Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

HomeTown is a fork of Mastodon which lets you make instance-only posts, adjust character limits and read long form rich text blog posts.

It's still part of the Fediverse, and HomeTown users can interact with Mastodon users totally fine.

Tech people can get self-hosting instructions here:

https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown

Non-tech people can use a managed hosting service to start their own HomeTown instance:

https://federation.spacebear.ee

#HomeTown #Mastodon #MastoTips #FediTips #Fediverse

For those of you following along at home, Hubert Horan has just released part 25(!) of his series on Uber being a trash business model with no reasonable path to profitability. This episode takes readers to China for a look at Didi the "Uber of China," which is just as unprofitable as its US counterpart...despite having a 90% market share! If you can't turn a dollar with those numbers, you can't turn one at all.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/08/hubert-horan-can-uber-ever-deliver-part-twenty-five-didis-ipo-illustrates-why-ubers-business-model-was-always-hopeless.html

We should be concerned when government or media gets tasked with determining what is “disinformation.” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/07/disentangling-disinformation-not-easy-it-looks

Asset forfeiture, corporate kickbacks, wealthy benefactors. These are just some of the other ways that police find to fund their surveillance efforts. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/09/how-police-fund-surveillance-technology-part-problem

If we privilege digital identification over traditional paper or plastic identification, we will disadvantage people already at society’s margins. DHS’s plan for mobile driver’s licenses (mDLs) doesn’t do enough to avoid this. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/07/dhss-flawed-plan-mobile-drivers-licenses

"David Cameron met vaccines minister before firm he advises won health contracts" https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/david-cameron-met-vaccines-minister-firm-he-advises-won-health-contracts/?utm_campaign=Weekly%20flagship%20newsletter%20%28Week%2028%2C%202021%29%20%28RaEGMQ%29&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Newsletter%3A%20oD%20weekly&_kx=uz4a2q9WDArUKQxp2aRKL6-8xP17jnQZAzUpTF7JzjA%3D.YjCYwm #uk #corruption

What if I help you and then a whole bunch of other drowning people come along? | #FirstDogOnTheMoon | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/31/what-if-i-help-you-and-then-a-whole-bunch-of-other-drowning-people-come-along

#Politics #Satire #Refugees

I'm interested in hearing some different perspectives on Peter Turchin's idea that overproduction of elites breeds social unrest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_overproduction

What do you think?

(boosts are fine)

Corporate America Is Building Its Own Surveillance State. Will the FTC Stop It?
https://gizmodo.com/corporate-america-is-building-its-own-surveillance-stat-1847389626 #privacy #security #purism

there are some extremely interesting and could be relevant presentations for social.coop coming up at the scholar.social #SummerSchool - see https://scholar.social/@SummerSchool/106602742858349984

Reports that ShotSpotter alters data to make police cases stronger and has high rates of inaccuracy are more than enough reasons to demand that police stop the use of audio gunshot detection technology.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/07/its-time-police-stop-using-shotspotter

talking to kids who are genuinely interested in how linux works is really cool. i just had one ask me about what the output of ls -l means and we wound up talking about filesystem permissions and privilege escalation

The FSF is announcing a funded call for white papers to address Copilot, copyright, machine learning, and free software. Submit yours by Monday, August 23: https://u.fsf.org/3fi

The U.S. Postal Service’s law enforcement arm combed through people’s social media posts before street protests earlier this year. We filed a FOIA lawsuit to find out what's behind this surveillance program, which threatens our free expression and privacy. https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-sues-us-postal-service-records-about-covert-social-media-spying-program

Heard today that an old lady in town got a ticket from the cop (who's not a local) for driving her golf cart to do her errands...which she's been doing forever 😡. Now's she's struggling to get around with her walker in all the smoke. The town's up in arms. Petitions are being written. The Council is gonna get an earful.

Getting started with #Maxima in #Fedora #Linux - Fedora Magazine

https://fedoramagazine.org/getting-started-with-maxima-in-fedora-linux/

#GNU #Linux #Mathematics #SymbolicComputation #Numerics