Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Remember folks, if the violence against civilians is carried out by state actors, it isn't terrorism, by definition. When the state kills masses of civilians, that's just...uh...business as usual. We don't even have a special word for it. This is all, of course, complete and utter bullshit.

If terrorism is violence against civilians to achieve political ends through the use of fear, then we should say the Israeli gov't has been involved in a campaign of terror against Palestinians 1/x

and occasionally the Palestinians (at least some of them) respond with their own (much shorter, much less effective) terror campaigns.

Yes, there is a "both sides" aspect to this, in that both sides obviously engage in terrorism. But we can certainly say that the terrorism of the Israeli gov't has (up till now) been the more effective, as the expanding settlements show.

So I say we condemn all terrorism, and the greater and more effective the terrorism, the greater the condemnation.

There's a design proposal out for supporting "operator sync" in #Abra.

We're aiming to better support collective sync of important metadata, e.g. the app version that was just deployed.

This will be an important change which helps keep deployments stable while working together within a tech collective.

Feedback is very welcome: https://git.coopcloud.tech/coop-cloud/organising/issues/467#issuecomment-18503 🤓

If you have thoughts, please reply here or join us in #coopcloud-tech:autonomic.zone on Matrix ☎️

-- @decentral1se

I also want to encourage anyone who’s a content creator for YouTube to also put their content on a PeerTube instance.

And yes, there’s no ad revenue on PeerTube. That’s a good thing though. No ads means people see your video right away. No pesky ads interrupting your videos flow. You’d have to rely on donations. Which most YouTubers already do anyway.

Help the Fediverse grow. Add your content to PeerTube.

Tesla whistleblowers filed a complaint to the SEC in 2021, but the agency never interviewed them. Here’s what the complaint said. Excellent reporting by @lorakolodny https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/12/tesla-whistleblowers-filed-complaint-to-sec-in-2021-what-it-said.html

It's no surprise anymore that Republicans want to censor everything but right-wing propaganda.

It's vile that so many Democrats are -- in their too-typical clueless way when it comes to online freedom of expression -- are supporting legislation that could slam the door on all kinds of free speech.

We need smarter, or at least less lazy, lawmakers.

https://jezebel.com/22-democrats-sponsor-a-bill-that-could-censor-abortion-1850923128

October is for Organizing!

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Use coupon code ORGANIZE until 11/1 and see all the books at https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_list&c=50&sortby=num_sold:desc

A fed court may have just doubled down on a blatantly unconstitutional gag order against the press it briefly entered in Feb. But the language is so unclear that no one is quite sure who is silenced. Unfortunately, journalists may self-censor out of caution. https://freedom.press/news/ambiguous-gag-order-could-silence-the-press-in-north-carolina/

Police can't arrest journalists covering protests with impunity.

No qualified immunity for Iowa police officer who arrested photographer at George Floyd protest https://www.courthousenews.com/no-qualified-immunity-for-iowa-police-officer-who-arrested-photographer-at-george-floyd-protest/

Chris Luxon’s threat to restart oil exploration is a shocker.

New oil and gas exploration would be a DISASTER for the climate and the ocean.

That ban was long-fought for and hard-won.

New oil exploration won't start in Aotearoa without a fight.

https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/story/luxons-threat-to-restart-oil-exploration-would-be-a-disaster-for-the-climate-and-the-ocean/?utm_medium=share&utm_content=postid-61257&utm_campaign=&utm_source=mastodon #climatechange #ocean #nzpol #newzealand #nz #climatecrisis #climateaction

Australians look set to vote against Indigenous voice in parliament - https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/oct/12/australians-look-set-to-vote-against-indigenous-voice-in-parliament pretty staggering affirmation of racism...you OK with that, #Australia...?

Mobian started as a hobby project, triggered by the excitement of finally being able to hack one’s mobile phone at will. It is fair to say that the device that made it possible back then was the original PinePhone. However, after running once again into the same difficulties we experienced over and over, we’re wondering whether maintaining support for this device is still worth the effort…

https://blog.mobian.org/posts/2023/09/30/paperweight-dilemma/

@gecko @tootbrute @KinmenRisingProject The real difference there comes from @purism having kernel devs on their payroll: in terms of hardware parts, IMHO they didn't make obviously better choices when looking only at the "software support" aspect (heck, even they ended up with a downstream driver for the wifi cards they initially shipped)

Many people in the Codeberg community think that it is very important to read @drewdevault's blog post about the forbidden topics: https://drewdevault.com/2023/09/29/The-forbidden-topics.html

The responses to such posts even in our online spaces show that people disagree without even trying to understand it.

We kindly ask you: Read the post, think about it, and try to reflect your own actions accordingly.

ON October 12 there is NOTHING TO CELEBRATE.

TODAY is another COUNTER CLOUD ACTION DAY!

Why is October 12 another Counter Cloud Action day?

The 12th October marks the trans-oceanic invasion of Abya Yala (aka the Americas) and is nowadays actively celebrated by many as "Columbus Day" or "day of Hispanity" (sic). Activists have reclaimed the day to remember the atrocities of colonialism and to celebrate Indigenous and anti-colonial resistance instead: "nada que celebrar" (nothing to celebrate)!

In case you were wondering, why yes, the world is still the warmest of record for this time of year, which has been the case almost every single day since early June. Graphic from U. Maine Climate Reanalyzer. #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #ClimateDiary #Climate

I've just written this: https://tech.oeru.org/foss-libresoftware-its-about-clarity-and-values to explain why I've adopted the term #LibreSoftware over #FOSS or #OpenSource to talk about the *non-proprietary* software about which I'm passionate.

FYI for anyone who uses Dropbox, this perhaps has appeared in your settings and defaulted to "on". You'll probably want to turn it off.

Public corruption prosecutions rise where nonprofit news outlets flourish, research finds. https://journalistsresource.org/media/watchdog-public-corruption/

I don't understand why library terminals had to be replaced by Windows desktops. Now I have to log in, wait for it to update Windows, wait for it to load a browser, wait for it to load a website, try to find where to search for a book and then wait for a result before giving up and going up and down the shelves. And they shut them off 30 mins before closing time. What's wrong with dedicated devices that do 1 job efficiently?