Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

We've got to do something right with #LinuxMobile when #Android now gains a feature to run #Linux https://androiddev.social/@MishaalRahman/113290317583072192

Hitting the road for Buffalo soon. Come out to Gutter Pop comics tonight and see me present along with some great local cartoonists!

Voter suppression is going to be a huge thing this U.S. election cycle, and there's a critical need for observers in Georgia to help ensure that everyone has a chance to cast a ballot and have it counted.

If you care about U.S. electoral democracy but don't want to advocate for specific candidates, one way you can get involved is to help recruit people as election observers and poll watchers.

On Monday I participated in a phone bank to recruit poll observers in Georgia, and it was pretty low stress:
https://www.mobilize.us/swingbluealliance/event/712049/

"...there are some voters who find the support of both parties for genocide in Gaza and now planned for Lebanon unacceptable, and as a matter of conscience cannot vote for either of the two major parties."

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/10/so-you-dont-like-trump-or-harris-heres-why-its-still-best-to-vote-for-one-of-them.html

@scy @Codeberg Strong recommendation for ditching GH Pages!

Oh, nice, Codeberg Pages supports proper HTTP redirects these days!

https://docs.codeberg.org/codeberg-pages/redirects/

Including catch-alls like /my-spa/* to /my-spa/index.html 👍

Thanks @Codeberg!

#Codeberg #CodebergPages #HTTP #redirect #WebHosting

"While generative AI may not actually solve almost any of the problems that it is marketed to solve, it does solve one massive problem for the US economy: how to keep selling more and more gas.

In 2023, computer infrastructure and oil and gas extraction were two of the five fastest growing sectors of the US economy. Of the other three, two (telecoms and software development) are interrelated to these trends. It's a boom time for oil, for data centers, and for tech infrastructure.

The prominence of the hard-right Big Tech fascists, exemplified but hardly exhausted by Elon Musk, JD Vance and Peter Thiel, is reflective of the increasing alignment of tech with extractive and war industries. Big Tech has failed to make truly innovative and exciting products for almost a decade now, and it has "solved" this problem by creating ever more absurd grifts that derive their apparent legitimacy and value from exactly how expensive they are in energy and material effort."

I wrote about the ecological devastation of Big Tech and AI and what we can do to resist

https://all-cats-are-beautiful.ghost.io/ai-must-be-destroyed/

@michaelgemar @dangillmor This is 52 U.S. Code § 30119 - Contributions by Government contractors

These restrictions apply to the contractor itself, such as an entity like SpaceX, and not to its employees unless the contractor is a sole proprietor, which Musk is not.

Furthermore, this statute does not apply to recipients of federal research grants. Even if it did, it would apply to the grant recipient—typically the university—not to individual researchers or Principal Investigators.

I had to wait until I retired from university work to make a political donation this year, because I was involved in a research project that got a small amount of funding from the government.

There's a law about that, you see.

I can't understand how Musk can be openly working to help the Trump campaign, with his media company and his money, while his companies are getting billions in government contracts?

Hello, Big Journalism, anyone home? Why isn't this worth looking into?

So apparently after spending all that time and effort migrating Eviscerati.Org from Drupal to WordPress I need to think about maybe undoing all that and going back to Drupal because the head of WordPress has LOST HIS FUCKING MIND in this legal battle with WP Engine? The more I read about this back and forth the more I'm convinced he's gonna start just randomly burning shit down out of sheer spite.

#Musk’s ‘Free’ #Starlink For Helene Victims Wasn’t Free - https://www.techdirt.com/2024/10/10/musks-free-starlink-for-helene-victims-wasnt-free/ now, there's a surprise... it's almost as if this man is all mouth and no trousers

Every couple of years I give my kids the option of being beaten with a stick or a belt. "Make sure you choose the lesser of two beatings," I tell them. If they complain about the bruises and scars later, I tell them it would have been worse if they had picked the other option...or I tell them it's their own fault for choosing the beating they did.

Anyway, now my wife is suing me and demanding full custody of the kids, and for the life of me I can't figure out why.

“Hopefully this letter will send a clear message to LAPD top brass that officers do not have the right to obstruct members of the media from exercising their 1st Amendment rights during encampment clearings," says Lexis-Olivier Ray.

https://lataco.com/aclu-lapd-homeless-sweeps

If 23andMe tries to sell your genetic data along with its business, many of you have the right to say “no.” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/sale-23andmes-data-would-be-bad-privacy-heres-what-customers-can-do

1: AI is hallucinating events, historical figures, entire concepts on Wikipedia

2: a task force of Wikipedia editors is detecting and deleting this stuff

https://www.404media.co/the-editors-protecting-wikipedia-from-ai-hoaxes/

Great news everyone! I saw code so terrible yesterday that I quit my job on the spot, for realsies. Enjoy what should be the last post about me gazing directly into corporate-hell:

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/get-me-out-of-data-hell/

Future posts will be about the dystopian hellscape that I conjure into being at my own business.

Just saw a website that's an 'open educational resource' project database... it's built on a proprietary tool, CraftCMS. On the CMS website: "We use (and contribute to) some of the best open source tools out there, allowing us to focus on the parts that make Craft, Craft."

So the CMS, built on #libre is not libre. Not an approach I consider worthy of admiration. They're citing their open source dependencies (virtue signalling) but celebrating their lack of open sourceness. Not cool.

Here's why proprietary is not admirable: https://davelane.nz/proprietary