Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

So that $10B bailout for farmers.

Is it a payout for political support? Yeah. Bold move for an industry that talks so much about hard work & independence!

But it's also worse than that. This is a US food crisis in the making.

https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2025/03/18/usda-expediting-10-billion-direct-economic-assistance-agricultural-producers

Let's talk about the payoff part first?

"Vance would make the case that Danish leaders had “spent decades mistreating the Greenlandic people, treating them like second-class citizens" - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/28/greenland-political-parties-agree-to-form-coalition-government-before-jd-vance-visit what, like the US has done and still does to the native tribes of the continent? #Vance is now a by-word for global hypocrisy

Holy shit.

Just wow, wow, holy shit:

Completely rewriting a multi-million line COBOL codebase that has life-or-death consequences for real people in the space of a few months, using gen AI?

I’ve been writing software for 40-some years, and I have to say: this may be, without exaggeration, the stupidest software-related idea I’ve ever heard from leadership.

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/

If you can avoid this dump, you're luckier than me! patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

India is creating the country's first university dedicated entirely to #cooperative #education and naming it after one of the founders of famed dairy co-op Amul.

[India's First Cooperative University Named After Tribhuvan Das Patel Passes in Lok Sabha]
https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/law-order/3323307-indias-first-cooperative-university-named-after-tribhuvan-das-patel-passes-in-lok-sabha

Hey, so it looks like we have a #permacomputing web forum now?

https://bbs.permacomputing.net

🎉

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📋️ Co-op Cloud website survey ⛅

We updating our website to show the diverse developments in the project in the last 2 years.

Our goal is to attract more contributors and diversified funding by showing our social side (not just technical), our community focus and democratic structure 🌍

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Extraordinary reporting here:

"Who Is Funding Canary Mission? Inside the Doxxing Operation Targeting Anti-Zionist Students and Professors

"Americans who give money to Canary Mission are potentially committing a serious crime by acting as agents of a foreign power."

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/canary-mission-israel-covert-operations/

I wonder if a silver lining to the US' political implosion could be a the positive, collaborative solidarity within (https://www.politico.eu/article/greenland-unity-government-jd-vance-visit-donald-trump) and among other sovereign nations outside the US. It already seems to be giving foreign leaders a chance to show their mettle and consolidate national support (e.g. Mexico's Sheinbaum - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/21/mexico-claudia-sheinbaum-trump). Sucks to be the US, but I'm hopeful for the rest of the world for the first time in ages.

Huh, who knew?! I've been running a monthly 'Meetup.com' Free and Open Source Software Meetup since 2015, amalgamating an Ōtautahi group with a Tamaki Makaurau group at the start of Covid, and shifting to full online (thanks to CatalystCloud for sponsoring our BigBlueButton infrastructure). We've now got 1800+ members, and have been going for almost a decade now. 1/2

From Wounded Knee to #Gaza Same War, Different Lands

In this clip, Indigenous artist and historian #GordHill draws powerful parallels between the violent foundations of settler colonialism in North America and the ongoing military occupation of Palestine. Reflecting on phases of colonization—from invasion to occupation to cultural suppression—he maps how #Indigenousresistance has been violently subdued on Turtle Island and how that same process is still unfolding in #Palestine today.
🔥 From Wounded Knee to Gaza, colonialism follows a pattern.
🎥 Part of our upcoming documentary: A Red Road to the West Bank
Support the film at: https://amplifierfilms.ca/redroad

@gvwilson Federated forges are the way to go here and @forgejo is leading the way.

I will also say that the UN also has a new inter-agency, extraterretorially hosted GitLab instance, although its not particularly mirroring any repos yet. (And resources are limited.)

Today we are very proud to announce that the United Nations has switched from Google Forms to CryptPad Form for collecting endorsements on the UN Open Source Principles: https://unite.un.org/news/sixteen-organizations-endorse-un-open-source-principles

CryptPad Form is a full-fledged application allowing you to build privacy-preserving questionnaires for your respondents.

Try it for free, without even registering an account, on our CryptPad.fr flagship instance!

#UnitedNations #UN #Privacy #OpenSource #Forms #Studies FOSS

GitHub has gone - long live Forgejo (@forgejo).

Fully migrated out of Microsoft’s walled garden after they blocked us:

- 54k commits
- 9.5k issues
- 4.3k pull requests
- 100k comments

Everything moved. Nothing left behind.

https://git.omaps.dev/organicmaps/organicmaps

As always in #uspol, what’s controversial here is not that an American bomb leveled an entire apartment building in #Yemen killing 53 people (both Republicans and Democrats believe such operations are permissible), only that the plans to do so were discussed on an unsecured chat #signal #signalgate

Anyone with any regard whatsoever for the Constitution should recognize how fundamentally at odds this is with our values and should be deeply repulsed regardless of political leanings.

The arrest of Rumeysa Ozturk may serve as the canary in the coal mine for the First Amendment.

Read our full statement:

https://freedom.press/issues/fpf-statement-on-arrest-of-tufts-student/

Dear @Mer__edith and the the amazing @signalapp team,

After the last update, the Signal "desktop app" is requiring us to launch the mobile app - however, many of us do not have the Android or any other "mobile" version of the Signal app any more.

We are a large (by our standards) group of #Linux phone users, and **your "desktop" app is our "mobile" app** : )

Our previous phones on which #SignalApp was initially activated was an Android or Apple device and we have since then completely migrated to #Linuxphones. Some of us may have registered Signal on #signalcli, Flare, #Molly, Signal Android in #WayDroid, etc.

The #mobileLinux community is not growing - we have members spanning a good number of projects and devices, e.g.
- @purism #Librem5 and #LibertyPhone running #Debian-based #PureOS #GnuLinux, #Alpine-based #PostmarketOS or #Mobian,
- @PINE64 #Pinephone and PP Pro running #ManjaroARM, #SailfishOS, etc.
- @furilabs #FLX1 running #Droidian-based #FuriOS,
- a wide variety of Android phones (including OnePlus 6, Google Pixel 3, #Fairphone 4 & 5) running #Alpine-based @postmarketOS ,
- @volla , #Fxtec and #Brax3 devices running #UbuntuTouch by @ubports,
- devices running @mobian which is part of #Debian project, etc.

[Apologies to any project I may have failed to include - you are all appreciated]

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@kyle https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/03/26/atop/