Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

❗️ The censorship on antifascists continues...

After more then 5 requests by the german state to close our twitter account, they finally did it...Our account was suspended with no previous info by sharing antifascists content on this bs platform.

Follow our mastodon account as we appeal the decision.

Since I started using Codeberg, I've realised how centralised everything is around GitHub (which was buyout by Microsoft), ranging from CI support, identity providing (or both in the case of shuttle.rs), packages and third-party support.

It is worrying, considering the recent controversies with Copilot breaking open source licenses and using projects for learning.

The developer world should drive towards projects like @forgejo and @Codeberg that don't depend on private interests that can let you down at any given point.

Side discussion from the GNOME Mobile hackfest: @verdre has way too many open MRs to his name, and it'd be great if someone else could take over some of them so he can focus on other stuff (like upstreaming 2D gestures :P).

A relatively self-contained and very cool one is the transparent panel for GNOME Shell: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/404

We worked through most of the behaviors we want like a year ago, but someone needs to rebase and polish it. Volunteers very welcome :)

"Under Section 702...law enforcement and intelligence are gaining access to sensitive information about social justice activists, journalists, and politicians. Without fundamental changes to the law, there will surely be more of these abuses." https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/coming-fight-over-american-surveillance

Many BPA-Free Plastics Are Toxic. More than 50 different chemicals are now pumped into consumer products in place of BPA. These BPA-free alternatives can be as bad as — or worse than — the original.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/many-bpa-free-plastics-are-toxic-some-are-worse-than-bpa

Check out 75% off well-traveled books!

As capitalism eats its own tail, here we are here with loads of ‘dinged’ over-orders from Amazon that we are offering to you at the heaping discount of 75% off!

See all the books & use coupon code DINGED til 7/1 https://blog.pmpress.org/2023/03/08/75-off-these-well-traveled-titles/

#books

“Why do you use Signal and all this Encryption!
Do you have anything to hide? 😡“

Yes! I do!

- The color of my underwear
- My friends’ cats photos
- My failed gym class grades
- My first attempt at "portrait"
- The outcome of my last meal
- The weird mole on my left toe
- How much I cried watching Star Trek
- How much cheese there is in my fridge
- My failed knitting experiment
- The horrible poem I just wrote
- My bank card pin number
- My social security number
- My main password
- The web search history for your birthday gift

Privacy is a Human Right! ✊

Not sharing publicly what you do not wish to share is your right! 🔒✨

#Privacy #Encryption #E2EE #RootForE2EE 🎉

Hello, this is a doozie. ATL cops are using paypal transaction data to charge a bail fund with money laundering for reimbursing gas and covid test buys. #StopCopCity

Data-hungry fintech apps like PayPal and Venmo are a threat to the mutual aid funds that use them. Seems pretty damn dire to build and defend alternatives to help keep front line activists, abortion patients, gender affirming care patients, and others safe.

Signal, but for $, please.

More here: https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2023-06-05-statement-fight-for-the-future-condemns-the-arrest-of-bail-fund-organizers-in-atlanta-and-weaponization-of-paypal-data-to-oppress-dissent

Dan @froomkin has an appropriately scathing piece about Big Journalism's ongoing and relentless normalization of extremists. They've taken over one of the two major political parties and cowed news organizations into treating them as a moral equivalent to non-extremists. https://presswatchers.org/2023/06/during-pride-month-journalists-should-be-ashamed/

Asheville Police "scheduled their clearing of the Aston Park encampment, which they knew to be controversial and of great public interest, for 10pm on Christmas night specifically to weaponize the curfew against reporters." https://ncnewsline.com/2023/06/02/lawyer-asks-court-to-delay-dismiss-asheville-journalists-case-as-trial-nears/

"Stochastic parrot" doesn't sound nearly as exciting as "artificial intelligence," but it does have the great merit of actually being descriptive of the software.

https://joecostello.substack.com/p/the-politics-of-technology-stochastic

RFK Jr. gets presidential endorsement from Jack Dorsey, so bye, bye Bluesky.

And they were very impressed by BigBlueButton.

I must say, though, I do have some concerns about a cyber-security firm that uses MS Teams. Ouch.

High Prices Make Textbook ‘Piracy’ Acceptable to Most Students - https://torrentfreak.com/high-prices-make-textbook-piracy-acceptable-to-most-students-230604/ all textbooks should be free and #openaccess

Quote from above article 👆

"ChatGPT certainly can’t replace human thinking. Yet people project sentient qualities onto ChatGPT and feel like they are conducting meaningful conversations with another person. When they realize that’s a foolish claim, they say they’re sure that’s definitely coming soon!"

This dynamic (which reoccurs throughout our society) is how I know we live in the dumbest timeline.

Academia summed up in one photo: