Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I'm sharing that link only as a citation to the quote, not because I think this guy is a good archeologist. His use of the term "pre-agricultural" gives him away as the all too common type who assumes teleology in human history, and a more-or-less tidy "progression" from hunter gatherer to agriculturalist. He's also a big fan of Pinker, which is a massive tell that there's some motivated panglossian reasoning going on here.

"Despite living in states of political anarchy, hunter gatherers were normally able to cooperate and exist peacefully together."

Not despite; because of.

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-prehistoric-psychopath/

Hi everyone, GitNex 8.0.0 is now out with numerous new features and UI refinements.

- User activity heatmap on the profile
- Dependencies for issues and prs
- Tracked time for issues and prs
- Search within files
- Filter issues by labels
- Filter issues where I am mentioned
- and more...

It's time to update! 🎉

Release notes: https://codeberg.org/gitnex/GitNex/releases

#gitnex #gitea #forgejo #codeberg #android #app #git

Big Tech wins, small developers lose. California A.B. 412 would make AI development nearly impossible for startups while big corporations skate by. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/californias-ab-412-bill-could-crush-startups-and-cement-big-tech-ai-monopoly

I've never been as simultaneously delighted and frustrated by a piece of software as I have been with InkScape. I'm sure the frustrations are just because I'm a newb, but man is ever it easy to accidently mess things up with a stray click...

Advantages of ordering a custom #PCB :
- price
- staying away from corrosive #chemicals
- solder mask
- great quality

Advantages of etching your own:
- being able to make 3 consecutive mistakes, find an fix them in a single day

The best choice probably depends on how easily distracted you are...

#pcb_design #electronics #circuits

3/18/1871 marks the anniversary of the Paris Commune, one of the the biggest urban uprisings and experiences of self-organization of modern history. Check out Voices of The Paris Commune and visit the link in our bio for a blog and video featuring Mitchell Abidor to learn more. Poster by @justseeds

Canadian actor detained at US border in ‘inhumane conditions’ for nearly two weeks - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/18/canadian-actor-jasmine-mooney-detained-mexico-border "in a single concrete cell with no natural light, fluorescent lights that are never turned off, no mats, no blankets, and limited bathroom facilities.” #boycottamerica #canada

Would you be interested in starting a cooperative business helping 🇪🇺 European companies and organizations migrate away from ⛓️‍💥 cloud platforms from USA? Let's talk 💬 If you think someone in your network might, please boost 🙏

#Europe #EU #Cooperative #DigitalSovereignty

Europe and European governments can no longer rely on American clouds. A European alternative won’t emerge on its own. That’s why it’s time for industrial policy—but it won’t be easy.

In this post, I explore the challenges and immodestly propose a coherent strategy to develop European alternatives: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/now-how-to-get-that-european-cloud/

holy shit cloudflare has admitted to capturing our logins with their giant, ubiquitous proxy:

“Based on Cloudflare's observed traffic between September - November 2024, 41% of successful logins across websites protected by Cloudflare involve compromised passwords.”

https://blog.cloudflare.com/password-reuse-rampant-half-user-logins-compromised/

Big Pharma used public money to get score billions from mRNA vaccines, and fueled anger against their greed. This will be one pretext anti-vaxxers like RFKjr will use to shut down crucial research. Everyone but the researchers is loathsome in this tale.

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/nih-grants-mrna-vaccines-trump-administration-hhs-rfk/

Congratulations to everyone who paid a cover charge to eat a microwaved-from-frozen shepherd's pie today.

during the first Trump term, guest Chris Newman of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network says his phone was ringing off the hook with local and state (e.g. California) legislators asking them how to strengthen sanctuary city policies. this time no one is calling. alarming silence because these policies were so effective at stopping deportations the first time around

TIL it was the Obama administration that first linked the DHS and FBI databases so that the standard check, when someone was arrested, as to whether they had warrants in another state, etc., would also flag them for potential deportation.

https://thedigradio.com/podcast/deportation-nation-w-chris-newman/

So at some point the standard for IPv6 address assignment seems to have changed so that it changes randomly, eliminating the primary purpose of IP addresses, so IPv6 has been rendered useless.

It's like we're so used to technical shortcomings of IPv4 being treated as security features, that we've effectively disabled IPv6, despite the problem of IPv4 address space exhaustion.

GIMP 3.0 is released, check it out!

https://testing.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-3.0.html

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who contributed in any way - from testing and submitting bug reports through to designing, coding, fixing, packaging, testing some more, translating, documenting, hosting, administration, so many people, so much work, so much to be thankful for!

Welcome to GIMP 3.0!

On Ideological Purity - Joan Westenberg:
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/on-ideological-purity/

When it comes to software freedom, low-carbon, & anti-DRM fights... I'd say I'm individually quite pure, but not perfectly. But that's not really my goal.
My goal is to help society move towards that direction! To make it easier for others to!
And part of that is not shaming people!