Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Nice - and now this - the largest by far - Mastodon instance is rockin' v4.3.0. Smooth as. Only took about 25 min all up, mostly due to having to dump the whole database (about 20 min of it) prior to starting so that I had a known good copy with minimal opportunity for unrecorded changes (should I have to recover from backup) in the meantime! 😎

Oooo - shiny new Mastodon 😜 Just finished first upgrade (it only took about 15-20 min) 😎

"There's nothing special about Musk, Altman, or Zuckerberg. Accepting that requires you to also accept that the world itself is not one that rewards the remarkable, or the brilliant, or the truly incredible, but those who are able to take advantage of opportunities, which in turn leads to the horrible truth that those who often have the most opportunities are some of the most boring and privileged people alive."

-Ed Zitron, You Can't Make Friends With The Rockstars
https://www.wheresyoured.at/rockstars/

Allowing foreign capital to flood in and buy up or build things like ferries, hospitals, roads, and water infrastructure, will mean that future users of these things will pay. The owners will have no incentive to upgrade or maintain beyond the bare minimum. They will have little or no competition, and you can bet that Luxon and Co. will make sure they are not regulated.

So get ready for sewage on beaches, sinking ships, US-style healthcare, and an environment trashed beyond recognition.

@lightweight @kaffiene The US has been doing this. Federal spending on infrastructure (esp renewables) is at unprecedented levels and has created many thousands of decent jobs.

Oh, and their CPI has fallen. Austerity is a lie sold by billionaires to reduce the sale price of the commons.

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New word I've just learned and somehow feel like will be getting a lot of mileage out of:

A kakistocracy (/kækɪˈstɒkrəsi/, /kækɪsˈtɒ-/) is a government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens.

#NZPol and just general #pol

I’m concerned with all of the Freedom 0 bait and switch that’s been happening with commercially successful FOSS projects over the last few years to secure commercial monopolies over projects they founded.

Imagine if all of the folks who contributed free labor to successful commercial FOSS projects over the years decided one day they wanted to change the terms of the agreement now the project is making money, and started issuing invoices for their contributions.

Does "Aceville" ring bells for anyone by chance? Related to tencent probably? We are blocking one IP range after another ...

You might have guessed it already: We are struggling with excessive crawling today. We have - again - blocked several large IP ranges, but were not yet able to identify the new actor.

We are working on restoring service availability and fine-tuning our rate-limiting.

If someone is interested in implementing an improved native rate-limiting in #Forgejo that also protects other instances from abusive crawlers, please reach out 😉

The USA already is fascist, middle class liberals just want to keep on living in their bubble. As long as it doesn't affect them, it's brunch at noon.

Israeli einsatzgruppen are exterminating the concentration camp of untermenschen Palestinians in the north #Gaza ghetto with American and European complicity. A genocide of children is being live-streamed.

Decades of Holocaust and genocide studies did nothing to stop a year-long genocide live-streamed on everyone’s personal computers. Gaza is proof that the Holocaust could have been live-streamed and it would have still happened.

#Israel

It's finally time. After years of deliberation, #Minetest is finally ready to adopt a new identity and prove it has moved beyond its original purpose. We can finally move past the "mining" and the "testing" and focus on making this platform the best it can be.

#opensource #freesoftware #gamedev

https://blog.minetest.net/2024/10/13/Introducing-Our-New-Name/

Today is the 2nd and last day of the #Codeberg #translathon. A hackathon, but for translations.

I have submitted my 3 game projects #Repixture, #Lazarr! and #Glitch. To my surprise, Spanish got translated very fast for Lazarr! 🙂

And I also contributed a bit to other games like #HurryCurry or #Librerama.

https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/translathon-2024

#translation

If you buy a formerly stand-alone product that requires a connection to the Internet to use it -- such as a car in this example -- you are increasingly asking for trouble.

Believe it or not, it is legal for a company to brick a car -- to turn it, as one "owner" said, into a "lawn ornament".

The people who write the laws are as responsible for this as the scumbags who run/ran the bankrupt company.

https://www.teslarati.com/fisker-bankruptcy-approved-tech-support-deal/

‘Vengeful’ Trump withheld disaster aid and will do so again, ex-officials warn - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/13/trump-disaster-funding-warning "Former administration officials say Trump deliberately denied funds to states he deemed politically hostile which is why he lies that dems are doing it, as deflection

‘He gives them the green light’: #Trump’s rhetoric revives hate groups across US - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/13/trump-anti-immigrant-racism-hate-white-supremacy-springfield "Republican’s lies about immigrants eating cats in Ohio leads to swell of far-right extremism in Springfield – and beyond" lies have consequences

When something horrible, but wacky, happens with #JDVance or #Project2025 people often say "The jokes write themselves."

But nobody says "The editorial cartoons draw themselves!"
It takes time & talent to make good cartoons.

So today I upgraded my monthly subscription to @jensorensen because she turns the horrible, bizarre & wacky news into funny, insightful cartoons.

Plus, as a Patreon subscriber, you get to read about her fascinating thinking & creative process🖖
https://www.patreon.com/jensorensen

Latest comic - Just a few of the horrors of Project 2025

#cartoon #uspol #USPolitics #election #lgbtq