Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Ok, so the Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF) have just asked me, as a "Dear Supporter of Digital Freedom", to complete a community survey... which uses Microsoft Forms. Are you serious?! That's their credibility, in tatters. So disappointing.

Globally, September 2023 was the warmest September on record by a large margin.

https://climate.copernicus.eu/september-2023-warmest-record-large-margin

New USDA hardiness zone maps just dropped, now based on data from 1990 - 2020. This country is definitely getting hotter...
https://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/

#gardening #climatechange

#FreePalestine, #LandBack, #AbolishThePolice, #NoMoreDeaths, #CooperationJackson

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I despise the phrase "speak truth to power," and the mentality it implies.

Power already knows the truth, you* dipshit. It's power who's lying to everybody in the first place. It's THE PEOPLE you should be speaking truth to, not fucking Power. Wanting to "speak truth to power" just tells me that you desire to situate yourself INSIDE the halls of power. Fuck that. Speak truth to those who have been lied to, not to the liars.

*not you personally

Journalists/commentators in NZ say that house prices are "recovering" when they increase.
I think they should say "relapsing"

If I have a fever, I'm recovering when my temperature goes down, and relapsing if it goes up again.

IMO #NZ house prices need to fall a lot further before they have recovered from their current feverish levels.

You have to be rich to get old comfortably in America. Otherwise, get ready for becoming a pauper and wrecking your loved ones' lives. https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/dying-broke-facing-financial-ruin-as-costs-soar-for-elder-care/

Kaiser Health News and the NY Times collaborated on this story that will enrage you -- but should also make you question our budget and policy priorities, which are unsustainable in every way.

I'm seeing reports of pro-Israel marches featuring far-right, anti-semitic celebrities and I...

I feel like this is a good time to remind everyone of what some of those fashy folks said was their plan:

1) Drive a wedge between Black voters and Jewish voters to enable a far-right US takeover
2) Drive Jewish people out of the US through violent anti-semitism (and presumably to Israel)
3) End US military support for Israel (knowing what this will lead to)

"The incarcerated voice is paramount in the world of journalism. Without it, the world in general is left with a significant information void — what transpires behind the double-razor wire fence that surrounds each prison."

Really grateful to our advocacy team at @freedomofpress for featuring this guest opinion from Jeremy Busby, about what it's like to be a journalist working within America's system of mass incarceration.

https://freedom.press/news/guest-opinion-incarcerated-journalist-calls-out-relentless-retaliation-by-prison-officials/

They can reuse this headline the next time a billionaire goes to space. https://www.popsci.com/technology/iss-toolbag-lost-spacejunk/

Technical News Regarding Upgrades to Secure and Private PCs Supported by PureOS Manufactured by Purism!

New orders of Librem 14 and Librem Mini v2 are now shipping with Intel AX200 Wi-Fi and Bluetooth cards, replacing the Qualcomm Atheros AR9xxx series.

Like the Librem 11‘s integrated AX201, the device firmware is provided by the PureBoot Firmware Blob Jail.

We made this decision with care and to promote customer control over their own devices.

https://puri.sm/posts/intel-ax200-wi-fi-bluetooth-shipping-for-new-orders/

Recently came across the very interesting assertion that use of hashtags goes against the culture on Fedi. I've been here since 2019, and I think that's the first time I've heard such a thing, but maybe that's just me?

Do hashtags go against the culture on Fedi?

EU Parliament committee rejects mass scanning of private and encrypted communications

https://edri.org/our-work/eu-parliament-committee-rejects-mass-scanning-of-private-and-encrypted-communications/

On 14th November, Members of the European Parliament’s ‘Civil Liberties’ committee voted against attempts from EU Home Affairs officials to roll out mass scanning of private and encrypted messages across Europe. It was a clear-cut vote, with a significant majority of MEPs supporting the proposed position.

Scoop: a16z is the money behind CivitAI, an AI platform that we've repeatedly shown is the engine for nonconsensual AI porn. We also revealed the site is offering "bounties" for AI models of specific people, including ordinary citizens https://www.404media.co/andreessen-horowitz-invests-in-civitai-key-platform-for-deepfake-porn/

Government in Marion County, Kansas, was deployed at almost every level in one of the most blatant-ever attempts to kill freedom of the press.

Thankfully, the local newspaper -- with vital help from people who still believe in the First Amendment -- is prevailing against this cabal.

The county's taxpayers should get ready to pay higher taxes to cover what, if there's any justice, will be a massive lawsuit settlement.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/11/13/well-it-looks-like-pretty-much-every-government-agency-was-complicit-in-the-raid-of-a-small-town-newspaper/

"The future of software development tooling that is being built is closed as fuck, and people seem to be okay with it because select components meet the OSI definition whilst missing the bigger picture that the compositional graph of components does not."

@ghuntley

https://ghuntley.com/fracture/

In other words, people looking at isolated components and saying "but they're open, what's the problem", and ignoring their effects on our freedoms when combined.

@yojimbo @lightweight

#SoftwareFreedom

@matthewskelton

Maybe 10 years ago I was on a project where they hired an external consultancy to count Function Points (remember them?)

Unfortunately, counting Function Points turned out to be a bit hard.

Fortunately, they had a table of average LoC/Function Point for a bunch of different programming languages, so all they needed was a count of the changed lines in the release.

We had a few minutes warning of this exercise so we used the time to append a space to every line in the repo.