Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

@benpate

I love that you added the licensing. what a lot of folks would like that #bandcamp doesn't offer is a way to search for #ccmusic. I'm sure there's lots of opinions re how best to do that but maybe if that tag could work alongside tags for genres. IDK.

cc @ryno @musicman

Hey #Musicians, between Christmas and New Years, I've been pretty quiet about #Bandwagon.

But I have a bunch of huge news that I'm super excited to finally share with you.

Here's the full news release. I'll put highlights in a reply

https://bandwagon.fm/2025-01-01-January-Update

Happy New Year fedifriends!

I'm excited to officially announce the launch of TheIndieBeat.fm, a streaming radio station showcasing indie #music from the Fediverse.

The Indie Beat Radio is made possible through a collaboration with Bandwagon.fm / @benpate

Music artists who upload their work to Bandwagon.fm have the option to make tracks available for streaming on TheIndieBeat.fm

Our goal is to use federation to make less work for artists — upload once; distribute infinitely.

Arizona's right-wing legislature rigged the "public" education system completely against actual public education and in favor of private schools -- and made sure no one could find out how the for-profit edu-looters are performing.

https://www.propublica.org/article/arizona-private-school-vouchers-no-transparency?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=secondary

Great reporting from @ProPublica

@dcz OCSP stapling - the webserver instead of your client queries an OCSP responder, and attaches the response to all requests.

Help Mandela Grocery transition to eco-friendly refrigerants.

"In January, changes in regulations will require us to replace our refrigerator valves and transition to eco-friendly refrigerants. This upgrade is essential to ensure we remain compliant with state regulations and continue operating sustainably. The total cost for this vital repair is $20,000—a significant and unforeseen expense that we didn’t budget for."

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-mandela-grocery-meet-urgent-refrigeration-needs

Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo, Co-Editor of GEO, guests on Everything Co-op to discuss the evolution of housing cooperatives in Washington, D.C., the prospect of forming a federation of limited equity housing cooperatives, and the role cooperatives play in improving the quality of life for its participants.

https://geo.coop/gleanings/ajowa-nzinga-ifateyo-co-editor-grassroots-economic-organizinggeo

I went to #38c3 and left my laptop unplugged. Its clock stopped and it think it's December 27.

Of course, web site certificates are invalid. But why do I get #OCSP errors in #Firefox when I clearly disabled OCSP querying?

> An error occurred during a connection to search.brave.com. The OCSP response is not yet valid (contains a date in the future).

Is this a data leak about domains I visit? I'd search for info but #Brave doesn't load :P

#privacy #tls #pki #security #web

A new year is a time where a lot of people revisit life goals and set resolutions. If you have ever wanted to write a tech book, but weren't sure where to start, in How to Write a Tech Book I walk you through the full process from idea to post-publishing work.

In addition to hardcover, paperback, and ebook versions on Lulu, I've also recorded an audio book on Audible, voiced by professional actor David H. Lawrence XVII.

https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/kyle_rankin

https://www.amazon.com/Audible-How-Write-Tech-Book/dp/B0CX5Q1G4Y

#writing #publishing

is it still possible to buy DAT players these days? I just found a bunch of old music on DAT and really want access to it.

Currently wondering if it would be possible to convince someone to pay me to put together resources on collective living.
I would really love to gather a bunch of resources and stories from a variety of collective homes on both the larger goals and the mundane details. The larger objective would be to create resources that can make starting and running a collective home easier.
I would really love to be able to be under someone's wing who has more experience with housing policy.
Basically, I just want to spend a bunch of time reading/thinking/writing/talking about the collective living and maybe also find a way to pay rent while doing that.

jacqueline project update: i am looking for additional work. please hire me.

i am a very good software engineer. i can lead engineering teams, i can manage projects, i can design hardware. i have brought a physical product to market. i'm quite the catch!

if you've ever used an android phone, then you've run code i wrote. if you've gotten directions with google maps, you've used ui built by me and the team i used to lead. i'm also quite good at backend server development!

#fedihired

Without going into specific cases, of which there are many, I've noticed a pattern in our news cycle.

1. Someone says Something Crappy.
2. It resonates through our collective minds.
3. There's outrage, people take sides, interest grows, the media picks it up and amplifies it.
4. People fight over petty details, ignoring preposterous lies buried in the original statement.

We need to ask what feelings/ideas people are promoting when they say Crappy Things.

Apparently there are more non-profit employees in the US now than manufacturing workers.

https://youtu.be/5TDdvE6pqS8?feature=shared&t=90

Sweden begins #wolf hunt as it aims to halve endangered animal’s population - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/01/sweden-wolf-hunt-halve-population-endangered-animal sickening start to #2025; shame on #sweden, in thrall to sadistic killers

Support any political candidate or party with a serious plan to tax the billionaires and their heirs.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-31/world-s-500-richest-billionaires-surpassed-10-trillion-in-wealth-in-2024?leadSource=uverify%20wall

We should make all candidates for office do this 👇 before they are allowed to run (btw, in the book, this is the paragraph immediately preceding the one in the previous post).

Reminder that elections have long been recognized as undemocratic. Sortition is real democracy. Elections guarantee you end up with narcissists in power - at least with random selection it's not guaranteed.
[Quote below from The Dawn of Everything, by Graeber and Wingrow.]