Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Hey fellow Tech Writers!

The Society for Technical Communication is dissolving and filing Chapter 7. It's the only professional society I've ever willingly joined (though I almost always wound up paying late fees to renew my membership).

Sigh.

https://www.stc.org/

Read the lates comics section at In These Times with Bianca Xunise, Jen Sorensen, mariah-rose marie, and Ruben Bolling.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/comics-la-fires-jen-sorensen

My original post was generated by an overly-helpful WordPress plugin that didn't include everything I wanted. Plugin deactivated, back to artisanal social media posting!

New Help Desk: A Very Specific Focus

https://www.eviscerati.org/comics/hd/2025/01/a-very-specific-focus/

New post: A Very Specific Focus https://www.eviscerati.org/comics/hd/2025/01/a-very-specific-focus/

Best explanation for why Trump wants to gut the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which does absolutely essential work:

A key part of CISA's mandate is to keep elections secure and honest, and it's done this brilliantly.

No wonder MAGA wants to kill it.

https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/a-little-known-federal-agency-helps-secure-elections-trump-wants-to-gut-it/

Everyone involved with this should be ashamed.

"We care so much about the climate that we wrote a whole book on grassroots climate activism. However, we don't want anyone to actually read it, so we priced it appropriately."

Routledge doesn't care about climate change, and they don't care about activism. They care about getting $280 out of your pocket and into theirs.

Please share: Our Max Planck Institute recently left X and is present here on Mastodon. Give them a follow! Beautiful pictures from the science of light!

#Mastodon #Physics #Science #Light #Quantum #Optics #Photonics #Pictures

@maxplanckgesellschaft

From: @MPI_ScienceOfLight
https://wisskomm.social/@MPI_ScienceOfLight/113906463840724222

Oh and if you're in a rush to switch earlier you're welcome

#Prav #GlobalSwitchDay

Okay, putting my hand up to help potential switchers. If you're thinking of switching to #XMPP this #GlobalSwitchDay, drop me a private mention and I can help you figure things out! Offer valid till stocks last

(I've been using XMPP-based federated messaging since forever, and know a bunch of servers including some I can invite you to, as well as a bunch of apps depending on your needs. This is just me though so I'll have to close if I get too flooded!)

#BoostsAppreciated #GuidedSwitch

Trump and his wholly owned Republican congressional majority are preparing legislation that is blatantly designed to prevent MILLIONS of Americans from registering to vote.

More from the Brennan Center for Justice, which closely tracks this stuff:

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/restricting-freedom-vote

AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt
Attackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an AI weapon.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/ai-haters-build-tarpits-to-trap-and-trick-ai-scrapers-that-ignore-robots-txt/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Of course, we'll be broadcasting on our self-hosted Owncast instance – which you can follow right here on the Fediverse to get notified of this and any future streams @cast

And, we'll be uploading the stream to our Peertube channel afterwards, which you can also follow here! @coopcloud@tv.undersco.re

Ok, so that's annoying. For some reason, Gmail has started querying the reverse ptr for my mail server's IPv6 address, which is a /64... I've specified the ptr for the whole /64, plus the ::1, ::2, and now it's started rejecting the ::1b, because apparently that's 'not defined'... so do I have to explicitly define every possible permutation?

This weekend (Feb 1st/2nd), join Co-op Cloud online at Fluconf for "Grow Your Own International Democratic Tech Federation", our first-ever presentation about the social/democratic/human side of the project.

Scheduling still in progress, time and date to be announced as soon as we know!

– 3wordchant

#CoopCloud #Fluconf #Democracy

So, in the process of migrating my website from Vercel to Hetzner, I was able to do a pretty good write-up of what I did. If anyone wants to follow in my footsteps (or alternatively, point out all the things I've done wrong) , I think it's a decent guide!

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/vercel_hetzner

Bookship, the anti-amazon that gives $$ to local bookstores with every sale, now has ebooks. That’s a big deal: https://bookshop.org/info/ebooks

We are living through an increasingly successful plot to end the American experiment.

One reason, though hardly the only one, is that journalists have normalized the extremist movement that organized and is carrying out the plot.

Apple-designed chips powering Macs, iPhones, and iPads contain two newly discovered vulnerabilities that leak credit card information, locations, and other sensitive data from the Chrome and Safari browsers as they visit sites such as iCloud Calendar, Google Maps, and Proton Mail.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/01/newly-discovered-flaws-in-apple-chips-leak-secrets-in-safari-and-chrome/

The main issue I see is that they charge in Euros. I don't have a problem with that philosophically or anything, I'd just be worried that the US economy tanks and suddenly it's like four US dollars to one Euro and *poof* you can't afford to pay for site hosting any more.

Why would I be worried about the US dollar tanking, you ask? IT'S A MYSTERY

So before this week my only knowledge of tagDiv was that they were a company that created WordPress themes. I almost used one for Eviscerati.Org, but I went with PenNews because it was marginally easier to configure.

Anyway, I got an email today stating that they were providing WordPress hosting:

https://tagdiv.com/wordpress-hosting/

Anyone have any experience with them on that front?