Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Join us for a workshop with Senior Policy Advisor at OFE, Ciarán O’Riordan on how we can influence legislation in favor of software freedom on July 1, 2024: https://www.fsf.org/events/workshop-free-software-legislation-how-we-win

it is not useful to tell people who do not control what operating system they use at work to use a different operating system at work.

Patent litigants shouldn’t be able to agree to shut the public out of their legal fights.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/eff-appeals-order-denying-public-access-patent-filings
#patents #OpenAccess

Wow, the German government spends 197.7 million euro on Microsoft licenses. Think how many open source developers you can pay with that much money. https://www.heise.de/news/Bund-Lizenzkosten-fuer-Microsoft-auf-hohem-Niveau-insgesamt-neuer-Rekord-9744319.html

I wish this article came out before I wrote this blog post: https://tarakiyee.com/lets-talk-about-open-source-in-munich-and-everywhere-else/

Why is a group of billionaires working to re-elect Trump? | Robert Reich | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/03/billionaires-for-trump-presidential-election?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#TaxTheRich #NoBillionaires #SaveDemocracyVoteBlue

Help us make Congress work for the public, not patent trolls. https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-we-can-t-afford-more-bad-patents

Just posted @mike_hales' report from the 2024 World Social Forum.
#WSF #Kathmandu #SolidarityEconomy

https://geo.coop/articles/report-world-social-forum-2024

We’re appealing a court order to fight for greater transparency in patent disputes.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/eff-appeals-order-denying-public-access-patent-filings
#openaccess #patents

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

A UI team was created by Forgejo contributors who have been at work for months on the necessary backports of bug fixes. More ambitious discussions started on the strategies to improve the codebase and the User eXperience. Forgejo needs help to triage. If you ever create a new issue, take a moment of your time to also look at a few others.

https://forgejo.org/2024-05-monthly-update/

Hi everyone! New person managing the social media account here – many of us were at the #GPN22 in Karlsruhe and, this time around, there were many that were interested (or even involved in!) alternative forges for themselves or their hackspaces and, well, Codeberg?!

I even talked to a person in a train that later turned out to be a Forgejo contributor (the person next to them was a Codeberg e.V. member). We all met up!

So long Karlsruhe, and thanks for all the fish! 💙

📸 (credit in alt text)

And whoever thought it was clever to replace a simple post date with this "posted 1 week ago" bullshit should be looking for another job. Feels like whoever designed the UI is either purposefully trying to hide information, or is so enamored of their ability to do something like the above that they don't consider why the hell anybody would want that in the first place. Either way, f- that guy.

Now that Trump has gotten some form of comeuppance, can we please prosecute the rest of our former presidents as well? You know they all deserve it.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/06/the-twenty-first-executive-branch-is-a-criminogenic-environment.html

Weird how nearly every woman who reaches a position of power in politics is like "PhD in x, y, and z, speaks 3 languages, has been recognised for community building work in a, b, and c, has written 10 research papers and won 2 literature prizes."

While every man is like "He's very wealthy and knows business".

Just patriarchy things, I guess.

So the Black man that everyone was laughing at for dialing in to his court case from his car, while his license was suspended, is not so foolish. Racism has people laughing at its victims.

https://www.wxyz.com/news/why-was-the-driver-in-a-viral-videos-license-still-suspended-2-years-after-a-judge-ordered-it-lifted

We'll see how many of the people that were laughing because they thought "Foolish criminal dials in from car, on suspended license case!🤣" have anything cute to say now. You know that none of them will.

It's just the regular anti-Black cruelty in the US criminal justice system.

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My #GPN22 talk about the hopelessness of organizing your files is up: https://media.ccc.de/v/gpn22-410-my-files-are-a-mess-why-the-past-and-future

The Washington Post is about to lurch sharply to the right politically as former Murdoch apparatchik solidifies his grip on the organization. Current editor Buzbee is out, and he's bringing in people from Murdoch's Wall Street Journal and the Telegraph (right-wing UK news org).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/06/02/sally-buzbee-washington-post-steps-down/

Georgia’s politically-minded prosecution of Cop City defendants is fearmongering about online security services that are enjoyed by everyone, including Georgia officials and the public at large. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/georgia-prosecutors-stoke-fears-over-use-encrypted-messengers-and-tor

The new gov budget had an oversight mistake, where it reduced the income of some of our people already under the poverty line.

Rules as Code, with unit tests for what numbers come out of a bill/change (which is similar to a pull request) would have shown this. That, and treasury working in the open with their modelling. (but budgets are secret so we can't, but even on openly drafted bills with select committees we only get the output, not the code they used).

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2024/06/budget-2024-nicola-willis-says-national-wasn-t-aware-tax-changes-would-result-in-9000-earning-less-income.html

Congress members call out the ShotSpotter product as inaccurate and discriminatory in letter to DHS to investigate the department’s subsidizing of the company for local police use. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/shots-fired-congressional-letter-questions-dhs-funding-shotspotter

Are you as tired as I am from people bringing up Munich’s Linux phase as a bad example?

Well, the European Commission's Open Source Observatory released a case study that comprehensively tells the whole story.

Instead of just sharing it like a reasonable person would I went full Charlie Day in a blogpost about how it applies to Open Souce in Public Administration efforts today: https://tarakiyee.com/lets-talk-about-open-source-in-munich-and-everywhere-else/