Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

#biodiversity #environment #GusSpeth #climate #climatechange

Does anyone in the EU (or elsewhere?!) have links to any case studies about migrating from Microsoft to #opensource / #libre / #FOSS that include actual financial figures?

Of what use is #DigitalSovereignty when you need an Apple or Android device to install the App that implements your Digitally Sovereign solution? Always make sure there is a way for citizens to use your solution without being forced to share data with Apple or Google.

Tomorrow (Tues, 14 Oct 2025) from 20:00 NZDT we're having a #Libre / #FOSS catch up at https://meeting.iridescent.nz Lots of stuff is on the docket - demos of web services like Beszel, Frigate, Mobilizon, NextCloud, Mailcow, and a bunch of other stuff. Whoever comes along determines what we talk about! From the 'open-curious' to veterans - all welcome! There're no wrong questions. Our goal is that everyone leaves knowing more than when they arrived! Dip in and out at your leisure. See you there! 👋

Oh dear, Tim Hurdle just opines for online voting 'I do my banking on my phone, why we can't vote online is just beyond me' (or something like that - repeating from memory)... And, yeah, that's not nearly all that's beyond you, Tim. Here's why what you're suggesting reveals your unsuitability to promote your opinion: https://davelane.nz/online-voting-continues-be-very-bad-idea-2025-and-beyond

"New Zealand would be the only country in the world to weaken an emissions target entrenched in law – “this may be a dubious first for New Zealand”. Not one to hang proudly on the wall alongside women’s suffrage."

🤦

Farmers off the hook on climate means rest of us pick up the slack https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/13/farmers-off-the-hook-on-climate-means-rest-of-us-pick-up-the-slack/

#NZPol #warOnNature #climateChange

tl;dr Yes prison labor will probably play some role. But the bulk of the US's farm labor by far will probably come from WAY more H2A visas.

Which the Trump admin just lowered wages on! They've also made it a lot easier to do modern day farm slavery on H2A workers & get away with it.

Spooky season is officially here, and we’ve got books (and tarot decks) to bewitch you. Get 40% off all occult titles thru 11/1 with the code WITCHY here: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_list&c=254&sortby=num_sold:desc

"...the Venezuelan opposition, led by former presidential candidate María Corina Machado, the far-right extremist who just won the Nobel Peace Prize, used the UN General Assembly (UNGA) as a lobbying platform, courting the Trump administration and sympathetic foreign governments to support a coup to depose President Nicolás Maduro. She has been part of multiple calls for US interventions in Venezuela, including to, in her words, secure the “total asphyxiation of the Venezuelan economy.” "

As I was saying:

"...the fact that the “opposition” leader Nobel Peace Prize winner is lobbying for more US sanctions that have already killed tens of thousands of Venezuelans and more American military involvement that will kill many more really deserves more attention."

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/10/venezuelas-opposition-used-un-meeting-to-lobby-for-us-coup.html

I think a lot of people are attracted to "Sora" the AI video and serve use generating application because it will put your face in a video.

But, I'm terrified of this for a few reason. There is a privacy angle. It wants to scan your face from every angle which I assume they will sell to the cops.

Getchyer protest costumes now! https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/10/10/2347903/-Cartoon-Protest-costumes

Latest comic: What does not belong?

#cartoon #comic #politics #democracy #firstamendment #monarchy #authoritarianism #uspol

I’m still smiling from ear to ear after yesterday’s convo with @ozoned on @firesidefedi. Speechless over the intro in Italian - I hope I didn’t ruin it with my giggles 😅🤣 Grazie Antonio! https://video.firesidefedi.live/w/21bC2eX9wvznPCcda5wPbA

Hey @kde you heard that I made a #kdeplasma plugin.

How the heck do I publish it correctly?

I managed to guess my way around, but when I try to install the archive I uploaded, I get this:

> Installation of /tmp/ZAxSMp-master-kwlejka.tar.gz failed: The new package has a different type from the old version already installed.

???

Maintainers: would you link/include my tutorial somewhere prominent if I wrote one? (But please help me make that work first.)

#askfedi #kde #linux #linuxdesktop

People uploaded their photo IDs to Discord for age verification. Discord leaked at least 70,000 of them.

The people affected haven't just had their privacy damaged; they're also at risk of being impersonated now, which further means they might have to submit to even more invasive measures in the future, just worsening their exposure.

https://www.theverge.com/news/797051/discord-government-ids-leaked-data-breach

Don't submit to age/ID verification. Just walk away.

Censoring the press isn't enough for the Trump administration. Now they're even trying to censor court records that discuss the press's reporting.

This is unheard of.

https://americanoversight.org/opposition-filed-against-doj-effort-to-strike-context-from-complaint-about-qatars-gifted-jet-to-trump-administration/

ps. If you're worried about how small farmers going bankrupt... most small farmers are millionaires with a 6-figure income. From a day job off the farm. Small farms don't have enough acreage to lose real $$.

It's the bigger farms that will suffer the most. That's why they're hollerin for bailouts. https://youtu.be/mD50nJzDFLA

Totally unrelated! Here's a chart of soybean exports over the same time period.

source: https://unitedsoybean.org/hopper/total-u-s-soy-exports-add-39-8-billion-to-u-s-economy-in-marketing-year-22-23/

Farm bankruptcies are back in the news, so it's time to pull this chart out again.

Hey look they kept rising during Trump's first term. Then they went way down under Biden.

Now they're up again? So weird. Thanks Farm Bureau for the graphic

source: https://www.fb.org/market-intel/farm-bankruptcies-down-for-now