Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

For today’s #DWebFellowsFridays, we are presenting you @zapotic!

Kiado was a fellow at DWeb Camp 2024, and he is contributing to the INDIGITAL initiative, a collaborative project focused on ensuring access to information in indigenous languages and data.

Learn more about his work here: https://indigital.surcooaxaca.org/

An incarcerated journalist explains how journalists reporting from prisons nationwide face relentless retaliation for speaking truth to power and are systemically obstructed from seeking recourse from the courts.

https://freedom.press/issues/unjust-law-helps-prison-officials-muzzle-incarcerated-journalists/

‘The damage is done’: #Trump’s #tariffs put the #dollar’s safe haven status in jeopardy - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/11/the-damage-is-done-trumps-tariffs-put-the-dollars-global-reserve-status-at-risk "Experts say fears about unpredictable policy are creating crisis of confidence in US bonds once seen as ‘risk free’" work of decades undone in two days

Due to a lack of ISP options, low-income and rural communities end up paying more for broadband than those in high-income areas. "There's no one to compete against, so the providers can get away with it," EFF’s Chao Jun Liu told @cnet. https://www.cnet.com/home/internet/the-fiber-advantage-for-homeowners-faster-and-futureproof-but-unequal/

The TAKE IT DOWN Act is headed to the House floor. Tell your member of Congress to vote No on this misguided censorship bill. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/congress-takes-another-step-toward-enabling-broad-internet-censorship

On this day in 1993, the Lucasville Uprising began. Lucasville tells the story of one of the longest prison uprisings in U.S. history. At the maximum-security Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, prisoners seized a major area of the prison on Easter Sunday, 1993. More than 400 prisoners held L block for eleven days.

Lucasville examines the causes of the disturbance, what happened during the eleven days, and the fairness of the trials.

Final call for all co-operators to fill out our community survey **today**📋️ 📢 ☀️

https://cloud.doop.coop/apps/forms/s/yjZrk6mgyYweZeFrptoC5xPy

We're updating our website to show the diverse developments in Co-op Cloud in the last 2 years.

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

Thank you!

-- sef, d1

#CoopCloud

Germany, Ukraine Start Ramping Up Use Of European #Starlink Alternative - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/10/germany-ukraine-start-ramping-up-use-of-european-starlink-alternative/ finally

Wygląda na to, że w czerwcu wpadnę na #piwo2025 do Poznania :)

https://piwo.sh

O czym chcecie najbardziej posłuchać?

#wolneOprogramowanie

Another good reason to ditch Substack for more honorable newsletter publishing platforms: https://digiday.com/media/former-substack-creators-say-theyre-earning-more-on-new-platforms-that-offer-larger-shares-of-subscription-revenue/

Ok, just for the record, I've lost my enthusiasm for sending humans to Mars.

In contrast, a fediverse server that has no connections with any other server can still serve as a fully functional social media platform for the people using it, and publish posts to the open web.

An ATProto account that's rejected by all active Relays can't do anything. At all. There's currently one ATProto Relay, totally controlled by BlueSky. Even if more are established, they're so resource-intensive to operate that there would only ever be a handful of them at most.

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#USpol
Reading the news.
Canada owns $350 billion in U.S. treasury bonds; Japan, one trillion; the EU, $1.5.

Canada threatened to sell, and the EU. These loans, and others, ($8.5T) bankroll the US. No wonder the President backed down.

In December 2024, China held $759 billion in US Treasury stock. So, between the authoritarian and the wannabe, who has more to loose, and who has more power over their economy?

A proper economist might make it more complicated, but you know where my bet goes.

Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams says company targeted teens with advertisements based on their ‘emotional state’ https://piefed.social/post/624425

Powering off your phone or laptop erases the key that unlocks its encryption, and so protects against unwanted searches, EFF’s Will Greenberg told AP. “This is why a border agent can’t simply turn a device on to use a tool like Cellebrite.” https://apnews.com/article/internet-privacy-smartphones-travel-e0a3146ae7966ea0e4157dbfae1f6a81

It occurs to me that 'AI' is 'Trickle Down Economics' for the tech entrepreneur. It's not really a thing, but getting most people to believe it is helps those currently in the locus of power consolidated their positions while continuing to exploit everyone else.

#showerthought

Rampant use of police surveillance tech “really comes down to a question of, do we want to live in a city where all of us – all of us, not just 'criminals,' but all of us - are watched & listened to everywhere we go?” EFF's @JoshRichman told NBC Bay Area. https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco-police-tour-new-facility/3840883/

New blog post: Q1/2025 Progress: Over 20 apps added and many improvements

https://linuxphoneapps.org/blog/additions-of-q1-2025/

Transparency matters.

That’s why a coalition of press freedom groups is urging an immigration court to let the public and the press watch hearings in Mahmoud Khalil’s case online.

https://freedom.press/issues/let-the-public-watch-the-mahmoud-khalil-deportation-case/