Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

This Sunday at 4pm, we're partnering with Western North Carolina AIDS Project (WNCAP) and Visual AIDS for a Day With(out) Art 2024 presentation of "Red Reminds Me…," a program of seven videos reflecting the emotional spectrum of living with HIV today.

Since its inception in America in 1989, Day Without Art has marked the impact of the AIDS epidemic on the artistic community and documented efforts in fighting AIDS. Learn more about this free film screening at https://firestorm.coop/events/3283-day-with-out-art.html!

#DayWithoutArt #VisualAIDS#WorldAIDSDay #EndHIV #QueerSouth #FeministBookstore #WNCAP #FirestormCoop (- L)

@phil is a genius and I can't stop laughing. All I said was that the phrase "stable of engineers" was funny and he came out with this fucking masterpiece

https://phils-web-site.net/dumb-shit/stable-of-delivery-professionals/

Overall, reading T-Mobile’s CISO talk about how their defenses worked against Salt Typhoon is interesting, but the effectiveness of frequent credential rotation when FIDO2 isn’t available was particularly interesting:

“In the case of credentials where FIDO2 can't be deployed, T-Mobile US rotates the credentials "extremely regularly, and we see this directly impacting the attacker," Simon told The Reg.”

https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/05/tmobile_cso_telecom_attack/

#infosec #SaltTyphoon

Health insurer has adopted a policy that will bankrupt "insured" patients while they're on the operating table.

I wish this was a sick joke but it isn't.

https://www.levernews.com/big-insurer-sets-time-limits-on-anesthesia-coverage-during-surgeries/

Reminder that if you rely on apps, things you rely on will be undependable. (Never mind that you'll be spied on constantly...)

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/12/nightmare-zipcar-outage-is-a-warning-against-complete-app-dependency/

As @daringfireball writes, Google is lying through its corporate teeth about its claims to be encrypting messages.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/12/04/shame-on-google-messages

What a slimy company Google has become, so far distant from its early days when it was so admirable.

The upgrade was performed successfully with a brief (a few seconds) of downtime.

Amongst all this tragedy one thing that we missed is the CEO getting taken to the hospital and being told, “sorry, you’re out of network” and then they leave him bleeding in a corridor until they can get someone to guarantee his bills and then in 6 months they can deny his claims.

That’s another tragedy: he never got to live to experience having his claim denied.

(Can you tell that I have had to deal with UnitedHealthcare? And I had some gold-plated plan and a credit card.)

@lightweight

Short of killing people, I think that society needs to get over the taboo of telling people that the job they're doing is evil & bad for the world. The same way it's very hard to get good people going into politics (there are notable exceptions!), because of the low respect for those roles in society, we need to apply peer pressure on folk (typically making huge salaries) in leadership roles for unethical, exploitative businesses, i.e. public corporations. They suck at a structural level.

Minister Collins clearly doesn't understand the connections between fundamental #science and applied science. This decision to undermine the Marsden fund will promote a decline in scientific capability, not just in humanities and social science, and research in our academic institutions will wither. She fails to see that there will be long-term economic and social impacts on Aotearoa. It is short sighted and shallow. #nzpol

With the help of @beacondb , I was able ti find and fix geoclue not being able to submit new locations! The MR is here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/geoclue/geoclue/-/merge_requests/192

With that fixed, I made a Linux mobile stumbler that works with geoclue to submit data! You can find it here: https://gitlab.com/kop316/geoclue-stumbler

(Note that you'll need that patch for the stimbler to actually submit data).

We are performing maintenance on our Ceph cluster, which might lead to reduced performance or short periods of unavailability in a few hours, starting 20.00 UTC. We are trying to minimize the impact on the systems.

Work started yesterday and went well except for a brief interruption. Today, we are upgrading the Ceph version, which ideally also completes without downtime or interruption.

how co-ops led hurricane relief efforts in WNC (& my hurricane story)
#NorthCarolina #HurricaneHelene #MutualAid #Coops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLQzpuMh-NM

Big migration from Microsoft Office to #LibreOffice: The northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein is migrating 30,000 PCs. Learn more in this video from our recent conference: https://peertube.opencloud.lu/w/rUh7VLPkmkruarXHKeNGqG #foss #opensource #freesoftware

Staggering that the NZ govt has announced the end of funding for social science and humanities research from our main academic fund (Marsden). Science projects now also need to show economic benefits.

This change has happened seemingly without consultation or even signalling that it's coming. Many hours will now be wasted with researchers revising or throwing away the proposals they've been working on. Apart from anything, this is terrible governance.

https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/marsden-fund-refocused-science-purpose

#nzpol

"Trump propagandist finally admits election conspiracy movie is a fraud"

https://www.dailykos.com/story/2024/12/2/2289768/-Trump-propagandist-finally-admits-election-conspiracy-movie-is-a-fraud?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=

D'Souza is one of most vile characters to have emerged in recent years. I hope the people he's harmed can get some -- what's that word? -- retribution.

BACKFLASH is out today! It's a stand-alone book from Dark Horse Comics written by Mat Johnson, (James Baldwin fellow, and winner of the Dos Passos prize.)
I loved drawing this book and I hope you'll love reading it. It's available from your local comic shop or bookstore, or if that's not an option, I've put some copies in my Etsy shop: https://stevelieberart.etsy.com/listing/1785631613/preorder-backflash-graphic-novel-by-mat

@nealcurtis @heyrochelle @lightweight I find it interesting (and also somewhat disappointing) that the experience a lot of 'leftists' want is convenient consumption funded by venture capitalists rather than the slower process building commons...

Which is why I appreciate @nealcurtis's discussion of underlying economic models and a preference for Mastodon in that article