Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Having a campaign that can call these freaks out is refreshing. https://brianmcfadden.org/2024/07/25/kamala-harriss-roast-of-donald-trump/

Climate Change: Can One Specific Example Counter the Denialists?

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/07/climate-change-can-one-specific-example-counter-the-denialists.html

Tech journalists reporting on Logitech's plans for a "forever mouse" should lead with what the company really wants: You pay a subscription fee to use it.

This is prime enshittification.

@pluralistic

Governments always want to censor and surveil the internet and the only thing that ever changes is the boogeyman they point to as justification for their power grab.

Last two days to take 70% off titles from our latest pallet of returns. Use coupon code “Damages” at checkout. https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_list&c=195

#books #bookstodon

KOSA, just passed by the Senate 91-3, will allow politicians and federal commissioners to decide what Americans should read and watch online. It’s a blatant attack on our free speech. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/07/kosa-internet-censorship-bill-just-passed-senate-its-our-last-chance-stop-it

#Forgejo v8.0 was just released! Get it at https://forgejo.org/download/. 🚀

Forgejo v8.0 is available with new features (support for workflow dispatch, better defaults to avoid spam on new instances etc.), a new approach to UI and UX, careful upgrade of dependencies to improve stability and security. Foundation parts for ActivityPub based federation and data portability were merged,, bringing these features closer to completion, but they're not available yet. ✨

Read more at https://forgejo.org/2024-07-release-v8-0/

Limited-time offer: Librem 5, our security-focused smartphone with hardware kill switches, now $649! Experience true digital privacy. Sale won't last! #Librem5 #PureOS #Pruism

https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-5/

Good work everybody.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/07/low-income-homes-drop-internet-service-after-congress-kills-discount-program/

And then, to really rub it in, we've got a bunch of liberals and milquetoast leftists orgasming over Kamala, as if she's actually a good candidate. She's signalling that she'll remove Lina Khan, one of the only bright spots in this admin, and that she'll play nice with the ponzi schemers in crypto.

If you think Harris is better than Trump, I agree. But if you think she's actually a good candidate, you're just embarrassing yourself, imho.

ATTENTION FLORIDA
If you voted in the last presidential election by mail, you MUST register once again to vote. All vote-by-mail requests are valid for ONLY ONE VOTING CYCLE. Everyone please check your voting status often.

I'm pretty sure I've asked about this before, but I don't remember anything turning up: has anyone published a comparison of system requirements for servers running different #Fediverse software?

This map indicates how the climate will probably be in your city / town 60 years from now…

https://fitzlab.shinyapps.io/cityapp

#map #maps #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #ClimateDiary #environment #GlobalWarming #earth #pollution #future #geography #city #cities #world

Important thread by @jasonhickel about the inequality of the distribution of labour, the disproportionate extraction of value from the global south that facilitates the Imperial Mode of Living in the North.

Hickel is one of the leading theorists behind the #degrowth movement and his work is often enlightening.

This thread is no different.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1817905711642206404.html

Why is DuckDuckGo returning sites about Llama when I do a search about Hubzilla?

This is brilliant. In Germany, it's popular to buy €200 solar panel / inverter combos that plug into a nearby power outlet, feeding the power back into the grid, running their power meter backwards. "Installation" just takes a minute. Folks in apartments simply hang them from their balcony “like wet laundry.” Over 500,000 have been sold. With power at €0.25/kW, the payback time is about 27 months—after that, it's just free electricity. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/29/business/germany-solar-panels-climate-change.html?unlocked_article_code=1._E0.zL83.1FCeoxOrFDBY&smid=url-share

@KI5SMN @ai6yr Running the entire internet uses less electricity than Bitcoin though. Some quick googling shows that the internet consumes around 1x10^11Wh / year, while Bitcoin mining consumes around 1.7x10^13Wh / year (so approximately 2 orders of magnitude more electricity).

Are both of those numbers large? Well yes. But the kind of whataboutism you’ve just engaged in doesn’t reflect the substantial differences between the two, let alone the value of each (which, for the internet, is high, and which, for Bitcoin, is far less if not zero).

The cryptocurrency industry has been working overtime to sell a story: that there is a large contingent of voters voting based on candidates’ crypto policy stances. The problem is, it’s a story that does not seem to be well supported by data.

https://www.citationneeded.news/when-did-cryptocurrency-become-a-voter-issue/

#CitationNeeded #crypto #CryptoLobby #USpolitics #USpol

Reading all these articles about the high traffic from AI bots, here is my experience from a small German hoster: It's a huge problem, and it is getting worse very fast. There are bots like claudebot from Antrophic which are so aggressive that they block whole systems, outranking actual attacks for example against WordPress. And they change their AWS cloud IPs so often that blocking doesn't help for long and they also ignore robots.txt. Our on-call is regularly alerted for such issues.

In nz, "tough on crime" means cracking down on youths robbing corner food stores, by sending these children to military training camps, and hiding gang patches.

It doesn't mean being tough on domestic violence, stalking, sexual assault. It doesn't mean crackdown on wage theft by employers, violence by racists, male supremacist and gun violence, terrorism targeting minorities or men harming their former partners.

It's only targeting those that scare financially comfy conservative adults.