Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

"The licenses for most software and other practical works are designed to take away your freedom to share and change the works. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom [...]" Read the full answer: https://u.fsf.org/3kz #GNUGPLFAQ

We are Bandcamp United - a union of workers across all departments at Bandcamp committed to advocating for a better Bandcamp for all, including our international colleagues and the artists, labels, and fans who use the platform as well as ourselves.

NEW: Google's Project Zero has found a lot of high severity vulnerabilities in certain Samsung chips included in dozens of Android models.

Samsung has had more than 90 days to patch, but hasn't done it yet, according to Google's @maddiestone

https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/16/google-warning-samsung-chips-flaws-android/

we have chosen to put most of our research into documents in PDF format.

PDFs are a huge pain to make accessible.

most scientists write their papers in Latex, overleaf, etc., which cannot produce accessible PDFs.

to make such PDFs accessible, one uses Adobe Acrobat, which is expensive and proprietary.

increasingly, we post our PDFs to arXiv, which ~forbids accessible PDFs b/c they can't be compiled from source.

~none of our science is accessible.

artifacts (and file formats) have politics.

As we look back at Bush/Cheney lying the country into war in Iraq 20 years ago, don't forget the credulous D.C. press corps were complicit enablers. Believe it or not, the most compelling critique came from Scot McClellan, who repented for dishing it out.
https://authory.com/DanFroomkin/A-refresher-on-how-the-press-failed-the-people-a9b522e98ea1f4fcca08d7c1a03a5a367

From Linux magazine: "Consumer Guide to Preinstalled Linux"

https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Features/Linux-Ready-to-Go

Report from #NYC rally in solidarity with #anarchist prisoner

Read Here: #AlfredoCospito

https://itsgoingdown.org/report-from-nyc-rally-in-solidarity-with-alfredo-cospito/

1. Fox News' @JesseBWatters@twitter.com told millions of viewers that Silicon Valley Bank "donated $74 million to Black Lives Matter."

Similar claims went viral on Twitter

Some "facts" are too good to check

The actual amount that SVB donated to BLM is ZERO

Follow along for receipts 🧾

@dangillmor
Cheating against what standard? The old educational model of memorization versus using tools well to find accurate information? The old model of parroting lectures with one right answer rather than creative thinking? The old model of meeting one standard for literacy? I think there are ways to use LLMs to expand education, including teaching students how they--thanks to us--are biased and often wrong. https://medium.com/whither-news/writing-and-exclusion-16d4d98a27a

Boosting a homecoming fundraiser for a beloved comrade and abolitionist organizer who is coming home on parole! Please boost and share with your networks!

cashapp: $Allegheniesab
paypal: @ AllegheniesA

#solidarity

Great @propublica reporting on "exquisite timing" of execs' stock trading -- of competitors' shares. https://www.propublica.org/article/secret-irs-files-trading-competitors-stock

The simplest explanation, of course, is corruption. But will law enforcement investigate to find out? Stop laughing...

Again #Atlanta showing the levels they’ll go to

Attention #StopCopCity comrades: there are reports of a prosecutor misrepresenting himself to forest defenders #CopCity
Thank you to @NLGnews for coming forward with this

More info below on how to protect yourself:

Folks, I encourage you to not work for @OpenAI for free:

Don't do their testing
Don't do their PR
Don't provide them training data

https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/110029104362666915

Open AI wants us to believe its shift from nonprofit and open to for-profit and black box is just a natural progression, not a bait and switch of epic proportions. The company genuinely believes we are stupid and naive.

So much for "Open" AI: https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/15/23640180/openai-gpt-4-launch-closed-research-ilya-sutskever-interview

Anyone in the #Aotearoa #Fedisphere found a place to source Dayton Audio DAX88s? Wanting to set up a Home Assistant-enabled musical household.

Glad to see considerable progress in Thunderbird, the email stepchild that is finally getting the attention it -- and its users -- deserve. https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/02/the-future-of-thunderbird-why-were-rebuilding-from-the-ground-up/

Microsoft Azure's @medium page just published this guide on how to deploy Mastodon on Azure.

https://medium.com/microsoftazure/simple-mastodon-node-deployment-on-azure-f79f40114d74

Now the fellow who wrote this doesn't directly work for Microsoft.

But clearly, Microsoft wants to use Mastodon to sell Azure. Otherwise they wouldn't publish this article on their official Azure Medium page.

I've been predicting this for months.

In fact, Microsoft has been telegraphing more and more involvement with the Fediverse.

See also: @dotnet

@fediversenews

Quite a few people with whom I communicate frequently are folks I wouldn't recognise if I saw them in public, and I wouldn't have the foggiest of where they live. In many cases, I don't even know their gender. And it doesn't matter. We can still exchange ideas and respect one another as humans. So cool. Love the Fediverse.

This outrageous threat against librarians is just the latest evidence that the extremist right is on the attack everywhere we look.

https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/michigan-prosecutor-mulls-charging-lapeer-library-over-lgbtq-book

The rational, tolerant center and left are mired on the defense -- and often, in this era of Republican-rigged elections and packed courts, losing.

But Big Journalism continues with business as usual, normalizing the extremists and refusing to take a stand to protect basic rights, and democracy. It's disheartening.