Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Through a combination of predatory pricing, woefully inadequate eBook catalogs, and bad policies restricting access to paper literature, states around the US have exacerbated an already acute book censorship problem for incarcerated people. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/09/prison-banned-books-week-being-jail-shouldnt-mean-having-nothing-read

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#167 Linking Apps
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2024/09/twig-167/

#GNOME #TWIG

A beautiful day to protest against the worst government of my lifetime 💪🏼

Only three weeks to go for the next Forgejo release v9.0. We are excited to show you all the improvements we have worked on. But we are looking for your help to make the release a success.

Read https://forgejo.org/2024-09-preparing-v9/ to learn how you can help us with testing, translations, development and funding.

23andme looks like being up for sale. So is the DNA data. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/if-23andme-is-up-for-sale-so-is-all-that-dna/ar-AA1rl1V1

Codeberg and Forgejo stickers

Price: 1 Thankyou :: If you are interested, I can send some Codeberg and Forgejo stickers to your hackspace / office / community.

Ideally, you fill out this form and you'll get some of these.

Thanks to flohmarkt for powering this post :)

From the NY Times:

"A few years ago, Jack Posobiec was a fringe figure and a right-wing agitator best known for helping spread “Pizzagate,” a conspiracy theory about Democrats running a satanic child abuse ring underneath a Washington pizza parlor.

"This month, he was invited by the Republican National Committee to speak to a group of volunteers about how to monitor elections in Michigan."

This story won't cause more than a tiny ripple, Fascism is getting normalized.

As Hurricane Helene batters the Southeast, NOAA says it can't disclose potentially lifesaving data because of stipulations in a 2020 agreement it signed with a private vendor.

This secrecy wrongly places commercial interests above public safety.

https://freedom.press/news/government-hides-its-best-hurricane-predictions/

Republican Daredevil: The man with lots of fears. https://brianmcfadden.org/2024/09/20/republican-stuntman-confronts-his-fears/

In today's Help Desk, Mark makes a decision.

https://www.eviscerati.org/comics/hd/2024/09/the-breaking-point/

Only some weeks to go until Forgejo v9 is deployed to Codeberg.

The #Forgejo community is looking for your help to provide a high quality release.

Read https://forgejo.org/2024-09-preparing-v9/ to learn how you can help.

Thank you!

#Linux OpenPrinting #CUPS vulnerabilities

Use the following command to determine if cups-browsed is running:

$ sudo systemctl status cups-browsed

If the result includes "Active: inactive (dead)" then the exploit chain is halted and the system is not vulnerable

If the result is "running" or "enabled" then the system may be vulnerable.

Mitigation is simple, especially in any environment where printing is not needed.

$ sudo systemctl stop cups-browsed

$ sudo systemctl disable cups-browsed

I've been waiting for someone with knowledge and credibility to weigh in on the WordPress-WP Engine affair.

Here it is, from @ernie -- and it's disturbing to me as a longtime fan of Matt Mullenweg.

https://tedium.co/2024/09/25/wordpress-wp-engine-open-web-negative-effects/

We apologize for the interruptions we had today.

We are currently approaching a project to improve our overall infrastructure redundancy. Although we hit some major stopgaps today (including a bricked power supply), we are overall making progress and we have a good idea of what we can do within the next months.

Thanks to your financial support and our new employee, we will rework and improve our setup in the remaining months of 2024.

Last night, I told the guy that got me my first job in Australia that my company might fail next year, ruining my finances. He nodded very seriously.

I then said "Maybe I'll even be humbled by it". He and his partner laughed for a minute straight.

This should be a learning moment but I reject the lesson.

All done, apologies for the inconvenience.

We accept donated hardware, including old servers.

Currently, we are in need of Dell R710 power supply units - in case someone has one to spare.

In today's Help Desk, Phil is reminded that acronyms are hard.

https://www.eviscerati.org/comics/hd/2024/09/the-wrong-three-letters/

Heads up to Kia owners/potential buyers: Today, a group of independent security researchers revealed that they'd found a flaw in a web portal operated by the carmaker Kia that let the researchers reassign control of the internet-connected features of most modern Kia vehicles—dozens of models representing millions of cars on the road—from the smartphone of a car’s owner to the hackers’ own phone or computer. By exploiting that vulnerability and building their own custom app to send commands to target cars, they were able to scan virtually any internet-connected Kia vehicle’s license plate and within seconds gain the ability to track that car’s location, unlock the car, honk its horn, or start its ignition at will.

https://www.wired.com/story/kia-web-vulnerability-vehicle-hack-track/

In a few minutes, Codeberg will suffer from several minutes of downtime due to necessary updates on our physical machine, affecting the reverse proxy.