Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Passaic, NJ: Queer Youth Walk Out, Direct Action Gets the Goods https://www.anarchistfederation.net/passaic-nj-queer-youth-walk-out-direct-action-gets-the-goods/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=passaic-nj-queer-youth-walk-out-direct-action-gets-the-goods

#GhostFlights from #UK running at 500 a month, data reveals | Airline #emissions | The Guardian

This is crazy but it’s also because of the ridiculous #Laws regarding retention of #Landing #Slots for #airlines.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/31/ghost-flights-from-uk-running-at-500-a-month-data-reveals

#Pollution #AirPollution #FossilFuels #Environmment #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange

Are you and #android developer ? Or do you want to learn android development ? We are looking for people who have experience in android development or are willing to learn it for @prav project. If you'd like to contribute or know someone contact us by email, #xmpp or comment or direct message here. #pravapp #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS

Interested to see how this plays out: https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/25/22995144/microsoft-foreign-corrupt-practices-bribery-whistleblower-contracting #Microsoft #governmentcorruption #digitalcolonialism

“Solar & wind are now the cheapest bulk power sources in 91% of the world, and the UN’s International Energy Agency (IEA) expects renewables to generate 90% of all new power in the coming years. The energy revolution has happened. Sorry if you missed it”

"They can superinsulate your house to net zero standard in a single day whilst you’re at work, and meanwhile they’ve dropped in a very efficient heat pump core for mechanicals, and put on a super-insulated solar roof”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/26/amory-lovins-energy-efficiency-interview-cheapest-safest-cleanest-crisis

Dr Rachel Clarke on Twitter

"Is everyone aware that in one week’s time, the government is expecting all NHS staff either (a) to pay for their own LFTs or (b) to stop self-testing & potentially come to work with Covid, infecting vulnerable patients?"

"Is everyone really OK with this?"

https://t.co/hsY0zvsk2N

https://twitter.com/doctor_oxford/status/1506675629470765061?t=q6-g57EDCDg5wVB5jX0UNQ&s=09

In our latest update on the Freedom Ladder campaign, we're sharing what we learned in our mission to create introductory free software resources that keep people moving forward to full software freedom. https://u.fsf.org/3h9

This seems well supported, plausible, and extraordinarily bleak. https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-06-08/collapse-of-civilisation-is-the-most-likely-outcome-top-climate-scientists/ as humans continue to prioritise stupid things like wars of acquisition, fulfilling unsustainable personal ambitions, and generally getting more stuff. #climatecatastrophe #civilisationcollapse

Yesterday, during a bike ride to the picturesque Microsoft hyperscale datacenter in Middenmeer (NL), I learned that Microsoft and Google store over 2 million liters of Diesel there, of which half is burned during monthly and yearly tests of their emergency generator. I suppose this is commonly known, their way to reach 99,999 percent availability, I just never pictured datacenters having *that* many chimneys... Biking past them also lets the hyper-ness of their scale sink in 😱

Security self-sufficiency means identifying those areas where you are dependent upon other companies, and choosing solutions that allow you to revoke trust easily, hold your own keys, and audit your digital supply chain. https://puri.sm/posts/security-self-sufficiency/

@lightweight
Nice! I need to add this to my little list of engineering software. https://www.openengr.com/software/

Don’t be stuck wanting an app, information or entertainment; prepare now, and you’ll have your own software oasis no matter what happens to the broader internet. Here is how you can host your own local services in the case of an internet outage on a Librem 14💡 https://puri.sm/posts/prepping-your-computers-for-an-internet-outage/

Hey, so this is super cool.

Google has been collecting call and messaging data about who you talk to or send text messages to for years. There's no opt-out, no notifcation in their TOS they're doing this, and you can't see the results of that collection in Google Takeout.

https://www.scss.tcd.ie/doug.leith/privacyofdialerandsmsapps.pdf

Dear Free Software Friends. Daniel Pocock is harassing members of our communities yet again and forging mails so that it appears to originate from Debian lists. Please be careful.

Note that he is not part of Debian and has been banned from the project, contrary to his claims that he quit.

Debian has issued a statement on Daniel Pocock last year, which you can find here: https://www.debian.org/News/2021/20211117

Following up on this thread, https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@lightweight/107917580398667549, I have subsequently been fobbed off by both the NZ Privacy commissioner and the Financial Markets Authority, leaving me with the final option of the Banking Ombudsman... they will bring my concerns to the attention of the banks (but no promises) @bigblen and others: might interest you to see this ref in their response https://www.rbnz.govt.nz/financial-stability/financial-stability-report/fsr-may-2018/an-open-mind-on-open-banking#:~:text='Open%20banking'%20refers%20to%20a,range%20of%20new%20financia (apparently this is what they're pushing for)

Welp, refused another invitation to a meeting via MS Teams. When will organisations realise that they're dragging other people into the mud by association if they insist on foisting such low-grade, over-priced, insecure, inherently power-imbalanced, ethically challenged tools?

"Dog eat dog" comes from an old proverb: dogs do not eat dogs. It got its modern form with the rise of modern capitalism. In times of crisis, when people help each other, you see the underlying truth of the old proverb. As the crisis subsides, you can see the structures of dog-eat-dog reconstructed.