Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

"We estimate the Supply-side value of widely-used OSS is $4.15 billion, but that the Demand-side value is much larger at $8.8 trillion ... firms would need to spend 3.5 times more on software than they currently do if OSS did not exist" (#OpenSource)

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4693148

The only metric that matters after quitting substack

$0 from my writing goes to platforming and funding Nazis.

No matter what my traffic looks like, I'm coming out on top of this one.

It’s not just the Librem 5’s or The Liberty Phone hardware that’s modular. The OS itself is incredibly modular and fully editable to your will. Our defaults and preinstalled apps are well thought out and secure, but it’s just our suggestion of software to use, not a requirement by any means.
https://puri.sm/posts/retain-your-control-and-customize-everything-with-modular-software/?mtm_campaign=status_update&mtm_source=organic&mtm_medium=librem_social&mtm_content=ls-retain-your-control-and-customize-everything-with-modular-software
#Librem5 #Purism #PureOS #Phosh

Using AI to create a face from crime-scene DNA & then running it through face recognition tech isn’t only “junk science,” EFF’s Jennifer Lynch told @WIRED - “It’s very dangerous, because it puts people at risk of being a suspect for a crime they didn’t commit.”
https://www.wired.com/story/parabon-nanolabs-dna-face-models-police-facial-recognition/

Did you know you can easily search through your own Mastodon posts?

Just include from:me in the search field.

Instead of this, you can include in:library to show posts you have interacted with or written yourself.

If you want to search through posts of a specific user, include from:username (e.g. from:@metin)

#mastodon #MastoTips #FediTips #tip #tips #information #knowledge #fediverse

Own your piece of the internet.

Before someone else rents it to you.

No recharge: Long-term Prairie drought raises concerns over groundwater levels

'It's been another year of drought. Now these wells are hitting all-time lows'

“It’ll be a climate signal that we’re seeing.”

As predicted by climate change models, drought is desiccating the Prairies, especially southern Alberta

https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/no-recharge-long-term-prairie-drought-raises-concerns-over-groundwater-levels

#Alberta #canada #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

We love free software. With much thanks to the talented @SachaChua @sachac for illustrating the reasons. See https://www.sachachua.com/blog/ for emacs news and more! #FreeSoftware

For your consideration: set in a comic book universe, a working-class revolutionary who everyone assumes is a patriotic superhero because he chose the name General Strike.

Bootstrapped to death: why America’s favourite saying is strangling mobility.

Those standing on third base believing they hit a triple call any attempts at levelling the playing field unfair even as they stack the bases against others. Economic benefits for the disadvantaged are painted as oppression against the privileged precisely because supremacy rests on engineered inequality.

And it's not getting better.

https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/the-trouble-with-bootstraps

And this one looks interesting, too: https://mirlo.space #ReplacingBandCamp #Libre #Coop #NotForSale (too bad about them using Discord, though)

Ok - this is a promising development! https://jam.coop/about #ReplacingBandCamp #Libre #Coop #NotForSale

After the death of my previous bill to provide for a right to inspect source code of software used to generate evidence in criminal cases, I thought I'd just give up on it, but this case is convincing me to give it another try once the next filing period comes around...

Hello 🌏 ! This is #phosh's mastodon account. It'll have phosh's release announcements and posts/boosts of related projects. Looking forward to an interesting and bright Linux mobile future 📱 .

How to be creative - a thread 🪡

Creativity. That electric spark inside all of us (yes, *all* of us) longs to invent, envision, and inspire. But all too often, it feels out of reach. It's obscured by the monotony and the relentless demands of daily life.

The good news is this: the creative drive is intrinsic to human nature. It's an innate impulse. And with dedicated practice, we can unlock it, even in the context, stress and bullshit of the busiest schedule.

New blog post: my experience contributing to #Forgejo. I'll continue doing more of those reports to evaluate the #onboarding processes in #FOSS projects.

https://antonin.delpeuch.eu/posts/contribution-experience-report-forgejo/

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Anyone looking to hire a senior software engineer, or perhaps a pentester?

I just lost half my team in another round of layoffs, and it's feeling grim around here—looking for a new employer. Hoping to find one that does something good for the world.

My main experience is in backend dev, APIs and such, but I had my start in web dev and wouldn't at all mind going back to full-stack work.

Security has been a huge part of my life, and it would also be fun to pivot to doing offensive security in my day job, not just as a hobby. :-)

#GetFediHired

We saw #malware uploads to Codeberg increase in the past weeks. Although our users are likely not the target audience of these files, we still want to remind you:

Watch out and stay secured. Do not run files from untrusted authors.
On Codeberg, double-check the project's legitimacy (e.g. user age, stars / issues / activity) or the source code itself.
Visit the project's homepage and use official download sources.
Never let emails panic you, consider if it's part of a #phishing campaign.

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