Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

hey blind or visually impaired people, I'm beta testing a shareholder activism app and am struggling to give good feedback since the app is hard for me to use with VoiceOver.

Anyone in the US who is a VoiceOver pro interested in giving it a shot?

tags - #blind #accessibility #voiceover #iOS #android

An interesting read for folks in the #FOSS world who use (or are considering) Microsoft VSCode. https://ghuntley.com/fracture/ Note that VSCode is *neither* FOSS nor #OSS. It's proprietary (although MSFT is happy to let you think it is OSS). There's no shortage of good reasons to shun Microsoft and their products. Here's another one.

A History of Recent Twitter Migration to the Fediverse

1 month ago: Mastodon? No thanks. You have to have a Ph.D in Hackerology to use it.

3 weeks ago: I don't like this Mastodon... But if I have to... *sigh*

2 weeks ago: Wait. This does really cool things like let me edit posts. So genius. Is this free?

1 week ago: OMG! There's other apps! Now I know why there's a Fediverse!

Today: Comrades—let's fight for our freedom! Cast off the chains of Big Social!

Do they support Firefox? Nope. Can passwords be longer than 20 characters? Goodness, no. Do they support WebAuthn? Absolutely not. OTPs? Nah.

It's 2022 and the entire finance industry has not yet figured out online security at the level of a 2017 MMORPG.

This is how much the decision-makers at for-profit companies respect your privacy folks...

“We should know when users leave their house, their commute to work, and everywhere they go throughout the day. Anything less is useless. We get a lot more than that from other tech companies.”

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1589700721121058817.html

#DataFarming #Privacy #Surveillance

Turns out that PostgreSQL and Mastodon overall respond remarkably gracefully to a full disk. Very nice to see it :)

Simon Rosenberg was one of the few people who saw through the red mirage and accurately predicted that the Democrats would make a strong showing in the midterms.

He said we don't have a data problem. We have an analysis problem.

I think this sums up the entire problem with our current social media and cable news and information disruption.

The data is there, but we're too easily distracted and manipulated.

Droplets of facts get lost in the information downpour.

Portugal's infrastructure minister gets it:

“If we simply replace all combustion cars with electric cars, we will end up with the same kind of congestion, the same huge amount of lost time in traffic, the same unsustainable levels of road accidents, and the same struggle for public space."

“The car overwhelmed city life and it is something that must change.”

https://www.euractiv.com/section/electric-cars/news/shift-to-electric-vehicles-will-not-solve-urban-transport-woes-says-portuguese-minister/

I will post more about this on here later, as away... but in a nutshell, for those (especially farmers) in Aotearoa moaning about being "forced" to care for our country, I have just been digitising a book of 318 pages over the last week - from early 1900's, explaining all the rules & regulations of how you were required to farm the land, raise livestock and restrictions on forestry in our country... I can't believe these restrictions were ever lifted, as they were to "preserve for perpetuity"...

To make used servers fit for Codeberg, we could likely make use of the following #HardwareDonations:

- up to 6x 2.5" SAS drives (HDD or SSD, up to 4x other 2.5" drives might also be ok)
- up to 8x 3.5" SAS drives (some SATA might be ok)
- 4x Dell R710 front caddy 3.5"

The theory behind "if you're not paying for the product..." is that old economist's saw: "incentives matter." Companies that monetize attention are incentivized to manipulate and spy on you, while companies that *you* pay just want to make you happy.

This is a theory of corporate behavior grounded in economics, not power, a creature of theory and doctrine that never bothers to check in with the real world to see how that theory and doctrine map to actual events. Reality is a lot uglier.

2/

Appalachia's only "bad for farming" if you use a very narrow idea of what farming is: plantation crops.

Since the mountains are such a bad fit for *that type* of farming, they've been forced to be innovative for hundreds of years.

I mostly post art here, but in my professional life, I helped found a technology cooperative with some amazing and talented people.

We did a little post about the process of becoming a legally recognized worker-owned co-op in New York. If you've ever been curious about alternative ways of organizing your business, give it a read!

https://blog.emma.coop/andy/forming-a-creative-code-and-technology-co-operative

Interesting to see that in a recent Fediverse poll, Linux was the most widely used desktop among those who voted... I'm afraid that we're losing our majority. It felt really good for such a long time not to have to explain to people why we feel bad for them in their digital cages.

Firefox is trialing consent dialogue handling https://community.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/firefox-cookie-banner-handling/ Says will auto-click "Reject All" if that's an option, otherwise will click "Accept All". I think the second option - auto accepting everything, is EXTREMELY problematic. I get that we're all annoyed, but first Brave and now Firefox taking the lets bury our head in the sand approach is unfortunate. Its not solving the actual problem at all!

Is anyone else having a hard time getting their prescriptions filled because of the Walgreens pharmacy closures?

After multiple calls, online requests and visits to our local Walgreens, them being closed during regular hours several times, then transferring the prescription to another store

I finally got my partner's meds after insisting I wait there until they fill it (they had said it would be ready 2 days earlier). /1

This week's blog post is in two parts.

First I offer some reflections on the midterms (I wrote it last night right after we knew that Catherine Cortez Masto won in Nevada🎉)

Part II: I dunk on entitled rich white MAGA men.

Sometimes I just wanna have fun🤷 .
https://terikanefield.com/reflections-on-the-midterms-arrogant-and-entitled-white-maga-men-and-more/

Next up: I'll figure out how do to a Mastodon thread the right way.

Simia ->
Homo erectus ->
Homo sapiens ->
Stultus simia nudus ... 🙄

#lernresistent #Klimakatastrophe #Habgier #Krieg #Überkonsum #evolution

The “#fedified” thing really seems like a lot of people are missing the point. The #fediverse gives you legitimate, no middle broker, ability to verify yourself. Keeping obtuse and easily lost lists of “verfications” seems like a really bad idea, especially since many of these minor celebrities already have actual DNS verified websites.