Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

This week marks 18 months since I have been using a #librem5 as a daily driver. The first few months were probably the roughest, but I have not needed to use Android at all in those 18 months.

Today, I actually find it quite useable! It just works as a phone, and I can do everything I used to do on my Android Phone on it.

@kop316 @marcellinusme Also an important point to some of us: AOSP is open-source, but its development is quite locked down, and only serves Google's interests... Working on a Linux-based distro gives developers more leverage to contribute and shape the ecosystem in a way that benefits the community, rather than one single company

What about #CI on #Codeberg?

We are providing access to our #WoodpeckerCI instance to those who need it, some caveats still apply.

Also, you can read about the upcoming #ForgejoActions.

Check out our docs to learn more about the state of CI on Codeberg: https://docs.codeberg.org/ci/

So, I have, off and on, been trying to figure out how to give a proper land acknowledgement for where I live, and I've been noticing that it's remarkably difficult to get a straight answer about certain basic facts about the native peoples who were originally here. I have finally figured out that a crucial underlying problem is that there are still people out there fighting King Philip's War (1675-1676) as a covert Wikipedia edit war (and maybe guerrilla action in the halls of academia) and have strong mutually exclusive opinions whether this was Naumkeag/Penobscot or Neponset/Massachusett land. Possibly also Mi'kmaq partisans stirring shit because of the Naumkeag-Tarrantine War of 1615-1619, jfc.

The FCC is accepting applications for new, low-power, community radio stations the first week of November.

This is huge, you guys, this window rarely opens (the last time was 2013), and as you know, KUZU shows one way LPFM can be a foundation to build valuable community information resources.

The Grassroots Radio folks are holding a conference in West Virginia to help folks out with this.

Please boost and share.

#radio
#community
#local
#journalism

https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/lpfm

The ants became aware of a benevolent Higher Power shaping their lives.

“I was hungry, and the Power provided.”
“I was lost, and the Power guided me home.”
“Praise be to the Power.”

Of course there was no Higher Power, just the combined effect of all individual ants working together for the good of the colony. An emergent intelligence too large for a single ant brain to understand.

Species with larger brains may fare differently.

This string was found by @w - I have confirmed its presence in the Threads APK from apkcombo, "Threads, an Instagram app_289.0.0.68.109_apkcombo.com.apk", sha256 83a1f270aa2447f4e7310072b4d3217f9af8a03b7679b7760db03ff0bbf8e432, valid signature by "C=US, ST=California, L=Menlo Park, O=Meta Platforms Inc., OU=Meta Mobile, CN=Meta Platforms Inc." (rsa-4096 + sha-256, cert expires in 2053)

at offset 0xB7AE in assets/strings/en_GB.frsc

"Soon, you'll be able to follow and interact with people on other fediverse platforms, such as Mastodon. They can also find people on Threads using full usernames, such as <b>@%1$s</b>."

cc @FediPact

It's like a horror movie — except it's happening in reality, right now, today.
__________________________

"This is The Hottest Summer of Your Life… So Far"

I remember the years when only one or two parts of the world would get a record-breaking heat wave, but now there are so many I can barely keep track. June brought record highs to dozens of countries around the world.

Early in the month, India had record temperatures in cities all across the country, including Mumbai which had its hottest June day ever. In northern India, it was so bad that 96 people died from heat-aggravated conditions after the power was cut.

China got hit next. The heat broke records all over the country and gave Beijing its hottest June day ever. Normally, this is the time of year when people in China go outside and celebrate things such as the Dragon Boat festival, but this year more people are staying inside and cranking up the AC.

The heat is bringing record high temperatures to many other countries and territories as well, including the United Kingdom, Puerto Rico, Morocco, Japan, and more. Meanwhile, Canada continues to struggle with its worst wildfire season ever, and the smoke is spreading all over the US.

In Texas, millions of people have been suffering under an historic heat wave for three weeks now. The heat wave is smashing high-temperature records left and right, and demand for power is at an all-time high. Officials fear that if this continues, there could be blackouts during a time when people need AC just to stay alive.

Mexico has had it just as bad. The current heat wave started there in early June, and it’s been spreading North and outward ever since. Multiple high-temperature records have been broken, and Mexico City had its hottest June day ever.

Of course, this is not happening by chance. This is happening because we’ve been burning fossil fuels and emitting greenhouse gases as quickly as we want for over a century. When you think about it that way, it’s a wonder that the planet isn’t even hotter.

But the reason it isn’t hotter is because the oceans have been acting as a buffer against climate change, absorbing 89% of excess heat. If not for this, our civilization would have burned to the ground a long time ago.

Every second, the ocean absorbs the heat equivalent of seven Hiroshima nuclear explosions. Every. Single. Second.

When you consider that, it’s not so shocking that the oceans are reaching record high temperatures while sea ice extent hits record lows. Scientists have been warning us about this for decades, and now it’s finally happening.

But this is nothing compared to what’s coming. 2023 will be the hottest year in history, but thanks to El Niño, 2024 will be even hotter. Next year, we’ll see even more heat waves, more wildfires, more ice melt, and more disasters.

Of all the facts I’ve shared with you in this article, the one that amazes me the most is this: Most people still have no idea what’s going on.
__________________________

I agree, that's truly astonishing.

