Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Why is the standard distance between electronic component connectors 2.54mm?

How did it come to be?

#electronics #history #askfedi #standards

Even the Repubs (in Montana) aren't dumb enough to take away their voter's healthcare. Thank goodness for that.

https://montanafreepress.org/2025/02/12/lawmakers-in-gop-held-senate-signal-openness-to-continuing-medicaid-expansion/

⚠️ Codeberg is facing a network level DDoS. Until it is back online, it is possible to use https://code.forgejo.org/forgejo/forgejo/releases as an alternate source for releases.

Louisiana signs extradition order for New York doc who prescribed abortion pill out of state. This is a war on women & reproductive healthcare.

“Carpenter did nothing illegal: New York is shield state that protects abortion providers & allows them to mail abortion meds without fear of prosecution”

I can’t stress this enough… if you’re able to stock up on abortion pills, plan B or oral contraceptives… now’s the time.

If you’re certain you don’t want to get pregnant, look into getting your tubes tied or an IUD placed.

Stop using period trackers. Encourage your friends to stop as well.

Even if you aren’t worried about your own reproductive health, by being prepared you may be able to help someone in need.

Lastly if you DO help someone end a pregnancy… No you didn’t. You helped them move. Or visit their aunt. Or shop for furniture.

Now is the time for discretion because Trump and his team of christofascists seem determined to criminalize pregnancy at all costs.

https://open.substack.com/pub/jessica/p/louisiana-signs-extradition-order?r=19dk2e&utm_medium=ios

#abortion #abortionishealthcare #reproductiverights #reproductivehealth #fascism #uspoli #roevwade

If you're in the market for dystopian political fiction (because why wouldn't you be, with such a dearth of dystopian politics in the real world) you might consider giving this Jack London classic a listen.

https://librivox.org/the-iron-heel-by-jack-london/

Does anyone in the Atlanta area who work from home and want to co-work instead? I'm renting out the back room in my house for an office in nearby Smyrna (close to the Braves stadium, walk-able to the library, coffee, food, etc.)! Private or shared office space is available. Shared kitchen, living room, and music room attached. Bicycle repair facilities (and mechanic) on site, discounts for commuting by bike! I'd love to have some company during the work day! Price negotiable.

#Atlanta #Smyrna

With Musk usurping their real authority — appropriation — what role does Congress even play?

Republicans tacitly unveiled their answer this week: They see their main purpose as disseminating even more disinfo to make Americans even dumber.

https://www.salon.com/2025/02/13/musk-took-all-their-power-so-remake-congress-into-a-ministry-of-disinformation/

#Copyright madness: YouTube seems to doubt whether #Shakespeare is in the public domain - https://walledculture.org/copyright-madness-youtube-seems-to-doubt-whether-shakespeare-is-in-the-public-domain/ #copyright is not fit for the digital age, as this ridiculous saga shows; by me... #pd

All corruption, all the time in Trump world: https://www.npr.org/2025/02/13/g-s1-48571/trump-administration-order-400-million-worth-of-armored-teslas

I had no idea Wikipedia allowed editors to use the Heritage Foundation's extremist garbage-spewing as a trustworthy source in a journalistic sense. So it's gratifying to see that Wikipedia is taking steps to forbid editors from citing it as evidence of anything.

Thanks to my recent experience helping @rai on get a #NextCloud + #OnlyOffice instance moved to a new server and fully upgraded and integrated, I've been motivated to update my somewhat obsolete NC + OO tutorial: https://tech.oeru.org/install-nextcloud-hub-and-onlyoffice-ubuntu-2404-docker-compose

There was a video AOC put out earlier this week. She mentioned that ppl who watch the fake Fox news call/contact their reps about an average of 8 times more than any other party. The contact/calls measure the public motivation....meaning more motivated voters come election time. She also mentioned if you're in a red state our voices matter the most. I have been making calls all week to all my GOP (🤮) reps. I use the scripts from 5 calls.

