Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Surveillance tech like Fusus “gives police the ability to surreptitiously spy on and track people of no real or alleged criminal concern. It creates caches of sensitive, personal information that can be retained indefinitely,” EFF’s Beryl Lipton told Sacramento's ABC10.
https://www.abc10.com/article/news/crime/sacramento-public-safety-camera-network/103-e94b0a6d-1696-48bd-893a-29f53515d384

@hacks4pancakes “Travel is fatal to prejuidce, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.” - Mark Twain

I think about this quote a lot.

The smell of death is everywhere in northern #Gaza after 'non-stop Israeli bombardments', Unrwa chief says - https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/oct/22/middle-east-crisis-live-blog-news-updates-israel-iran-lebanon-gaza-palestine-hamas-hezbollah-war "He said his staff are reporting shortages of water, food and medical care" #israel

I don't think I could feel any greater 'AI' -everything fatigue. I'm catching snippets of my wife (a lecturer at the polytech) listening to a presentation in the other room (via the poly's MS Teams, naturally. 🤮 ) on dealing with 'AI' in the classroom, and it's use (illicit & otherwise) by students. The presenters are effusively pro-'AI', and I find their enthusiasm incredibly grating and it makes me sad for humanity.

Fell in Love with Fire

Watch here:
https://crimethinc.com/fellinlovewithfire

Five years in the making, this hour-long documentary explores the uprising that swept Chile from October 2019 to March 2020, showing how everyday people sustained six months of rebellion by creating extensive networks of self-determination and mutual aid.

This is an inspiring portrayal of the tactics that gave demonstrators control of the streets, the organizing strategies that enabled the movement to act effectively while remaining leaderless, and the importance of time and space in revolt. It is also a cautionary tale about how the government used the promise of a new constitutional process to recover enough legitimacy to regain control. It chronicles a high point of action in a struggle that continues today.

On recent visits to the US (where I grew up) I was amazed at the friction I felt in most transactions. Having to add sales tax to everything mentally, paying tips, and literally every online transaction, e.g. renting a car, getting a phone SIM, was crowded with scam operators from every conceivable angle: service consolidators, speculative insurance providers, etc. The US 'system' is a chaotic mess. Every transaction seems prone to extra gotchas & not getting ripped off is exhausting there.

On Global Encryption Day, we urge Congress to get serious about protecting Americans’ privacy, and cut out the censorial sideshows.

https://freedom.press/issues/global-encryption-day-strengthen-encryption/

I don't think that leftists are going to matter at all electorally in the US -- there are too few of us, and those of us who do exist are mostly in states that the Electoral College makes unimportant. But I have to say I haven't seen a more outright hostile Democratic campaign and online group of self-appointed get-out-the-vote people in some time.

People are defending genocide as the lesser evil and showing incredible contempt for anyone who says it matters.

The maintenance was successfully completed and Codeberg is back in service. Additionally, we now have a 10G fiber interconnect to our next server, an important step towards our new setup.

I know Fedi isn't always the best platform for having substantive conversations, but if people are up for sharing, I'm genuinely interested in hearing people's reflections on how the upcoming U.S. election will affect them.  I'm interested in reflections from both USians and non-USians.

Does anything change for you personally if the U.S. election goes one way vs. another?  If so, what changes and how?

Boosts welcome.  Please be kind to one another.

"The loss of nature isn’t just a problem for plants and animals. More than half of the world’s GDP is dependent on nature, according to the World Economic Forum. Insects and birds pollinate the crops that the more than 8 billion people on Earth eat. Wetlands store and clean water. Plants and fungi maintain healthy soils and provide medicine. Forests and peatlands sequester climate-warming carbon."

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/18/nx-s1-5147426/cop16-biodiversity-summit

Installation successful, rebooting ... it will, unfortunately, take a while until the service is fully restored.

The update itself went smoothly, however, we're really struggling with crawling again.

This time, some actor is hitting the API searching for random keywords. We cannot detect and block the offending IP ranges quickly enough.

Initially, we started investigating a regression in Forgejo that causes the slowness until we noticed the new access pattern.

Forĝejo went copyleft 👍
https://forgejo.org/2024-08-monthly-update/#forgejo-is-now-copyleft

Copyleft, federation, localization, collective decision-making: signs that the project cares about people and their autonomy.

How are the campaigns spending the next two weeks? https://www.dailykos.com/story/2024/10/18/2277623/-Cartoon-Campaign-closers

Does anyone have gig work or looking to hire? I have a friend in serious need and on the verge of homelessness. He knows JS/TS/Python and is very experienced in Android development #askfedi #askFediverse #fediverse #fedi #getfedihired #lookingforwork #help #mutualaid

Will solar PV soon be the cheapest source of electricity in most places around the world?

This Nature paper says yes.

Most surprisingly this is AFTER including short- and long-term storage costs for renewable energy sources.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-41971-7

Codeberg has two downtimes scheduled in the next two days, upgrading #Forgejo to the latest version as well as operation on our owned hardware.

See the notification at https://status.codeberg.eu/status/codeberg for more and up-to-date information.

Thank you for your understanding. We'll try to minimize service disruption.

The 2024 Freedom on the Net report is out. It includes analysis of generative AI in elections globally, and actual attempts at censorship around elections — ie, governments using their power to silence dissidents, or parties manipulating the info space

https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-net/2024/struggle-trust-online