Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Authorities in Lake County, IN are inadvertently furthering both Trump’s anti-press and anti-immigration agendas by prosecuting a journalist arrested at an ICE protest.

Seth Stern explained in the Post-Tribune.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/08/guest-column-lake-county-prosecutors-must-drop-charges-against-photojournalist/

I’ve posted a detailed explanation of why the claimed ESP32 Bluetooth chip “backdoor” is not a backdoor. It’s just a poor security practice, which is found in other Bluetooth chips by vendors like Broadcom, Cypress, and Texas Instruments too. https://darkmentor.com/blog/esp32_non-backdoor/

A backpacker was snatched by ICE. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c80y3yx1jdyo

#BeckyBurke

People. Do not come to the United States. It isn't safe.

The real reason for crypto has always been money laundering and financial scams. The real reason for "AI" is to replace "knowledge workers." If you've been around the US for awhile, none of that is surprising. What's surprising (and maddening, and depressing) to me is the number of people who will stan for both of those technologies while claiming to be leftists of some variety. They are like someone who promotes a 3-card monty game, despite not getting a cut of the take.

America has been "disappearing" people for decades. They have military bases and black ops sites worldwide. They obey no law when they do this but their own desire to do it. In the past it was perhaps mostly foreigners or outsiders they summarily captured and tortured but don't count out that they do it to their own as well.

The USA is, and has always been, a violent, authoritarian state. Don't only notice that when it affects something you care about. It was always there.

#usa

#Measles outbreak hits 208 cases as federal response goes off the rails - https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/03/measles-outbreak-hits-208-cases-as-federal-outbreak-response-goes-off-the-rails/ "CDC to reportedly study nonexistent link between measles vaccine and autism." #bonkers

Music labels will regret coming for the #InternetArchive, sound historian says - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/music-labels-will-regret-coming-for-the-internet-archive-sound-historian-says/ " Labels push to spike cost of Internet Archive fight over old 78s. " #copyright

We're all going to be paying for some people's obsession with tech toys (that don't actually work very well).

https://floodlightnews.org/power-for-data-centers-could-come-at-staggering-cost-to-consumers/

"Republicans are growing concerned that president Donald #Trump’s #tariffs are hurting the US economy, with constituents telling them they are struggling financially." - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/mar/10/donald-trump-tariffs-republicans-canada-china-us-politics-latest-live-news?page=with%3Ablock-67cebbdc8f08fe8acb3aaedb#block-67cebbdc8f08fe8acb3aaedb they've been conned, and now realise it

Good morning SCALE 22x! At 1:45pm today I'll be speaking in room 105 about how to use Nextcloud as a self-hosted cross-platform cloud to serve all your personal groupware needs. I hope to see you there!

https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x/presentations/nextcloud-self-hosted-cross-platform-cloud

#scale #scale22x

Experts Sound Alarm on #Caspian #Seal Population Decline - https://astanatimes.com/2025/03/experts-sound-alarm-on-caspian-seal-population-decline/ "declined by 90% over the past century, dropping from 1.2 million in the early 20th century to an estimated 75,000 to 270,000 today," sad to see

"Abdulrahman, a leading critical voice against the Assad-led government who documented its alleged killings for more than a decade, said: "This is not about being pro or against the former Assad regime. These are sectarian massacres that aim to expel the Alawite population from their homes." "

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hundreds-killed-syrian-crackdown-alawite-region-war-monitor-says-2025-03-08/

After 80 years of transatlantic ties, Europe forges a new alliance - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/09/after-80-years-of-transatlantic-ties-europe-forges-a-new-alliance time to forget about the US, take this new opportunity

‘It’s a place of healing’: the man on a mission to restore Britain’s ancient rainforest - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/09/its-a-place-of-healing-the-man-on-a-mission-to-restore-britains-ancient-rainforest bring back the temperate rainforests #rewilding

Using FOSS apps is the first step, the next one is having them reproducibly built.

Is your keyboard reproducible, verified or none? Find out in https://f-droid.org/2025/03/04/even-my-keyboard-is-built-reproducibly.html

Big Sigh. This 'Motu Move' ticketing system (like the regional venue ticketing contracts) demonstrates how the gov't simply doesn't understand how detrimental monopolies are to everything. Picking *one* vendor solution when there're many different possible solutions, is the simplistic & doomed approach. Specifying an open standard allowing any compliant vendor solution to participate is the way to go. I wrote this website years ago to explain it: https://openstandards.nz

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/undocumented-backdoor-found-in-bluetooth-chip-used-by-a-billion-devices/

My read because I’ve been asked many times and need to sleep

The caveats and needs for further research the team notes are very honest. It’s hard to really calculate risk here because most vectors are physical and impact will vary by device and manufacturers.

Latest comic: It's profoundly weird to witness what is happening in the US as someone who came of age at the end of the Cold War.

#cartoon #comic #uspol #ukraine