Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Who cares for the care givers?

https://www.propublica.org/article/childcare-rural-illinois-challenges

“Life is a beautiful adventure and a miracle,” he said. “We are too focused on wealth and not on happiness. We are focused only on doing things and, before you know it, life has passed you by.” #Pepe

https://apnews.com/article/uruguay-cancer-jose-mujica-pepe-democracy-politics-f1a0e1c056fcdd81100538169c19d9ca

It’s been about four months since I started hosting my own email again.

I have absolutely zero regrets. As large providers prove, now more than ever, that they are not on our side, it feels great to have that aspect of my online life under control.

I used the wonderful Run Your Own Mail Server book by the fedi’s own @mwl to guide my install.

It has been absolutely stable, I have perfect deliverability to the email empire, I’m on zero blocklists, and spam control is great.

If you’re a sysadmin, self-hoster, homelabber, ignore the nay-sayers. You can do it too.

#RYOMS #HomeLab #SelfHosted

Perpetual softball tosser Rogan "interviews" Zuckerberg, who lies and lies and lies with no pushback. This is how media work in 2025.

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/10/24341117/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-joe-rogan-lies

@dphiffer @flancian @ansate @sam @afewbugs @nix @foolishowl @django @Matt_Noyes @emi ...less important to me, because they aren't any other server. If we went strictly by number of reports, we'd have blocked Mastodon.social ages ago, which so many instances have done (with good reason). We haven't yet because (as I understand it) we accept they're a stepping stone no. 1 for many into the Fediverse, and their policies are good (if crappily enforced).

Meta, on the other hand, is.....(2)

@billstatler @scott I have just discovered a video series whose creator @anubis2814
presents the functions of #Friendica very nicely and also compares it with #Facebook: peertube.stream/w/p/4K4MWYXMEY…

I don't know Facebook from my own experience, but when I see the interface and the range of functions, I can imagine that you can also spend a bit of time getting to know the functions on Facebook. And then you can't customise anything visually for yourself and have to differentiate between the bloatware and the relevant functions.
You also have to spend a bit of time familiarising yourself with Friendica and even more so with Hubzilla.

With #Hubzilla, the control of who can see what is certainly much more differentiated than with Friendica. Friendica has public groups (forums), private groups, circles and direct messages.
I had tested a bit: the public forum also federates very well with other software (tested with Mastodon and Sharkey), with the private forum it probably only works properly within Friendica.

Hubzilla has an interesting opportunity right now. Due to the recent controversial changes made by #Facebook, many people are looking for a Facebook alternative. Well, Hubzilla is a #FacebookAlternative and this could be a great opportunity to attract new users to the Fediverse.

This is perfect timing, since we are launching several new things this month. We will start with some public servers that people can sign up for.

The first ones will be Hubzilla.Monster, Loves.Tech, and Conversation.Space. Then we will launch Mostly.Social and Infinity.Cafe after that. We are also working with some others that want to run their own public servers. So lots of new sites coming soon. And if you want your own domain, we offer Managed Hubzilla as well.

It is great that the fediverse has grown with Twitter-style platforms. But not everyone wants that. Some people want a Facebook alternative. And that is what we do. It's our time to shine.

#Hubzilla

Forgot to post earlier! Call for papers for International Co-op Alliance Cooperative Research Global Conference. Deadline: Jan 15th!

It's held in Montreal this year and CASC is partnering.

Hope to see some of you there!

https://ccr.ica.coop/en/newsroom/news/call-papers-ica-ccr-2025-global-research-conference

Montana’s Supreme Court has ruled that the 16 youth who sued the state in a landmark climate change lawsuit have a constitutional right to “a clean and healthful environment.”

https://grist.org/regulation/held-v-montana-youth-climate-lawsuit-supreme-court-decision/

This is just fucked up

"The world’s richest 1 per cent have burned through their share of the annual global carbon budget —the amount of CO2 that can be added to the atmosphere without pushing the world beyond 1.5°C of warming— within the first 10 days of 2025, new Oxfam analysis reveals"

https://www.oxfam.org.uk/mc/ibhwcz/

Wouldn't have guessed that I would end up being someone who likes to listen to farmers talk about various cooperative approaches in their area.

Liking the podcasts on https://farmcommons.org

Apple’s AI helpfully rewords scam messages to make them look legitimate

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/01/09/apples-ai-helpfully-rewords-scam-messages-to-make-them-look-legitimate/

The hypocrisy of fiscal economics:

When there is a crisis in the real economy, we are told austerity is needed to restore confidence & encourage growth - the neo-classical economic solution.

