Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Flipping.rocks is a Hometown Mastodon server for people who appreciate arthropods, amphibians, reptiles, fungi, etc. If you want a general Fediverse home, that’s okay too.

This server has a post size of up to 5000 characters, and has been operating since 2022.

https://flipping.rocks

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#FeaturedServer #Arthropods #Amphibians #Reptiles #Fungi #Hometown #Mastodon #HometownMastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

#Infosec question:

When receiving an incoming link with a referral header from a Mastodon instance with 470 users, how easy is it to determine exactly which individual clicked on the link?

What additional information is needed? How hard is it to get that additional information?

More things should be opt-in.

Does anyone know if it's possible to plug a mini-PC into a laptop and use the laptop's keyboard/monitor?

If FIFA (soccer international body) and the International Olympic Committee weren't so Trump-level corrupt, they'd move the 2026 World Cup and 2028 Olympics out of the United States. The U.S. barring of a Venezuelan Little League (!!!) baseball team shows you why.

https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-little-league-denied-visas-d296bcf7296e849e27de1b1f8cd30edb

After a long and desperate struggle I have a working Open5GS 4G core tested with a couple of LTE small cells. Verified that Gemtek WLTGFC-105, Sercomm SCE4255W, Baicells Nova 430i, and Nova 227 all work for me. Yay?

Hardest parts were packaging Open5GS and figuring out that Osmocom's pySim wouldn't program my SIM cards but some random Windows utility can.

Benefit from my pain at https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/dcbwilliams/cell-net-infra/

Exasperated and disturbed the new IP license in the Mastodon TOS has no termination clause.

https://mastodon.social/terms-of-service/2025-07-01

Facebook and YouTube have terms saying that you can intentionally remove your IP grant by deleting the content. Twitter lets you remove your IP grant by deleting your *accounts*, which is punitive, but possible to exercise (I did). It's good very Mastodon's grant is Tumblr-style limited, but Tumblr eventually abused its. I want Mastodon to be as pro-user as *Facebook and Google*.

Microsoft, AWS, and even France-based OVHCloud say that they can't keep the US Government's hands off your data, if requested under the CLOUD Act.

👉 You can't guarantee data sovereignty using a provider that is subject to US law, even if your data is housed outside the US.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/microsoft_admits_it_cannot_guarantee/

"The era of blind, naive dependence on US-controlled infrastructure is rapidly coming to an end. Nations can no longer afford to have their military capabilities and vital digital sovereignty tied to the satellite grid of a superpower they cannot trust."

Iran’s plan to abandon GPS is about much more than technology | Israel-Iran conflict | Al Jazeera

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/7/27/irans-plan-to-abandon-gps-is-about-much-more-than-technology

#DataSovreignty

Ten lessons from Katharine Graham's time at the Washington Post.

https://fs.blog/knowledge-project-podcast/outliers-katharine-graham/

'When Nixon came after the Post with the full force of the executive branch (challenging TV licenses, crashing their stock, and threatening prison), Katharine never wavered. She’d told her reporters to keep digging, and she meant it. When prosecutors demanded their notes, she took them home herself. If anyone went to jail, it would be her. Not them. For nine months, while other papers stayed silent and friends begged her to stop, she kept her word. The President of the United States couldn’t make her break it. Most leaders fold under pressure. She knew something they didn’t: your word is all you have. Once broken, it’s worthless forever.'

It looks like we are under attack, that prevented SSH connections to fail. We have deployed mitigations and the situation calmed down. Please let us know if the issue occurs again.

"Driverless" taxis that require two drivers 🤦‍♂️

"The Tesla robotaxis rely on remote supervision by employees in a customer service center, and a human safety supervisor in the front passenger seat, ready to intervene if needed."
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/26/tesla-investors-grow-wary-of-elon-musk-robotaxi-promises.html

#TheModernWorld by #TomTomorrow

[Full alt text -- I ran out of space!]

1. Trump in a suit, raising his fists, surrounded by flames.
Text: America 2025 - Everything is going great!

2. Sen Joni Ernst & RFK Jr.
Text: 1. Wise & capable officials at every level of government!
RFKJr: We're canceling funding for a bird flu vaccine! Healthy people won't get sick! Somebody get me a glass of RAW MILK, goddammit!
Ernst: What's the big deal? We are ALL going to die!

3. Trump, with werewolf JD Vance & vampire Stephen Miller.
Text: 2. A celebration of our glorious leader on the auspicious anniversary of his blessed birth!
Trump: Big strong tanks go vroooom!
Vance: They certainly do, sir!
Miller: The sunlight -- it burns!

4. The Statue of Liberty flanked by two masked men (ICE agents).
Text: 3. Secret masked police protecting us from the enemies of the state!
Man 1: We caught THIS scheming immigrant encouraging huddled masses and wretched refuse to come to OUR country.
Man 2: We don't put up with that crap in Donald TRUMP's America!

5. 2 panels.
Text: Things Couldn't be more normal!
Panel 1 shows Elon with a black eye on his phone. The other shows Trump on his phone.
Elon: Trump is in the Epstein files! He is a big pedophile and I got him elected! For some reason I believe posting this will make me look better.
Trump: Elon "Bladder Man" Musk is a VERY nasty Person! H has such nice Factories, it would be a shame if someone "nuked" them!

6. The White House.
Text: 5. The future's so bright, we gotta send in the National Guard!
Trump (from inside the WH): I'll show this stupid country who's in charge if I have to arrest every single person in it! Somebody call that Bukele guy and see if he built any prisons yet.
Lackey (from inside the WH): Right away sir!

The cost of Reform UK’s anti-environmental policies - https://neweconomics.org/2025/05/the-cost-of-reform-uks-anti-environmental-policies "will cause significant damage to the UK economy and destroy tens of thousands of good paying jobs." #reform not just bad people, but economically illiterate ones... #climatecrisis

I know this is an out-there, controversial thing to say, but I’ve really got to come out against genocide and imposed starvation.

Anyone have tips for off gassing a microwave ? Mine broke with no warning and it’s currently my only cooking method.

Im hangry, dizzy and annoyed since it wasn’t even that old.

If I can find a way to replace it, my concern is the smell and how it’ll impact my mast cells.

Usually I would leave a new appliance to sit for a week or two but this is incredibly urgent.
#mcas #mastcells #offgassing

Propaganda and media thread 🧵

"While right-wing propaganda has its roots in the 1930s, it wasn’t until the ’70s that Republican thought leaders truly began seeding the notion that any media criticism of Republican policy exhibited a “left-wing bias” and should be discarded as unreliable. In reality, as media critic Parker Molloy notes, most mainstream U.S. journalism skews center-right."

https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/01/02/americas-right-wing-propaganda-problem-might-be-terminal/

After two weeks of writing, revising, and trying to make everything as digestible as possible, I finally published "GNOME Calendar: A New Era of Accessibility Achieved in 90 Days", where I explain in detail the steps we took to turn GNOME Calendar from an app that was literally unusable with a keyboard and screen reader to an app that is (finally) accessible to keyboard and screen reader users as of GNOME 49!

https://tesk.page/2025/07/25/gnome-calendar-a-new-era-of-accessibility-achieved-in-90-days/

#GNOMECalendar #GNOME #Accessibility #a11y #DisabilityPrideMonth #Linux #FOSS #OSS #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #GTK #libadwaita