Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Guido is about to take you into the world of logs and backtraces to make debugging on mobile Linux approachable at #FrOSCon this Sunday! https://programm.froscon.org/2023/speakers/474.html
#mobilelinux

Curious about the state of Linux on Mobile? Don't miss Evangelos' reflections at #FrOSCon 2023 this weekend! https://programm.froscon.org/2023/speakers/1841.html
#mobilelinux

Hey #AskFedi,

Is *anyone* out there using FOSS for accounting?

I'm struggling with Quickbooks desktop (which you can only get as a subscription now, unless you pay four figures for an enterprise license).

#Xero comes highly recommended to me, but I'm loathe to go "#cloud" for accounting. Very loathe indeed.

But while I want to try FOSS for my personal accounting, I just can't make the leap for business yet. I wish I could. But I was wondering if anyone out there already has.

#BoostPlease?

Time for an #introduction

Magpie Market is a federated platform aiming to be an alternative to #etsy; leveraging the Fediverse to help #artists, craftspeople, and others promote and sell their goods and services. We believe the #fediverse deserves a marketplace built with federation in mind.

Half of all plastics *ever* manufactured have been made in the last 15 years.

Production increased exponentially, from 2 million tons of plastics in 1950 to 448 million tons by 2015.

Production is expected to *double* by 2050.

Every year, about 8 million tons of plastic waste escapes into the oceans from coastal nations.

INFO SOURCE — https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/worlds-plastic-pollution-crisis-explained/

GRAPHIC SOURCE — https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/the-problem-with-plastics-and-recycling-bioplastics-microplastics-ocean-waste/

#Plastic #Pollution #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual

Amsterdam's city council voted to shut down the city's cruise terminal to reduce mass tourism.
The city: Yes, the cruise ships do bring in €100 million per year, but half of that is for their fossil fuel suppliers here. And they cause a lot of air travel to and from Amsterdam.

Finally, native local private in-context page translation in Firefox. This is probably going to be the thing that gets me to switch back completely: https://floss.social/@9to5linux/110816444803345201

“When vendors willfully and knowingly apply the open source term to code that is open but carries some restrictions that the currently accepted definition of open source would not permit, what they’re implicitly asking for is the marketing bump from open source with the exclusivity of a proprietary software model”
https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2023/08/03/why-opensource-matters/

Read in our latest digital security newsletter: Android now warns users of unexpected AirTag Bluetooth trackers
https://mailchi.mp/freedom.press/digital-security-digest-8131809?e=fe28d28019

The elite political media is normalizing the return of overt racism into our political discourse. https://presswatchers.org/2023/08/political-journalists-are-destigmatizing-racism-and-no-anti-antiracism-is-not-a-thing/

"We need a federal shield law to make clear that reporters can’t be forced to burn their sources," FPF Deputy Director of Advocacy Caitlin Vogus tells CNN's Oliver Darcy. This is "essential to protect journalists, sources, and the public’s right to know."

#PRESSAct
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/02/media/catherine-herridge-deposition-reliable-sources/

Commemorate and celebrate #BlackAugust with these books on Black liberation , prison abolition, and freedom fighters of the Black Liberation Movement, revolutionaries, and political prisoners of war, both living and deceased.

Volunteers for Software Freedom Day Needed https://lemmy.ml/post/1811066

Now do everyone who either signed off on it, covered it up, or tried to justify it after the fact.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/caci-abu-ghraib

HOLY FUCKING SHIT. Disney scanned every background actor in WandaVision without giving them any explanation of how it may be used, asking them to make various facial expressions like “surprised” and “scared”.

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/02/1190605685/movie-extras-worry-theyll-be-replaced-by-ai-hollywood-is-already-doing-body-scan

"First, the Big 5 do not SELL ebooks to libraries. Not one.

Libraries do not own title one from the Big 5. We license them. And that makes all the difference in the world for cost, depth and breadth of collection, and preservation. Nobody should ever use the word 'sell' in a sentence combining 'Big 5' and 'library ebooks.' This is not nit-picking. It is the essence of the problem."

And they are suing to stop Controlled Digital Lending of the books we did buy.

https://www.readersfirst.org/news/2023/8/2/big-5-license-terms-as-of-july-2023

@KorimakoEcology “No other pets are allowed free access to other people’s property.”

That’s a good article on what must be an unpopular topic in NZ. Pet cats have long had free rein to go wherever they want. It would certainly be good for birds and lizards in NZ cities if there was a gradual shift away from that. Plenty of other countries do it to some degree so we know it’s possible. There just needs to be national leadership and a fair transition.

The sale of Maine’s Portland Press Herald and its family of smaller publications to the National Trust for Nonprofit News has been finalized. CEO Lisa DeSisto has been named to run the new Maine Trust for #LocalNews. #journalism https://www.pressherald.com/2023/08/01/sale-of-maine-newspapers-to-national-nonprofit-is-finalized/

Useful article clarifying what is going on with the ocean currents: https://freethoughtblogs.com/oceanoxia/2023/07/27/amoc-time-entering-a-new-era-in-ocean-currents/