Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Turned on NPR the other day to hear them interviewing an economist who told listeners that inflation experienced during the (official) height of the pandemic was caused by supply shortages and fiscal stimulus (i.e. one of the only good things the Trump admin did) - completely unmentioned by the silken voices on every liberal's favorite radio station, however, was corporate greed. NPR wants you to think prices went up because we gave poor people money, not because the rich are greedy.

"The reason we don’t see exploding battery attacks more often is not because it’s technically hard, it’s because the erosion of public trust in everyday things isn’t worth it."

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2024/turning-everyday-gadgets-into-bombs-is-a-bad-idea/

@dangillmor the US' federal electoral system is fundamentally broken - any candidate without a plan to completely replace the current electoral college, overturn Citizens United, kill duopoly campaign co-funding, and replace the first-past-the-post model is just rearranging the deck chairs... and has probably benefited from the brokenness to get into office. How can we fix that?

Classic American story: A growing community of immigrants, legal and hard-working, revitalizes a city that was dying. They are welcomed by the local leaders as part of their program of economic redevelopment. They put down roots, create new businesses, and reverse a long, slow decline in population and property value.

THAT’S the story in Springfield, Ohio, and even now most of the press is getting it wrong. Here’s Josh Marshall (gift link):

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/actual-springfield-ohio-story-is-pretty-different-from-what-youve-heard/sharetoken/5bac728d-61b8-45fc-9c6a-45f81196f05e

Every time I think my impression of Microsoft has hit rock-bottom, I find myself having to dig a new sub-basement. If I already have neither respect nor admiration for a group of people (that's what a corporation is), where to from there?

Surprise? https://developers.slashdot.org/story/24/09/18/0210233 Now Microsoft has received a patent for something people have been doing, routinely, for many years. It just goes to show how a) completely broken the patent process is, and b) how assholic Microsoft is. His involvement with Microsoft does nothing to enhance von Rossum's reputation. Hope the money's good. I guess.

What is the difference between what companies are calling "AI" today and the Bayesian filter we've used for spam detection since 1996?

It's not a joke, I'm genuinely asking.

This is quite the sentence from the AP:

"The second wave also deepens concern over the potentially indiscriminate casualties caused in the attacks, in which hundreds of blasts went off wherever the holder of the pager happened to be — in homes, cars, at grocery stores and in cafes, often with family or bystanders nearby."

That's some chutzpah, using the word "potentially" right before describing exactly why the attacks were indiscriminate by definition. That takes some real mental flexibility.

More info on GtkInspector in #gnome's developer documentation: https://developer.gnome.org/documentation/tools/inspector.html and here's how to use it in a nested phosh session: https://phosh.mobi/posts/phosh-dev-part-0/

Revealed: Far higher #pesticide residues allowed on food since #Brexit | #Pesticides | The Guardian

Brexit: the grift that keeps on poisoning

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/19/revealed-far-higher-pesticide-residues-allowed-on-food-since-brexit

#UK #Agriculture #Farming #Neonicotinoids #Wildlife #Environment #Politics

Good news everyone! My magnum opus on Scrum just dropped, clocking in at almost 9K words! Prepare a drink, strap yourselves in, and enter the Torment Nexus.

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/tossed-salads-and-scrumbled-eggs/

Oh look, Starlink is continuing to screw up the sky in every way possible.

"Second-Generation Starlink Satellites Leak 30 Times More Radio Interference, Threatening Astronomical Observations"

https://www.astron.nl/starlink-satellites/

It's going to be "hilarious" when Starlink messes up the radio sky so badly that radio astronomers can't even use quasars to calibrate GPS anymore. There are so many consequences from all these stupid, cheaply built, disposable satellites. https://www.universetoday.com/105160/navigating-the-cosmos-by-quasar/

"At this very minute, Copilot is ingesting free software on Microsoft's proprietary platform, GitHub, with little respect for each program's license." Read more: https://u.fsf.org/44h

Hardware kill switches. Open source OS. No data collection. That's the Purism difference.
https://puri.sm/posts/smartphones-leaking-data/
#PrivacyMatters #DataSecurity #MadeInUSA #OpenSource #LibertyPhone #Purism #DigitalPrivacy #SecureComputing #NoDataLeaks #TechEthics #HardwareKillSwitch #PureOS #PrivacyByDesign #SecureSmartphone #TechFreedom

GNOME 47 is here! After months of hard work from contributors worldwide, this release brings many exciting updates and improvements. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgcVp5RHy4Q

Find more details about what's new in #GNOME47 in the release notes: https://release.gnome.org/47/

#GNOME #ReleaseDay

If you haven't written to Congress about this, use our action center to do it today! https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-we-can-t-afford-more-bad-patents

The U.S. Senate is on the verge of giving a huge gift to patent trolls. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/09/senate-vote-tomorrow-could-give-helping-hand-patent-trolls

A children's book for understanding elections, which are never-ending. https://brianmcfadden.org/2024/09/13/meet-the-election-animals/

Couple of new @pmpress titles today! Taking the State out of the Body by Eliana Rubin, and Revolution in 35mm: Political Violence and Resistance in Cinema from the Arthouse to the Grindhouse, 1960–1990, edited by Andrew Nette and Samm Deighan: https://weightlessbooks.com/category/publisher/pm-press/?orderby=date&order=DESC&submit=Submit+Query