Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

US-funded ‘social network’ attacking #pesticide critics shuts down after Guardian investigation - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/10/v-fluence-pesticide-critics "v-Fluence halts operations after widespread backlash over private portal profiling environmental health advocates" guardian becomes more vital by the day...

I noticed a very strange URL today, a JS resource in a parking permit renewal site:

https[://]prodpci[.]etimspayments[.]com/orld-Swearer-they-profes-ayre-andlessedomenthoug

It's a constant string, as far as I can tell. Which is weird, because it looks like the output of a passphrase generator, except with characters dropped?

It returns a bunch of garbage-y stuff, but not just the usual compressed JS—at a glance, it looks obfuscated. Also, after logging in, there's a POST to this endpoint that returns JSON with a `token` field.

This is at https://prodpci.etimspayments.com/pbw/include/somerville/rpp_login.jsp if anyone is curious.

📢 The GUADEC Call for Papers is officially open!
Submit your paper by March 16th via this link: https://events.gnome.org/event/259/abstracts/#submit-abstract

Join us for an amazing conference in Brescia, Italy, from July 24-29! 🇮🇹

Folks, a few of us will be having our monthly meeting to discuss #libre, #FreeAndOpenSource digital stuff, the politics surrounding it, and any other topics that interest the group. We'll be meeting at https://meeting.iridescent.nz tomorrow (Tues 11 Feb, 20:00 NZDT) for anyone who is interested in joining us! Let's see if we can 'challenge' our BigBlueButton...

'Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna's Archive, Despite Few Seeders' * TorrentFreak https://torrentfreak.com/meta-torrented-over-81-tb-of-data-through-annas-archive-despite-few-seeders-250206/

"Every week brings a new chorus of voices demanding that [insert tech giant] must “do better” [...] We’ve become digital peasants, petitioning various lords and kings to please, please fix the internet for us."

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/01/27/empowering-users-not-overlords-overcoming-digital-helplessness/

Yes, maybe you don't like life outside of #youtube . But if you only publish there, you've become a digital peasant subject to the whims of your lord.

Youtube is not my friend, so if you stay confined there, I won't watch you.

#digitalsovereignty

The feeling when it's easier to #ssh into the phone and `sudo poweroff` than pick it up and use the GUI to do the same :)

#linux #linuxmobile

This seems like a really good idea: education software - a collaborative whiteboard - funded by a centralised gov't education department and developed by the local university... https://squeet.me/display/962c3e10-59442f7f-2c892d5394cc963b

Trying out [[disroot]] this weekend, liking it a lot so far!

This is what you get with a membership, all with one password :)

https://disroot.org

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 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.