Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I got so lost in Zulip but have encountered serious true believers in the hacker class

Reminder that UX is relative

How did you see this poll?

(this poll = the one you're responding to right now)

Are there any #RightToRepair folks who are working with accessibility equipment? Specifically mobility vans?

The anti-consumer, monopolistic practices in this space are already getting to me and I'd love to get plugged into a network of folks fighting for more options and independence.

#Ableism @disability

@yala thanks - it's been very eye opening for me, too, given how many people are dead-set against self-hosting, usually claiming that it's not worth the trouble. It's *totally* worth the trouble (which is far less troublesome than most people assert). The cost profile is #libre software's best-kept secret. It's almost unbelievable, except that I can prove it's the real deal.

Great post on giving community orgs the right to buy buildings abandoned by their owners: https://talkwellington.org.nz/2024/derelict-on-main-street-property-laws-heritage-upkeep-and-vibrancy/

Platforms die, open standards survive and evolve. I smell a revival of The Web the way it should be. Decentralised. Open. Fun.

#Facebook #Twitter #X #TikTok #Instagram #Youtube

Details for my panel at Comic-Con with Lloyd Kaufman and tons of Ahoy creators:

AHOY Comics Gets Toxic!, Friday, 7/26/24, 5:00PM – 6:00PM, Room: 28DE. If you're in San Diego, come say what's up.

I've tagged version 0.0.1 of #libcmatrix - a #matrix client library.

The project was initiated and developed by
Sadiq (https://gitlab.gnome.org/pksadiq) in order to add Matrix support to chatty (https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Chatty) for @purism

It has been a bit 😴 over the past months but my recent interest in #unifiedpush derailed me and I had a look at the code base, cleaned up minor things and figured it might make sense to tag a release so here we go: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/libcmatrix/-/releases/v0.0.1

Thanks @devrtz for the reviews!

J.D. #Vance Left His Venmo Public. Here’s What It Shows - https://www.wired.com/story/jd-vance-venmo/ "reveals connections ranging from the architects of Project 2025 to enemies of Donald Trump—and the populist's close ties to the very elites he rails against." well, of course...

Imagine a robot you can trust. That's MiMi by Purism. Human-operated, AI-enhanced, privacy-focused. Fund the future of robotics! #MiMi #Purism
https://puri.sm/posts/purism-announcing-mimi-robot-crowdfunding-campaign/

Both poles are now observing unusually low sea ice conditions, and therefore global sea ice extent is yet again near record low levels for the current date...

More sea ice graphics available at https://zacklabe.com/global-sea-ice-extent-conc/

https://heathercoxrichardson-feed.dreamwidth.org/404480.html
Quote:
"Unable to continue without [the teleprompter], [Republican U.S. House Speaker] Johnson quickly left the stage. This was awkward, since two weeks ago, Johnson said on the Fox News Channel of President Joe Biden: 'Unless the president is reading off the teleprompter, I don’t think he’s capable of making these big decisions and that is something that should alarm all of us….'"

@EC_NGI and @nlnet make a dramatic impact to improve our sustainable, privacy and attention respecting #linuxmobile ecosystem. One of the very few answers we have to the duopoly of Android and iOS from Silicon Valley!

Because of that we are saddened about the @EUCommission not mentioning NGI programmes anymore in their draft of funding programmes for 2025. 😢

We signed the open letter, consider doing the same if your project received funding in the past.

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2024/07/17/news-on-grant-applications/

As an archivist, let me say clearly:

Modern copyright law is actively harmful to the preservation and study of our culture.

It harms artists by giving undue power to publishers. It harms artists by limiting remixes. It harms preservation and research efforts.

It's broken. It's bad. It should be massively reformed.

Silicon Valley where consumer protections go to die and scams & anti-democracy movements are hatched.
https://www.salon.com/2024/06/24/a-viral-blog-post-from-a-bureaucrat-exposes-why-tech-billionaires-fear-biden-and-fund/

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-musk-tech-venture-capital-execs-maga-1235060567/

https://www.wired.com/story/why-silicon-valley-falls-for-frauds/

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/15/business/silicon-valley-fraud.html

https://www.pymnts.com/antitrust/2024/trump-running-mate-j-d-vances-antitrust-views-divide-business-leaders/

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/17/technology/jd-vance-tech-silicon-valley.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2024/07/11/jacob-helberg-trump-ai-palantir/

Don’t give up on the starting line.

My essay on the last week’s media madness & blue defeatism:

https://catvalente.substack.com/p/keep-calm-and-fing-stop-this-s

as usual with this sort of thing, our take is pretty simple

execs have clearly forgotten that these programs exist to divert worker energy that would otherwise go to labor organizing

they should be reminded

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/report-microsoft-shuts-down-dei-team-ex-lead-claims-similar-programs-at-risk