Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

France quietly deployed 100,000+ Linux machines in their police force - GendBuntu is a silent EU tech success story

https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1lfxdsd/france_quietly_deployed_100000_linux_machines_in/

Well done. Let us get free from Microsoft spyware OS. They are not trustworthy vendors, and all taxpayers' money should go to fund open-source apps/software and not to Bill Gates' fortune.

#linux #OpenSource

If you know anyone who's tired
of commercial social media,
share this with them.

If you know anyone who's curious
about Mastodon and the Fediverse,
share this with them.

If you know anyone who hasn't
watched it yet, share this with them.

Thank you @_elena for this incredible video about our community.

I hope everyone everywhere gets to watch it

https://news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/

#Fediverse #Mastodon #Pixelfed #Friendica #PeerTube #Lemmy #SocialMedia

Private equity vampires are collecting billions by sucking the life out of businesses and communities. The Trump/Republican reward-the-rich tax bill gives them even more incentive to do this. Call your senators and representatives, now.

https://cepr.net/publications/private-equity-titans-eye-new-tax-perk/

https://www.levernews.com/wall-street-gets-a-trump-tax-break-to-fire-workers/

#pitchforks

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URGENT: Help raise emergency funds for seven Sudanese anarchists. The RSF is approaching their city and they need $315 each to evacuate to safety. 🖤

We’re aiming to raise $2,500 to cover their evacuation and basic fees. Every dollar counts. Please contribute if you can, and share widely.

💸 CashApp: $jtsholar (Note: “S”)
🌍 Or donate via OpenCollective.com/support-sudanese-comrades

Solidarity is life-saving. Let’s get them to safety. ✊🏿❤️

#SudanCrisis #MutualAid #SolidarityNotCharity #AnarchistSupport #SudaneseVoices #RSF #EvacuationSupport #DirectAid #SupportComrades

From Dan Tynan:

"Hey, maybe (White House personnel director) Gor is not a Putin asset. Maybe he has no connection to Russia at all. But if there's nothing to hide about his background, why is he working so hard to hide it?"

https://tynanfiles.beehiiv.com/p/russia-is-in-da-white-house?utm_source=tynanfiles.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=russia-is-in-da-white-house

You know how I guessed recruiting would be easy? I have put two candidates into interview processes, averaging four hours per candidate (two with the employer to get details, two with the candidate for a social + gentle pair programming session).

That's an INSANE speed compared to the industry. Recruiters really are exactly as easy to own as they appear to be. AhahahahaHAHAHAHAHA death has come for you

The problems I saw raised were:

Raised by me: The new intellectual property clause was permanent/irrevokable; Mastodon retained rights to your posts even after they were deleted.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/35086

Raised by Cory Doctorow: The new TOS forced users to give up the right to sue in court, & forced use of arbitration instead. 😬
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114706885462760813

Raised by Sarah Jamie Lewis and others: It was ambiguous if *other federated servers* counted as "users" under the TOS.
https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis/114699476927561899

FAQ on Refusing Illegal Orders

(from the Military Law Task Force of the National Lawyers Guild:

https://nlgmltf.org/military-law/2025/faq-on-refusing-illegal-orders/

PDF: https://nlgmltf.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Illegal-Orders-FAQ-17JUN2025.pdf

Please boost, promote, and distribute to servicemembers!

("DoD Instruction 1325.06 permits a servicemember to possess a single copy of this document.")

If you’re arrested you should be able to examine the technology used to identify you, especially if there’s a history of inaccuracies. We argue just that in our latest amicus brief. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/eff-nj-supreme-court-prosecutors-must-disclose-details-regarding-frt-used-identify

"In this short piece I will portray the work of our team in collaboration with two different networks in Argentina, one related to rural secondary schools in the Province of Buenos Aires, and the other one related to small workers cooperatives to support people who suffer from mental health-related challenges."
#WorkerCoops #SolidarityEconomy
https://geo.coop/articles/dynamic-coalitions-organizational-solidarity-practice

This week's comic now up on Daily Kos:
DONALD AND JOHN
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/6/19/2328762/-Cartoon-Tom-the-Dancing-Bug-takes-a-Calvinesque-and-Hobbesian-look-at-protests

