Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

These apps are building #Instagram alternatives on open protocols - https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/09/these-apps-are-building-instagram-alternatives-on-open-protocols/

Grassroots efforts against dangerous technologies are changing the game! Little Rock joins the growing list of cities to reject ShotSpotter. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/eff-applauds-little-rock-ak-cancelling-shotspotter-contract

A persistent problem in trying to have any solidarity with the American so-called left is the complete and utter lack of internationalism. In the big scheme, this is a pretty minor example, but it's instructive.

At any given juncture, they always choose exceptionalism and nebulous notions of the economy. Wars aren't bad because they're killing foreigners, they're bad because US soldiers die and the money should be spent on domestic social democracy for Americans instead. It's so empty.

A group of neo-Nazis went to Cincinnati Ohio this week to wave Nazi flags off of highway overpasses.

Only problem is they did this in a Black neighborhood that's had enough of their hateful bullshit.

Police were unwilling or unable to keep the crowd of pissed of Black Americans from running off the Nazis.

#Ohio #Cincinnati #Nazi #BlackMastodon

Almost all of the talks in the FOSS on Mobile Devices devroom from this years #FOSDEM have become available to watch!

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/mobile/

#LinuxMobile

Still waiting for the Parliamentarian to pipe up, but I guess they only have power during Dem administrations when they (the Dems) are looking for an excuse to not do the popular thing.

When a party that is in power insists there's nothing they can do to further their platform when the other party gets obstructionist, but when out of power insists that there's nothing they can do to obstruct the other party from putting its platform in place, they have admitted their own uselessness.

Ok, returning to the slow-burn project of finishing an important (to me) Drupal 7 to 10 upgrade. Drupal, you don't make it easy, although, I'm increasingly convinced that it's possible. I just have tighten up my feedback loop (i.e. I have to relearn all the stuff I've forgotten since the last time I looked at this a few months ago)...

@coopcloud's

> Co-op Cloud: Grow Your Own International Democratic Tech Federation

was added to their Peertube channel yesterday:

https://social.coop/@coopcloud/113965137258028974

https://fluconf.online/sessions/co-op-cloud-grow-your-own-international-democratic-tech-federation/

#coop #democracy #FOSS #openSource

The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified:

Four IT professionals lay out just how destructive Elon Musk’s incursion into the US govt could be.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/02/elon-musk-doge-security/681600/

"“This is the largest data breach & the largest #IT #security breach in our country’s #history—at least that’s publicly known”...

nobody yet knows which info #DOGE has access to, or what it plans to do with it...

“I don’t think the public quite understands the level of danger.”"

#Musk #Coup #Tech #News #USA

Some folks have asked if I've left. Short answer is no, still here and consider this my primary social media spot. Longer answer is I'm attending to health issues and they get priority over all the other stuff, though I check in here when I can; I'm glad this community exists, and is so robust.

@molly0xfff @mschfr El Sandifer says to pirate her ebooks and buy the paperback

I put my books on libgen myself and occasionally post the links

we may of course be exceptions

(10/N)
Heather Cox Richardson cont:

[Her recommended message to Republican voters]:

"... If this isn't what you voted for, please call your Senators and your Representative and tell them to take back control."

#uspol #coup

Lgbtq Couple I know in Washington DC just had their May wedding venue cancel on them citing ‘legal uncertainty’.

A History Museum heard of it and offered them a hall free of charge.

Small acts of resistance.

Latest comic: Plutobrats

#cartoon #comic #politics #uspol #tech

Recognizing the impact this new and potentially dangerous technology could have on the criminal justice system, Seattle-area prosecutors have instructed cops: Don’t use AI to write police reports. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/prosecutors-washington-state-warn-police-dont-use-gen-ai-write-reports

Bomb the area, gas the tunnels: Israel’s unbridled war on Gaza’s underground

Unable to pinpoint Hamas commanders in Gaza’s tunnels, the Israeli army decimated entire residential blocks with bunker-buster bombs to crush the passages below and flood them with lethal fumes, an investigation reveals.

https://www.972mag.com/tunnels-hamas-lethal-gas-bombs-gaza/

"As always, Black people are caught between the proverbial rock and hard place, not wanting to ignore Trumpian antics while also being wary of any connection with the likes of #AlSharpton. The confusion about what to do is rampant and mirrors the general sense of confusion about Black political activity."

#DEI

https://www.blackagendareport.com/death-dei

A DOGE meeting must smell crazy bad. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/2/7/2302058/-Cartoon-Meet-the-coup-kids

#Forgejo 10.0.1 and 7.0.13 were just released! They are security releases.

We strongly recommend that all installations are upgraded to the latest version as soon as possible.

Read more in the companion blog post https://forgejo.org/2025-02-release-v10-0-1/

Download it at https://forgejo.org/releases/. If you experience any issues with this release, please report to https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues.

#forgejorelease

#Trump’s FBI Pick Kash #Patel Took Up to $5M in Stock From #Chinese Ecommerce Giant #Shein - https://www.wired.com/story/kash-patel-elite-depot-shein/ his entire team is rotten