Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

"Digital solidarity can manifest in many different forms including enhancing access to underutilised goods and services, increasing social inclusions, supporting vulnerable groups, as well as expanding education and skill development."
#SolidarityEconomy

[Digital Solidarity in the Sharing Economy]
https://geo.coop/articles/digital-solidarity-sharing-economy

3/ Reduce your need to earn, part 3.
#Permaculture #economics.

David Revoy painted this great version of Ada:
https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1008/ada-from-ada-zangemann

@davidrevoy is doing amazing work (including for @Framasoft ), and he publishes it all under #CreativeCommons By Share Alike as well.

If you do not know his work, check out his website!

Also check it out, if you are interested to create artwork with #FreeSoftware (#OpenSource) tools like @krita for which he publishes lot of tutorials and tools.

Freedom Press is an anarchist publishing house and bookseller in Whitechapel, London, UK, founded in 1886.

They've just officially retired their Twitter/X presence, set up in 2011, with 19.5K followers as of today.

They've been active here in the fediverse for years - follow them at @Freedom_Press

More about their decision:
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/12/04/x-isnt-an-airport-but-were-announcing-our-departure/

#TwitterMigration

23andMe was hacked, so if your information was compromised, make sure to change your genetic code ASAP. https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/4/23988050/23andme-hackers-accessed-user-data-confirmed

Almost 10 years ago, I co-founded @solidarityresearch with comrades from the @iww. Our work is at the intersection of solidarity economies and racial justice.

Please support us as a birthday gift for me. I have two more days to raise $7,262!

Donate at https://yvonnegraphy.com/2023/12/03/two-more-days-to-raise-7262/

Linus Torvalds is the keynote speaker (an interview, not a speech).

His brilliant stewardship of the Linux kernel has been the linchpin of a project that, long ago, was little more than an essential extension of GNU.

I believe I was the first "mainstream media" journalist to tell Americans about him and his project, back in 1996 in the San Jose Mercury News.

The story is buried behind a paywall, but someone helpfully posted it here:

https://www.tech-insider.org/linux/research/1996/0908.html

Another company gets hacked for user data -- profoundly private data in this case, with DNA maven 23andMe -- and is caught lying about the extent of the damage, which is far, far worse than originally acknowledged: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/hackers-stole-ancestry-data-of-6-9-million-users-23andme-finally-confirmed/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

I've been using Inkscape for over 10 years. If I had been using Illustrator for 10 years I would have paid Adobe over $2,500 in "rental" fees for a subscription that stops as soon as I stop paying.

Instead I started paying $5 a month to Inkscape to help make sure we can all use it for free for as long as we want.

#inkscape #openSource

"Flexible Absolutism"

More than 400 humans and legal entities have joined our non-profit organization Codeberg e.V.

If you want to help make a world of community-maintained services and libre software possible, consider joining us now:

https://join.codeberg.org/

I see many people using #Codeberg or self-hosted #Forgejo for #AdventOfCode and I love that 😍

Codeberg is booming, at least for personal projects 🚀

It is so "ironic" that Github, the leading platform for open source software, is proprietary… #FOSS gotta wake up one day!

I think that the planned federation will bring more collaborative projects over 🏃
Think of Mastodon for Git 🤩

#GiveUpGitHub #AOC #AOC2023

This past September Purism reached a milestone thought to be unreachable within the tech industry, completing and delivering a phone (the Librem 5) and operating system (PureOS) that is not Android nor iOS.

Learn More at: https://puri.sm/posts/celebrating-the-librem-5-success-with-a-sale-save-up-to-450-when-bundled-with-awesim/

Holiday season retro fun: https://dosdeck.com/ brings back MS-DOS games in browsers. No installation necessary.

Limited selection for now, but I promise some happily wasted hours with the original Commander Keen, among others!

Leaving the USA at SFO, I tested out "Opting out of facial recognition scans before boarding" procedure to see if it indeed exists and will be followed.

It didn't go very well.

The gate agent argued saying I couldn't opt out. I insisted that I'm allowed to, and they pointed to a sign on the wall explaining the "Biometric verification privacy policy". The sign says "Customers wishing to opt out may speak to a gate agent or CBP officer for a manual verification" clearly at the bottom.

The agent then told me I have to opt-out *in advance with CBP*. I pointed out that the sign says "or gate agent" and asked if she was a gate agent. She insisted again that I can't opt-out but by that point another agent heard the discussion, came over, and showed the first agent how to place my passport on the scanner and sent me through. I overheard her telling the first agent as I walked away, "If it's a US passport, it's OK."

A flight of probably 300 people, I'm definitely the only one who opted-out today and by the gate agent's confusion, I suspect I'm the only one who has opted out in a long time.

I'm in every system there is (and China already has my entire SF-86) so it's not that I'm some off-the-grid paranoid who doesn't want to be in "the system" - but for privacy rights to exist at all, it's important to use them when you don't need to and keep them available for people who DO need privacy.

Ban repeat liars from live interviews.

Never put a lie in the headline.

Use a truth sandwich when reporting on lies.

-Don’t take the bait (stop rewarding drama with visibility)

Abandon the social media algorithm (don’t let X dictate the news cycle)

What other basic rules can help the political press avoid the mistakes of 2016 in 2024?

Read more at the FrameLab Newsletter:
https://framelab.substack.com/p/trump-2024-has-the-press-learned?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2

These fucking monsters have had their revenge fifty fold. As evil as I know the US to be I remain shocked by our cooperation in this horrific massacre. https://twitter.com/AJEnglish/status/1731388927381016809

This is why gov't should not buy proprietary software. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/498118/it-upgrade-costs-rotorua-council-about-14-point-9m-more-than-originally-budgeted I've previously explained how gov't could coordinate, vastly reduce its IT risk, and make vastly better use of public funds. They continue to waste resources on shitty systems.

🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️FFS - Cop28 president UAE’s Sultan Al Jaber says there is ‘no science’ behind demands for phase-out of coal, oil and gas
#climate #COP28
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/03/back-into-caves-cop28-president-dismisses-phase-out-of-fossil-fuels?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Some people's 'hobbies' are not acceptable. That, I think, includes '4WDing'. What a weak-minded activity. This is abhorrent. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/503827/canterbury-crate-day-punters-anger-activists-over-breaking-endangered-birds-eggs