I didn’t plan to write about Wayland yet. But Xorg is dying — not eventually, but now. GNOME’s dropping X11 support. RHEL already removed it. Ubuntu and Fedora are next. And if you rely on accessibility, you don’t get to wait this one out.
So here’s Post 4 of I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back.
I’m using Wayland now. Primarily. Not because I love it. Because the fallback is disappearing, and I want to be there helping fix what comes next. GNOME with Orca actually works. KDE and COSMIC are making progress. I’ve talked to the people involved. They care.
But a lot is broken.
MATE — the desktop most blind users preferred — isn’t on Wayland.
ocrdesktop doesn’t work. xdotool is gone.
wlroots compositors still don’t reliably support Orca’s keybindings, especially on laptops.
This isn’t GNOME’s fault. They’re the only reason accessibility on Wayland works at all.
But the old excuses are gone. “Just use Xorg” isn’t going to be an option much longer.
So yeah. I’m a Wayland shill now. Because I’m using it. Because I have to.
And I want to make sure we’re not excluded from what comes next.
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-want-to-love-linux-it-doesnt-love-me-back-post-4-wayland-is-growing-up-and-now-we-dont-have-a-choice/
#Linux #Wayland #Accessibility #Orca #GNOME #KDE #COSMIC #FOSS #a11y #BlindTech #xorg

In reading a fascinating and important discussion of the lack of a termination clause in the new Mastodon.social Terms of Service, I was GOBSMACKED to discover that the new ToS including a "binding arbitration waiver," which takes away your right to sue, no matter how badly the service abuses you.

These are profoundly unethical, terrible clauses. They should never, ever appear in "adhesion contracts" (that is, contracts that you merely click through, rather than negotiating.)

Shout out to @Framasoft for their awesome 'MostlyMatter' Mattermost fork removing the absurd 10k user limit, released within hours of official releases.

Saves a bunch of work. They work great.

https://framagit.org/framasoft/framateam/mostlymatter

Framasoft are a consistent force for good in the free and open software space.

#sysadmin #selfhosted

Great news everyone! Thomas Ptacek at Fly.io published "My AI Skeptic Friends Are Nuts", and it was shoved in front of me enough times that I have sentenced him to a swift death. Godspeed, Thomas, I pray that your incineration is speedy and painless.

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/contra-ptaceks-terrible-article-on-ai/

Hello World!

I just spoke with a #US #Senator office about the #fediverse . They're asking for more information to help spread around #Capital #Hill in small bite sized easy to understand pieces. I'm obviously going to give them @elena beautiful #movie on the #fedi (with some light editing which she's agreed to).

I'll of course show them https://fediverse.info/ and https://fedi.tips/ which are great websites. I figured I'd give them examples of amazing #AP projects such as #mastodon , #pixelfed , #peertube , #bandwagon , and #bonfire ; even things like @admin .

I'd love to know from folks any EASY to understand projects that best encompass the Fediverse and explanations of it.

What are some projects you'd hand to your friends and family that would explain and display to them what we are?

I'll say this isn't going to happen over night. There's lot of questions around regulations, trust & safety, etc. But I feel it's pertinent to at least get the conversation going, especially considering the current state of disdain for big social media and the impending legislation around these things.

I'll finally state if there's anyone in this list that does NOT want to be involved with this, that's totally fine and I understand and I can exclude you from the materials I give to them.

#boost #boostplease #government #laws #activityPub

@benpate @peertube @bonfire
@stefano @dansup @Mastodon

Totally disgusts me that both Democratic California senators joined the pro-corruption Republicans and helped pass legislation that will benefit the crooked and dangerous (to everyone's economic well-being) cryptocurrency "industry".

I'll vote against them in the future. https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00318.htm

Americans are so thirsty for even a whiff of journalism that Tucker Carlson asks 3 basic questions and we act like he is the second coming.

It's sad.

We're just not used to seeing any form of journalism. We're so used to journalistic sycophancy, and abdication of duty in order to maintain access.

The sad part is, Tucker Carlson could have been doing this for years, on all topics, and not just when convenient for his benefactors.

People forget that at the early days of Tucker's villain arc, Jon Stewart called him on this. Tucker has always known better. But he chooses to play this character.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GooQwKDMqcI

Exhibit 60,440 of Trump regime flagrantly breaking the law, with impunity: https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/18/ice-nadler-goldman-federal-detention-manhattan/

If you are anywhere within a couple hour drive of Sacramento this Saturday please consider coming out to this emergency fundraiser for our comrades at NorCal Resist! This Dance Party fundraiser is needed during these dark days!