Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

If the Harris campaign wants someone to punch-up their insults, I'm available. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2024/7/26/2257885/-Cartoon-Kamala-Harris-s-roast-of-Donald-Trump

The history of the West is not quite what you learned in school
Josephine Quinn’s new book re-examines what people think they know about civilisations
https://archive.ph/PalvN

"The idea of civilisation, Ms Quinn points out, is relatively recent. The word was first used only in the mid-18th century and did not take hold of Western imaginations until the late 19th century..."

Latest comic: JD Vance is an anti-abortion extremist

#cartoon #politics #uspol #2024election #jdvance #abortion

Our secondary project repositories (website, hacks, api-scripts etc...) have now been migrated to @Codeberg. The old GitHub projects have been archived.

https://codeberg.org/bookstack

The titles below are at different stages of production and we're sharing sample previews with all of you! Order any of these books now and get 20% off. Use the coupon code: Preorder through 8/15. Shop the sale here: https://blog.pmpress.org/2024/06/01/take-a-sneak-peek-of-our-titles-available-for-preorder-and-take-20-off-until-8-15/

#books #bookstodon

Our worker co-op might be looking for support in writing copy in English/Spanish about our climate planning work.

We'd love to hire a co-op if possible. We imagine there'd be a bunch of work to start and would then be a consistent trickle moving forward.

Any and all suggestions are welcome!

Libs, I am begging you to understand that this whole fedi thing exists as a loose cooperative endeavor between open-source software techies, gay furry programmers, star trek nerds, and pinko queer shitposters.

It's not an Act Blue chat room, it's not the comments section at Daily Kos, it's not "Bluesky but with a bigger character limit."

Post whatever you want to post, but stop telling the locals how to behave out here for your comfort and acceptance.

Three companies control the market for school lunch payments. They take as much as 60 cents out of every dollar poor kids' parents put into the system to the tune of $100m/year. They're literally stealing poor kids' lunch money.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/26/taanstafl/#stay-hungry

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@polotek @jrconlin @lightweight

The core point remains: Orgs will have teams that will "accept" a risk, but who do not provide budget for re-engineering to minimize that risk, and who do not bear any consequences for when the inevitable outages happen. They in effect outsource accountability for their requirements.

Those above them believe FUD and let them (try to) get away with it.

The long-term way to fix this is to eat the rich and destroy the power of capitalists. Absolutely. But in the meantime, we cannot just surrender the space to monied interests.

I strongly believe in a two-pronged approach - elect people who are progressive and hold their feet to the fire and build non-electoral alternative structures (worker co-ops, unions, etc) to attack the stranglehold monied interests have on the means of production.

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By the end of today, we still need about 30 people to preorder "Taking the State out of the Body: A Guide to Embodied Resistance to Zionism" to help get it funded, into the world, and into more hands.

Learn more and thanks in advance for the support! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ww3/taking-the-state-out-of-the-body

#books #bookstodon

This is what I'm talking about, btw.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/07/scandal-erupts-in-germany-as-leaked-documents-confirm-that-former-governments-pandemic-of-unvaccinated-claim-was-a-complete-lie.html

You cannot be both an advocate of Generative AI and an environmentalist. The one is fundamentally opposed to the other. You can have your AI toys, or you can give a shit about the environment, but you can't do both at the same time. It's the planet, or your stochastic plagiarism engines - pick a fucking side.

You know, just a thought.

We desperately need to start a Slow Software movement. High quality, intentionally designed, low defect software done at a quarter of the pace for the same price. Because we've been destroying the mental health of developers for the last quarter century, and what do we have to show for it but a giant mess?

Judge tosses out "Gateway Pundit" bad-faith bankruptcy, calling it a ploy to hide assets from the people the extremist site defamed.

Abuse of bankruptcy law is a tool widely used by right-wing and corporate wrongdoers.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/25/judge-throws-out-gateway-pundits-bankruptcy-claim/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzIxODgwMDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzIzMjYyMzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MjE4ODAwMDAsImp0aSI6ImFkZmJlYTJjLTQ5MjEtNDg3Yy04ODQ0LWRjNDMxMjAxM2JhNiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9wb2xpdGljcy8yMDI0LzA3LzI1L2p1ZGdlLXRocm93cy1vdXQtZ2F0ZXdheS1wdW5kaXRzLWJhbmtydXB0Y3ktY2xhaW0vIn0.w-3lo68b3MMxV8ABadaJv7QxyYPrtTfzUr1uYl0QgbA

#ElonMusk's #trans daughter has had enough: "Calling me dead on a podcast with JORDAN PETERSON of all people while basically admitting you have zero reading comprehension by saying you were 'tricked' into signing documents that you read over multiple times is basically a parody of itself... This entire thing is completely made up and there’s a reason for this. He doesn’t know what I was like as a child because he quite simply wasn’t there..." https://www.advocate.com/elon-musk-trans-daughter-vivian-wilson

"Nobody uses Mastodon, lol."

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mastodon-for-harris

#MastodonForHarris

In 2012, an industry-wide coalition of hardware and software makers adopted Secure Boot to protect against a long-looming security threat. The threat was the specter of malware that could infect the BIOS, the firmware that loaded the operating system each time a computer booted up. From there, it could remain immune to detection and removal and could load even before the OS and security apps did.

To this day, key players in security—among them Microsoft and the US National Security Agency—regard Secure Boot as an important, if not essential, foundation of trust in securing devices in some of the most critical environments, including in industrial control and enterprise networks.

On Thursday, researchers from security firm Binarly revealed that Secure Boot is completely compromised on more than 200 device models sold by Acer, Dell, Gigabyte, Intel, and Supermicro. The cause: a cryptographic key underpinning Secure Boot on those models that was compromised in 2022. In a public GitHub repository committed in December of that year, someone working for multiple US-based device manufacturers published what’s known as a platform key, the cryptographic key that forms the root-of-trust anchor between the hardware device and the firmware that runs on it.

The repository included the private portion of the platform key in encrypted form. The encrypted file, however, was protected by a four-character password, a decision that made it trivial for Binarly, and anyone else with even a passing curiosity, to crack the passcode and retrieve the corresponding plain text. The disclosure of the key went largely unnoticed until January 2023, when Binarly researchers found it while investigating a supply-chain incident. Now that the leak has come to light, security experts say it effectively torpedoes the security assurances offered by Secure Boot.

“It’s a big problem,” said Martin Smolár, a malware analyst specializing in rootkits who reviewed the Binarly research and spoke to me about it. “It’s basically an unlimited Secure Boot bypass for these devices that use this platform key. So until device manufacturers or OEMs provide firmware updates, anyone can basically… execute any malware or untrusted code during system boot. Of course, privileged access is required, but that’s not a problem in many cases.”

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/07/secure-boot-is-completely-compromised-on-200-models-from-5-big-device-makers/

Today is the International Day of Solidarity with Anti-Fascist Prisoners!

Find out more about the day + a list of antifa prisoners + how you can show your solidarity & support here: http://bit.ly/freeallantifas

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#antifa #antifascist