Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

https://www.epw.in/journal/2025/5/special-articles/governing-tribal-towns.html #indigenous "Tribals in South Asian countries share commonalities with counterparts in North America, New Zealand, and Australia in terms of marginalisation and subjugation. ... Cities, like Aizawl, Shillong, Kohima, Dimapur, and Itanagar are dominated by tribal populations...unlike other parts of the country, the question of tribal land dispossession is minimal in North East India. .. an intriguing question: How does urbanism operate in small tribal towns and cities?"

Let’s be clear.

These are Trump’s tariffs. Anybody else who knows how tariffs and economies actually work would never have jeopardized the American economy. Little wonder Trump was responsible for seven bankruptcies as well as for crashing the economy in2019.

The more you know.

#economy #tariffs #trumptariffs

Hey WordPress admins: my site keeps pestering me to use persistent object cache to improve performance. I used Redis for a while but it made it impossible to schedule future updates - i.e., WordPress lets me schedule a new comic (for example) to show up on the site at some future date, but with Redis running, Redis doesn't notice the update and the site doesn't actually display the new post until I manually clear Redis cache.

Is there some way to fix that? It is not desirable behavior.

Punching the twerps installed at various government agencies is ideal, but there are other ways to stymie them. https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2025/02/03

This is also an excellent time to reach out to less unhinged people in "red states" to get them to lean on their representatives:
https://www.mobilize.us/workingfamilies/event/752152/

Here's the script I used:

"Hi, my name is [NAME], and I’m a constituent from [ADDRESS].

"I’m calling to express my outrage over Elon Musk’s unlawful takeover of the federal government, and I ask that [REPRESENTATIVE/SENATOR] [THEIR NAME] do everything in [HIS/HER] power to resist. Please refuse to cooperate, and support any legal challenges or investigations into Musk and his organization. Congress can stop this if we come together."

If you can stomach making phone calls *at all* please call your legislator to resist Elon Musk's coup, and then spread the word:
https://5calls.org/issue/elon-musk-opm-gsa-takeover/

Just saw something come across my feed expressing alarm about the lack of street protests in the U.S. right now.

I can't guarantee that there's more or better resistance now than there was in 2017, but here's a reminder out there that there are many types of action beyond street protests.

@conservancy @karen
And my own thought: if your #FOSS project's #chat is on #Discord , I will not join.
I already know it will get enshittified. I will not give them a phone number, I don't want to get tracked and my data sold as a price of contributing to FOSS.

So yeah, I've been mostly absent from the #bevy #community for that reason.
I hope that changes one day.

#proprietary #Enshittification #freesoftware

It seems that a few people are being misinformed about the deprecation of the X11 backend, usually because they read screeds from well-known bad faith actors.

The X11 backend being deprecated mainly means that we're not going to spend time implementing new features, like dmabuf, graphics offloading, or Vulkan support. X11 support will still exist until GTK4 is EOL, which will happen once GTK *6* is released. We're talking about a 20 years horizon, at this point…

#FOSDEM is over.
How many of you have seen Bad Apple running on an e-paper screen, smoothly?
Because I have, at a private presentation in one of the sitting areas, and, friends, it blew my socks off.
Let me tell you, it's funny to see something cast a shadow on a computer screen.

Apparently the driver is running a custom FPGA and plenty of it is open source.

Good luck @modos . I want to get one now. https://www.modos.tech/blog

#epaper #eink #freesoftware #fosdem2025 #wayland

Over at @WIRED, reporters like Vittoria Elliott are doing excellent work documenting Musk's takeover of the federal government

In this piece, she tracks down the names of the people Musk has installed at various agencies

these guys are all 19 to 24 year old engineers -- one is a Thiel fellow

Story here: https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-government-young-engineers/

Unpaywalled: https://archive.is/L2C7d

@lightweight @thomasbeagle So happy that we got away from AWS. Never my choice, one of my tech friends who used it wound up hosting all our stuff on it. Worst set-up ever, and overpriced as well. Took two years to get us off it and we are still paying $80 a year for a client whose IT contractors left some stuff there. You can't trust Big Tech so you may as well be without it.

Apparently it is an enormous pain in the ass to set up #Signal on a laptop without using a smartphone. You have to go hunting around for potentially sketchy third-party tools that might or might not even work.

Is there any reason for this beyond the Signal dev team maybe believing everyone has a smartphone?

i’m begging open source maintainers to stop using stale bots

We must recognize the danger that age verification laws have beyond pornography. They could clear the way for politicians to deem harmful any content they disagree with, such as LGBTQ+ content or content about abortion. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/impact-age-verification-measures-goes-beyond-porn-sites

@leighelse

It was Gates' Letter to Hobbyists that made me realise I was dealing with the Forces of Evil. Before that Big Blue suffered the same consideration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists

@lightweight

Had a nice chat with the kind people from @weblate at #FOSDEM, yesterday. Head over to the K building and visit their stand, if you're interested in localising your projects.

If your project is hosted on @Codeberg, you can make use of #codebergs's #weblate instance which is available at https://translate.codeberg.org/.

#FOSDEM2025

Thousands of #trees planted in #Devon to start creation of Celtic rainforest
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/29/thousands-of-trees-planted-in-devon-to-start-creation-of-celtic-rainforest

"They used to cover large parts of #Britain... The mature temperate #rainforest will take several decades to become established, but the gains for nature will be much swifter... #TemperateRainforests support an abundance of #wildlife including #birds while their damp conditions mean #mosses, #liverworts, #lichens, #ferns and #fungi thrive on the trees as well as the forest floor."