Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

shitty health insurance, the dems would have handed Trump's ass to him in 2016. But instead, they gave us a policy that was literally written by the insurance industry, and which has proven (predictably) disastrous for most people in the proceeding years, and which left the door open for a buffoon like Trump to have a shot.

But the NYT liberals in this country seem to have given up on winning anything material & have settled for just renaming things.

Interviews with Radical Palestinian Women covers their struggles on all fronts – against colonialism, white supremacy, conservatism, patriarchy, state control – and occupation.

https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1418

@sorenhave I do not think that societies in general have realised yet that between 1 and 2m of sea level rise is already inevitable - the question we seek to answer as scientists working on #IceSheets is how fast will we get there?

The answer will vary depending on where you are in the world, but also on how quickly different parts of the cryosphere melt.

I wrote that we should frame it like this for a ministry briefing last year, I don't know if my framing got through though.

The #Forgejo monthly update was published ✨ It is a high level overview of the project activities.

A security issue related to Long-term Authentication was fixed and backported. Four release candidates were published for v1.21 and the documentation updated to cover the new functionalities. A service request was published for the benefit of German schools. Solutions were also identified for bootstrapping a fully Free Software hosting provider including Forgejo.

https://forgejo.org/2023-10-monthly-update/

Common Voice is a project by Mozilla to build an extensive ethically-sourced dataset of spoken word in various languages to help push forward open-source voice recognition technology like DeepVoice (also by Mozilla).

I just recorded a dozen or so sentences :)

https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/

#OpenSource #SpeechRecognition #SpeechToText #Mozilla #DeepSpeech

What users of this feature may not be aware of is that their browsing data is being used to personalize Copilot, meaning that a huge amount of potentially revealing information is being shared with the artificial intelligence tool.

http://windowscopilot.news/2023/10/24/microsoft-edge-may-be-using-your-browsing-history-to-inform-bing-chat-ai-heres-how-to-stop-it/

An Israeli technology company has developed the means of delivering spyware via online ad networks. There’s no defense against the spyware and the Israeli government has given the company approval to sell the technology.

For now, take comfort in the fact that it’s a hefty $6.4 million price tag for a single ad infection.

https://theconversation.com/spyware-can-infect-your-phone-or-computer-via-the-ads-you-see-online-report-213685

#tech #technology #cybersecurity

6 ways of thinking about social transformation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_1zRblqMrI

I gave a talk on #cooperatives and #FreeSoftware at the general assembly of the @fsfe. The very very very short of it is the philosophies of cooperatives and Free Software share an uncanny amount of fundamental values, such as #freedom, #sharing, #community, #democracy, #autonomy, #learning, and #cooperation.

They both even have a litmus test: the seven cooperative principles and the four essential freedoms of Free Software.

https://www.ica.coop/en/cooperatives/cooperative-identity

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

If you're thinking of starting a Free Software company, why not extend your values into the social realm and found a new #cooperative?

I ever so often close the 🎵- player and when grabbing the 📱 I'd have to unlock it to just start the 🎵 player and then 🔒 the 📱 right away again (as there's #mpris controls on the 🔒-screen then anyway).

Hence I wrote a small #phosh plugin to add arbitrary "launchers" to the 🔒-screen via a desktop file.
This is very simplistic atm (as we e.g. don't track app-state) but gets the job done initially.

I only used it for that purpose but there's other potential use cases:

Our Newest #MediaIndigena episode 331 is out! "How might The Voice referendum echo for Indigenous peoples in Australia?" Plus three other topics from BC, Canada-wide, and X formerly known as Twitter. It's good to be back on the air with Rick Harp and Candis Callison after a several month hiatus. https://podfollow.com/1092220986/episode/7bf4860057294a5a20ce8d961ba796714352ec3e/view

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“Two activists from a Jewish-Arab peace movement were recently detained in #Israel for putting up posters with a message that the police deemed to be offensive. The message was: “Jews and Arabs, we will get through this together.””
#Gaza #Palestinians

‘An atmosphere of fear’: free speech under threat in Israel, activists say | Israel-Hamas war | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/22/an-atmosphere-of-fear-free-speech-under-threat-in-israel-activists-say

Now that Business Success with Open Source is in beta and available for purchase in early release, I have the mental space available to start considering my next steps. The first one of those steps: find my next job.

What I'm looking for:

https://anonymoushash.vmbrasseur.com/2023/10/hire-me

#OpenSource #GetFediHired #plsBoost

Rapid ice melt in west Antarctica now inevitable, research shows - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/23/rapid-ice-melt-in-west-antarctica-now-inevitable-research-shows "The ice sheet of west Antarctica would push up the oceans by 5 metres if lost completely." #ClimateCrisis

Abolishing Surveillance: Digital Media Activism and State Repression offers the first study of how communities are resisting by integrating digital media into their actions against state surveillance.

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@dangillmor The current Tory government's polcies overlap almost exactly with the policies of the National Front (a fascist party) from 1975. From 2017 on, the Conservatives have succumbed to entryism by the far right (much like the US Republicans).

Getting Our Tech Together: Montréal's growing community of IT #cooperatives.

https://www.solidarityeconomy.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/V3_EN_Tech-Coop-Report.pdf

I want to add that this comic is intended not so much as a statement on centrist Democrats vs. the Left in the US, but how the media always blames the Dems/progressives/left for Republican misbehavior and Trumpism. As another commenter mentioned here, this phenomenon is known as Murc's Law. https://whereofonecanspeak.com/2023/03/02/youve-probably-never-heard-of-murcs-law-but-youve-seen-it-in-action-lots-of-times/