Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Job application needs photos of passport and utility bill. That's fine. Send them. Also a Zoom call to verify the original documents. So I print the first page of the utility bill PDF that I sent them.

The 21st century has completely passed some companies by, hasn't it?

@fosdem developer rooms have been announced!
After a crammed half day of talks on #LinuxOnMobile last time, we are very happy that there will be a full Sunday dedicated to mobile topics around true Linux OSes at #fosdem2024.
We will announce a Call for Participation as soon as it is published. We will coordinate with our Friends at @postmarketOS, sailfish OS, etc to put together something interesting.
https://fosdem.org/2024/news/2023-11-08-devrooms-announced/

Our letter from November is here: https://blog.codeberg.org/letter-from-codeberg-november-2023.html

Includes news about #Forgejo, spam, our membership registration form, and code search.

Thank you for supporting our mission.

1. Read this:

“Just as GitHub was founded on Git, today we are re-founded on Copilot.”

https://github.blog/2023-11-08-universe-2023-copilot-transforms-github-into-the-ai-powered-developer-platform/

2. Go here:

https://codeberg.org/

#git #gitHub #codeberg #enshittification #BigTech #cooperative #dev

Very bad news to hear that Jezebel, the pioneering media outlet, has been shuttered by its indifferent (or hostile) owner. Another casualty of Peter Thiel's war on journalism in general and Gawker in particular.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/nov/09/jezebel-news-shut-down-layoffs-go-media

I wonder if The 19th News would see the value in reopening it as a sister property.

The fact of the matter is, we all start out writing crap. That’s how we learn. I know what my writing was like when I was 16. And I know why my writing was the way it was, too—I was parroting what I was reading and watching. And you can see that in Jim’s writing. Because it’s definitely a cross between parroting Howard… and parroting what *his friends in were writing in OSFAN.*

Which brings me to point number 2: He wasn’t the only one in the OSFA writing this way. 14/

How hate sites evade the censor - https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2023/11/09/how-hate-sites-evade-the-censor/ "If the bureaucrats at #Ofcom are going to do this work for a living... it could be harder work than they think."

A coalition of 6 organisations takes EU’s dangerous terrorist content regulation to court - https://www.laquadrature.net/en/2023/11/09/a-coalition-of-6-organisations-takes-eus-dangerous-terrorist-content-regulation-to-court/ good to see

Big Journalism is pimping a paper that starts with bias and then ups the ante -- an entirely bogus claim that Big Tech owes journalism orgs money for linking to them.

https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/google-owes-news-outlets-at-least-10-billion-yearly-study-estimates/

The reality is that tech owes media companies money for cheating them in on the advertising revenues.

But journalists and their bosses can't be bothered to sort this stuff out, so they go with the easy bullshit.

What an embarrassment.

Most people don't know how to use markdown and aren't going to learn. Bragging about NOT having a WYSIWYG editor is a bad look, unless your aim is specifically to reduce your software's usefulness and reach. Because all you're doing is making someone like me have to teach six 65 year olds how to write markdown. I'd rather stick with [shitty corporate but user friendly software] than put myself through that. Thx.

call for applicants for the second Journalism & Women Symposium health journalism fellowship! https://jaws.org/jaws-health-journalism-fellowship/ #journalism #health #reporting #fellowship

NEW POST

My colleague Sannie Lee has met many students who are looking into getting into technology, taking narrow professionally-oriented majors. Sannie, however, has found that a traditional liberal-arts degree has given her skills that are highly relevant to her work as a product manager.

https://martinfowler.com/articles/2023-liberal-arts.html

With all the positive, privacy-friendly #EU changes of #GDPR and #eprivacy it's bizarre to see #eIDAS2 trying to introduce ID wallets and government-controlled man-in-the-middle root certificates.

This seeks to undermine HTTPS and - even in good hands - would be a backdoor we must not tolerate.

Stop #eIDAS! Stop mass surveillance!

Context (German): https://netzpolitik.org/2023/eidas-trilog-hunderte-wissenschaftlerinnen-und-dutzende-ngos-warnen-vor-massenueberwachung/

Reminder: "AI cannot function as a business without the theft of intellectual property, on a positively grandiose scale, to create its training sets."

I'm sure the actual human artists don't mind though, right?

https://www-businessinsider-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.businessinsider.com/marc-andreessen-horowitz-ai-copyright-2023-11?amp

Welp, if you were wondering when it was time to get the fuck out of GitHub, here's your sign ig 🤷‍♀️

@KimSJ I'm guessing tech companies have a secret bet going over who can complete the Enshittification Cycle @pluralistic describes the quickest and GitHub is REALLY determined to win.

We are scheduling system upgrades with elevated risk on Sunday, November 12 during about 10 - 23 CET.

We expect brief periods of downtime in best case, let's not talk about the worst case 😉

I so, so, so don't want to drive any new car that can do this:

A federal appeals court refused to bring back a class action lawsuit alleging four auto manufacturers had violated Washington state’s privacy laws by using vehicles’ on-board infotainment systems to record and intercept customers’ private text messages and mobile phone call logs.

The court ruled that the practice does not meet the threshold for an illegal privacy violation under state law, handing a big win to automakers Honda, Toyota, Volkswagen and General Motors, which are defendants in five related class action suits focused on the issue.

The plaintiffs had appealed a prior judge’s dismissal. But the appeals court ruled Tuesday that the interception and recording of mobile phone activity did not meet the Washington Privacy Act’s standard that a plaintiff must prove that “his or her business, his or her person, or his or her reputation” has been threatened.

A suit filed against Honda in 2021, argu[ed] that beginning in at least 2014 infotainment systems in the company’s vehicles began downloading and storing a copy of all text messages on smartphones when they were connected to the system.

An Annapolis, Maryland-based company, Berla Corporation, provides the technology to some car manufacturers but does not offer it to the general public, the lawsuit said. Once messages are downloaded, Berla’s software makes it impossible for vehicle owners to access their communications and call logs but does provide law enforcement with access, the lawsuit said.

Many car manufacturers are selling car owners’ data to advertisers as a revenue boosting tactic, according to earlier reporting by Recorded Future News. Automakers are exponentially increasing the number of sensors they place in their cars every year with little regulation of the practice.

https://therecord.media/class-action-lawsuit-cars-text-messages-privacy

The auto industry has even more contempt for your privacy than Big Tech, which is saying something. Now an appeals court has ruled that the car makers can intercept and sell your private information, and you can't do a damn thing about it.

https://therecord.media/class-action-lawsuit-cars-text-messages-privacy

Well, one thing: Don't hook up your phone to these sleazy companies' "entertainment" systems.

The Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin just said (on Threads) that last night's results show that 90% of political reporting is garbage.

That's because 90% of "coverage" is speculation and opinion. An email I received from the NYT the Tilt assured me that it was a good night for Democrats but that doesn't change anything for 2024.

Rubbish.

Elections tell us how voters feel. Polls do not and pundits do not.