Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

This is the way...

"Planned far-right rallies did not materialise over the weekend, amid a large turnout of anti-racist protesters...

"Reform UK['s] offices were targeted by [5k] anti-racism protesters in a peaceful march... and in Belfast 15k people turned up to one of the city’s biggest ever anti-racism gatherings."

#fascism #UKriots #racism

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/aug/11/far-right-demonstrations-abandoned-amid-warnings-of-10-year-sentences?utm_source=instagramthreads&utm_campaign=farrightdemonstrationsthreads

We don’t talk enough about how the US military has contaminated drinking water worldwide with toxic chemicals like TCE, #PFAS, and jet fuel, including in Honolulu.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/12/air-force-epa-water-pfas-tucson

A year ago, Iris reached out through my blog to send me this post about her struggles as a trans job seeker in New Zealand.

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/what_its_like

Incidentally Iris is fantastic and she introduced me to Clausewitz. Just wanted to give it the old signal boost. I think it's a good one to share with people that are sort of sympathetic but don't "get it".

@dangillmor And by "forced" you mean "Patreon decided that it was a better idea to fuck over their creators than to just ditch their iOS app and simply have a web site like they used to". This is their own unforced error.

Is there any good[1] reason that OpenSSH allows password auth by default?

The one time I've had malware on my computers it was 20 years ago when I installed openssh on a laptop that happened to also have a forgotten guest account on it (with an easy password, because it was intended for physical access). The malware failed to privesc, but it was sobering.

And today @dynamic relayed to me a similar-sounding story from someone else.

I feel like by now we should have learned our lesson about services that are insecure by default, or default to the most convenient thing rather than requiring an explicit step for changing a security boundary. But at a quick check, both Debian and OpenBSD default to PasswordAuthentication=yes.

But maybe I'm missing something here?

[1] where "because we don't want to make a breaking change" is a bad reason, or at best a mediocre one.

My Tisha b'Av on @ReckoningMag from a year ago:

https://reckoning.press/tisha-bav/

This isn't one of the times when I want to say "I told you so."

May we manifest a future that is more expansive and just than rebuilding and restoration.

#tishabav #jewish #gaza #palestine #climatechange

This is true in most of the world. Immigration isn't the problem. It's inequality driven by selfish rich people who control the political discourse and are dividing the working class. https://yewtu.be/watch?v=VgKb95wcyQQ or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgKb95wcyQQ #GaryStevenson Spread the word.

It kind of sounds like the secret sauce for Front Porch Forum might be the fact that they have paid employees screening every single post to the forums.

From the New_ Public study report:
https://newpublic.org/uploads/2024/07/Front-Porch-Forum-report-2.pdf
"Postings are reviewed by FPF’s staff of profession-
al online community managers before publication
to assure compliance with FPF’s Terms of Use and
to keep each Forum mostly civil and constructive"

Let's talk about where the NGO-industrial complex fits into the Mozilla picture.

Adam Conover did a great video on why the billionaire owner of Patagonia set up a cluster of charitable entities and gave them ownership of the company;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cu6EbELZ6I

Spoilers: it wasn't nearly as charitable as it looked. For one thing, it was a huge tax dodge. It was also carefully structured so they could still use revenue from Patagonia for political influence campaigns.

(1/?)

#Mozilla

"Mitchell Baker, Mozilla's top executive, was paid $2.4m in 2018, a sum I personally think of as instant inter-generational wealth. Payments to Baker have more than doubled in the last five years."

#CalPaterson, 2020

https://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html

For comparison, I'm looking for funding to pay 3 people to work on a fediverse hosting co-op. If all 3 of us were paid $100 an hour, for 40 hours each a week, that's $624,000 a year. Baker's 2018 salary could cover this for more than 4 years.

WTF?!

An article highlighting #startup success, "built and sold a $600M enterprise software..." suggests an #OpenSource failure.

"WSO2, an open source enterprise software provider with customers such as Samsung, Axa, and AT&T, recently agreed to be acquired by private equity giant EQT."

While the owners/investors must be pleased, I wonder how the contributors, collaborators, community, and adopters feel.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/03/meet-the-founder-who-built-and-sold-a-600m-enterprise-software-startup-from-sri-lanka/

@singe @pluralistic @defcon

The age of being looked after is over. As a software developer I am being treated gradually more and more like a factory worker. They have us doing timesheets now, on top of all that Agile/Jira crap.

This is why I am with much trepidation, doing my own thing and hopefully I will have my own company to fall back on when this ride meets its demise.

New versions of Windows might change the UI or underlying components, but they don't change the only thing important to know about Windows: it's nonfree software. Choose software that actually respects its users instead. https://u.fsf.org/3eu

The man is going for the #librarians vote.

>This veep likes books! Governor Tim Walz put a Little Free Library in the Minnesota capitol. https://lithub.com/this-veep-likes-books-governor-tim-walz-put-a-little-free-library-in-the-minnesota-capitol/

#FreeLittleLibrary #libraries #books #reading #literacy

@xgranade IMO if I can't *read* something without logging in, it us no longer part of the *public* internet

Even aside from everything else about Facebook, the fact that everything is on the other side of a login portal is just a huge barrier to sharing stuff on the Internet.

If you do cool shit, please don't make folks log into Facebook to see it!

I like these stylish posters that have gone up around Ōtautahi-Christchurch city, NZ.

"I choose unity. I honour Te Tiriti."

It's a simple, hopeful, and effective antidote to some of the politics here at the moment.

(As an aside, I'm perennially disappointed that these kinds of advocacy campaigns don't use their own websites, or ethical social media, and instead only direct people to Instagram and Facebook.)

#NZ #IndigenousPeople #NZPol

Are there any organizations publishing lists of current newspapers and magazines and their track record on disinformation, bias, and/or selective reporting?

(boosts welcome)

Latest comic: JD Vance, friend to women

#vance #gender #women #climate #climatechange

Between October 7 and November 14 2023, 9,500 takedown requests were sent from the Israeli authorities to social media platforms, of which 60 percent went to Meta with a reported 94% compliance rate. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/07/digital-apartheid-gaza-unjust-content-moderation-request-israels-cyber-unit