Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Fascinating both for what it says about dev & what it says about statistics:

A gamedev realized Linux users were just 5.8% of their sales, but represented 38% of bug reports.

Then they looked at those numbers closer, and realized. Linux users were not experiencing more bugs. Almost none of the Linux-user bugs were Linux-related. Linux users were simply *more likely to file bugs*.

Their conclusion: A linux port pays for itself bc it nerdsnipes ppl into giving u free QA

https://techhub.social/@ozone89/111337250473454154

SecureDrop is migrating its PGP backend from GnuPG (@GnuPG) to Sequoia (@sequoiapgp).

Learn why and how we stopped shelling out and started shipping Rust code instead:

https://securedrop.org/news/migrating-securedrops-pgp-backend-from-gnupg-to-sequoia/

#PGP #GPG #Sequoia #Rust #SecureDrop

I am already a white male so for Halloween, if I just carry a bible and quote Ayn Rand, I can go as the legit scariest fucking thing in America.

Republicans are lying when they say slashing IRS funds will lower the deficit. For each extra $1 the IRS spends auditing rich tax cheats, it can collect $12. Defunding the IRS will INCREASE the deficit.

They want to help their rich donors cheat, while the rest of us pay for it.

Season's greetings!

https://tochangeeverything.com/

https://store.crimethinc.com/products/to-change-everything

GoGuardian monitors millions of students. We analyzed actual websites that the student monitoring tool marked as “explicit,” and found that thousands of students are flagged every day for visiting sites that are benign, and often, educational. Learn more: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/10/how-goguardian-invades-student-privacy

I read recently an article about the school system run for service members' children by the US Department of Defense ( https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/10/briefing/defense-department-public-schools.html ) which left me with a bunch of questions, so I tracked down some doc about their curriculum, which I found (at least the part I've read so far) eyebrow raising. Not in a bad sense, but in a "Well THAT is certainly an interesting choice; it is hard to surprise me and you have succeeded, sir" sort of way.

It leaves me with a new question: anybody know how to surface any data that might exist on what the political leanings are of adults who went through this edu system as children? I'd particularly like to find out if there's any comparative study of the political affiliations of adults who went through these DoD schools vs adults who were service members' children but went to ordinary civilian American public schools.

Can anybody help me out?

Solar advocates have an uphill battle in traditional coal country. But the ones that are succeeding are doing some consistent things right. Invest in local people and local offices, pay young people to learn skills, sell it with relevant benefits for people's real lives.

Good piece by Hannah Wilson-Black in Grist:

https://grist.org/article/how-to-sell-solar-in-coal-country/

#solar #GreenEnergy #JustTransition

This is a late and unexpected, but welcome development: the #DNT header has been judged binding in #Germany https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38081633

#privacy #www #web #digitaleselbstbestimmung

Today, award-winning incarcerated journalist Christopher Blackwell announces that all his life's work has been wiped out by the prison communications company Securus.

I was the judge who selected Chris for his INN Nonprofit News Award this year. To know that one business profiting off incarcerated folks could decide to wipe out a respected journalist's lifelong work is infuriating. This is a shameful assault on freedom of the press

#prison #journalism #news

"With more data at hand than theoretical projection, the evidence is overwhelming: Universal #BasicIncome is working nearly universally."

"In city after city and cohort after cohort — old, young, single parents, ex-convicts — universal basic income has improved health outcomes, raised employment, and bolstered childcare opportunities (and recipients have had consistently better outcomes than control groups)."

UBI works. We know that. It will reduce other costs.

https://www.businessinsider.com/universal-basic-income-works-red-state-blue-state-2023-10

We at the Times Tech Guild are walking out this afternoon! Watch our rally live on Instagram: https://instagram.com/nytguildtech/live/

#Unions #UnionStrong #Strike #Solidarity

If you're interested in donating funds to the development and maintenance of MX Linux, help would be appreciated.

If for some reason you would prefer a different method than the default ones - please contact us.

=> https://mxlinux.org/donate

#donations #MXLinux #PayPal #creditcard #Linux #development

I have a new blog post ready:

https://terikanefield.com/can-democracy-work-in-america-part-1-there-are-no-yankees-here/ 

We all know that the current proliferation of misinformation is endangering democracy.

I plan to show that democracy-endangering conspiracy theories have also taken root among MSNBC / CNN / and left-leaning social media audiences.

At the end, I will answer the question: How can we solve the problem?

I've you've been a regular reader, you will find some of the ideas in this introduction familiar, but . . .

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#opsec is hard, so let's make it easier.

This time I describe how to set up two-factor #smartcard + #password #authentication on #Linux.

https://dorotac.eu/posts/2fa_login/

It's a bunch of work, but now you won't lose your usual password to snoopers and cameras!

#PGP #nitrokey #pam

Just listened to a new-to-me podcast, that I will not be naming here.

Instead, a word of advice, from someone who's been trained in the basics of diversity-sensitive teaching to anyone making or aspiring to make podcasts or other broadcast media:

Be very, very careful with any use of cultural references.

Drew this one just before an insurrectionist was elected Speaker of the House

#uspol #cartoon #politics #fascism #democracy #authoritarianism

Two journalists who were wrongly convicted for recording police at a public park need help paying for their trial transcript so they can appeal.

Please consider contributing if you’re able. Court costs shouldn’t stand in the way of press freedom. https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-journalists-appeal-police-persecution