Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

We are sitting in the #train to #FOSDEM. Wow, so many #Linux desktops in a public space!

#FreeSoftware #GNU #FOSDEM24

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Pretty disappointing to see ProPublica carrying water for the DEA.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/02/the-dea-once-again-takes-aim-at-mexicos-president-andres-manuel-lopez-obrador.html

https://www.propublica.org/article/mexico-amlo-lopez-obrador-campaign-drug-cartels

@Daojoan yuck, that sounds gross. We've got Matrix -> Forgejo (or Gitlab), with notes in QOwnNotes, projects in WeKan or NextCloud deck, with meetings in BigBlueButton or Jitsi (via Matrix)... All of it is 100% #Libre/#FOSS, we host it all ourselves, and it all costs us nothing except a bit of my time. Plus we control all the data. I think there might be an opportunity here. Single sign-on is via Authentik - see https://tech.oeru.org/updating-oer-foundation-web-services-february-2023 for a full list of the services we use (+ howtos)...

I'm at the point of begging my fellow academics:

Don't be so fucking gullible when it comes to tech companies and don't do their PR work for them

Your seminar on "using AI responsibly" is just volunteer PR work for a tech company

Your partnership with Meta is just volunteer PR work for a tech company

They are lying to you and manipulating you and it's embarrassing how bad you are at spotting this

For those wondering, here is the current statement about the Mastodon vulnerability: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/security/advisories/GHSA-3fjr-858r-92rw

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"The US two-party system functions like a ratchet, with the Republican Party steadily pulling public policy and discourse to the right while Democrats, seeking to acquire power by chasing the political center, serve as a mechanism that prevents policy and discourse from shifting back."

https://crimethinc.com/theratchet

We see this playing out right now as Republicans push for more authoritarian border policies with the collusion of various centrists.

Always nice to see this take coming from someone else besides me.

There is no such thing as unskilled labor. If you're calling it unskilled, it is simply because you don't understand what the work requires. The labor isn't unskilled, you're uninformed.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/01/a-philosopher-looks-at-work-in-our-modern-world.html

"My guy ardently supports genocide, but he's no fascist" is a hell of an argument.

“These towers aren’t checking people’s papers,” EFF’s Dave Maass told @CalMatters. “Just being somebody who lives on the border, whose family are on both sides of the border, doesn’t make you a criminal and shouldn’t put you under suspicion.”
https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2024/01/border-patrol-california/

The Texas Border standoff is not some isolated incident. It has to be seen in the broader context of the country falling apart.

Echoes of nullification crises and Civil War, as Republican governors are endorsing precisely the argument slave states used to justify secession.

New piece:

🧵1/

https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/the-texas-border-standoff-is-an-acute

One of the things a jury pool can actually do is say “no, this is too fucked up and I absolutely won’t find a Food Not Bombs volunteer ‘guilty’ of feeding people.” Pool of 15, not a single person even willing to consider it.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/housing/article/food-not-bombs-trial-busted-jury-panel-homeless-18617041.php

How do we improve the adoption of digital security practices?

Tell a good story.

Read about our latest research ⬇️
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This post apparently got Gary Girod banned from Xitter. He doesn’t seem to be on Mastodon yet.

More about his background — https://www.thefrenchhistorypodcast.com/about/

I visited a store with random household items the other day.

Here are the digital cables! HDMI, lightning, lots of USB-mini, -C...
but not a single one with #USB 3.0.

Wild guess: the general public only needs high speeds between the TV and receiver box. The phone never gets connected to anything but a power supply, and laptops barely exit any longer.

How wrong am I? Do laptops still exist outside of work/school? Do they do anything but browse the web?

#mobile #smartphone #web #young #tv

US: attention, Trader Joe’s shoppers, the TJ’s union wants to know how many people will support a strike of this union busting food chain.

They are *not* calling for a boycott at this time. Random boycotts only make things harder for workers (low sales can lead to layoffs). They’re asking for solidarity.

You can add your name here: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/stand-with-trader-joes-united-sign-on-in-solidarity/

#TraderJoes #union #solidarity