Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Same as it ever was

I just had to email my 16-year-old's teacher to explain that he did not use AI for an assignment. (I watched him complete it!)

I also included multiple references for why no one should be using AI detectors in education.

TurnItIn is making $$$$ by lying to schools.

Today, we have a veneer of female advancement, full civil liberties and empowerment narratives. But most gender historians argue patriarchal oppressions have simply shape-shifted into more pernicious and invisible forms. Liberal laws guaranteeing equality, pay equity, and safety conceals the fact that female economic, social and sexual dependence on men remains firmly entrenched.

https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/the-patriarchy-is-a-modern-invention-not-the-natural-order

Numerous iOS apps are using background processes triggered by push notifications to collect user data about devices, potentially allowing the creation of fingerprinting profiles used for tracking.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/iphone-apps-abuse-ios-push-notifications-to-collect-user-data/

Join EFF’s India McKinney, PEN America’s Jacqueline Allain and New Moon Network’s Melodie Garcia this Tuesday, Jan. 30 for Woodhull Freedom Foundation's “The Road Ahead: Navigating Legislative Censorship in 2024.” Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-road-ahead-navigating-legislative-censorship-in-2024-tickets-793192278457?aff=oddtdtcreator

If San Francisco’s Proposition E passes, we can expect the police to use untested and potentially dangerous surveillance technology on the public for a full year without oversight. We believe police should know how surveillance tech works before unleashing it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/san-francisco-vote-no-proposition-e-stop-police-testing-dangerous-surveillance

One mistake the GOP made is to cater to a small, vocal part of the base.

The two mindblowing books I read in the past few weeks (attached) opened my eyes to how small these partisan ecosystems are.

Some of the people insisting that Biden should do X or Y do not realize that they, too, are speaking for a very small subset of the voting population.

"We can’t keep using tools of oppression and expect to raise free people."

Watch Akilah S Richards, author of Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work, on Connection and Rehumanizing with the Radical Recovery Summit.

https://blog.pmpress.org/2024/01/23/akilah-s-richards-connection-and-rehumanizing/

#FOSDEM 2024 will be happening in a bit more than 1 week in Brussels!

Catch my talk "From phone hardware to mobile Linux" on Saturday morning or "Open Source for Sustainable and Long lasting Phones" (together with @agnes007 in the big Janson room!) on Sunday afternoon!

Or come by the postmarketOS (+friends) stand in the AW building!

I hope to see you there!

Links:

https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2234-from-phone-hardware-to-mobile-linux/
https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-3362-open-source-for-sustainable-and-long-lasting-phones/
https://fosdem.org/2024/stands/

I have a #chip which doesn't exist on the internet.

Can the Fediverse help me find a #datasheet ?

It's marked as AM330, from the Chinese company Amicro Semiconductor. The website has no info, but it seems to be a #microcontroller for navigation.

Makes sense, I found it inside a #robot #vacuum, OEM model KK320.

I'd like to reprogram the robot, but I need to know at least the pinout. Help, Fedi!

#askfedi #electronics

If we really wanted to change the world, we'd make politicians' internet search histories public record

Seeing multiple articles about Amazon/Ring having decided, all on their own, out of the goodness of their corporate hearts, to stop handing video footage over to cops without a warrant, and zero of these articles have reported on what impending legal, PR or regulatory shitshow is barreling toward them to inspire this sudden change of heart.

Poll reveals 90% of citizens would vote for their pet over current political candidates. The remaining 10% don't have pets.

Texas Governor Abbott signals that he may (will?) defy the Supreme Court order regarding the border.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/border/2024/01/24/475398/governor-abbott-signals-potential-defiance-of-supreme-courts-border-ruling/

In 1830, Andrew Jackson, as president, refused to heed a Supreme Court order regarding the removal of Native Americans from Georgia.

Jackson's refusal gave us the Trail of Tears.

Jackson remained popular.

The similarity: Both defiances are deeply racist.

The difference: In 1830 only white men could vote.

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1830-1860/indian-treaties#:~:text=President%20Jackson%20nonetheless%20refused%20to,and%20Henry%20Clay%20in%201835.

Pay attention to what's happening in this case: the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals just essentially ruled that it's fully legal to jail journalists for reporting leaked information, or any information they obtain from government officials without going through "proper channels."

This is a serious issue for #journalism in #Texas, #Louisiana and #Mississppi and we should hope the Supreme Court sets things right quickly. https://www.texasobserver.org/priscilla-villarreal-journalist-la-gordiloca-fifth-circuit/ via @TexasObserver

#SCOTUS #PressFreedom #FirstAmendment #news #politics #USpol #CriminalJustice #media #law

How does white supremacy continue to shape US and global society, and how can we fight for humanity against the racial order?

Geert Dhondt on Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity: From the US to Palestine

Saturday, January 27th 5pm at Autumn Leaves Books in Ithaca, NY

@Codeberg
Thank you so much! You're awesome! These go to the local hackerspace for advertisement 😃

#codeberg #stickers #hackerspace

Meet us at #fosdem2024 in #brussel!

We have a stand in the K building, Level 1.

https://codeberg.codeberg.page/Events/events/2024/02-fosdem/

Get #Codeberg and #Forgejo stickers here.

you don't want to know how much time I spent last night thinking about using USENET as a modern communication platform

i have jetlag ok