Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

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THE TOXIC AVENGER #3 is out today! This one features major revelations that were a core part of my pitch to reimagine this series. Fans of Toxic Crusaders will be pleased.

Featuring three covers that rule IMO by Fred Harper, Sophie Campbell, and myself.

Awww, f no!

https://montanafreepress.org/2024/12/10/unpacking-a-uniquely-mysterious-development-proposal-in-paradise-valley/

Hi cooperators! Is anyone aware of US federal tax code that exempts (or provides a deduction to) a business owner from paying capital gains taxes on the sale of a company to the workers, and in which the transfer of stocks is not involved?

cc: @Matt_Noyes @mattcropp @dajb @ntnsndr @GuerillaOntologist

So the dead CEO was also doing insider trading and using his employees to train AI, besides just getting rich from the suffering of clients.

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/unitedhealthcare-tells-employees

If you want to be sure not to get blocked by our systems, please double-check you are not asleep on the F5 key now. Okay? Great.

The SFBA guerrilla bench project has a website! https://bench.builders

The organization that sets fishing rules for a swath of the Pacific Ocean covering nearly 20% of Earth’s surface and supplying half the world’s tuna catch held its annual meeting in Fiji from Nov. 28 to Dec. 3.

Parties to the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) adopted a landmark crew welfare measure — the first binding labor rights measure adopted by any of the world’s 17 regional fisheries management organizations.

By Edward Carver
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/12/first-of-its-kind-crew-welfare-measure-adopted-at-pacific-fisheries-summit/

#News #Oceans

"#Systemd 257 has been released. As usual, the list of changes is long; it includes support for multipath TCP in socket units" 🎉

https://lwn.net/Articles/1001657/
#MPTCP

Simply add this in your SSH server service file and it will support MPTCP:

[Socket]
SocketProtocol=mptcp

Although we are not fully sure yet, there is a suspicious activity pattern from Russian IP addresses that currently brings Codeberg to a halt.

If confirmed, it is the first #IPv6 #DDoS attack in our history. Previously, we were only dealing with IPv4 so far.

This is your regular reminder that data brokers, especially Fog Data Sciences, which sells location data from cell phones to cops, must be destroyed: https://www.404media.co/location-data-firm-offers-to-help-cops-track-targets-via-doctor-visits/

Meet the new KOSA, same as the old KOSA

Unsurprising that police tip rewards are in fact a scam that require jumping through all manner of hoops to collect. All the more reason to not snitch.

https://www.unilad.com/news/us-news/luigi-mangione-ceo-shooting-mcdonalds-worker-reward-333982-20241210

⚠️“The state of the Arctic: High temperatures, melting ice, fires and unprecedented emissions

The Arctic tundra has switched from a carbon sink to a source of emissions, according to a NOAA report.” #ClimateCrisis
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/climate-change/arctic-ice-melting-high-temperatures-fires-emissions-rcna183464 https://www.nbcnews.com/science/climate-change/arctic-ice-melting-high-temperatures-fires-emissions-rcna183464?cid=mob_npd_nn_ios_mar

Bad news for all the Pokemon Go players out there...and probably the rest of us too 😕
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVmZy95vMUc

The Toxic Avenger #3 hits comic shops tomorrow. This early review is raving about how it is coming together, with a new character pulled from franchise deep freeze and major revelation about where this story is actually headed.
https://aiptcomics.com/2024/12/10/the-toxic-avenger-3-review/

222666 is your lucky number: It marks issues in #Forgejo that allow you to help improve the software and thus #Codeberg.

If you are interested in picking up a task, I'm happy to help and mentor where I can. Let me know if you prefer #coworking or at least a code reading session via screenshare.

https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues?labels=222666

#GoodFirstIssues #freesoftware #contributing

"Soon after the ACA was passed, Democrats started calling it ‘universal healthcare.’ If it weren’t for the 30% – 40% of claims that don’t get paid because there is no entity with the power to make insurance companies do so, they might have an argument. What is particularly galling about the effort is that the long history of predatory behavior by the insurance industry was available to anyone who cared to look."

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/12/rob-urie-politics-by-other-means-health-insurance-industry-edition.html

There are not many things in this world that myself and Jamie Dimon agree on, but apparently the reality that WWIII has already started is one of them. Hope you were all paying attention to that Fallout series.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brycehoffman/2024/12/08/world-war-iii-has-already-begun--and-businesses-need-to-take-note/

Monk abused children for decades on Welsh island ‘in plain sight’, review says - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/dec/09/monk-abused-children-for-decades-on-welsh-island-in-plain-sight-review-says "A headteacher raised the girl’s ordeal but the abbot asked the head not to report the matter to the police" oh, look: another one #religion