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“The void is deep for Walz, who only in the last few weeks has begun to publicly address his and Kamala Harris’ 2024 loss with what he called “the most unsatisfying ‘I Told You So’ tour in the history of politics.” He says too many Democratic leaders are still not truly grappling with how bad things are politically for them, what he believes is President Donald Trump’s march toward authoritarianism or the anger and frustration at both parties building across the country.” https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/20/politics/tim-walz-democratic-party-future-town-hall-tour/index.html

@mjg59 This triggered a lot of thoughts from me, and more than would fit in a post here, so I finally fired up the blog: https://bmitch.net/blog/2025-03-20-reproducible-builds/

More on the background:

User research: In https://codeberg.org/forgejo/user-research/src/commit/95e559f5ac3702ea5c864e6e0a7e02d3e937ba27/interviews/2024-04/accessibility.md?display=source#L17, we talked about URLs that are easy to navigate using the browser (e.g. being easier than navigating within the page), and we have noticed other people that navigate by manually entering or editing the URL from time to time.

In Forgejo, there are currently discussions for new implementation that would benefit from your feedback, see https://codeberg.org/forgejo/discussions/issues/304 and https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/pulls/6977#issuecomment-2938196

#Blind users, users that rely heavily on #keyboardNavigation or anyone else with a preference on that matter (please indicate what applies in the comments):

Do you have a preference for or comments on the format of URLs? During user research, we have learned that URLs that are easy to handle are a good thing.

We are currently considering to introduce URLs that do not need more reserved usernames in #Forgejo, such as https://codeberg.org/-/something/ or https://codeberg.org/_something/.

#a11y #accessibility

This is pretty hard hitting: https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/letter_to_doge_rerecommendationstosave2trillionoverthenext10years.pdf I quite like the 'Keep the Federal gov't's cloud & other IT markets competitive" on pg 15... But yeah, DOGE's purpose is not increase gov't efficience, it's to transfer public property into private hands.

What is the opposite of fascism? Living freely, colorfully, openly. Humanizing. Connecting with others. Gathering. Hoping. Following your dreams. Communing. Nurturing. Refusing despair. Laughing loudly. https://the.ink/p/the-opposite-of-fascism

The problem, aside from the product recalls, the fact you can die inside when it catches fire and the doors lock, the substandard programming and the fact they look like the entire genre vaporwave shit itself in vehicle form, is the fact that at this point it is known the only people who want one are fascists and/or smug dicks with raging compensation issues. This is the truck you buy when you hate yourself and everyone else.

https://electrek.co/2025/03/20/tesla-confirms-it-cant-sell-the-cybertruck-even-with-tax-credit-and-discounts/

West Papuan Indigenous people call for #KitKat boycott over alleged ecocide - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/20/west-papua-indonesia-palm-oil-deforestation-rainforest "Thousands of acres of rainforest is being cleared to produce #palmoil, used in popular #Nestlé and #Mondelēz brands"

Last month, EFF called on AGs in AR, MO, TX, and FL to investigate deceptive practices at crisis pregnancy centers. Today, we’re expanding our call to AGs in TN, OK, NE, and NC. There's much more to do. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/state-ags-must-act-eff-expands-call-investigate-crisis-pregnancy-centers

GNOME 48 was released yesterday with a battery charge limit option. It only supports specific laptops with a start/end charge threshold. In the future we hope to expand this by support the new charge_types kernel API in UPower. This requires existing drivers to be ported to this new kernel sysfs API. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/upower/upower/-/issues/285

There are (sadly) still multiple out of tree drivers which could be mainlined to support a battery preservation option. But I haven't been able to get my hands on an Acer, Asus TUF, Gigabyte laptop to get this going.

#gnome48

Anyone experience with #shelly support?

Our energeymeter broke after 3mo of operation and is now dead since several weeks. All I get from their support is kafkaesque requests. E.g. to film myself pressing a button for 10s to reset the device.

Reply mails spawn new tickets which support then ignores, then needs to merge manually and discussions about replacement are moving nowhere.

I brought directly from their website, , doesn't seem to be a good idea.

Are there viable alternatives?

