Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Do/Have you used a CD/DVD/Bluray in a while?

What about burning a disk?

I'm surveying modern day awareness/usage of optical media, mostly to confirm some demographic theories, so if you know what a CD/DVD is, please help me (and maybe others) out by answering some ~10 questions here:

https://optical-media-survey.benjojo.co.uk/

And then please boost for better visibility! Thank you!

I've been asked to write a book by a Real Publisher. The topic was a collection of thoughts on issues in the industry, leadership, etc.

Pros: I have control over the book.

Cons: Publisher has an extremely poor reputation in the tech community.

Does anyone here have experience self-publishing (probably my preference, I just want a physical copy for spiritual reasons) or know someone at a good publisher that might enjoy my writing? I'll have talks with these folks, but can probably do better.

The Washington Post asks: "Severe heat wave in the West is making history. How much longer will it continue?"

About a century or more, depending on how we finally chose to tackle human-caused climate change.

Google PR sure is taking its sweet time getting back to me about the finding that Chrome has a hidden extension that allows all *.google.com domains to monitor your CPU usage and other private system info. I'm sure they're working just as fast as they can.

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/9/hangout_servicesthunkjs/

Breaking: Secret Service logs show seven visits to White House by an arborist in the last six months. Our expert analyst concludes this means Biden likely has Dutch Elm Disease.

A magazine asked me for a quote on AI generated influencers. I read the articles they linked and said "Just a bunch of dudes bragging that they made a woman that doesn't talk back. Nothing fucked up about that."

The interviewees in the previous articles just quibbled over whether the images were fatphobic. Like, yes, sure, obviously, but did NO ONE ELSE see the guy saying he made a woman that doesn't talk back?

??!?!?!?!?? 💀 🙃 🧛‍♂️ Is this why people ask me for quotes?

https://www.npr.org/2024/06/09/nx-s1-4993998/the-miss-ai-beauty-pageant-ushers-in-a-new-type-of-influencer

Our #CommunitySpotlight presents: @readeck, a simple self-hosted web app that lets you manage bookmarks for articles you want to read. Use the UI to easily group and search your articles, and even transfer content to your #ebook reader for relaxed reading (if you have one).

Just get your browser extension ready, and save interesting content for later.

Find #Readeck on #Codeberg:
https://codeberg.org/readeck/readeck

Let us know what you think!

We believe the situation is now contained. We'll continue to monitor for suspicious traffic spikes.

We apologize for the inconvenience the degraded performance might have caused.

Thank you for supporting our mission. If you want to learn how you can help, check out https://docs.codeberg.org/improving-codeberg/

After blocking double-digit number of IP ranges, the amount of traffic is still ramping up.

Unfortunately, the amount of traffic is just too much for us to deal with. There is a much bigger player on the other end.

Codeberg is currently suffering from massive crawling traffic from some Huaweicloud machines. We are mass-blocking IP ranges again.

@GottaLaff @lin11c @AkaSci There are great #Project2025 online guides to share with family and friends who will never slog thru 900+ pages. Here are 4:

#Biden Campaign: https://joebiden.com/project2025/

Media Matters: https://www.mediamatters.org/heritage-foundation/guide-project-2025-extreme-right-wing-agenda-next-republican-administration

Red, Wine & Blue: https://redwine.blue/project2025/

@crooksandliars: https://crooksandliars.com/2024/06/project-2025-resources

Greatest country in the world, amiright?

US workers in debt to buy groceries
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx002795738o

Devastation as world’s biggest wetland burns: ‘those that cannot run don’t stand a chance’ - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/09/devastation-as-worlds-biggest-wetland-burns-those-that-cannot-run-dont-stand-a-chance-brazil-pantanal "Blackened trees, dead animals and scorched earth – early wildfires have already devastated Brazil’s Pantanal and local people worry they may lose the battle to save them"

ICYMI: if you are looking to break free from #Adobe Creative Cloud apps like #Photoshop #Lightroom and #Illustrator and their hefty monthly fees (plus #AI nonsense), you can now try #Affinity apps for free for 6 MONTHS. Details below.

The advantage of Affinity is that you can buy the apps and not pay a monthly subscription fee (at least for now, they were recently purchased by Canva). The PetaPixel blog title is deceptive, the free trial applies to ALL their apps https://toot.earth/@PetaPixel/112752529098047710

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