Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Nuclear power plant owner wants $1.6 billion "loan guarantee" -- this means, in the end, a gift form the taxpayers -- to supply power to tech monopolist Microsoft.

This stinks in every conceivable way..

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/10/03/nuclear-microsoft-ai-constellation/

I am trying, today, Rosh Hashanah, to think about the sweetness of the new year.

All I can think of is the bombs being dropped far away, funded by my taxes, exploded in my name.

It feels unfair that Israel should be able to take this from me. I don’t want my celebration of Jewish holidays to be predicated on what Israel is doing. I often say that my Judaism has nothing to do to Israel. My ancestors were Jewish long before the modern state of Israel existed.

https://chromamine.com/2024/10/lshana-tova/

I really want to wish people a #ShanaTovah but there's an ongoing genocide, committed in our name, and I just can't imagine this year being a good year, or what a good year would even mean.

Do you have any experience in Python and GTK4? Do you want to help maintain an app with literally tens of users? Do you hate every web browser to the point you want to avoid it altogether?

Web Apps is the app for you (to help maintain)! I have marked a few issues as 'contribution welcome' here: https://codeberg.org/eyekay/webapps/issues?q=&type=all&state=open&labels=230053&milestone=0&assignee=0&poster=0&fuzzy=false

University is starting to keep me busier than usual, but I don't want to let it create yet another abandonware strewn in the GNOME ecosystem.

#gnome

We have merged user / org agents #feature ✨

https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker/pull/3539

So if you administer a huge instance you might look out for it 🚀

It’s 1:15am in #Beirut and #Israel issues three more evacuation orders. They’ve been doing these bombings at night on short notice on purpose. They are forcing everyone in Beirut to go through prolonged sleep deprivation. Absolutely demented army. #Lebanon

Reports on Khashoggi’s murder are still secret.

Release of more intelligence about his gruesome murder would place democratic principles over a relationship with a dictator.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/its-time-for-joe-bidens-administration-to-declassify-all-its-khashoggi-intelligence

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This is one reason why I absolutely refuse to patronize Uber in any of its businesses. What a total scumbag of a company it is.

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/02/nx-s1-5136615/uber-car-crash-lawsuit-uber-eats-arbitration-terms

And if what it's done here is truly legal, it's just another demonstration of how our lawmakers hold their constituents in utter contempt.

In today's Help Desk, Mark says "nope."

https://www.eviscerati.org/comics/hd/2024/10/weird-outside-place/

In the running for this years "Biggest A-hole" award.

https://gizmodo.com/famous-ai-artist-says-hes-losing-millions-of-dollars-from-people-stealing-his-work-2000505822

Hey to those of you who have known for any length of time...

Remember that thing that happens at least every other year where I try to fix something on my site and the whole thing comes crashing down?

WELL

This is why you won't hear either candidate for US prez (or any other office) demanding that we get universal healthcare: it's far too convenient for their funders to be able to intimidate their workers into silence. There are many issues on which the Dems and Repubs are in lock-step, and making sure we never get Medicare For All is one of them (hell, Biden said he'd veto it even if congress did pass it).

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/10/why-we-need-medicare-for-all-boeing-revokes-health-benefits-for-striking-workers.html

Laura’s* PenPot** session, Introduction to Flex and Grid Layout, will be live streamed via Peertube tomorrow from 2-3 PM UTC at https://peertube.kaleidos.net/w/g5F9Se2PK2934EFrLSuJ16

* @laura
** @penpot

#web #design #dev #FOSS #grid #flexBox #PenPot

@CedarTea

Veblen called these “industry” and “business.” Industry’s goal is efficiently meeting the material needs of the public; business’ goal is efficiently extracting profits. Business can only do this by sabotaging industry, but it has to be careful not to sabotage so much that you end up with situations like the one Boeing is in.

Censorship in the name of national security, if it’s ever permitted at all, requires a concrete, imminent and severe threat — not the mere prospect of one.

https://freedom.press/news/unconstitutional-tiktok-ban-would-open-the-door-to-press-censorship/

Now, Israel has escalated its efforts to silence Al Jazeera, raiding its West Bank newsroom and ordering it closed for 45 days.

At the same time, the U.S. expanded its targeting of foreign-owned platforms by taking aim at Russian media outlet RT.

https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-al-jazeera-gaza-war-hamas-4abdb2969e39e7ad99dfbf9caa7bb32c

@lwriemen @piwakawaka For sure, but the point I was making wasn't that the US is unique, rather that Trump is a uniquely US version. It's the same way that Boris Johnson's upper-class coded dufferishness was the key to the English psyche, but wouldn't have worked elsewhere.

To outsiders it looks weird, "How could they fall for that?"

It’s done.

This is the moment Britains last remaining coal power station came off the electricity system for the final time, marking the end of 142 years of coal generating electricity in Great Britain.

HT National Grid ESO

Pro-tip: Write code for the reviewers. Helping them helps you.

A very specific case: Separate code movement from other changes to independent commits.

As a reviewer, checking code movement with 'git show --color-moved' takes mere seconds rather than minutes. Checking subsequent changes on top is easy as well. Combined, it's much, much harder.

And remember, it might be you looking at the same commits years down the line.