Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

What to do if your phone is seized by the police?

Read our guide and know your rights. https://freedom.press/training/mobile-security-for-activists-and-journalists/

Uploaded the audio version of Chapter 2 of @luisrazeto's #Cooperative Enterprise & Market Economy this morning.

https://soundcloud.com/user-961707688/cooperative-enterprise-market-economy-chapter-2

Instances differ in moderation policies and approaches, and the experience of the Fediverse is very different depending on just the size of your home instance.

There are curated lists of instances that host bad actors, and many instances already refuse to federate with the large instances. And yet it all more-or-less works.

The fact that this system basically works while being fragmented is one of its beauties.

#federation #defederation

https://world.hey.com/dhh/we-have-left-the-cloud-251760fb leaving the cloud and saving a bundle...

Thanks to @yojimbo for having given us the nudge to leave the RHEL ecosystem and move to the Debian/Ubuntu one all those years ago (2004?). Never regretted the move. And now with RHEL poking their #LibreSoftware community in the eye with their idiotic (typical corporate) licensing/policy shenanigans, I'm doubly glad that it's not a problem for me and mine.

hell of a flow chart from an FTX bankruptcy filing, showing commingled funds

"Under current land-use regulation, carbon dioxide emissions from biofuel production exceed those from fossil diesel combustion. Therefore, international agreements need to ensure the effective and globally comprehensive protection of natural land before modern bioenergy can effectively contribute to achieving carbon neutrality."

Notable: These authors have published their policy recommendations as #OpenAccess, meaning they're not uselessly advising in private.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01711-7

There are no queer friendly cops. #Pride means abolish the police, abolish prisons, and queer liberation.

Surviving the Future: Abolitionist Queer Strategies is a collection of the most current ideas in radical queer movement work.

Cast off progressive narratives of liberal hope & build mutual networks of rebellion and care.

Save 20% w/ code JUNE til 7/1 at https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1296

@enkerli the almost compete erosion of value in the term "open source" (to mean 'weak open source licenses but, unlike its original meaning, *not* including #Copyleft or '#libre' licenses) thanks to bad corporate actors has forced the #FreeSoftware community to reinforce its long-time use of the term #libre to refer to share-alike #open licensing. #LibreWashing is an emerging insidious problem.

@LibreTexts

FedEx is not content to just underpay their workers. They've also decided to start scamming their delivery drivers by selling them trucks with doctored odometers.

My gawd, don't you just love this country?

https://jalopnik.com/fedex-named-in-what-could-be-one-of-the-largest-odomete-1850570768

There's a sneaky strawman argument that is used against #degrowth and other efforts that call for scaling back harmful activities for #environmental or other reasons. You should watch for it.

It goes like this:
Environmentalist: "#Plastic pollution is a huge, and society is altogether too focused on single-use disposable plastic products. We should fix that."
Pollution apologist: "Here are a zillion medical innovations that would be impossible without plastic. You're trying to kill people."

The milkweeds that we grow for Monarch butterflies attach packets of pollen, or pollinia, to visiting #pollinators, but not all insects are strong enough to carry them. In effect, the milkweed is putting a thumb on the scale for large #bees like #bumblebees.

Sometimes, pollination is perilous!

https://mgnv.org/beneficial-insects/the-perils-of-pollinia-and-more-about-milkweed/

If you care about labour or infrastructure in the US, you probably know that the Biden administration refused to let freight rail workers strike for sick days, citing the economic impact.

You might (also) have missed the announcement that the administration then did exactly what they promised: helped to make sure the workers got them.

http://www.ibew.org/media-center/Articles/23Daily/2306/230620_IBEWandPaid

Regarding the position of scicomm.xyz on #Meta and in the Fediverse, #FediPact etc.

After discussion between myself and the other mods and considering the views expressed by the people on our instance we have decided that pre-emptive blocking of Meta is warranted.

There is more detail on the background and explanation of this decision in a post on our companion site, here:
https://about.scicomm.xyz/doku.php?id=blog:2023:0625_meta_on_the_fediverse_to_block_or_not_to_block

Thanks to our people for their comments and suggestions to help us reach this decision.

This is important reading. What Google did to the open XMPP messaging protocol -- adopting and then poisoning it -- is an object lesson as the fediverse ponders Facebook/Meta entry.

I'm still leery of pre-emptively blocking Meta here, but we need to be absolutely clear on what's at risk -- and ready to instantly respond if they try to take over.

https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

Please boost ​​

As part of a wave of layoffs, I got laid off from my backend development job last month as the company's financials I was working with have been steadily decreasing. I applied for another job shortly after, and after a month of interviews and an honestly great response from their team, at the last minute, they told me that they were focusing their hiring efforts away from the US and towards Singapore. With Calckey donations, I don't have enough money to pay for rent or groceries. So I'm asking to #GetFediHired, I'm the lead developer on the Calckey project, and I'm a fullstack, multi-language developer. I have 3+ years of enterprise experience, and I work great on teams as well as solo. Resume and references available upon request.

Amazon has (obviously on purpose) made it much harder to sort out ad-free films/TV that are included with Prime from films/TV you have to rent or are "free with ads".

It's a perfect example of the @doctorow "enshittification" principle.