Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

The NY Post is part of the Murdoch family's media empire.

Media Matters has been one of the few organizations that has consistently called out the Murdochs' poisonous influence in our culture.

So it is no surprise that the Post -- which doesn't disclose this context -- is doing a hit piece on Media Matters.

Gonna re-signal boost that we're looking for folks to help out with (at least) #Go hacking on #Abra!

https://docs.coopcloud.tech/abra/

#Abra is used daily by actual real life tech co-ops such as @autonomic & https://local-it.org (fedi handle?) and loads more.

We have good collective process in place to submit proposals for compensation for the work.

The community is full with Very Nice People. It's free software and copyleft.

Happy to help on-board!

-- @decentral1se

Do I know anyone here who is willing to share their experience deploying an institutional Mastodon server? A contact of mine is looking for someone to discuss the experience as he works on getting a government agency to deploy their own instance. Boosts appreciated #fediverse #mastodon

I wrote a piece on a #Coop alternative to Etsy that just launched, one that puts power back into the hands of artists & makers:
@coopartisans (glad they're on Mastodon!)

I didn't realize the extent to which #Etsy had become toxic to sellers until starting interviews for this piece. It's clear that artisans are being drawn to this because an alternative is long overdue.

(there's a tech issue with the authorship at the top; it names me as the author at the bottom)

https://www.shareable.net/artisans-cooperative-an-etsy-alternative-owned-and-run-by-artists-and-makers/

And the winner of the Dutch election is... The Dutch Media. They've spent decades hyping up every right wing racist party, allowing them to say the most outrageous things without any fact checking at all. The public has now given the most votes to a racist linked to Putin. I'm ashamed.
#tk2023 #DutchPolitics

Debian Votes: A General Resolution torward an offical project statment has been initiated regarding the recent EU 'Cyber Resilience Act and Product Liability Directive' https://www.debian.org/vote/2023/vote_002

Although Dan Godin never says it directly in this article (as he should): https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/11/normally-targeting-ukraine-russian-state-hackers-spread-usb-worm-worldwide/ but this new USB worm is a *Windows* issue. I always wonder why tech writers *never* state this explicitly. They only ever imply it, leaving it as something only informed technologists can work out.

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*Sale excludes merch, preorder titles, FOPM memberships, combo packs, gift certificates, gift boxes & gift bags. Ends 1/1/24.

We are proud to stand in solidarity with other publishers across the globe who are calling for a ceasefire and an end to the genocide in Palestine.

Read the Publishers for Palestine: Statement of Solidarity on the PM blog

https://blog.pmpress.org/2023/11/04/publishers-for-palestine-statement-of-solidarity/

The "Effective altruism" movement misses the point. The problem with philanthropy isn't the way it's targeted. It's the fact that some people have more money than whole states to spend on their idea of doing good. So the fix isn't to make philanthropy more "effective", but to make it more democratic.

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#EffectiveAltruism #Philanthropy

Microsoft creates byzantine systems that are pointlessly complex. The purpose of that complexity - against all engineering practice - is not technical, it's entirely human: to keep legions of IT techs employed & insisting on their employers persisting with Microsoft (because most of those legions are sharp enough to know that without MS, they'd be unemployed). Most* of the rest of the world carries the cost and daily pain.

* a few of us rejected Microsoft decades ago & have no regrets.

@futuresprog Microsoft is entirely unworthy of its dominant position. It's certainly entirely rubbish at anything tech-related.

Wow, got an email from a customer who's no longer getting password recovery emails from a #libre web app I run for them. Turns out Microsoft has randomly turned off the (non-auth) SMTP service they were using to send the emails (rather than an authenticating account, as that incurs a license fee). Part of an unannounced 'security initiative', apparently.

I feel nothing but pity for people who, though no fault of their own, have Microsoft corporation software foisted upon them. Poor sods.

#Argentina’s new leader is a snake-oil salesman with extreme views on abortion, gay rights and more. I fear for my country - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/21/argentina-new-leader-extreme-abortion-gay-rights-javier-milei "After his landslide victory in the presidential election, Javier Milei is threatening to undo 40 years of democracy in Argentina"

On Palestinian Non-Violent Resistance.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2023/november/on-non-violent-resistance?

The weird issue with my vision is better this morning. Currently text on LCD screens look like slightly out of sync text on old CRT monitors - you know, they're shiny and not out of focus, exactly, but uncomfortably distorted and way too bright. So I reached into an old bag of tricks from the 90s and wore prescription sunglasses. Much better. Now I can log in to work!

But I was sick all weekend, so I'm unshaven and ungroomed. It looks like Hell's Angels' accountant has joined the meeting.

#Codeberg will have a #FOSDEM stand! (I am REALLY unsure as to whether I'd be able to make it, but still cool!)

https://fosdem.org/2024/news/2023-11-20-accepted-stands-fosdem-2024/