Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

There was a video AOC put out earlier this week. She mentioned that ppl who watch the fake Fox news call/contact their reps about an average of 8 times more than any other party. The contact/calls measure the public motivation....meaning more motivated voters come election time. She also mentioned if you're in a red state our voices matter the most. I have been making calls all week to all my GOP (🤮) reps. I use the scripts from 5 calls.

https://5calls.org/

Just discovered that my parents wedding day was on a Saturday and their 50th anniversary is also on a Saturday. Now I'm wondering if that's always the case (i.e. any date plus 50 years will fall on the same day of the week). 🤔

I used to scoff at the notion of a “General Strike.” But that was before Trump. So many people’s lives are now at stake from this criminal and his cronies and incompetent nominees, I really think it’s not a far fetched option. A sick-out strike with 20,000,000 of us would sure make it clear that this freak show has to end. No one elected this radical deconstruction of America.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) joined Lex Lumina LLP, State Democracy Defenders Fund, and The Chandra Law Firm in suing the OPM and OPM Acting Director Charles Ezell, alleging they illegally disclosed personnel records to Musk’s DOGE in violation of the federal Privacy Act of 1974. Last week, a federal judge temporarily blocked DOGE from accessing a critical Treasury payment system under a similar lawsuit.

“The Privacy Act makes it unlawful for OPM Defendants to hand over access to OPM’s millions of personnel records to DOGE Defendants, who lack a lawful and legitimate need for such access,” the complaint says. “No exception to the Privacy Act covers DOGE Defendants’ access to records held by OPM. OPM Defendants’ action granting DOGE Defendants full, continuing, and ongoing access to OPM’s systems and files for an unspecified period means that tens of millions of federal-government employees, retirees, contractors, job applicants, and impacted family members and other third parties have no assurance that their information will receive the protection that federal law affords.”

"With few exceptions, the Privacy Act limits the disclosure of federally maintained sensitive records on individuals without the consent of the individuals whose data is being shared. It protects all Americans from harms caused by government stockpiling of our personal data. This law was enacted in 1974, the last time Congress acted to limit the data collection and surveillance powers of an out-of-control President.

“The Privacy Act makes it unlawful for OPM Defendants to hand over access to OPM’s millions of personnel records to DOGE Defendants, who lack a lawful and legitimate need for such access,” the complaint says. “No exception to the Privacy Act covers DOGE Defendants’ access to records held by OPM. OPM Defendants’ action granting DOGE Defendants full, continuing, and ongoing access to OPM’s systems and files for an unspecified period means that tens of millions of federal-government employees, retirees, contractors, job applicants, and impacted family members and other third parties have no assurance that their information will receive the protection that federal law affords.”

https://www.eff.org/document/afge-v-opm-complaint

“What the fediverse currently is, is a countercultural network with little interest in mainstream pop culture.”

+1. Worth noting that the early Web was also nurtured by “countercultural” types — eg hippies on The Well who went on to found Wired, etc. I even mentioned this today in my post about IUMA in 1994: “Like much of the early Web, it had an anti-establishment feel — one of its goals was to create a distribution alternative to record labels.” https://cybercultural.com/p/iuma-1994/ https://mastodon.social/@fediversereport/113986683719960926

Debian is among the distributions with most supported CPU architectures and excellent cross-compilation support. We are working on improving its cross-building capabilities and keeping it easily cross-bootstrappable from source for upcoming CPU architectures. Therefore, we'll meet in an upcoming team sprint in Würzburg, Germany. See https://wiki.debian.org/Sprints/2025/BootstrapCrossbuild .

If the US invades us before 2028, will our unions get to participate in Shawn Fain's general strike? Will he give a shit about us once our jobs are american jobs?

If the US invades before 2026, will democrats tell us to VOTE in midterms? Not for our liberation, but for a minor reform to the ACA that the dems won't get through filibuster?

If the US invades this year, do we get to post snark about how they're hypocrites on the border and how they're not allowed to shoot us because it's illegal?

@Codeberg I've received similar mails from attacks on GitHub and GitLab in the past and the issues were sometimes accessible when I took a look.
In your case the issue already lead to a 404 when I looked at it.

So from my perspective you're doing a better job than the big players. Thank you for that ❤️

Reporting on what ICE officers are doing in full public view isn’t “leaking.”

The government loves to argue that there’s no privacy in public when it wants to surveil you. But apparently it doesn’t believe the same rules apply to ICE.

https://www.cjr.org/local_news/when-ice-raids-go-awry-reporting-gets-blamed.php

I always wanted a simple way to put the phone to silent mode when e.g. placing it on the table next to the 🛏️ . Since Biemster got NFC to work on the Oneplus 6/6T (https://github.com/biemster/pmos-openbox-conky/blob/main/nxp_nci_i2c.py) we can leverage that and have feedbackd's profile adjusted when certain RFIDs are seen (https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/feedbackd/-/merge_requests/154). For this to land we want to move the NFC support from a python script to s.th. like nfcd (https://github.com/biemster/pmos-openbox-conky/pull/18#issuecomment-2653920089). Help on this would be appreciated.

#phosh #feedbackd #rfid #LinuxMobile

People who think you are dunking on tech overlords by asking an LLM about them: WTF are you doing? Hey let's burn up a bunch of resources so I can get an algo to parrot my own criticisms of the people I hate back to me! And if you ever find yourself thinking "I wonder what ChatGPT thinks about this?" understand that you are experiencing the ELIZA effect - step away from the computing device until your rationality returns.

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The DDoS has been successfully mitigated in the past 24h but there is evidence that it is still going on. The situation is monitored daily and the devops team is working automated detection.

One more reason not to shop at CVS... https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/04/cvs-will-make-shopping-slightly-less-annoying-if-you-download-an-app-consent-to-being-tracked/

The NYT has published a useful graphic showing all the agencies with investigations into or regulatory battles with of Musk's companies that have seen staffing cuts, including the firing of top officials.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/us/politics/elon-musk-companies-conflicts.html

Street Protest (24 photos): https://streetartutopia.com/street-protest/

Sales have tanked worldwide. Stock is dropping every day. Protestors are now showing up at dealerships and charging stations across the country.

Make Tesla Radioactive.

#ArrestElonMusk #ElonMusk #DOGE #Swastikars #Gaslighter #RacistMusk #NaziMusk #PresidentMusk #TwitterIsGoingGreat #Shitter #Elno #FuckElonMusk #RhodesiaMusk #EETD #ElonPutz #BoycottTSLA #USPol

Imagine being an infosec person in US govt trying to write communicate about today's patches from Microsoft. You wouldn't even be able to properly classify or describe the most serious 0day today --a privilege escalation vulnerability -- because banned "DEI" words.

Danish citizens have launched an online petition, signed by 200,000 people, to purchase California. The petition notes that purchasing the Golden State would provide Danes with more sunshine, dominance in the tech industry, limitless avocado toast, and easy access to Disneyland. In return, California would get the rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.

Can they buy Wisconsin, please? I'd take that offer! 😆

https://ktla.com/news/california/thousands-of-danes-sign-petition-to-buy-california-from-u-s/