Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Some media outlets are already sane-washing Bhattacharya. To learn more about how he has spread disinformation that undermines public health, is widely discredit by real experts, and is funded by dark money, read this piece by Walker Bragman who has tracked him throughout the pandemic: https://www.importantcontext.news/p/everything-you-need-to-know-about

Accepted stands https://fosdem.org/2025/news/2024-11-16-stands-announced/

It seems like our joint stand with @forgejo at #FOSDEM2025 has been accepted, thank you @fosdem!

For those of you that don't know, #FOSDEM is an annual conference for free and open source software taking place in Brussels. We'll be there throughout the event to exchange words and/or stickers with some of you.

See you in February!

https://fosdem.org/2025/news/2024-11-16-stands-announced/

Ouch, bloody hell!

The supermarket in my area recently expanded and just reopened their doors. Guess what? It is ALL self-scan checkouts now. The floor layout guides you into this kinda voluntary sweatshop barracks where the customers are put to work to get their stuff scanned. Already there's ranks and status here, reputation. From clumsy beginners to confident Masters of the Scan™, who go in and out in seconds to the envy of others.

ALL self-scan checkouts, I said? Well.. one exception.

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UK must pick between US economic model or EU’s ‘socialism’, says Trump adviser - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/nov/16/trump-adviser-says-uk-needs-free-enterprise-model-to-aid-us-trade-deal people didn't vote for trumpian slash and burn economics, so we'll take the #EU, thanks...

I upgraded my system overnight to #Fedora41. I seemed to be running low in the #RootPartiition and so I moved the directory in /var/lib/dnf, where all the downloaded new #rpm files are temporarily kept, to another partition and created a symbolic link to it from there to that location. After that, everything went smoothly. I do like the new dnf output, it’s more informative than before.

#GNU #Linux #Fedora #F41 #FreeSoftware

Microsoft employees in the Fediverse - you might want to block me now, because I'm never going to make you feel good about your employment decisions.

(Just got blocked by an MS bro breathlessly promoting some Microsoft self-congratulatory hype session. Ignite or something. I replied that I couldn't imagine attending anything less exciting, meaningful, or flammable.)

@lightweight Precisely this. What is the lure of a billionaire's walled garden that captivates so many? Classic honey trap. Hook the users on the "open + distributed (yeah right)" marketing and then proceed with enshittification as and when the majority shareholders demand payback.

I find myself having zero interest in BlueSky. It's distributed (theoretically?) but it's still owned by profit motivated people, and it can be sold. It will be. After people are committed to it. It's a future train smash, like Twitter. I'm banking on the Fediverse. No need for the also-rans.

I've had a few conversations that go like this: I carefully explain what fascism is. The other person gets progressively more uncomfortable. Then they say something like "but that goes against everything I've ever been taught is right!"

And I'm sort of left wondering what they were expecting.

So for anyone who needs it, this is reminder that if you find fascism horrifying, abhorrent, and contrary to everything you've ever heard, this says *good* things about you and your upbringing.

Keeping the global consumption within the planetary boundaries

by Peipei Tian, Honglin Zhong, Xiangjie Chen, Kuishuang Feng, Laixiang Sun, Ning Zhang, Xuan Shao, Yu Liu & Klaus Hubacek
Nature, 2024.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08154-w

#Forgejo v9.0.2 and v7.0.11 were just released! They are security releases.

We recommend that all installations are upgraded to the latest version as soon as possible.

Check out the release notes and download it at https://forgejo.org/releases/. If you experience any issues with this release, please report to https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues.

I have backup strips between each chapter of Justice Warriors: Vote Harder focusing on media reaction to the election. Here is the first one.

@lwriemen yeah, there's a non-trivial part of me that believes absolutely nothing ever gets truly deleted if it's in digital form. Except for that ONE THING you want to recover...

The easiest, assuming they have the storage for it, is just to make a copy of everyone's tweets in preparation for the training. That way it doesn't matter what I delete in my own account, they'd still have everything. But I'm not sure how practical it would be to do that, and at the very least they might want to wait until today (when the new agreement goes into effect) to start making copies.

At the end of the day it probably doesn't make much difference. Still deleting it though!

You can now call your Senator — via @fight's new tool that makes it super easy — and implore them to pass the PRESS Act!

Time is running out and your voice can make a difference.

https://www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/tell-your-senator-pass-the-press-act-now/

phosh-osk-stub got <ctrl> and <alt> modifiers (https://fosstodon.org/@agx@librem.one/113330530148536143) ➕ supports accent colors (https://social.librem.one/@agx/113344650488590519) ➕ handles overlapping key presses better

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@libcamera The actual #code is on #codeberg (error: toot too long).

https://codeberg.org/libobscura/libobscura