Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Does a #federated alternative to #StackExchange exist? If so, how does it measure up?

If not, what are your thoughts on what it would take to create one? Could it be done on #ActivityPub, or would it require a different protocol?

(boosts welcome, as is generally true of public posts)

@georgetakei As much as I want to be happy about this, it doesn't stop the adult HRT ban. The only way to get HRT is through an MD or DO, and you have to fill out a form that literally doesn't exist (a consent form the medical board said they will eventually make, without any kind of indication as to when). This leaves something like 80% of adult trans people in Florida without any means to get their medications.

Where are you on the political scale? Please boost wildly!* 😃​

(*) Yes I mean Wildly not just widely

The agency that runs NY prisons "quietly handed down new rules severely curtailing what incarcerated writers and artists can publish — and forbidding them from getting paid for it." https://nysfocus.com/2023/06/06/doccs-prison-blocks-journalism-artists-creative-work

❗️ The censorship on antifascists continues...

After more then 5 requests by the german state to close our twitter account, they finally did it...Our account was suspended with no previous info by sharing antifascists content on this bs platform.

Follow our mastodon account as we appeal the decision.

Since I started using Codeberg, I've realised how centralised everything is around GitHub (which was buyout by Microsoft), ranging from CI support, identity providing (or both in the case of shuttle.rs), packages and third-party support.

It is worrying, considering the recent controversies with Copilot breaking open source licenses and using projects for learning.

The developer world should drive towards projects like @forgejo and @Codeberg that don't depend on private interests that can let you down at any given point.

Side discussion from the GNOME Mobile hackfest: @verdre has way too many open MRs to his name, and it'd be great if someone else could take over some of them so he can focus on other stuff (like upstreaming 2D gestures :P).

A relatively self-contained and very cool one is the transparent panel for GNOME Shell: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/404

We worked through most of the behaviors we want like a year ago, but someone needs to rebase and polish it. Volunteers very welcome :)

"Under Section 702...law enforcement and intelligence are gaining access to sensitive information about social justice activists, journalists, and politicians. Without fundamental changes to the law, there will surely be more of these abuses." https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/coming-fight-over-american-surveillance

Many BPA-Free Plastics Are Toxic. More than 50 different chemicals are now pumped into consumer products in place of BPA. These BPA-free alternatives can be as bad as — or worse than — the original.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/many-bpa-free-plastics-are-toxic-some-are-worse-than-bpa

Check out 75% off well-traveled books!

As capitalism eats its own tail, here we are here with loads of ‘dinged’ over-orders from Amazon that we are offering to you at the heaping discount of 75% off!

See all the books & use coupon code DINGED til 7/1 https://blog.pmpress.org/2023/03/08/75-off-these-well-traveled-titles/

#books

“Why do you use Signal and all this Encryption!
Do you have anything to hide? 😡“

Yes! I do!

- The color of my underwear
- My friends’ cats photos
- My failed gym class grades
- My first attempt at "portrait"
- The outcome of my last meal
- The weird mole on my left toe
- How much I cried watching Star Trek
- How much cheese there is in my fridge
- My failed knitting experiment
- The horrible poem I just wrote
- My bank card pin number
- My social security number
- My main password
- The web search history for your birthday gift

Privacy is a Human Right! ✊

Not sharing publicly what you do not wish to share is your right! 🔒✨

#Privacy #Encryption #E2EE #RootForE2EE 🎉

Hello, this is a doozie. ATL cops are using paypal transaction data to charge a bail fund with money laundering for reimbursing gas and covid test buys. #StopCopCity

Data-hungry fintech apps like PayPal and Venmo are a threat to the mutual aid funds that use them. Seems pretty damn dire to build and defend alternatives to help keep front line activists, abortion patients, gender affirming care patients, and others safe.

Signal, but for $, please.

More here: https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2023-06-05-statement-fight-for-the-future-condemns-the-arrest-of-bail-fund-organizers-in-atlanta-and-weaponization-of-paypal-data-to-oppress-dissent

US report on Abu Akleh killing must be made public, senator urges

Abu Akleh, a veteran Palestinian-American correspondent, was killed on May 11, 2022, while covering an Israeli raid in Jenin, a city in the occupied West Bank.

At first, Israeli officials falsely accused Palestinian gunmen of fatally shooting Abu Akleh before acknowledging months later that she was likely killed by an Israeli soldier.

#journalist #Journalism #Israel #palestine #murder

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/6/5/us-report-on-abu-akleh-killing-must-be-made-public-senator-urges

Dan @froomkin has an appropriately scathing piece about Big Journalism's ongoing and relentless normalization of extremists. They've taken over one of the two major political parties and cowed news organizations into treating them as a moral equivalent to non-extremists. https://presswatchers.org/2023/06/during-pride-month-journalists-should-be-ashamed/

Asheville Police "scheduled their clearing of the Aston Park encampment, which they knew to be controversial and of great public interest, for 10pm on Christmas night specifically to weaponize the curfew against reporters." https://ncnewsline.com/2023/06/02/lawyer-asks-court-to-delay-dismiss-asheville-journalists-case-as-trial-nears/

"Stochastic parrot" doesn't sound nearly as exciting as "artificial intelligence," but it does have the great merit of actually being descriptive of the software.

https://joecostello.substack.com/p/the-politics-of-technology-stochastic