Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

NBC's auditioning new conservative pundits. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2024/3/29/2232215/-Cartoon-NBC-s-pundit-search

New blog post! 📝 A write-up of Thursday's "Selfhosted Infrastructure Any%" speedrun attempt https://coopcloud.tech/blog/selfhosted-infrastructure-any/

–3wc

According to CNN, the lyrics for 🎶I'm proud to be an American🎶 are a "historic American document." 😂

"Inside, it has the words to “God Bless the USA” and the text of The Declaration of Independence, the Pledge of Allegiance and other historic American documents."

Eventually, this version of the Bible will become known as the KDV (King Donald's Version)

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/28/us/donald-trump-bible-christianity-cec/index.html

Again the FOSS world has proven to be vigilant and proactive in finding bugs and backdoors. The level of transparency is stellar, especially compared to proprietary software companies. What the FOSS world has accomplished in 24 hours after detection of the backdoor code in #xz deserves a moment of humbleness. Instead we have flamewars and armchair experts shouting that we must change everything NOW. Which would introduce even more risks. Progress is made iteratively. Learn , adapt, repeat.

@fleeky The Federal gov't does not fund it's spending with taxes - it has a legal obligation to offset spending through taxes or issuance of securities, but that is a self-imposed restriction. As father of modern econ Paul Samuelson once admitted, the idea that the government must fund it's spending is like "old time religion": not true, but a lie that's good for you to believe.

However, just like OTR, it's not actiually good to believe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_pasHodJ-8

And don't forget, the US has NO MONEY for social services. You see if we funded those, we'd have to raise taxes and that would be bad. However, we do have $2.5 billion to buy weapons for Israel, because assisting in an ongoing genocide is more important than healthcare or housing.

If I was a Democrat right now, I'd probably be going crazy from the cognitive dissonance. Fortunately for me, I had my eyes opened about the Dem party years and years ago.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/3/30/israels-war-on-gaza-live-fears-grow-of-wider-conflict-after-deadly-strike

#Web sites generating money from #advertising are like:

"Please understand us, we need money to survive, so we will sell access to your computer to X"

where X can be:
- literally anyone
- shady businesses
- personal data collectors
- organizations with a similar audience
- individually vetted entities

#ads don't have to be evil, but in my experience the louder they shout, the worse deal they want to push on the readers.

Shame that #projectwonderful is dead.

#smallweb #surveillance

I accidentally found a security issue while benchmarking postgres changes.

If you run debian testing, unstable or some other more "bleeding edge" distribution, I strongly recommend upgrading ASAP.

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4

In the United States, today, a million dollars might be enough to retire on if you're planning to either die young or stay fit and healthy to the very end of your life.

Canada, let's get real: restricting access to devices like the Flipper Zero will hamper development of strong, secure technologies, and won't solve the problem of car hacking. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/restricting-flipper-zero-accountability-approach-security-canadian-government

damn this lzma/xz backdoor is wild

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4

Anarchists in Chile are trying to recover from a deadly forest fire that destroyed communes, popular soup kitchens, and anarchist infrastructure in Valparaíso, Viña del Mar and Quilpué.

The Anarchist Assembly of Valparaíso and the Flora anarchist space are trying to raise $1000 USD. They have 6 days to meet their fundraising goal in order to receive the funds.

Please chip in a few bucks, and help them get back on their feet.

https://www.firefund.net/capitalistfire

recording is up! https://tv.undersco.re/w/12VXBAsBnTyHN3bjBSbVNS

Here's the recording! https://tv.undersco.re/videos/watch/0044ff41-bf84-4b53-a6e0-4f7d7ce38622

And, amazing federation praxis, you can also follow our Peertube channel directly using your favourite activitypub client, @coopcloud@tv.undersco.re

Thanks to all the comrades who joined today's "Selfhosted Infrastructure Any%" speedrun attempt 🥰 Didn't quite beat the goal time, but miraculously managed to get all the apps up, & it was lovely to chat to folks afterwards.

A video of the run will be coming soon to our Peertube channel, as well as a blog post write-up. As always, please join us on Matrix if you have ideas, questions, or comments, or if you'd like to be involved in future streams! https://matrix.to/#/#coopcloud:autonomic.zone

Til next time!

–3wc

New Purism Differentiator Series Post. Part 8 Big Tech Avoidance.
https://puri.sm/posts/purism-differentiator-series-part-8-big-tech-avoidance/?mtm_campaign=status_update&mtm_source=organic&mtm_medium=librem_social&mtm_content=ls-purism-differentiator-series-part-8-big-tech-avoidance
#Purism #librem5

New resource translation: (en) DNA you say? Burn everything to burn longer: a guide to leaving no traces

"This is a practical zine, but we'll take (brief) detours through theory. First, we'll talk about how cops work with DNA. Then we'll offer ideas for how to make their job as difficult as possible, both by giving tips to develop your own security protocols and by proposing a protocol that we consider appropriate. At the end, we've added more theoretical appendices on the biology of DNA and on some technical aspects of its use by scientists."

This zine was originally published in 2021 in French, and is now translated to English. As part of our editorial work on this translation we added many footnotes, either to add information or to explain our disagreements with the original text.

We hope that this zine will help English-speaking anarchists to better understand and protect themselves against the dangers of DNA.

Read online or download at:
https://notrace.how/resources/#dna-you-say
http://i4pd4zpyhrojnyx5l3d2siauy4almteocqow4bp2lqxyocrfy6prycad.onion/resources/#dna-you-say

Are you a #python / #django or #webdeveloper? We are looking for contributions for #Weblate and potentially helping us implement some additional features or fixing bugs.

More details about our Weblate instance: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Contributing/issues/23

Or join the Matrix channel at https://matrix.to/#/%23codeberg-translate:bubu1.eu

Surge of new oil and gas activity threatens to wreck Paris climate goals - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/28/oil-and-gas-fossil-fuels-report "World’s fossil-fuel producers on track to nearly quadruple output from newly approved projects by decade’s end, report finds" utter insanity #dirtyoil

Not gonna lie, it kinda sucks to be living in the "find out" stage of human history.

https://archive.is/0m0qt