Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

PayPal is updating their Terms of Service to automatically give merchants access to your data starting in November and they've already opted you into it. OPT OUT BEFORE THEY START:

Good to Settings > Data & Privacy > Manage shared info > Personalized/PayPal Shopping and toggle it to off.

#PayPal #Privacy #OptOut

Latest comic: Actual moms for liberty
#cartoon #women #gender #politics #lgbtq

👏🏻👏🏻NEW: Federal Court blocks a key provision of #Texas voter suppression law SB1 that would make it a felony to assist voters who need help returning their absentee ballots. The judge rules the provision violates the First Amendment. https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/federal-judge-strikes-down-key-provision-of-texas-omnibus-voter-suppression-law/

CBS News has chosen to be a cowardly entertainment company, not a journalism organization, in its cavalier decision not to do any fact-checking in the VP debate next week.

This is an invitation for Vance -- as prolific a liar as Trump -- to flood the zone with bullshit. There's not enough time in a day, much less 90 minutes, for Walz to refute the lies and make his own points.

CBS knows this, and put its thumb on the scale anyway.

https://apnews.com/article/cbs-debate-vice-president-fact-check-7a3b31c98ab092dd44915df57a359d10

Your tax dollars paid for lifesaving weather information, but the Trump administration gave it to a corporation that charges (a lot) for anyone to see it.

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

A perfect example of how right-wing policies take from all of us to reward the rich.

What'll happen at the VP debate? https://www.dailykos.com/story/2024/9/27/2273168/-Cartoon-V-P-debate-preview

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.