Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

What's on the Schmaltzmark Channel this month? https://www.dailykos.com/story/2024/12/6/2290489/-Cartoon-Schmaltzmark-channel-holiday-specials

Did you know that @gnome contributors have curated a list of issues for you to work on as you’re just starting?

https://gitlab.gnome.org/groups/GNOME/-/issues/?state=opened&label_name%5B%5D=4.%20Newcomers

The #Newcomers label will make for an easy onboarding. Join us now!

Elon #Musk revealed as sole funder of RBG Pac that claimed Trump and Ginsburg were aligned - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/06/elon-musk-rbg-pac-abortion "Musk bolstered Pac with $20.5m ahead of election while late supreme court justice’s family denounced it as ‘appalling’" this man is a liar from top to bottom

‘#Brexit problem’: UK tap water safety at risk after testing labs shut down - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/07/brexit-problem-uk-tap-water-safety-at-risk-after-testing-labs-shut-down "EU countries will share laboratory capacity but UK rules mean products cannot be tested abroad" what a continuing insane fiasco

#Israel attacks hospital in northern #Gaza, leaving bodies lying in streets, director says - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/07/israel-attacks-hospital-in-northern-gaza-leaving-bodies-lying-in-streets-director-says "Head of Kamal Adwan hospital says ‘large number’ of dead left by Israeli attack; Israel denies targeting medical complex" so normal, people don't even notice it now... #genocide

in all the coverage of the woolworths strike — which is partly about opposition to the company's new "efficiency" staff monitoring system — i'm not seeing enough people crediting the guardian's Ariel Bogle for her investigation which was the first media coverage of the system and its issues

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/oct/23/woolworths-staff-efficiency-productivity-crackdown-timed

Please read this 2014 plea by a very rich guy to his fellow very rich people to help rebuild, not wreck, what's left of the middle class.

"The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats"

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014/

Turns out the 'falling sales' of electric cars in the UK were wishful thinking.
November sales: battery electric vehicles +51% year-on-year; petrol/gasoline -35%.
Via Simon Evans on the birdsite
#EVs #cars

#opengl is like:

let's throw a bunch of global variables around and call it a state machine.

#gles 2.0 is the following circle of hell.

I had a bug in my OpenGL and I knew immediately what it was. I'm scared of what I had become.

#etnaviv

If you use #Codeberg for your #Git hosting, which other services you rely on can you recommend further?

For instance, we appreciate the service by #LetsEncrypt for our TLS certificates and @Anoxinon for our Mastodon instance.

They think we're weird for thinking these guys aren't normal. https://brianmcfadden.org/2024/11/27/normalization-nation/

If journalists have to fact-check everything "AI" spits out, wouldn't it be simpler -- and less time consuming -- to do the research in the first place?

Or is the point saving time and labor (i.e. money) and screw the consequences?

(That second question was rhetorical.)

https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/5/24313222/chatgpt-pardon-biden-bush-esquire

So does everyone now admit that "Obamacare" was an inadequate solution to the healthcare crisis? Just checking.

The Fedora Project is looking for a new git forge to move to, and right now the preference is toward @forgejo over GitLab. We're looking for feedback one more time from the community before the Fedora Council has a vote on it!

Learn more: https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-moves-towards-forgejo-a-unified-decision/

#Fedora #Forgejo #GitLab #OpenSource #Git

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