Happy World Happiness Day, to those who celebrate. And as a PSA, the World Happiness Report is bogus and everyone involved should be embarrassed and issue an apology. Newsflash: asking one question that doesn't mention happiness to a bunch of people is not going to tell you anything statistically meaningful about happiness.

There are some useful thoughts in this Kate Wagner piece, subtitled "We need to destroy the phone":
#^https://www.late-review.com/p/the-eternal-present

"Still, many are asking: where are the ordinary people? Where are the normies who showed up in the streets the first time around when the threat of Trump was — in retrospect rightfully — recognized for what it was? In the first Trump administration, when “the Resistance” blew up, it did so on social media. Millions of people were exposed for the first time to protest movements, Left organizations, the labor movement, and other forms of direct and organized action. We were not yet aware at that time that this was a short-lived window in which the master’s tools could be wielded by us to achieve these moments of mass, collective outrage."

...

"While in phoneworld, it suddenly occurred to me that I was only seeing images of protests and other forms of public outrage after they had happened. It didn’t matter which social media site I used — BlueSky, X, or Instagram (the platform where I mostly follow people I know in meatspace.) Calls to action beyond, like, dialing up one’s senator always reached me too late, even when the protests and gatherings in question took place a few miles away in my own city. Hence, there is, I think, a broader feeling that no one is doing anything not only because of a very real defeat and the resulting protest fatigue that lasted up until the last year of the Biden era, but because when something is done, when calls to action are made, we are not seeing it."

...

"The smartphone has deskilled seemingly everything, even something as fundamental to human life as reading. But it’s especially deskilled political organizing. Perhaps a subconscious reason why the Left puts so much hope in the labor movement is because organizing one’s workplace is a largely offline endeavor. It takes place face to face in a spatially and temporally anchored place where everyone, despite all that may divide them, is subjected to the same material conditions, the same injustices."

...
"One of the imminent questions of our moment is: what would it take to relearn how to do political work offline, to recognize that there will perhaps be a time — in the very near future — where online work will be rendered impossible for those of us not in favor of the administration? The old ways are already crumbling now in this moment of highly siloed algorithms, where no two people’s internet is the same. Hence, we must quickly abandon the 2010s idea that our content, concepts, and actions will, through the internet, find the masses."

AI hallucinations: #ChatGPT created a fake child murderer - https://noyb.eu/en/ai-hallucinations-chatgpt-created-fake-child-murderer "By knowingly allowing ChatGPT to produce defamatory results, the company clearly violates the #GDPR’s principle of data accuracy." will become common #noyb

#DOGE cuts to #USDA may open door to invasive species, higher food prices - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/doge-cuts-to-usda-may-open-door-to-invasive-species-higher-food-prices/ " Food inspectors and disease-sniffing dog handlers remain out of work as food spoils. " self-harming stupidity from #musk and #trump

#Greenpeace must pay at least $660m over Dakota pipeline protests, says jury - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/greenpeace-lawsuit-energy-transfer-dakota-pipeline "Non-profit, which will appeal decision, says lawsuits like this are aimed at ‘destroying the right to peaceful protest’" absurd finding by biased jury

The #VernalEquinox (in the #NorthernHemisphere) will occur in about an hour and half’s time of positing at 09:01Z. The #Sun will be precisely overhead at noon on the #Equator just off the coast of #Somalia when this happens. For the whole planet, #day and #night will be of equal length (as makes no odds) and #Sunrise will be due #East and #Sunset will be due #West. Roll on #Spring.

#Equinox

What do you notice about the comments on this post?

https://piefed.social/post/555259

The post was made in the news@lemmy.world #Lemmy community and other posts linking to the same news article were made in technology@lemmy.world and in askusa@discuss.online. 3 different posts in 3 different communities.

#PieFed de-duplicates them and only shows the post once in your timeline and when viewing the post all the comments on those 3 posts are shown in the same list.

Fedi fragmentation = solved

#fediverse

Huh, this looks like it could be interesting for folks into #libre software... https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/24-038_51f8444f-502c-4139-8bf2-56eb4b65c58a.pdf

These are dangerous times for everyone in and around the US, but many times more so for those without the protections of US citizenship. Those of us who are privileged enough to be able to speak freely and without the immediate threat of draconian consequences have a special obligation not to be silent right now.