Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Is there anybody on here familiar with using JAWS screenreader, and particularly with troubleshooting it? Asking for a friend who's having some mysterious issues with it on her thinkpad that I couldn't figure out. Thanks in advance (boosts appreciated).

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I really shouldn't be spending much more time on bunker websites. You could write a book just about the economics and assumptions baked in to these schemes, and I'm just trying to make this an illustration for a chapter.

But *look at this*. A company has bought out a 20th century army weapons depot as is "selling" each metal box for $55k, plus $1k per year. For a metal box in the ground. Bring your own water.

Next question: who do *you* think would make an insightful guest for a podcast about developing mutual care and collective power in our time of catastrophe, materially, socially, psychologically and/or spiritually? Point me, if you would, at folks whose work you think is underattended to, and could use a little shine.

The tech stack we use is an endorsement of the companies behind it. Technological platforms are not neutral. If we truly want to resist the digital coup that is currently under way, we need to normalize the use of free, open source solutions.

@_elena: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/114348001009857066

#platforms #NotNeutral #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #fediverse

So when they say "Ohhhh sorry the prisons are a labyrinth! We just can't find this person," that cannot be the whole truth in a prison system where people are truly working off sentences.

So. Either they CAN track people & are lying to the US about having lost our people in there. Or they can't track people, and they're lying to the prisoners about how every day they work in there takes 2 days off their sentence. I'm just saying.

This article by Elena Rossini (@_elena) convinced me to move from Substack to Ghost. Now I just need to find a way to do it affordably—perhaps by hosting a home server on a Raspberry Pi.

Check out her article: https://news.elenarossini.com/this-is-what-resistance-to-the-digital-coup-looks-like/

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Today's Help Desk...

https://www.eviscerati.org/comics/hd/2025/04/cross-disciplinary-terminology/

#Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell ‘hyper personalized’ ads - https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/perplexity-ceo-says-its-browser-will-track-everything-users-do-online-to-sell-hyper-personalized-ads/ #nope #privacy #surveillance

Tapeworm in fox poop that will slowly destroy your organs is on the rise - https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/04/tapeworm-in-fox-poop-that-will-slowly-destroy-your-organs-is-on-the-rise/ " The worm indefinitely proliferates into cystic masses in organs, mimicking cancer." oh, great

Federal Prosecutor Fires Off Letter To Medical Journals Asking About Their Policies On ‘Competing Viewpoints’ - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/24/federal-prosecutor-fires-off-letter-to-medical-journals-asking-about-their-policies-on-competing-viewpoints/ also known as "crank theories"

#NSF director resigns amid 55% budget cut, mass layoffs from Trump admin - https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/nsf-director-resigns-amid-55-budget-cut-mass-layoffs-from-trump-admin/ " The director did not state a reason for the resignation." The director did not state a reason for the resignation."

Just as true today as it was in 2013!

Someone just spent $8 million on $TRUMP memecoins after the president announced that the top holders would be invited to join him at a private dinner at his DC golf club.

The purchases were funded by a Binance account, suggesting the wallet owner is not based in the US.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol

#wlroots is putting out release candidates for 0.19.0 and I'm running my #phoc branch targeting that on my laptop since today and it didn't crash yet (https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phoc/-/merge_requests/599). That's a pleasant surprise. 🎉

I've also uploaded the wlroots RCs to #debian #experimental just in case.

#phosh