Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

It's beginning to dawn on folks that abortion rights were just the first human rights to go under right-wing control of our top political offices, especially the courts.

Gay rights are in the Republican extremists' crosshairs. So is birth control. So is freedom of expression, and so much more.

The right wing never bought into civil rights in the first place.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/06/gay-rights-trump-gop/678797/?utm_source=press.coop

Maybe Big Journalism will notice this with more than passing interest, but they'd have to wake up first.

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-06-24/overcoming-despair-and-apathy-to-win-democracy/
"Instead of organizing a protest in the city center, in front of a government building where nobody’s around, we would organize those same protests at the outskirts of the city, in and around green markets or shopping centers. We spoke to people rather than shout at institutions where the doors were shut."

@Codeberg I think it would be a very good first step. There are good reasons for not internationalizing domains. That's all because the namespace owner does not vet the entries.

In case of projects belonging to a user, the user *does* control the entries, so I'm not seing any downsides.

I've published my first version of the debugging tool that causes large corporations to scream and run away:

https://crates.io/crates/breakmancer is a *secure* reverse shell, allowing you to drop a breakpoint into any build script.

Your build can pause, reach out to your laptop and let you poke around, and then resume where it left off. Incredibly useful.

It's written in Rust and uses some basic libsodium cryptography to secure the connection. I'd like to get a security audit (any volunteers? it's a pretty small program!) and expand to include plugins for languages that support REPLs, such as Python, Javascript, and Clojure.

Can’t find my thread to update it, but after a Chinese company acquired Polyfill.io last year (embedded in over 100k websites), it has started serving malware to users of said websites - prepare to be surprised.

https://sansec.io/research/polyfill-supply-chain-attack

#threatintel

Worth grepping your source code for "polyfill.io" and taking urgent measures to remove that code if you're linking it into your site - the domain name apparently now intermittently serves malicious JavaScript

My notes here: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jun/25/polyfill-supply-chain-attack/ - or read this article https://sansec.io/research/polyfill-supply-chain-attack

More than 60% of those surveyed said they posted fake jobs “to make employees believe their workload would be alleviated by new workers.” 62% of companies said another reason for the shady practice is to “have employees feel replaceable.” #Work #WorkLifebalance #Hiring #Jobs https://qz.com/companies-posting-fake-job-listings-resume-builder-1851556777?utm_content=1851558179&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Quartz_At_Work

@dcz Would it help if repository names would support more characters, while profile and org names would not?

This might be actually worth a consideration.

In recent years, there have been a lot of attacks by using lookalike unicode characters, so although technically feasible, many fear to accept non-ASCII characters.

But since repositories of the same author already induce a certain trust, it might be worth taking that one step.

Happy to start the conversation about this in#Forgejo.

~f

Releasing the #KiCad files for my #HDMI signal tap and proxy PCBs to the public.

The git repositories are on my #codeberg (Do clone with submodules!)

Tap:
https://codeberg.org/ral/hdmi_signal_tap

Proxy:
https://codeberg.org/ral/hdmi_signal_proxy

@ludicity You're right, I'm sorry. My nerdiness is more around crochet, origami and graphic novels. But may I entertain you with my rage cartoon on "AI"? It's the least I can do after the laughs I got from your article https://buttondown.email/juliarodraws/archive/on-rage-sparking-bullshit/

Learn more by reading the linked solidarity statement from Weelaunee the Free: https://weelauneethefree.org/solidarity-statement/

Purchase an @nobonzo designed “In Defense of the Forest/Stop Cop City” benefit tee. Proceeds support the Atlanta Solidarity Fund: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1551

An AI thing I'm watching play out at another org:

1: Expert A, with a deep understanding of a nuanced and difficult problem answers a question they've been given, presenting several choices.

2: Director B, recipient, uses an AI to summarize it and then runs it up to leadership saying, "A says this." That generated summary is subtly and very wrong.

3: A is now being held responsible for plans made based on B's AI-generated and very wrong rewriting of his recommendations.

Fun times.

For the first time in the Espionage Act's more-than-100-year history, the U.S. has obtained an Espionage Act conviction for basic journalistic acts, EFF’s @davidgreene told the @nytimes of Julian Assange’s plea deal. “These charges should never have been brought.” https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/24/us/politics/julian-assange-plea-deal.html

Signal boosting for a dear friend #anarchist #mutualaid #wekeepussafe #disability #queer

I was asked to sit in a GitHub Copilot “training” at work because I’m using Copilot every day “and should know my tools well”.

As I assumed the class is almost entirely watching someone that thinks they know how to herd a cat run around getting bad results. Just needs that Benny Hill theme 😹😿

Worst part of updating my talk: looking up how fucking many more Starlink satellites there were than last time I gave a version of this talk. 200 more than a month ago. Fuck.

There are now 6,209 Starlinks in orbit, fully 62% of the 10,009 active satellites in orbit.

All of these "fully demisable" Starlinks are planned to burn up and deposit their metal in Earth's atmosphere. I just saw multiple 100-pound pieces of another SpaceX "fully demisable" rocket, so I'm sure it'll be just fine.

Those supposedly libertarian cryptocurrency boys are going with Trump. Of course they are.

https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-60/

The hypocrisy is a given. But in one key way it's a natural match, given all the sleaze in the sector and Trump's endless corruption.

Hong Kong's government is controlled by Beijing. It has adopted the dictatorship's paranoia, and is systematically erasing human rights.

The rulers are now ordering citizens to smile more to bring back tourism. This is not a joke.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/hong-kong-tells-residents-smile-103335063.html?guccounter=2

I've been to HK many times over the years, and can assure you that the residents' occasional rudeness is not the reason I'm unlikely to return.

When Beijing stops abusing their rights, I'll be back.

"Repository name should contain only alphanumeric, dash ("-"), underscore ("_") and dot (".") characters."

Hot take: we're too attached to the #Latin script. It's a historical accident that I can't call my #Git repo "привет" on a code #forge , and it's pushing a cool part the native cultures of billions of humans to the margin. Git itself can do it no problem!

And why should Дима switch to Latin for naming project if John doesn't switch to #кириллица anyway?

#Forgejo #github #gitlab

the sickest burns are also completely accurate