Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

MSO 364 (or fewer)... https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-365-outage-impacts-exchange-online-teams-sharepoint/

Federal Court grants $144 million to Aboriginal families in stolen wages class action judgement

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-27/federal-court-judgement-144-million-stolen-wages-to-families/104644674

#auslaw #auspol #stolenwages #laborlaw #IndigenousIP

Strategizing to Stop Mass Deportations

We've prepared a freestanding zine version of the appendix to "The Case for Resistance," exploring what it would look like to mobilize against Trump's promise to carry out "the largest mass deportation in US history."

https://crimethinc.com/zines/strategizing-to-stop-mass-deportations

Mass deportations will require massive logistics and infrastructure, which offer a host of opportunities for intervention.

“In 2017, a single mass occupation at JFK Airport in New York sparked occupations involving tens of thousands of people around the country. Tactics spread rapidly when they are inspiring. What can you and your community do, right now, to prepare to inspire nationwide resistance to the deportation machine?” 🏴

To everyone when they see horrible privacy news about Microsoft replying with:

"I don't care, I use Linux"

Sure, you do. But does your medical clinic do? Does your therapist do? Does your family member typing a personal email to you in Word before sending it do too?

This is a systemic problem.

You cannot protect your own data only by using Linux yourself. You must also demand stronger regulations and enforcement to obligate organizations around to protect your data as well.

#Privacy #Microsoft

Starting to see more images come up in my feed with no alt-text.  Time for another round of gentle reminders?

At a recent co-op event, a speaker made the case for an ambitious farm worker organizing project and noted, "we just need $1,000,000 to get this started."

I think @luisrazeto is right. We don't need capital to start organizing. We need people and the resources and access to resources that we each bring. (Need an example? Consider the solidarity economy circuits model described by Euclides Mance. https://geo.coop/articles/liberation-economist-part-2)

We started our tiny #farm_club, no bigger than a squash beetle, with $0.

I believe I have one or two folks who follow me who would know the answer to a few GTK questions:

- What's the planned EOL for GTK 3?
- Where can one find the actual roadmap / page with current EOL dates?

Either this info is hard to find or my search-fu is not what it used to be. Or both, I suppose. It could also be both. ("Search engines are not good anymore" is also, I suppose, a reasonable answer.)

Read more: Congress took the lead on JFK declassification. That should happen more often — By Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy Lauren Harper

https://freedom.press/issues/congress-took-the-lead-on-jfk-declassification-that-should-happen-more-often/

Trying to create complex #software managing kernel buffers.
This needs tests.

"#functional core, imperative shell" - Testing management should not need the kernel.

I started mocking with a generic backend. Looks annoying.

"imperative shell"

The mocked generic is becoming a spaghetti horror.

"functional core" - and then it clicked.

I separated just the buffer manager, made it generic over buffer type. I can now feed it fake buffers and test it.

#testing #development #hexagonal

Irregular reminder: floating point calculations are not exact.

Take your program to a different #hardware and your tests may start failing:

https://codeberg.org/libobscura/libobscura/src/branch/master/crates/conv/tests/convtest.rs#L40

https://codeberg.org/libobscura/libobscura/actions/runs/30#jobstep-7-431

#fpu #float #floatingpoint #precision #libobscura

Let's play a game that is not a game: I'm curious what people are using for secure communications these days for groups where Signal is *not* an option (ie. let's assume people in the group have devices that are not iPhone or Android with Google Services). The group in question (a real use case, though they are likely not going to make change, I'm just curious what people will recommend) has the following requirements and threat model:

#AskFedi

A core thing that I preach falls right on its face when confronted by reality is the idea that it's valuable to retain contracting flexibility by replacing one big contract with a series of smaller contracts awarded over time. That's generally a good idea, *unless* an agency is facing the possibility of having a lot of their funding clawed back by an impending change in legislative control. At that point, they actually need to spend that money ASAP, with all of the loss of control that entails.

For U.S. folks, #^https://5calls.org/ provides a list of current legislative issues to call senators and representatives about.

This is a resource that I've been wishing for for a while, and a type of action that I think is really important.

Massacre in the jungle: how an Indigenous man was made the public face of an atrocity - https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/nov/26/massacre-in-the-jungle-how-an-indigenous-man-was-made-the-public-face-of-an-atrocity "In 2004, 29 people were killed by members of the Cinta Larga tribe in #Brazil’s #Amazon basin. The story shocked the country – but the truth of what happened is still being fought over"

@lightweight more than 4 and I’m uncomfortable. I’m going to start a support group for y’all. This is good. First step is admitting you have a problem.

‘What many of us feel’: why ‘enshittification’ is Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/nov/26/enshittification-macquarie-dictionary-word-of-the-year-explained @doctorow

The NYT vs. OpenAI court case found that OpenAI deliberately deleted vital evidence, such as proof of unauthorized AI training on data. OpenAI is also telling courts that it doesn’t have backup for deleted data and calling it a technical glitch 😂 are you kidding me? This is not the first time Sama lied and deleted the key evidence. If an average guy does something like this, they will be jailed immediately. But there is special treatment for billionaires like Sama. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/11/tech-problems-plague-openai-court-battles-judge-rejects-a-key-fair-use-defense/

I'm blaming DeJoy.

https://montanafreepress.org/2024/11/19/election-offices-in-montana-and-elsewhere-report-receiving-mailed-ballots-misdirected-from-other-states/

#Trump Orders Republicans to Kill Journalism Shield Law They Had Supported - https://www.techdirt.com/2024/11/25/trump-orders-republicans-to-kill-journalism-shield-law-they-had-supported/ "Many people voted for Donald Trump on the false belief that he would “protect free speech.” But in reality, nearly every instinct he has is to stifle free speech"

https://www.diffusionlibertaire.org/english/

A long-standing pillar of the Montreal anarchist community is asking for support to help cover the costs of some much-needed repairs to the building.

2033 Blvd Saint-Laurent is the home to Montreal's anarchist bookstore, L'insoumise, the DIRA anarchist library, and the queer feminist collective Les Révoltes.

Over the years, subMedia has hosted a number of outdoor film screenings and fundraisers here, generally held on the weekends of Montreal's anarchist bookfair.

If you're in a position to kick in, or want to organizer a fundraiser, please do!