Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

So apparently I've acquired a new hobby and it's designing card games. Not what I would have expected. This is the second one I've made this month. It's a rummy type solitaire game with an animals-and-biomes theme.

Cloud storage firm DropBox says hackers breached production systems for its DropBox Sign eSignature platform and gained access to authentication tokens, MFA keys, hashed passwords, and customer information.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dropbox-says-hackers-stole-customer-data-auth-secrets-from-esignature-service/

That overturning of Arizona's hardline abortion ban? It isn't what you're being told. https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2024/05/01/arizona-1864-abortion-law-not-repealed/73533621007/

Now is a good time to get involved with #Forgejo, because the roadmap for the next release is being determined.

Get involved, be it as a designer, frontend or backend developer, translator, user researcher or by helpin to triage bugs and determining feature priority.

Reach out if you need onboarding.

The new comics section at In These Times is up with work from Brian McFadden, Jen Sorensen, Tom Tomorrow and this one from Lubchansky

https://inthesetimes.com/article/the-founding-fetus-society-comics

“License plate readers are not documenting crime — they are documenting the perfectly legal activity that is driving your car on a public road,” EFF’s Dave Maass told The News & Observer. “It’s capturing more information on innocent people in that neighborhood.” https://www.newsobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article286920890.html

Biden cancels student debt to the Art Institutes, where I once went to school, saying they "falsified data, knowingly misled students, and cheated borrowers into taking on mountains of debt without leading to promising career prospects at the end of their studies."

https://www.newsweek.com/student-loan-debt-cancelled-biden-art-institutes-1895976

"The governments across the West are increasingly turning to Stasi-like systems in efforts to silence criticism of the ruling class policies – from unpopular wars and climate change inaction to plunder and eugenic public health policies."

Unlike the East Germans, however, we all now willing carry our surveillance devices around with us everywhere we go. 😕

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/05/stasi-in-the-west.html

If you're not watching the #CityNatureChallenge in Aotearoa, things are heating up! We've got until the end of Sunday to upload all our observations and get all our species IDs completed.

Wellington burst out to a lead of over 2,000 observations during the four days of observing, but Christchurch has been steadily chasing them down. Wellington's only 535 observations ahead now.

Our cities are currently #9 and #10 in the Europe-Asia-Oceania-Africa competition.

https://inaturalist.nz/projects/city-nature-challenge-2024-aotearoa-new-zealand

#CNC2024

Finished putting together my first card game. Going to playtest it with a friend this weekend. Pretty psyched.

TIL that the delimiter before an email signature is supposed to be "-- \n“ (two hyphens, a space, and a carriage return), per RFC 3676. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3676#section-4.3

“Brown University agrees to hold Israel divestment vote after pressure from student protesters”
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4633580-brown-university-israel-divestment-vote-student-palestine-protesters/

[Full-time] Senior Product Manager, MediaWiki Integration Interfaces at Wikimedia Foundation https://www.fossjobs.net/job/11396/senior-product-manager-mediawiki-integration-interfaces-at-wikimedia-foundation/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Good fodder for your IT/Infosec budget discussions: https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/microsoft-security-debt-crashing-down/714685/

Every day I'm flabbergasted by how unworthy Microsoft is of its 'success'. The best thing I can say about them is that they're really good at exploiting dysfunctional bureaucracies and inept officials using other people's money. https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/112362662145754607

Read All About How #Paywalls Are Bad For Democracy, Right Behind This Paywall - https://www.techdirt.com/2024/04/30/read-all-about-how-paywalls-are-bad-for-democracy-right-behind-this-paywall/ "I have always argued that it’s best to make the core reporting free. You can then charge for other things and see if you can get people to support you."

New interview:
Oceania 2084 - roleplaying in a dystopian setting

You'll find the audio here: https://www.aradio-berlin.org/oceania-2084-roleplaying-in-a-dystopian-setting/

Length: 18 min

People with an antiauthoritarian mindset do often enjoy games. Besides boardgames, their interest have also been on roleplaying games (RPGs), a kind of cooperative storytelling game at a table based on a concrete rule system. Johan Eriksson, an anarchist game designer has recently published such an RPG called "Oceania 2084", based on George Orwell's novel "1984". We talked to him during his run of a Kickstarter campaign for a printed version of the game. Deadline is 10 May 2024. Enjoy and spread the info!

The #Forgejo monthly update was published ✨ It is a high level overview of the project activities.

Contributors celebrated the release of Forgejo v7.0 and Codeberg was upgraded the next day. A lot of effort went into the automation of the development process. As Forgejo matures, more and more of the work is about day to day management of bug reports, localization, security, etc. 17 interviews were conducted to better understand how it is used and shape its roadmap.

https://forgejo.org/2024-04-monthly-update/