Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

With the advent of text-parsing software in every smartphone, can we finally get rid of the idiotic QR code for sharing information with humans?

Humans can read text. Computers can read text.

Humans cannot read QR codes.

Having one is intentionally saying "I hate and exclude you, and/or am trying to exploit your phone's weak security".

The spammers have discovered Mastodon. Report and block. It will take more than that to slow this stuff, but that is an essential first step.

Some thoughts on spam:

1. Right now it's a single idiot running a scripted Joe Job. But we know how spam ecosystems develop. The next steps are inevitable.

2. Next, someone will release an activitypub spamming script. It will hammer on servers to create throwaway accounts then use them to post.

3. This will drive a bunch of small servers off the fediverse and cause acrimonious defederation squabbles.

4. Surviving servers will limit sign-ups, requiring proof of humanity (or identity).

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There is an ongoing spam attack on the fediverse for the last couple of days. It's more widespread than before, as attackers are targeting smaller servers to create accounts. Before, usually only mastodon.social was targeted and our team could take care of it. For server administrators out there: If you don't need open registrations, switch over to approval mode. If you do, blocking disposable e-mail providers is a massive stopgap to the problem. Mastodon also supports hCaptcha.

- University: We care about accessibility
- University website: here is an accessibility statement
- University community: We can't find anything on this website
- University: no no no, we were required to make it accessible, not usable.

"I began to read. What I discovered in books led me to think to question, to explore, and finally redirect my life." –Huey P. Newton, cofounder of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, born on February 17, 1942 in Monroe, Louisiana

China: figures out a process to farm Caviar thus saving wild sturgeon from extinction and make a delicacy widely affordable to the masses

American Press:

@Free_Press

These are the donors who own & operate the GOP, and Republican foreign policy.

Walmart
AT&T
Meta
Microsoft
Boeing
Capital One
Charter
Chevron
Cox Enterprises
Koch Enterprises
National Association of Realtors
Verizon
American Ethane

https://theintercept.com/2023/11/01/mike-johnson-donor-aipac-israel/

https://popular.info/p/speaker-mike-johnsons-corporate-backers

https://www.newsweek.com/house-speaker-mike-johnson-donations-russia-butina-1838501

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/03/charles-koch-keeping-business-russia

I just backed up my entire phones eMMC storage using https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Jumpdrive no propertairy weird apps with limitations no nothing.

Just a bootloader that makes the internal storage appear as removable drive.

I never have to fear about reconfiguring my phone, losing app data or configuration again.

Brick the phone, just reflash the last complete image backup and we are back.

I can't understate how mindblowingly powerful this is

#librem5 #linux #Mobile #backup

Hey, Fedi admins, go right now and check to make sure that you have caps/limits set on your Object Storage provider so they just stop serving you images instead of charging you $3,000 because some random person in Europe decided to scrape your instance.

Re: https://cloudisland.nz/@aurynn/111937646419975910

This is a really tragic tale (I hope they can get the charge reversed) but right at this moment I want to make sure this doesn't happen to anyone else.

We are excited about @forgejo becoming a hard fork, and trust the maintainers to double down on their commitment to a secure and reliable software forge. It was a pleasure to work with #Forgejo in the past year, and we thank everyone involved for turning the fork into a successful project.

#WorkingFromHome can bring big #health benefits, study finds | Working from home | The Guardian

So, obviously everyone should be forced to get back into the office. [Sarc.]

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/feb/17/working-from-home-can-bring-big-health-benefits-study-finds

All this talk about how the US treats its political prisoners has really...oh wait

The eternal choice: genocide or fascism. Make sure you vote for the right one.

If this is true, the vast majority of clicks on advertising at the deadbird site during the Super Bowl were fraudulent.

https://mashable.com/article/x-twitter-elon-musk-bots-fake-traffic

What will advertisers do about it? What can they do about it?

it takes a lot to get me to willingly pick up the phone, but i just called my senators to urge them to vote no on KOSA and you should too.

there are some script templates going around if you prefer to have a reference, here's one:

Anyone ages 12 – 26 living in the United States can get a San Diego Public Library Books Unbanned card. With the card, the library’s online collection of banned or restricted eBooks and eAudiobooks are available for FREE, no matter where you live in the U.S.
https://libraryfoundationsd.org/news/stories/reading-is-freedom

"There’s no 'crisis in higher education'; there’s just a crisis of New York Times writers with daddy issues and anxiety over what the end of legacy admissions could mean for their children’s college prospects" https://www.thecrimson.com/column/a-school-outside-boston/article/2024/2/13/sperling-milner-new-york-times/

ACLU petition: "Stop Warrantless Surveillance"

https://action.aclu.org/send-message/stop-mass-warrantless-surveillance-reform-section-702

Listen to coeditors of It Did Happen Here: An Antifascist People’s History at the Powell's book launch panel, with the Oregon Historical Society about the high school curriculum based on the book, and on the Extreme Noise podcast.

Explore them all & more https://blog.pmpress.org/?s=it+did+happen+here

#antifa #antifascist #portland #books