When there is a crisis in the financial serves sectors we are told what is needed is liquidity & stimulus to restore confidence & encourage growth - a (narrow form of) Keynsian response.

So its not so much Keynes has been rejected, but rather its only applicable when the rich are in trouble!

#economics

Ever so often I find an old #qemu VM and when starting it I see:

$ virsh start myvm
error: Failed to start domain 'myvm'
error: unsupported configuration: Emulator '/usr/bin/kvm' does not support machine type 'pc-0.12'

(which happens since qemu removed the pc-0.12 machine type a while back)

Now one could fix the domain XML by hand by why not let a script do it? Turns out #Ubuntu shipped one but removed it already. It's still in their version control though: https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvirt/tree/debian/libvirt-migrate-qemu-machinetype?h=applied/ubuntu/xenial

#libvirt

Hiring freeze at dozens of #NHS #cancer and diagnostic units despite rising referrals - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/10/hiring-freeze-nhs-cancer-diagnostic-units-rising-referrals exactly wrong

Democrats are doing what they do best: surrendering. https://newrepublic.com/article/190043/laken-riley-immigration-bill-trump-democrats-surrender

Under Meta's relaxed hate speech rules, users can now post "I'm a proud racist" or "Black people are more violent than whites." https://theintercept.com/2025/01/09/facebook-instagram-meta-hate-speech-content-moderation/

Sometimes when I talk to homeless people in the Bay Area, I ask them how they became homeless.

Sometimes, they say that they lost their homes in a wildfire.

More painful than seeing people lose their homes in a forest fire, is watching them lose their humanity, as our empathy for them evaporates.

https://www.redding.com/story/news/2019/06/11/annual-count-helps-identify-some-origins-homelessness/1409772001/

In the immediate days after someone loses their home in a wildfire, our talk is full of empathy.

But as days turn to weeks and months, we stop caring *why* someone doesn't have a home, and only care *that* they don't have a home.

We start planning to throw away their remaining possessions.

https://www.calhealthreport.org/2022/08/03/as-wildfires-grow-so-does-californias-housing-and-homelessness-crisis-here-are-some-solutions/

Homeless people aren't different people than us. They are us.

Many homeless people just experienced a sequence of unfortunate events that led them to this place.

"No! They're drug addicts! They did this to themselves!"🤡

Again, ask people with addiction how they became addicted.

They'll tell you

https://www.sfcityattorney.org/2023/05/17/san-francisco-city-attorney-announces-230-million-settlement-with-walgreens-after-victory-in-opioid-litigation/

There's a pervasive myth that people still believe about California homeless: that homeless people "come to California for the weather."

That's a lie that fortunate people 🙋🏿‍♂️ tell ourselves.

California homeless are almost all California residents (90%) who just had a bunch of bad luck in a row.

https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/our-impact/studies/california-statewide-study-people-experiencing-homelessness

Anyway, I skipped the "burrito taxi" discourse, AKA the meal delivery discourse.

Because if tomorrow you lost your home and your job to wildfire, and only had your car and a few hastily gathered possessions, and you needed to earn some money?

Your car would become a burrito taxi too.

I don't care if you know how to cook food for yourself for cheap, or if you treat yourself by having burritos delivered to your house.

I care that we live in a country so cruel, that some people deliver food in the cars that they live in, while those receiving the food don't even know or care.

The bigger issue is that by focusing on the rules moderation becomes entirely oriented towards the individual. Moderation becomes the judging of individuals and their actions according to the rules to determine whether content can stay or must go. Not incidentally this is also what liberal, and especially libertarian, ideology gets wrong about how society works.

Because that’s not what moderation is at all. Moderation is about structuring a space to allow for the community you want. You don’t moderate for individuals, you moderate for the group. The reason for taking an action as moderator isn’t because someone is guilty of breaking the rules but because of how they are affecting the community. This is a fundamentally different guiding principle for moderation. (And also points to the limitations of so many online moderating tools that only focus on removal/limiting who can see what.)

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Big news: a recent copyleft lawsuit we funded and supported has concluded with a very positive result for user rights! The suit, brought by a device owner in Germany, resolved with the purchaser receiving the right to repair, modify, and reinstall LGPLed software on their devices. Check out the details at https://sfconservancy.org/news/2025/jan/09/avm-copyleft-lawsuit-resolved-with-install/