Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Neat tool that a friend has been working on: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/836cf87c91344bb991a1b149873f27af

Quoting from the top: “The Transportation Community (TC) Explorer provides data to help all communities understand how they experience different types of transportation disadvantage.”

Basically, it's an interactive map where you can see areas that are disadvantaged, particularly in terms of transport.

Given the likely winds of political change, I'd recommend checking this one out soon…

Fellow programmers,
if you create a #software that gives #people on the ground an excuse to stop dealing with me

- because I don't have a phone number
- because I won't give you my shoe size
- because my name has a non-English accent
- because you know people aren't going to fight you in court
- for any other nonessential reason

then please stop coding and think whether your software improves the world or makes it worse.

Don't make #bureaucracy less flexible.

Kudos to legal eagle Harry Litman for bagging his LA Times op-ed post on the principle that he can't lend his support to a billionaire who kowtows to Trump.

But he jumped to the odious Substack, which Trumpist billionaires funded and which helps extremists monetize their hate.

Anti-kudo for that.

The #Forgejo monthly update was published ✨ It is a high level overview of the project activities.

A security audit and internal preparations have lead to unprecedented security releases for Forgejo and the Forgejo Actions runner. The migration to a new k8s cluster has made huge progress and is now powering the Forgejo-specific services in production. Improvements have been made to the performance and stability of Forgejo as well as to the automated testing process.

https://forgejo.org/2024-11-monthly-update/

@lightweight @ernie One thing we can glean without any doubt is that the Linux Foundation has little to no interest in *desktop* Linux.

How climate risks are driving up insurance premiums around the US - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/05/climate-crisis-insurance-premiums #trump may lie that the #ClimateCrisis is a fraud, but the #insurance companies know it's true - rising premiums are proof

From JUSTICE WARRIORS: VOTE HARDER

Art by Ben Clarkson, Colors by Felipe Sobreiro.

If you think that someone killing a health insurance CEO is going to get anyone better healthcare, I think you are being rather optimistic. A police state (or more of one) seems to me to be a much more likely outcome. These one-off acts of violence will not lead any place useful because they aren't organized. That CEO's violence was/is effective because it is highly organized. We need to organize *actual solutions* (and remember, violence is always what the cops want us to do).

Auto Trader forecasts ‘seismic shift’ to electric vehicles in Britain - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/04/auto-trader-forecasts-seismic-shift-to-electric-vehicles-in-britain "expects a “seismic shift” towards electric vehicles (#EV) in the next 10 years as affordability improves, from 1.25m in 2024 to 13.7m."

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).