Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Secure, Private, Plus No Surveillance Or Data Mining By Big Tech The Way Smartphones and Cellular Service Should Be.

Stop your wireless carrier from tracking you by way of ad tracking technology by switching to AweSIM private cellular service.

https://puri.sm/products/librem-awesim/

This is a bad path to go down, imo. Incommensurable values exist. You cannot simply reduce all values to dollars and think that you have somehow accounted for them. An unpolluted stream; a human life; time spent with loved ones -- these are not things which you can properly account for by putting a dollar value on them. To the contrary, putting a dollar value on these things denies their *actual* value, and so serves only to devalue them.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/26/1084603/gretchen-daily-economist-environment-accounting/

USB C fanboys making false claims again…

No, USB C is not "universal"

- There are litterally multiples charging protocols for each device brand, which are not necessarily retrocompatibles for a same brand. And there no compatibility between different brands. Only devices/chargers that use Qualcomm' QuickCharge (Qualcomm chipsets only but far from all Qualcomm based devices, as most use device's brand's protocol instead), or USB-PD are "interoperable" in terns of "fast charge".

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Your year's not complete until you taste Panera's deathmonade. https://brianmcfadden.org/2023/12/15/paneras-extreme-menu/

@mkwadee

They should ALL face the consequences personally.

#Brexit was created to shield the likes of Smogg & Sunak from the prying eyes of Europe's tax inspectors who were looking into businesses & individuals who made their money in Europe, but from countries registered in tax havens, meaning they paid little to no tax.

When the #Tories said "We want our country back", the "We" wasn't you & me the electorate, it was "Them", the Eton/Oxford elite who believe they were born to rule over us.

Ohio grand jury to decide whether to charge woman who miscarried for ‘abuse of a corpse’ - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/26/ohio-jury-woman-miscarriage-abuse-corpse #murica has gone mad

If you don’t get any gifts for Christmas, now you know why.

Holy Shit. It's a Punk Rock Christmas Playlist for the Rest of Us

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM-Kw-LTtPsh6A52O0fthDptcxMpOIp2b&si=4tHPg4JLTxkCYpOe

Celebrate or don't with this selection of tunes. Curated by your friends here at PM Press.

I've released #livi 0.0.5, a little video player mostly targeting mobile: https://gitlab.gnome.org/guidog/livi

Among other things we make better use of screen estate in landscape even when not fullscreen.

#phosh #gnome #linuxmobile

Up until this week @paulbiggar was on the board at a fairly substantial tech company that he co-founded. If you work in tech, you’ve probably heard of it; if you don’t, you probably haven’t. But then he wrote a blog post.

He’s no longer a director of that company. The CEO, Jim Rose, has clarified that Paul does not speak for them and that CircleCI “is committed to our customers in Israel and around the world.”

#gaza #israel #politics #war

https://chromamine.com/2023/12/standing-up-for-gaza/

#Debian provides documentation packages for many libraries, languages and tools. Why I like it so much?
- No matter how good your uplink is, localhost is faster
- Sometimes connectivity is poor or absent (on planes, country-side etc)
- Grep is faster that any search engine
- You can save on battery and metered SIM data
- Debian removes privacy-breaching images, javascript, cookies, ads
- Installed documentation is always at the same version as the language/tool/library

Latest cartoon: Holiday harangue

#cartoon #comic #holidays #abortion #prochoice

"AI is a liability not just in the financial sense but also in the ethical sense. It promises wage savings – despite being extremely expensive in terms of training, development and environmental impact – while encouraging indifference to human labor, intellectual property, harmful output, and informational accuracy. AI invites companies to remove people from the equation when they often add value that isn't obvious from a balance sheet."
#AI

https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/21/artificial_intelligence_is_a_liability/

Molly Crabapple, artist and activist:

Do #ElectricCars really produce fewer #CarbonEmissions than #petrol or #diesel #vehicles? | #Business | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/23/do-electric-cars-really-produce-fewer-carbon-emissions-than-petrol-or-diesel-vehicles

#EV #GreehouseGases #FossilFuels

To the conservatives who assert that the way to beat Trump is through the ballot box and not through litigation, he was beaten at the ballot box. In 2020. But then he fomented an insurrection in an effort to overturn being beaten at the ballot box. That’s why he has been indicted.

Ah, the feeling when trying to fix one program breaks a lot of others.

It's #DPI problems. I have an infinite patience to rant about creating *yet another*, **integer** scaling factor instead of making DPI settings solid under #Linux. Shame on you, #Wayland.

Let's hope re-logging-in solves this particular problem.

It's winter sale time! All my stuff on @itchio is 50% off!

- Cacophony: minimalist MIDI sequencer
- PROCEMON: procgen glitchcore monster collecting
- Neocolonialism: "capitalism is bad actually" strategy game
- No Pineapple Left Behind "if capitalism and schools are bad actually" management sim
- Traitor Nightly: IF/board game experiment
- A Great Miracle Happened Here: Jewish leftist ttrpg
- many more zines and games

https://itch.io/s/113717/winter-sale-2023

#itch #itchio #midi #indiegame #wintersale

The greed of energy companies and supermarkets were the most extreme: Total corporate profits surged 60 per cent from the end of 2019 to mid 2022 — driving Canada’s inflation rate to over eight per cent. Post-COVID inflation was very much a “profit-price” spiral.

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/12/21/opinion/excessive-supermarket-profits-boost-inflation