Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Everybody saying this is some kind of mask-off moment for American politics must be too young to remember the WTO protests, the Occupy protests, Standing Rock, and BLM. They must not have been around to hear Madelaine Albright say killing 500K Iraqi children with our sanctions was "worth it to send a message." They must not have been around for Obama's kill lists and Bush's black sites.

So either I'm surrounded by children or ya'll have the memories of fucking goldfish. Just sayin'.

The Forgejo team invites to the release party in a few hours (12.00 UTC): https://codeberg.codeberg.page/Events/events/2024/04-27-forgejo-event/

If your project on #Codeberg has similar events to share, make sure to publish them to the Codeberg Event Calendar: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Events/

#Forgejo v7.0.1 was just released! This is a bug fix release.

We strongly recommend that all installations are upgraded to the latest version as soon as possible.

It fixes a LFS data corruption when running forgejo doctor check --all --fix or when [cron.gc_lfs].ENABLED=true is set (the default is false).

Check out the release notes and download it at https://forgejo.org/releases/. If you experience any issues with this release, please report to https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues.

The most personal data from more than 13 million people who have healthcare from Kaiser Permanente was given to Microsoft, Google and others. How? Looks like Kaiser's web/mobile applications went all in with the spyware Big Tech seeds into everything it can.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/26/kaiser_patient_data/

The people who run Kaiser should lose their jobs for this. They won't. They'll blame some underlings who won't be held accountable in any real way.

Ad-tech is cancer on privacy. And it's everywhere. Use blockers!

Columbia University’s President was so bad at basic strategic comms that now we’ve got police snipers on the roofs of campuses around the country.

I got a little mad about it in my latest post.

https://open.substack.com/pub/davekarpf/p/the-only-thing-university-administrators?r=eeyg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

It’s #STFUfriday!

When cops ask you questions, ask for a lawyer and then STFU:

- I am not discussing how I’m doing or where I’m going.

- Am I free to leave?

- I am not answering any questions.

- If they ask to search anything: "I do not consent to a search."

- I want to speak to a lawyer.

Cops are only REQUIRED to give you Miranda warnings if you are “in custody.” “Not free to go” is an oversimplification.

Remember you can always invoke your rights even when you aren’t in custody.🧵

The fediverse has deep issues when it comes to environmental sustainability.

I wrote a thing https://thedabbler.patatas.ca/pages/slow-fedi.html that looks at why that is, and suggests some practical steps we can take to improve things.

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@lwriemen
I've heard it a fair bit watching fighting games, but honestly as much from POC content creators as white ones. I've heard it used as both a derogatory term for gear elitists, and as a boast from...well, gear elitists...but usually in a self-aware, tongue-in-cheek manner. The opposing term is "console peasant." Apart from the obvious reference, it doesn't have anything to do with the third reich.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_SGU4NH79Y

A sobering look at the book publishing industry.

Now, time to put my head back down working on comics that you'll surely purchase, read, and enjoy!
https://www.elysian.press/p/no-one-buys-books

"In the realm of digital education, we can now confidently state and uphold that digital commons are the default horizon for projects supported and operated by the French Ministry of Education.
This means that the codes, data, and content we develop are primarily intended to be free, open, and interoperable.
For reasons of sovereignty, security, transparency, sustainability, cost control, and internalisation of skills."
Audran Le Baron
Director of Digital for Education (France)
March 2024

Laptop died yesterday but thanks to the #Librem5, the Baseus Dock, an HDMI Screen, a USB keyboard and #Phosh's docked mode I have access to most of the things via my phone.

#nitrokey helps a lot as that means I have my ssh keys available by just plugging it in.

Took me about 15min to notice that I didn't even plug a mouse in.

#LinuxMobile

Some #bike companion apps show "CO₂ saved".

But don't go #cycling around the Earth just to increase the score. You wont save any CO₂ this way.

The number intends to show how much you *avoided emitting* if you wanted to take this trip by #car but changed your mind.

If you never intended to go by car, you never avoided emitting anything - and food costs #energy to make, too.

Cycling around the Earth is worthwhile for other reasons, but not for saving energy.

#bicycle #CO2 #travel #commuting

A part of #Rustlang that doesn't get mentioned but is a ridiculous quality of life boon:

dbg!()

Just #[derive(Debug)] on a struct and print it. Suddenly you get insight into what's going on. Very rarely do you need to write your own print.

Insert a dbg in the middle of anything

let diffi = debug!(diffs).iter();

and you get a message with line number and the name of variable:

[src/lib.rs:192:19] diffs = [16, 86, 11]

Not even #Python has that!

#coding #softwareengineering #programming

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Holy shit, the FCC restored net neutrality.

After four years of quasi-hibernation, Brood OINK is emerging to bash more skulls at protests.