Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

A small 12 member worker #coop provides best elderly home care in Finland.

This is according to a massive survey of service user satisfaction spanning 2800 providers with 42,000 respondents.

https://otlehti.pellervo.fi/2023/03/10/suomen-parasta-kotipalvelua-kalajokilaaksossa/

Without the incredible speed the #linux #kernel can #hibernate and #resume at, I wouldn't be so #productive on the go. It only takes a few seconds, which feels like roughly time time it would take to store 4 GB of RAM to disk.

Whoever did this, thank you. 🐧#opensource #foss

The recently dubbed 'BlackLotus' malware is particularly impressive. Frankly next level hellseed. A UEFI bootkit that completely bypasses SecureBoot, self-signs against non-OS components, shims its way into the bootloader and then onto persistence in the target OS.

Note that it's built to worm its way into other OSs on same physical machine (dual-boot systems, hypervisors like Parallels on Macs)

Exploits CVE-2022-21894, in all supported versions of Windows.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/unkillable-uefi-malware-bypassing-secure-boot-enabled-by-unpatchable-windows-flaw/

@atomicpoet

People need to understand.

#Google isn't a search engine.
#Facebook isn't a journal to share with your friend.
#Instagram isn't a public photo album.
#Twitter isn't a micro-blogging website.

They are all advertisement companies.

I've been a professional musician since the end days of selling CDs, and I would like to say that having experienced the decline of CD sales because of piracy transition into the paid streaming era it's unambiguous that musicians were better off when mostly everyone was pirating and then some people bought CDs or other merch out of a desire to support vs today when everyone pays a nominal fee to a corporation that pays us nothing and also satisfies their desire to support despite not actually offering support.

I would much rather you pirate anything I have made or worked on vs listening on streaming services, which are an objective nightmare for musicians. Even if you never intend to spend a penny, normalizing piracy is better for us than normalizing the current capitalist-realism nightmare where you get whatever you want and also get to relax into the fiction that you aren't exploiting musicians because you pay the price of one album per month to a giant corporation so you can feel ok about it.

@smallcircles @atomicpoet

I agree, I think the issue is we are mostly individuals or in small groups, so there is a huge decentralised entity behind free software, it is not seen has huge. I also find a lot of apathy, especially in Devon / Cornwall UK too.

LibrePlanet is next week, an opportunity to get together with other free software advocates and discuss, learn and communicae.

We can't let corporate take over the fediverse, to counter that we just do what we are doing, create content, have conversations and make it clear we have a different culture, we feel safe to discuss what is going on with the #Trans community and show solidarity with them.

Over time we will be stronger.

Main stream social media has it's influencers, we don't have that here, but we do have, for example the science community posting interesting content, or sharing news stories. I would rather read about some complex new discovery than be expected to try and keep up with the antics of some celebrity of influencer who with social media will be no one. A lot of kids want to be influencers, as they see it as easy money, the reality is the opposite, if the social media bubble bursts, then that whole ecosystem could burst with it.

I think the biggest adjustment people who're deeply invested in the proprietary software world experience when moving into the Fediverse is that people here confront them and their underlying assumptions. And that's entirely as it should be. Because this is the parallel universe that #FOSS built. This place exists without need for the rationalisations and expedience that allows otherwise good people to divide & the subjugate the world primarily for their benefit.

So... last night I pointed out that @filieesposito@mastodon.social, the editor for 9to5Mac made some pretty embarrassing factual errors in an article about Bluesky... and rather than fix those factual errors... he (1) blocked me on mastodon and (2) left the story as is.

In the past I had always considered 9to5Mac and its related publications to be credible sources of news, but now I feel the need to re-evaluate that.

Reporters make mistakes. We all do. It's how you *respond* that matters.

What these right-wing Catholics did here -- buying location information on priests they suspected were gay -- is not just a moral outrage. It is the proof that our lawmakers have pure contempt for privacy.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/03/09/catholics-gay-priests-grindr-data-bishops/

What will it take before the public recognizes how dangerous it is that slimy companies are collecting and selling our most personal information to slimy third parties?

🚨 one week left to apply to table or give a workshop at the bookfair!🚨

send us your pitch! we would love to see you there
https://www.anarchistbookfair.ca/application-forms-2023/

Great read:
https://ploum.net/2023-03-09-losing-signal.html

> #Signal published a blog post on how we were all different and they were trying to adapt to those differences. Signal was for everyone, told the title. Ironically, that very same day, I’ve lost access to my account.

> I’ve suddenly been excluded from all the conversations with my friends because I very slightly but unacceptably deviated from the norm.

> 3yrs ago, I thought having a black and white screen on my own phone was more comfortable for my eyes.

This article has a little bit of everything: “The Battle for the Soul of Buy Nothing”

https://www.wired.com/story/the-battle-for-buy-nothing/

“The scale of local news destruction in Gannett’s markets is astonishing” #journalism #publishing https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/03/the-scale-of-local-news-destruction-in-gannetts-markets-is-astonishing/

#Greece in turmoil and pain – 8 days of rage

"Greece: a country in mourning, still in shock, following the death of 57 people in a train crash at Tempe, the deadliest in the country and one of the worst in Europe.
For 8 days now, almost all protests in #Athens have been brutally attacked by the so-called “mourning” riot police, under the orders of Mitsotakis government that pretends to care, while they even close down all metro stations around a protest’s starting point to deter people from joining them."

https://actforfree.noblogs.org/post/2023/03/09/218-853-greece-in-turmoil-and-pain-8-days-of-rage-protests-and-riots-for-the-57-dead-of-the-train-crash/

#traincrash #policeviolence #Riot #antireport

Legally binding global #treaty needed to tackle #SpaceDebris, say experts | #Space | The Guardian

It’s hazardous enough up there.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/mar/09/global-treaty-space-debris-earth-orbit-junk

#Science #Technology

Do not -- do not -- buy a printer (or anything else) from HP. Unfortunately, since Congress refuses to make illegal what is flagrantly unfair and unethical, that is your only option. Such a sleazy, arrogant company. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/customers-fume-as-hp-blocks-third-party-ink-from-more-of-its-printers/