Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

TIL that on #Meta platforms now one can write terrible, offensive slurs against LGBTQIA+ folks and immigrants… with zero repercussions. But the second one mentions a #Fediverse project like #Pixelfed, the post is automatically removed.

Meta “moderation” policies in 2025: racism, xenophobia, transphobia, homophobia and sexism are allowed; mention of competition is strictly forbidden.

Source: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/113813541987227835

#BigTech #dystopia #QuitMeta

The Back In Time project is looking for people who are experienced with migrating TravisCI to the CI offered by Codeberg (@Codeberg).

Currently Back In Time is at Microsoft GitHub using TravisCI. But we tend to move to #Codeberg because of obvious reasons.

Confirmed it myself: ChatGPT is crawling the fediverse, even servers like aoir.social whose policies prohibit crawling and scraping of data. cc @admin1 @nik @ubiquity75 @rwg @tstruett @paufder ht @atomicpoet for bringing this to my attention

Biden gets an early start on Trump's deport-them-all madness. Crops go unharvested.

If you like food inflation, this is the way to make it surge.

https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/01/kern-county-immigration-sweep/

Omar Aziz was Syrian anarchist who played an important role in the Syrian revolution. He came back to Syria in 2011 to join the revolution, but was captured and thrown in the brutal prisons of the regime that ended his life.

He passed away before seeing the fall of the regime, before reaping the fruits of his majestic work. But today we can finally claim:

📣 The regime is dead! The legacy of Omar Aziz is alive!

▪️ This is a call, a call to remember, a call to struggle. Omar Aziz has been an inspiration for many of us, and his legacy is alive.

▪️ This February 16th, on the 12 anniversary of his death from the brutal prisons of the regime, let’s celebrate life and let’s celebrate revolution.

▪️ And let’s fight. Because nothing less than a fight like hell for Syria will suffice!

🌐 https://RememberOmarAziz.net

Check out the website for the full callout, and a link to the Syrian Revolution Reader, a compilation of around 100 pages of texts and resources about the Syrian Revolution.

I feel a bit of pity for the niave/foolish people who've fully tied their businesses/professional identity to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp (and Twitter, LinkedIn, Salesforce, Shopify, Wix, Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc.) because they're going to get spanked. They should bone up on basic governance & risk mitigation. Here's my little refresher (which also features a cautionary tale): https://davelane.nz/mshostage

But: Life Isn't Like That, Is It? is a new collection of stories by Boff Whalley, musician, author, and one of the founding members of the anarcho-punk band Chumbawamba and Commoners Choir. The Kickstarter is live now! See the link in our bio!

https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/elan-love-deluge-farms-mental-health-ranchers-farmers-climate-change/article_7e69a5b1-b8b7-501d-8a63-b32fa96e3b7c.html

What is your experience of scholarly culture around generative AI for writing and ideas generation?

@futurebird I find the most important thing is to get people to understand what "AI" is actually doing. Something I've found handy for that is MENACE, a machine that "learns" to play Noughts and Crosses but is made entirely of matchboxes full of beads: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matchbox_Educable_Noughts_and_Crosses_Engine

Explaining how this thing plays a game with no understanding of the rules helps get across the way in which ChatGPT etc. spit out text without understanding it at all.

Who cares for the care givers?

https://www.propublica.org/article/childcare-rural-illinois-challenges

“Life is a beautiful adventure and a miracle,” he said. “We are too focused on wealth and not on happiness. We are focused only on doing things and, before you know it, life has passed you by.” #Pepe

https://apnews.com/article/uruguay-cancer-jose-mujica-pepe-democracy-politics-f1a0e1c056fcdd81100538169c19d9ca

It’s been about four months since I started hosting my own email again.

I have absolutely zero regrets. As large providers prove, now more than ever, that they are not on our side, it feels great to have that aspect of my online life under control.

I used the wonderful Run Your Own Mail Server book by the fedi’s own @mwl to guide my install.

It has been absolutely stable, I have perfect deliverability to the email empire, I’m on zero blocklists, and spam control is great.

If you’re a sysadmin, self-hoster, homelabber, ignore the nay-sayers. You can do it too.

#RYOMS #HomeLab #SelfHosted

Perpetual softball tosser Rogan "interviews" Zuckerberg, who lies and lies and lies with no pushback. This is how media work in 2025.

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/10/24341117/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-joe-rogan-lies

@dphiffer @flancian @ansate @sam @afewbugs @nix @foolishowl @django @Matt_Noyes @emi ...less important to me, because they aren't any other server. If we went strictly by number of reports, we'd have blocked Mastodon.social ages ago, which so many instances have done (with good reason). We haven't yet because (as I understand it) we accept they're a stepping stone no. 1 for many into the Fediverse, and their policies are good (if crappily enforced).

Meta, on the other hand, is.....(2)

@billstatler @scott I have just discovered a video series whose creator @anubis2814
presents the functions of #Friendica very nicely and also compares it with #Facebook: peertube.stream/w/p/4K4MWYXMEY…

I don't know Facebook from my own experience, but when I see the interface and the range of functions, I can imagine that you can also spend a bit of time getting to know the functions on Facebook. And then you can't customise anything visually for yourself and have to differentiate between the bloatware and the relevant functions.
You also have to spend a bit of time familiarising yourself with Friendica and even more so with Hubzilla.

With #Hubzilla, the control of who can see what is certainly much more differentiated than with Friendica. Friendica has public groups (forums), private groups, circles and direct messages.
I had tested a bit: the public forum also federates very well with other software (tested with Mastodon and Sharkey), with the private forum it probably only works properly within Friendica.

Hubzilla has an interesting opportunity right now. Due to the recent controversial changes made by #Facebook, many people are looking for a Facebook alternative. Well, Hubzilla is a #FacebookAlternative and this could be a great opportunity to attract new users to the Fediverse.

This is perfect timing, since we are launching several new things this month. We will start with some public servers that people can sign up for.

The first ones will be Hubzilla.Monster, Loves.Tech, and Conversation.Space. Then we will launch Mostly.Social and Infinity.Cafe after that. We are also working with some others that want to run their own public servers. So lots of new sites coming soon. And if you want your own domain, we offer Managed Hubzilla as well.

It is great that the fediverse has grown with Twitter-style platforms. But not everyone wants that. Some people want a Facebook alternative. And that is what we do. It's our time to shine.

#Hubzilla

Forgot to post earlier! Call for papers for International Co-op Alliance Cooperative Research Global Conference. Deadline: Jan 15th!

It's held in Montreal this year and CASC is partnering.

Hope to see some of you there!

https://ccr.ica.coop/en/newsroom/news/call-papers-ica-ccr-2025-global-research-conference

Montana’s Supreme Court has ruled that the 16 youth who sued the state in a landmark climate change lawsuit have a constitutional right to “a clean and healthful environment.”

https://grist.org/regulation/held-v-montana-youth-climate-lawsuit-supreme-court-decision/