Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Listening to RNZ right now, hearing about Trumps insinuations about Ukraine's power plant ownership (by the US) is quite well aligned with the approach Naoim Klein described in 2007 in Shock Doctrine. In that book, she perfectly characterised the world we're in today. It's insightful and terrifying. Too few people in our democracies understand this stuff.

@debian Have fun there!

Notice a type in the URL: The link in the mail goes to https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2025/03/msg00005.html while the actual page is https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/de/2025/MiniDebConfHamburg (captial C).

Registration and the Call for Proposals for Debian MiniDebConf Hamburg 2025, April 30 to May 5, are now open! The deadline for submitting proposals is April 13. Sponsors Wanted! https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2025/03/msg00005.html #debian #debconf #MiniDebConfHamburg

I am in Bangkok, Thailand! I am attending this #DeltasUNite Summit #DeltaSummit25 for the preparation of the United Nations Convention on the Conservation of River Deltas (#UNCCRD), on behalf of the Transboundary Water InCooperation Network (TWIN). I gave a talk on:
“The potential of #CommunityScience and
#cooperatives in building resilience and food-water-energy security in delta communities”
I spoke about the #SolidarityEconomy !
#TransboundaryWater #BenningtonCollege

🚀 GNOME 48 is here!
After months of hard work from contributors worldwide, this release brings exciting updates and improvements. 🎉

🔎 Check out what’s new in #GNOME48 in the release notes: https://release.gnome.org/48

The #Forgejo monthly update was published ✨ It is a high level overview of the project activities.

FOSDEM impressions were published and feedback is being collected regarding migrations to Forgejo and commercial usages of Forgejo. code.forgejo.org got hit by a DDoS that was successfully mitigated. A new localization component is now in use and work on federation continued.

https://forgejo.org/2025-02-monthly-update/

Harry Reid was a boxer and Chuck Schumer is, at best, the robot from Rocky IV. https://www.patreon.com/c/BrianMcFadden

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/