Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

So it seems that trolls of the Trumpist frozen peach variety, mostly those who set up their own Pleroma instances when Parler got taken down, are undertaking a semi-coordinated effort to target journalists who sign up on Mastodon for a couple of reasons...

* Trump has taught them that professional journalism and critical thinking are elitist and bad so lets harass them until they go away

* they are trying to prove some sort of point that this place can be just as toxic as their beloved Frozen Peach in Chief's microblogging site

If you are a journo and you get dogpiled by trolls DO NOT ENGAGE with them at all! Immediately:

1. REPORT them to your instance mods, THEN
2. Block them

Step 1 is very important! This isn't twitter or facebook...mods will take swift action, and if they don't you can migrate instances to better moderated ones...

@scottjenson @lawremipsum On the mastodon home page, the two choices are Get the App and Find a Server. I want to make an account. There is no way from those choices I could deduce 'find a server' is the first step in account creation'.

When I check the menu, there is no Help or FAQ; the only two things that look helpful are Support and Documentation. Documentation generally refers to the technical details of a program; I want user level help. I click on Support. It's GitHub.

Disney+ isn't working on Linux because of a bug

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/11/its-not-just-you-disney-doesnt-currently-work-on-linux

Social.Coop does not have admins, as such. We have three elected working groups -- Finance, Tech, and Community -- made up of members.

All members can participate and vote in Social.Coop governance, via Loomio.

Income and expenditures are transparent. See Open Collective: https://opencollective.com/socialcoop#category-BUDGET

Finance: https://www.loomio.com/g/Zq69RToJ/social-coop-finance-working-group

Tech: https://www.loomio.com/g/Mtb0FrvX/social-coop-tech-working-group

Community: https://www.loomio.com/socialcoop-community-working-group/

Big shout out to PBS and the BBC for doing their part to convince their liberal audiences that environmental destruction and far-right politics are cool, actually (at least when it happens in South America).

https://fair.org/home/pbs-and-bbc-team-up-to-misinform-about-brazils-bolsonaro/

@downey @massonpj @mackiwg Yup, and those Microsoft account managers are great at making uni staff 'feel valued'. At both institutions I worked at, the IT teams had an (unofficial) daily uniform that was entirely Microsoft-branded

Brazil supreme court ruling to reactivate Amazon Fund gives hope in fight to save rainforest - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/04/brazil-supreme-court-ruling-to-reactivate-amazon-fund-gives-hope-in-fight-to-save-rainforest good news, good timing...

It's amazing to me, there's US libertarians on birdsite shouting that left libertarians "stole" the term "libertarian" from them.

Extremely funny.

After another long #debugging session with the #librem5 , I decided to publish a comprehensive tutorial for remote graphical debugging with #QtCreator.

May you suffer less, compared to plain #GDB.

https://dcz_self.gitlab.io/posts/remote_debugging/

Via Black Outdoor Art, a poster for the UK's Black History Month:

Hey Everybody. Two of the best security communicators and practitioners I know have just launched their book,

Security for Everybody

https://www.holloway.com/b/security-for-everyone?vip_code=SFELAUNCH

I’m not joking when I say this is going to be a vital tool for improving the security practices of individuals and small orgs. Please boost and share the link widely.

#NZTwits #Infosec #Cybersecurity #Privacy #safety

"Karrot can be easily deployed with co-op cloud."

https://coopcloud.tech/

Never heard of this. Looks amazing!

@xurizaemon @lightweight @amscraig

#CoOpCloud #PlatformCooperatives

RT @RBReich
Memo to the media: Please don't say inflation is at a 40-year high without also mentioning that corporate profits are at a 70-year high. Give the people the full picture.

We added a new option in #PureBoot called Restricted Boot that only boots self-signed kernels and distro-signed ISOs. I talk about how we approached this feature at length in this blog post: https://puri.sm/posts/introducing-pureboot-restricted-boot/ #firmware #security #coreboot #heads

“Today, we’ve filed a class-action law­suit in US fed­eral court in San Fran­cisco, CA on behalf of a pro­posed class of pos­si­bly mil­lions of GitHub users. We are chal­leng­ing the legal­ity of GitHub Copi­lot (and a related prod­uct, OpenAI Codex, which pow­ers Copi­lot). The suit has been filed against a set of defen­dants that includes GitHub, Microsoft (owner of GitHub), and OpenAI.”

https://githubcopilotlitigation.com/

You'll want to get yourself a ☕ for this one. And an extra CW on that link for some real disturbing WWII pictures.

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/06/09/how-pre-ww-ii-ukrainian-fascists-pioneered-brutal-terror-techniques-later-improved-by-cia-now-ironically-taught-to-descendants/