https://5calls.org/

Just discovered that my parents wedding day was on a Saturday and their 50th anniversary is also on a Saturday. Now I'm wondering if that's always the case (i.e. any date plus 50 years will fall on the same day of the week). 🤔

I used to scoff at the notion of a “General Strike.” But that was before Trump. So many people’s lives are now at stake from this criminal and his cronies and incompetent nominees, I really think it’s not a far fetched option. A sick-out strike with 20,000,000 of us would sure make it clear that this freak show has to end. No one elected this radical deconstruction of America.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) joined Lex Lumina LLP, State Democracy Defenders Fund, and The Chandra Law Firm in suing the OPM and OPM Acting Director Charles Ezell, alleging they illegally disclosed personnel records to Musk’s DOGE in violation of the federal Privacy Act of 1974. Last week, a federal judge temporarily blocked DOGE from accessing a critical Treasury payment system under a similar lawsuit.

“The Privacy Act makes it unlawful for OPM Defendants to hand over access to OPM’s millions of personnel records to DOGE Defendants, who lack a lawful and legitimate need for such access,” the complaint says. “No exception to the Privacy Act covers DOGE Defendants’ access to records held by OPM. OPM Defendants’ action granting DOGE Defendants full, continuing, and ongoing access to OPM’s systems and files for an unspecified period means that tens of millions of federal-government employees, retirees, contractors, job applicants, and impacted family members and other third parties have no assurance that their information will receive the protection that federal law affords.”

"With few exceptions, the Privacy Act limits the disclosure of federally maintained sensitive records on individuals without the consent of the individuals whose data is being shared. It protects all Americans from harms caused by government stockpiling of our personal data. This law was enacted in 1974, the last time Congress acted to limit the data collection and surveillance powers of an out-of-control President.

“The Privacy Act makes it unlawful for OPM Defendants to hand over access to OPM’s millions of personnel records to DOGE Defendants, who lack a lawful and legitimate need for such access,” the complaint says. “No exception to the Privacy Act covers DOGE Defendants’ access to records held by OPM. OPM Defendants’ action granting DOGE Defendants full, continuing, and ongoing access to OPM’s systems and files for an unspecified period means that tens of millions of federal-government employees, retirees, contractors, job applicants, and impacted family members and other third parties have no assurance that their information will receive the protection that federal law affords.”

https://www.eff.org/document/afge-v-opm-complaint

“What the fediverse currently is, is a countercultural network with little interest in mainstream pop culture.”

+1. Worth noting that the early Web was also nurtured by “countercultural” types — eg hippies on The Well who went on to found Wired, etc. I even mentioned this today in my post about IUMA in 1994: “Like much of the early Web, it had an anti-establishment feel — one of its goals was to create a distribution alternative to record labels.” https://cybercultural.com/p/iuma-1994/ https://mastodon.social/@fediversereport/113986683719960926

Debian is among the distributions with most supported CPU architectures and excellent cross-compilation support. We are working on improving its cross-building capabilities and keeping it easily cross-bootstrappable from source for upcoming CPU architectures. Therefore, we'll meet in an upcoming team sprint in Würzburg, Germany. See https://wiki.debian.org/Sprints/2025/BootstrapCrossbuild .

If the US invades us before 2028, will our unions get to participate in Shawn Fain's general strike? Will he give a shit about us once our jobs are american jobs?

If the US invades before 2026, will democrats tell us to VOTE in midterms? Not for our liberation, but for a minor reform to the ACA that the dems won't get through filibuster?

If the US invades this year, do we get to post snark about how they're hypocrites on the border and how they're not allowed to shoot us because it's illegal?

@Codeberg I've received similar mails from attacks on GitHub and GitLab in the past and the issues were sometimes accessible when I took a look.
In your case the issue already lead to a 404 when I looked at it.

So from my perspective you're doing a better job than the big players. Thank you for that ❤️