch our bodies in any way without our consent.

Enough misogyny. Enough disrespect. Enough changing the narrative.

Trump is a disgrace who’s already been found liable for sexual assault.

He needs to go.

RFK Jr has utterly destroyed the CDC and taken public health down with it.

Once again, vaccines do not cause autism.

Tylenol does not cause autism.

More importantly, autism isn’t a disease that needs to be “fixed”.

The way this regime speaks about autistic and disabled people is eerily reminiscent of the Nazi “useless eater” rhetoric.

They went after disabled people first because they knew no one would speak up for us.

Get your vaccines. Protect your health.

But also push back on the idea that there’s something “wrong” with us.

We aren’t useless. We aren’t expendable. We aren’t a problem to be “fixed”

#uspol #rfkjr #vaccines #autism #fascism #disability #ableism #cdc #publichealth

Another reason not to shop at Target

#target #targetboycot

New USPTO rules would make bogus patents much harder to challenge. The public deserves better. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/patent-office-about-make-bad-patents-untouchable

Back in the day at a previous gig I tried and largely failed to convince anyone that sudden upswings in people sharing detailed instructions about screwing around in the guts of the product should be treated the same way sudden upswings in crash rates: a capital-I Incident that deserves near term attention and careful retrospective investigation.

What is this, if not a user expectation going so badly unmet that people are willing to risk bricking their box to fix it?

https://wandering.shop/@susankayequinn/115576953025427384

RE: https://mastodon.social/@UnicornRiot/115545930246209254

“The history of Black people is as much the history of America as it is white people. There is no white America. That’s an ideological lie. There couldn’t be because there were already people of color here.”

Dr. Mahmoud El-Kati

He’s comparing healthcare to home insurance.

Saying the “healthy” should be rewarded.

This is eugenics. They’re going to price disabled people out of the market.

Disability can happen to anyone.

You know how a hurricane can destroy your home no matter how many “safeguards” you had?

That’s chronic illness.

It’s the hurricane. $2k won’t cut it.

#uspol #fascism #eugenics #disability #aca #obamacare #ableism

A comparison of #LineageOS, #eOS, and #GrapheneOS by someone who's used all three.

https://kevinboone.me/lineage-eos-graphene.html

'Using any replacement firmware will be inconvenient if you’re tied to Google’s services, as many of us are. You can try to continue to use those services, but in a less privacy-crushing way, and Graphene and ∕e∕OS purport to offer some help with that. However, I think you’d need to be both knowledgeable and careful to use Google Services, even in these restrictive environments, without inadvertently sacrificing privacy. To my mind, if you want to de-Google, you have to find replacements for Google, not ways to appease Google.'

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Footnote: During a tech bubble you don't need to make sure that whatever you're selling "is working", you just need a minimum viable demo and a herd of panicking investors afraid of losing out.

It was like this in 1998/99.

Hey Fediverse. If you're hiring for a senior-level software or cybersecurity role, please hit me up. I know folks looking for a place to land and it'd be lovely to have some leads.