Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

From the IPCC CLIMATE CHANGE 2023
Synthesis Report.

#Dataviz

I've been listening to the From Under the Shadow podcast the past few days. I've long been aware of the broadstrokes of US policy in Central and South America. As I listen I think every US citizen should aquaint themselves with the details. This is the core truth of the US: It is an empire built on extreme violence in the name of democracy. https://nacla.org/under-shadow

@dangillmor
FWIW, some other (seemingly anti-fascist😉) folks using #substack:
Kim Wehle
Matt Binder
JoJoFromJerz
Shahid Buttar
Judd Legum - popular.info
Sarah Kendzior
Frank Schaeffer
Ryan Grim - Drop Site News
Seth Abramson
Thom Hartmann Report
Robert Reich

Ghost's #beehiv comparison:
https://ghost.org/vs/beehiiv/

beehiv's #Ghost comparison:
https://www.beehiiv.com/comparisons/ghost

Techie Molly White's article has useful insights (even if you're not going to self-host Ghost)
https://www.citationneeded.news/substack-to-self-hosted-ghost/

The comments on the latest thing to blow up has given me many fine additions to my collection:

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/compliments/

What would it take, I wonder, to get brilliant, anti-fascist historians like Heather Cox Richardson and Timothy Snyder to stop supporting fascist-friendly Substack?

Might it be possible to do a Kickstarter or such thing? If enough people agreed to subscribe to their work on, say, Ghost -- maybe they'd switch over.

In other words, incentive to do the right thing without wiping out their income.

I'm spitballing here. Any ideas on how something like this could/would work?

Possible? Hopeless?

Software Freedom Conservancy is partnering with OpenWRT (and Banana Pi) to create a wireless router (OpenWRT One) that is focused on right to repair and software freedom.

I’m interested to see this how this new proactive approach to free-software-backed hardware by SFC pans out compared to FSF’s more passive RYF’s more program.

https://sfconservancy.org/news/2024/nov/29/openwrt-one-wireless-router-now-ships-black-friday/

#FOSS #RightToRepair

This article I wrote hit the HN frontpage again:

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/you-must-read-at-least-one-book-to-ride/

Just wanted to shout out the one guy that said I seem like such a nerd that he could never enjoy time with me 😢 I've never been more owned

Black parents have historically been divided from our children by #enslavement, the modern #carceral system, + #capitalist work demands. I'm committed to being present with my #baby while maintaining my #activism and #radical tech projects. That means #crowdfunding support!

venmo/cashapp
nullagent

paypal
nullagent@gmail.com

I also survived a #racist attack on 9/15/24, I'm recovering from a #concussion + #depression, + raising a #legalfund to fight back.

https://chuffed.org/project/114004-support-a-protester-assaulted-while-defending-housing-rights

Been thinking about what the key-trust part of decentralized "social PKI" should look like.

The individual part seems straightforward: A public key, and a history of key rotations (where each key signs a message revoking itself as latest, and endorsing the next public key as latest instead.)

But how do you trust someone else's key in the first place? (Including when they lose all data and have to recreate their identity, with a new key.)

I'm very tempted to say... we can leave that to implementations, with just some strong suggestions in the spec as to how to meet different users' different needs.

One implementation could just use TOFU and notify the user if something looks wrong. Another could participate in a key-gossip system, where useragents inform each other of identity/key relationships they've seen, allowing multipath resilience against MITM. And another could go full-on PGP key-party if it really wanted to, I guess.

Does this sound reasonable? Would love to hear feedback.

#cryptography #SocialMediaDesign #PKI

We're in the Discourse Phase™ in which Dems will try to halt discussion of what went wrong.

Terms like "circular firing squad" & "blame game" will be weaponized.

They want silence so they aren't held accountable & get to keep their gigs running the party into the ground.

Latest comic: Capitulation

#cartoon #comic #uspol #media #politics #democracy

“Gaza has awakened the world, and Palestine has become the quintessential defining struggle of our times. Palestine is the litmus test for progressive movements and organisations, and it is also a test for each and every one of us.” https://www.tni.org/en/article/vietnam-algeria-palestine

Grindr’s AI forays amount to “data surveillance,” EFF’s Paige Collings told Gazetteer SF. “There are real life consequences for very vulnerable communities,” and if LGBTQ+ protections are weakened, “the risk of this over the next few years is heightened.” https://sf.gazetteer.co/grindrs-ai-wingman-has-privacy-experts-concerned

So @Codeberg suffered from high traffic [1], bringing the site almost down. They managed to fix it by blocking access to one repo that attracted all this traffic for reasons (as of now) unknown to us.

What worries me are the comments under their post pointing at various proprietary, commercial services like Cloudflare, Amazon as the obvious way to mitigate. If we really are at the stage where the internet is so broken that you … (1/2)

[1] https://social.anoxinon.de/@Codeberg/113570009001800356

You've heard of the bus factor of an organization, but the prison factor seems much more relevant and likely.

What happens to your project if a core team member goes to prison?

https://www.theregister.com/2020/03/26/corejs_maintainer_jailed_code_release/

There are Syrians following the news right now in the hope that a disappeared loved one is among those being released.

The scale of the suffering caused by Bashar al-Assad is incalculable. #Syria

We were not able to identify the actor who is causing the high load on our systems. We have made the hard decision to temporarily shut off access to a certain project to keep Codeberg available for everyone else.

As soon as we allow web access to a certain project, our system resources are used up within seconds.

Honestly, we are currently out of ideas on how to restore access to Codeberg.org.

We are fighting with extreme traffic and high load for several hours now, we have done the typical procedure to identify and block misbehaving AI crawlers.

However, we are currently having a hard time figuring out details about the ongoing high traffic situation.

I've been reading a lot about Australia's social media ban, and I'm conflicted in many ways.

But then I remember that this is the country that tried to ban Disco Elysium, a fucking masterwork rife with poignant and beautiful themes re: the horrific effects of alcohol and drugs on a person's life, health, and relationships, because some goddamn morons that never looked at it thought it was too pro-drug. Then I feel less conflicted.

look, this internet thing is cool and all, but when do we get color radio?