Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Flock’s invasive new tool “will certainly help to bring expanded surveillance powers to police departments of all sizes that never needed this much information on any random person who happens to drive by,” EFF’s Beryl Lipton warned @404mediaco. https://www.404media.co/license-plate-reader-company-flock-is-building-a-massive-people-lookup-tool-leak-shows/

We are going to deploy storage limits on Codeberg. Here is what you need to know: https://blog.codeberg.org/new-storage-limits-on-codeberg-what-you-need-to-know.html

To avoid disrupting your valuable work, we will be careful and start with very generous limits. Over time, we'll tune the configuration based on your feedback.

We also plan on helping you find and lower resource consumption, should you be shocked with the amount of storage you currently consume.

(By the way, we are aware of a bug that makes repo size count twice. It will get fixed soon)

When is a "Co-op" Not Really a Cooperative? by David Ellerman & Tej Gonza

Certain to be a controversial thesis. Do you agree with Ellerman and Gonza?

https://geo.coop/articles/when-co-op-not-really-cooperative

https://blog.pmpress.org/2025/04/15/voices-beyond-lockdown-zine/

Secure Supply Chain- Liberty Phone.

Secure from source to shipment.

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I started posting to Reddit.

The result: remarkable.

u/tomthedancingbug
posting to r/comics

https://www.reddit.com/user/tomthedancingbug/

Articles of Impeachment.

https://win.newmode.net/freespeechforpeople/call-vote-to-impeach-donald-trump

#USPol

feeling grateful for @Codeberg today -- it works well, is dependable, good alternative to github

there's a lot of tech focus on "innovation", but doing something ordinary and doing it well is so valuable

🔴 Brand new comic now up on Boing Boing
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The Trump administration's new USA tourism marketing campaign! COME VISIT THE USA!
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https://boingboing.net/2025/05/14/tom-the-dancing-bug-come-visit-trumps-usa.html

#openstreetmap started blocking the mapping app I am using on my Nokia #N900 :(

"user-agent": "CloudGPS for N900"

I realize there's maybe 5 of us so no one's going to notice the suck we suffer :P

I wrote a proxy to lie about user agent. Annoying.

But free, public, mutual #Web is dying. How are kids going to learn if they have to jump through advanced hoops to access anything? Where will the new generation come from?

Maybe we should create an overlay network for nerds only.

#osm

📣 We're looking for communities and individuals interested in setting up their own Bonfire instances over the next weeks.
We need your help to:
- Use Bonfire in real-world scenarios
- Federate with each other and the wider fediverse to test interoperability
- Monitor performance under active use

Your feedback will help us get Bonfire Social across the finish line to a stable 1.0 release!
We’ll be happy to provide guidance throughout the whole process ✊

Please boost or reach out if interested!

Welcome @RadicalRoutes to social.coop and the Mastodon fediverse!

Radical Routes is a mutual-aid network of co-ops committed to working together for radical social change.

We have been holding space for them, pending this big moment. See past posts at #RadicalRoutes

Their website is www.RadicalRoutes.org.uk

See also https://www.veggies.org.uk/shop/books-and-publications/radical-routes/

FBI Warning on Messaging Apps
The FBI urges Americans to ditch SMS for encrypted apps—then demands backdoors via “responsible encryption.”

Big Tech resists.

Law enforcement wants access.

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#Trump Fires Nation’s Top Librarian Over Made-Up Culture War Claims - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/05/12/trump-fires-nations-top-librarian-over-made-up-culture-war-claims/ "because she allegedly put “inappropriate books” in a library that basically gets copies of nearly all books and doesn’t even allow children to check out books."

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In October 2023, Mongabay traveled to Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park as part of a reporting series on protected areas in East Africa.

While there, we heard allegations that Uganda Wildlife Authority rangers have carried out extrajudicial killings of suspected bushmeat poachers inside the park.

https://news.mongabay.com/2024/12/killed-while-poaching-when-wildlife-enforcement-blurs-into-violence/

How do history, human rights, and biodiversity intersect in conservation in East Africa? Mongabay’s new series, Beyond the Safari, dives deep: https://news.mongabay.com/series/beyond-the-safari/