Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Vermont's Green Mountain Power is going to equip every customer with a backup battery, since that's cheaper than making their power grid more resilient. This is the first half of a good idea. The remaining half would be to provide customers with heavily-subsidized solar panels (amortized over a decade's power bills), creating a distributed power-generation system that can serve customers even when disconnected from the grid. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/09/business/energy-environment/green-mountain-home-batteries.html?unlocked_article_code=LeKDfU8q__Ways4PG2VyNTDvV6LLU5JNc5L7H_qb312SZnm9OaYuY573BIxiljZ3L55mi6HAWbKGEhmVrH-jIKJnEl6G6t-8FQxeMxe_HZwRtuDnLZeKjkJxgwym5CKHNMWQ23ZrHZ8Zvg3DQwG9Te1D2nLCwW7ixhHUoqUMB7Of3RMrFAS5Y80nHGWd1X8KFKIboUuhOHllGyZ7UHSNNtG6yBOAdPphYFkw1YycDthyDatHwumZki5-XcUEf4yxBv55nlOb0FrwJqhCt17gFpPXgqWUqK5dbsUOHY7eVd799Nd113qS21tX0eiIS3YWXBzfpWimAhK6PbfgbSfGVqktp52RLdkdSvnY2BkhhOzhuTHcE19JHaAG&smid=url-share

We firmly support the right of collective self-determination.

#FreePalesine #RiseuUp4Rojava

To support Kurdish movement sign here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sicioup8TW8hrAfewnx0PJEmwj3jGirLh0xZktTJ-Rk/edit

To read more about Palestinian struggle: https://democraticmodernity.com/blog/democratic-confederalism-and-the-palestinian-experience

Recent weeks have seen a sizable uptick in the number of phishing scams targeting U.S. Postal Service (USPS) customers. Here’s a look at an extensive SMS phishing operation that tries to steal personal and financial data by spoofing the USPS, as well as postal services in at least a dozen other countries.

I like to show my work, and went pretty far down the rabbit hole with this one:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/10/phishers-spoof-usps-12-other-natl-postal-services/

@galena @ZekuZelalem What exactly is wrong with y'all. First its the CWs tone policing Black people, and then this shit. SMH.

Lastly, considering that journalists are by nature people who question and dig away at anything screaming a lack of transparency, I'm surprised that only a few (if any?) journalists have sounded alarms or protested.

Journalists flocked to Mastodon last year, and a year later, there's barely a whimper as one man's silent takeover/ownership of journalism platforms and even a verification tool here has him establish a monopoly, despite none of you knowing anything about him.

You shock me!

FIN.

For those of you looking for a non-paywalled version of the Haaretz op-ed about how much Netanyahu is at fault here, which is A LOT.

https://archive.ph/20231009201713/https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/2023-10-08/ty-article-opinion/netanyahu-bears-responsibility/0000018b-0b9d-d8fc-adff-6bfd1c880000

Ok, I know that some fediverse software is lighter weight / less computationally intensive than others. Pleroma is well-known for being particularly lightweight.

But has anyone put together a list comprehensively comparing the computational intensity of the various fediverse platforms?

(boosts welcome)

Some states try to prevent social media platforms from moderating content. Others try to compel moderation. But, as we told a federal appeals court last week, any government involvement in content moderation raises First Amendment concerns. http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/10/eff-urges-second-circuit-affirm-injunction-new-yorks-dangerous-online-hateful

300 names. 150 languages. 9 years of research involving the consultation of 100s of elders and language-keepers across the continent. We're thrilled to finally share this with the world on this Indigenous Peoples Day!

Documenting these names is vital work as many of the elders who worked on this project have since joined the ancestors. This map serves to support ongoing language revitalization efforts, acknowledge unextinguished Indigenous land tenure, and help us all better understand Indigenous history, the legacy of colonization, and our relationship with the land.

Just as this knowledge was gifted to us, the map is a gift we hope people will print and hang in schools, community centers, and anywhere it can help start a dialogue.

On our website, you can also find a list of all these names and resources to help learn the accurate pronunciations.

Check it out for yourself at decolonialatlas.com

In most U.S. media the attack on Israel is presented with perfect amnesia, not just going back decades but even just weeks. The amnesia can also apply to the analysis of the Palestinian movements, as if there were no history of political struggle within Palestine, as if Hamas = Palestine = Islamic Jihad. Manichean responses abound. Some anchors seem downright gleeful to have another war to gin up, wishing the death count were even more dramatic.

Haaretz editorial:
"The disaster that befell #Israel on the holiday of Simchat Torah is the clear responsibility of one person: Benjamin #Netanyahu. The prime minister… completely failed to identify the dangers he was consciously leading Israel into when establishing a government of annexation & dispossession, when appointing Bezalel #Smotrich & Itamar #Ben-Gvir to key positions, while embracing a foreign policy that openly ignored the existence & rights of Palestinians."
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/2023-10-08/ty-article-opinion/netanyahu-bears-responsibility/0000018b-0b9d-d8fc-adff-6bfd1c880000

In their book “The Dawn of Everything,” David Graeber and David Wengrow provide multiple accounts by early European settler colonists of the indigenous societies they encountered in the woodlands of northeastern North America.

Over and over, these Europeans noted that these societies were well and truly stateless, lacking rulers, laws, courts, police, prisons, or anything like what they were used to in Europe.

They quote one Jesuit, writing in 1644 about the Wendat:

“I do not believe that there is any people on earth freer than they, and less able to allow the subjection of their wills to any power whatever – so much so that Fathers here have no control over their children, or Captains over their subjects, or the Laws of the country over any of them, except in so far as each is pleased to submit to them. There is no punishment which is inflicted on the guilty, and no criminal who is not sure that his life and property are in no danger…”

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And don't get me started on their effective altruism bullshit. You know what's effective? Eisenhower-era tax rates on corporations and the wealthy. That would be so effective it would make your ketamine-addled heads spin, you dinguses.

Here are some photos of the Librem 11 that just arrived today. I ordered on day 1, hopefully this helps people understand the scale of the device -- see #steamdeck comparison.

My initial impressions are extremely impressed but I am pretty easy going considering I really like the pioneering in the #linux space by Purism. I'll write upore on my other account soon.

#purism #librem11 #librem5 #linuxtablet #linuxmobile #linuxphone

Can we please stop Hillary from speaking in public? If the Dems want to stand a chance in the upcoming elections, they should make sure to keep her well away from the cameras. Seriously suggesting that your political opponents need "formal deprogramming" is fucking wild. Talk about handing a box of ammo to Republicans. Is she out to stoke a civil war? If a Repub were seriously suggesting Biden backers be "formally deprogrammed" how would you react?

When Mastodon first enabled search of posts I'd interacted with, I started diligently bookmarking posts that I thought I might want to find later.

As of today, when I try to search for posts I've bookmarked for that reason, my search is flooded with every indexed post by anyone that ever used the same words I'm trying to search for.

It was a nice idea while it lasted?

Latest catastrophic data breach involves a company storing some of the most sensitive possible information about individuals. There will be no consequences apart from damaging those people's lives, of course -- because there is no accountability for any of this.

This is a government failure in the end -- and there's little sign that our leaders care at all.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/genetics-firm-23andme-says-user-data-stolen-in-credential-stuffing-attack/

Retailers close stores, blame shoplifters, but the data proves they're lying. Another solid report from @juddlegum and company at Popular Information https://popular.info/p/target-says-its-closing-9-stores?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1664&post_id=137675685&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=qs4z&utm_medium=email