Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Humans Will Continue to Live in an Age of Incredible Food Waste - https://www.wired.com/story/food-production-energy-waste/ "Food production has never been higher—or more costly. Yet the amount that goes uneaten remains shockingly high." just absurd

WHO Director-General @drtedros at a media briefing on 10 December 2024:

"We cannot talk about COVID in the past tense. It’s still with us, it still causes acute disease and Long COVID, and it still kills.

The world might want to forget about COVID-19, but we cannot afford to."

If someone is already a millionaire, we want to make them work twice as hard to get to their second million. 10 times as hard for the third one. 1000 times as hard to get to a billion.

We want people to get to a certain level of wealth and say to themselves; this 'net worth number go up' game is rigged. I'm going to find other ways to distinguish myself.

(4/?)

Football federation Fifa, which competes with the IOC for the title of most corrupt international sports body, just gave one of the world's cruelest dictatorships the World Cup.

Human rights? What's that?

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/11/sport/saudi-arabia-2034-world-cup-fifa-bid-spt-intl/index.html

Microsoft will soon cut off Windows 10 security updates, and says "up yours" to people with (somewhat) older computers who would happily use Windows 11, but now will be blocked

Intel and AMD appreciate this very much.

If you aren't ready to put your older but working-fine computer in a landfill, and further pollute the planet, you have a better option:

It's easier than ever to install and use Ubuntu or Mint or some other Linux system.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/4/24312928/microsoft-windows-11-older-hardware-tpm-support

"Karlitschek isn’t just saying words he thinks you want to hear. Many years ago he was one of the founders of OwnCloud, which he helped fork into Nextcloud when he saw software that he helped create being used in an open-core mix in which important functions were being released under proprietary licenses": Nextcloud Takes on 'Teams' With 'Talk' - We Have Screenshots - FOSS Force https://fossforce.com/2024/12/nextcloud-takes-on-teams-with-talk-we-have-screenshots/

I've had a draft on the back burner for a while comparing the Luddite revolution of the 19th century to the IWW-led strikes of the 20th century and how breaking private property was a key strategy in both, and how they both fell apart only after violence against people was brought up. I'm not sure what the 21st century example would be, maybe not having a large labor movement anymore means there isn't one. I still can't quite get my thoughts together and haven't gotten very far on this.

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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