Almost everyone, at least in the US, has been so brainwashed and greenwashed and propagandized by politicians and by advertising and by corporate media that they're still *completely oblivious* to what's happening right in front of their eyes.

Once they do wake up, if ever, it will already be too late.

FULL ARTICLE -- https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fmedium.com%2F%40CollapseSurvival%2Fthis-is-the-hottest-summer-of-your-life-so-far-8f96b04929dd

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #CO2 #Emissions

THE JOHN A McSAMESHIT. A Canada Day anti-anthem for those that don’t celebrate. Beat by Swiss producer John Sarastro, cuts by the homie !KrymeWon. All proceeds to frontline organizers at Gidimt’en Checkpoint in Wet’suwet’en. #WetsuwetenStrong #AllOutForWedzinKwa #ShutDownCanada

https://wetsuwetenhibicin.bandcamp.com/track/the-john-a-mcsameshit

This is my regular nitpicky post that "walled garden" is really a terrible metaphor for "corporate controlled monolithic media environment."

People put up walls around gardens largely to keep things like deer and sheep out. In a lot of places, if you want flowers and vegetables, you have to have walls.

Mastodon is much more like a lot of walled gardens (IN A GOOD WAY!) than the big socials.

Revealed: record 170,000 staff leave #NHS in England as stress and workload take toll - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/01/revealed-record-170000-staff-leave-nhs-in-england-as-stress-and-workload-take-toll sunak's "plan" is pointless if he doesn't address this first by paying a decent wage to the staff we already have

Happy #coopsday!!! Form or join a cooperative today and practice sustainable development.

1/ It is undeniable that in this world of ours, lies command a great deal of power. Most of us are of the opinion that those whose political, social, economic, or moral opinions differ from our own, hold those opinions based on some lie or another that they have been suckered into believing. Thus racism is premised on the lie that people with certain physical features are superior to those with slightly different features; sexism premised on the lie that one configuration of...

🚨 Kolektiva.social SECURITY ALERT 🚨

This is an alert for Kolektiva.social users. Please read this post in its entirety!

In mid-May 2023, the home of one of Kolektiva.social's admins was raided, and all their electronics were seized by the FBI. The raid was part of an investigation into a local protest. Kolektiva was neither a subject nor target of this investigation. Today, that admin was charged in relation to their alleged participation in this protest.

Unfortunately, at the time of the raid, our admin was troubleshooting an issue and working with a backup copy of the Kolektiva.social database. This backup, dated from the first week of May 2023, was in an *unencrypted* state when the raid occurred and it was seized, along with everything else.

The database is the heart of a Mastodon server. A database copy such as the one seized may include any of the following user data, in this case up to date as of early May 2023:

- User account information like the e-mail address associated with your account, your followers and follows, etc.
- All your posts: public, unlisted, followers-only, *and direct ("DMs")*.
- Possibly IP addresses associated with your account - IP addresses on Kolektiva.social are logged for 3 days and then deleted, so IP addresses from any logins in the 3 days prior to the database backup date would be included.
- A hashed ("encrypted") version of your password.

🚨 👉 As a precaution we highly recommend that all users on Kolektiva.social *change their password immediately* to a new, unique, and strong password.

We sincerely apologize to all our users and regret this breach. In hindsight, it was obviously a mistake to leave a copy of the database in an unencrypted state. Unfortunately, what would otherwise have been a small mistake happened to coincide with a raid, due to bad luck and spectacularly bad timing.

We understand that our users and other people on the Fediverse will have a lot of questions. We will try to answer them as best we can, but please be patient and bear in mind that we may be overwhelmed with messages, and may be delayed in responding or unable to provide answers to certain questions for legal or technical reasons. As a security culture reminder, it can be extremely harmful to the individuals charged and to our community to openly speculate on the Internet about alleged criminal activity or about what law enforcement may be able to do with seized data. Our present awareness is that the seized Kolektiva data is unrelated to the federal investigation and prosecution and we are exploring legal avenues to have the seized data returned and copies destroyed.

Thank you for your understanding and solidarity

👇 Please see our replies to this post for additional information (1/?) 👇

I mean, we all already knew this, right? But still, it's nice to have some scientific confirmation.

https://phys.org/news/2023-06-economic-inequality-individual-bad-choices.html

Well, damn. The FBI has a full unencrypted backup of Kolektiva.social as of early May.

Hilariously, the FBI didn't *mean* to get a copy of Kolektiva.social. It was an accident. They were just arresting an admin, and seized the admin's electronics in the raid...

"Unfortunately, at the time of the raid, our admin was troubleshooting an issue and working with a backup copy of the Kolektiva.social database. This backup, dated from the first week of May 2023, was in an *unencrypted* state when the raid occurred and it was seized, along with everything else."

https://kolektiva.social/@admin/110637031574056150

Cory Doctorow calls it "enshittification" and that's a good term, but here's how I described it in 2014:

Photo Essay: A Cooperative Farm’s Long Path to Liberation for Farmworkers

https://civileats.com/2023/06/29/photo-essay-a-cooperative-farms-long-path-to-liberation-for-farmworkers/

Last call to save 75% on tons of well-traveled #books!

Use coupon code DINGED to get 75% off until 7/1.

See all the titles at https://blog.pmpress.org/2023/03/08/75-off-these-well-traveled-titles/