Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

An irregular reminder: #firmware is a category of #software .

If you advocate for #FreeSoftware but don't talk about #libre firmware, I'm interested I'm learning why you're making the exception.

#opensource #licensing

To conclude, for me sustainability is first and foremost a cultural problem, and we can solve it only through a profound cultural change. Now this is the core of my PhD so, for the sake of everyone here, I will not dig into that, it would be long and tedious and not without major debates.

My dissertation doesn't write itself and my clients' graphics don't design themselves (AI crowd don't dare answer this) so I'll end it here.

Be nice to each other, we need to come together for this fight.

The biggest problem with 'sustainable design' is that the mainstream approach consists in 'how can we both keep the cake and eat it', so we have design magazines like Dezeen praising stuff like 'design student makes a sustainable avocado out of beans', so that millennials like me can keep having avocados all year round without feeling guilty about the exploitative economy of all-year-round available food.

4/

Subjecting myself to the NBC parade as some sort of Puritan penitence ritual.

Here's a "typical Western attitude" that most of us are utterly unaware of: social systems are either hierarchical or horizontal; they either have strong states and laws or they don't.

Actual people, however, living their actual lives in the actual world do not seem to agree with this sentiment, and have never had any problem adapting different ways of interacting at different times of year or different places in the landscape. Political theorists should probably be taking this into account.

Gestern war einer der schönsten Tage meines Lebens. Zusammen mit über 800 Kindern und Gästen der @fsfe hatten wir die Deutschlandpremiere des Films "Ada & #Zangemann - Ein Märchen über Software, Skateboards und Himbeereis". Vielen herzlichen Dank an alle, die das möglich gemacht haben (siehe Filmcredits).

Die verschiedenen Bezugsquellen zum Film: https://ada.fsfe.org/movie

Eine erste Auswahl an Bildern von der Premiere: https://pics.fsfe.org/gallery/5Tcc_rbuFkkT5FWB9xd3jSAK

Teilt gerne den Film mit https://sharepic.fsfe.org/#ada

Does anyone know how to increase #audio #cache size in #mpv ?

I have:

mpv https://somafm.com/defcon130.pls --cache-secs=60 --demuxer-max-bytes=4M

and the cache stays around 16s/600KB, meaning the radio stream often cuts out :/

#streaming #radio

As people may have noticed, we've had some issues with GitLab (repository, issues, merge requests, and documentation are all affected), and the admins have decided to move up the migration day to December 4, 2024:

https://discourse.gnome.org/t/scheduled-maintenance-gitlab-gitlab-pages-04th-of-december-2024-at-2-pm-utc/25271

Ideally, this should bring us back to a stable environment. Stay tuned for more information next week.

"Most Americans live paycheck to paycheck, and many have no emergency savings—they are one crisis from homelessness. A job loss or an unexpected illness and they are where I am. They are on edge, driving bigger and faster and louder cars—a society speeding along as it disintegrates."

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a62875397/homelessness-in-america/

Take Control Books has a 50% sale on 24 of their ebooks, including seven of mine! https://www.takecontrolbooks.com/?s=fleishman&post_type=product My titles cover securing your Apple devices, keeping safe on mobile, FaceTime and Messages, Wi-Fi, Find My and AirTags, and more! The sale ends on Tuesday!

Hey tech wizards and nerds 🧙‍♂️ this holiday season, we've got a resource you can share to help answer tech questions your family and friends might be asking you around the dinner table. https://digitalrightsbytes.org

Recipes for Reactionaries. https://brianmcfadden.org/2024/11/22/recipes-for-revenge/

Kite-flying hour resumes, starting next week! Find us in https://vc.autistici.org/CoopCloudKiteFlying

We'll be starting Thursday 5th December at 12 UTC, then alternating every Thursday between 12 and 19 UTC.

More information here: https://docs.coopcloud.tech/organisers/#kite-flying-hours

Anyone tried Co-Op Cloud? https://lemmy.one/post/21600742

I released a new version of my GPS app Satellite (and its sister app Geobug). The release features a renewed UI with the latest gizmos from GTK4 and libadwaita. Get it from flathub or direct from git.

Happy tracking!

https://codeberg.org/tpikonen/satellite/releases/tag/0.9.0

#mobileLinux #GPS #Flathub

@CharLES ☭ H @Eve, Heading back to Vulcan for Vulcan Life Day

Your mention of Kansas has reminded me of the talk I saw earlier this year by Lucas Besire, the author of _Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains_ (found a review here: #^https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2021/08/review-running-out-search-water-high-plains).

I haven't read the book, but based on the talk, Besire really pushes back against stereotypical narratives about farms in the U.S., including that Kansas farmers are all conservative and... white.  There's other stuff in there too about masculinity and his relationship with his father, which is evidently a lot of the appeal of the book for farmers from that region.

A lot of what he talked about in his lecture was the complicated power dynamics between tenant farmers---who often would be very ready to collaborate with their neighbors to manage the aquifer---and absentee landlords who tend to buy into a "tragedy of the commons" narrative and insist that the farmers pump aggressively.

@Sam Whited @Hippo 🍉

E-ink is pretty cool, but I'm really just waiting on one to figure out that actually the unlit LCD displays were a nice feature that no one should have ever done away with.  Crap like this feels like a nice illustration of how no, actually capitalism does not do a good job of satisfying human needs.

I would be declined to despair that such a technology will ever emerge again, but I also never thought that manufacturers would go back to making smartphones that are small enough to fit in a pocket and operate on-handed, which I'm suddenly seeing everywhere again.  Almost makes me want a smart phone.  Almost.

Do I know any archivist or rare-book types? Do you have any of the following lost early 20th century IWW pamphlets? Help us find and digitize them!

- Food Stuff Industry
- Metal and Machinery Industry
- Story Of A New Labor Union
- The Textile Industry
- As to the IWW by James Wilson (Spokane, WA)
- Craft Union Experiences on the Railroads and How to Get Immediate Organization Results by IU#520 (191?)
- Direct Action: the Great Truth Contained in the Theory of Direct Action

#IWW

Well, that didn't take long.

https://www.404media.co/someone-made-a-dataset-of-one-million-bluesky-posts-for-machine-learning-research/

Dominion Power claims that Virginians’ power usage keeps climbing, so they need to build new power plants that we’ll all pay for with rate hikes. Forced to release internal records, it turns out that the only increase is coming from building data centers.

Why should Virginians subsidize Amazon, whose budget is 7x Virginia’s? https://virginiamercury.com/2024/11/26/under-pressure-from-the-scc-dominion-reveals-the-true-cost-of-data-centers/