Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Is the recent #Fediverse #spam wave over? We hope so. Thanks to all #instanceAdmins for cleaning this up.

What can we learn from this? Some thoughts regarding #ForgeFederation: https://blog.codeberg.org/what-we-can-learn-from-the-fediverse-spam-for-codeberg.html

#ForgeFed #Forgejo

@AnarchoNinaWrites Maybe because they don’t want their candidate to change his ways. Maybe because they’re just as morally vacuous about the genocide of Brown people on the other side of the planet as he is.

I really have no words for what it means to watch 100,000 people vote "present," in a primary, for a swing state you NEED to have in the general and then say to yourself "I could demand my candidate change his ways before Trump wins this, but naw, fuck that, I'm going to go yell at randos online and insist they change the votes of 100,000 strangers in Michigan."

This, makes sense to you folks? Really? Could not be me.

I believe that #FreeSoftware #development needs free software #tools.

I’m tired of all the excuses for injecting #proprietary software like #GitHub, #Discord, #Transifex, #Slack, etc. into the development workflow. What's the point of making free software then?

We *do* have good free software tools available, we just need to use them.

Projects like #Forgejo show us exactly how it's done. Free software all the way, no compromises, no excuses. 👍

This is exactly the right direction.

“This Is What Our Ruling Class Has Decided Will Be Normal”

On Aaron Bushnell’s Action in Solidarity with Gaza, a moving piece by CrimethInc. http://crimethinc.com/AaronBushnell

Art by @krime

#FreePalestine #Gaza

I wrote a rant about why biological collections are important and under threat!

http://dantheclamman.blog/2024/02/27/the-biodiversity-collections-crisis/

EFF interns Dez Peltzer and Colin Brandes helped This Is Reno by mapping the city-operated security cameras for which Reno officials had refused to provide locations.
https://thisisreno.com/2024/02/surveillance-city-reno-officials-would-prefer-you-not-know-where-its-security-cameras-are-view-a-map/

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It seems like WWIII is definitely on its way, and while it shouldn't, I think it actually needs saying: you shouldn't be rooting for it.

Why are so many people cheering for war, for escalation? Why are so few calling for peace, for diplomacy, for negotiation? I guess because propaganda is effective and even people who have read "Manufacturing Consent" often enough can't tell when it's being done to them. But gawddamn is it ever depressing.

https://www-aftonbladet-se.translate.goog/nyheter/kolumnister/a/O8w761/sverige-har-frivilligt-underkastat-sig-usa

Introducing the Open Science Network 🔬
We're thrilled to be part of this initiative dedicated to building open and federated digital spaces to push the boundaries of open science and scholarly communication.
🔗 Explore more on the website: https://openscience.network
📢 Dive into the details in our announcement blog post: https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/openscience_network/
@brembs @UlrikeHahn @jorge @open_science
#openscience

Are you forced by your #bank to use proprietary #apps? Have a look at background shared on the @fsfe 's discussion list by @floriansnow from a #FreeSoftware angle:

https://lists.fsfe.org/pipermail/discussion/2024-February/013383.html

Florian's questions:

* What's your experience with your bank?
* How do you do your #banking?
* Is there an important angle that I missed?

Contact lists.

Your contacts can set an #avatar and it will be respected.

Why can't we select our sound notifications? Or ringtones?

Empty avatar gets replaced by a unique generated one. Like an #identicon.
This exists for #sound ! https://github.com/jasonbot/identijingle

Why is no messenger using that?

With a single sound for everyone in #Element I have to waste time checking every unimportant message.

#xmpp folks, is there a #xep ?

#jingle #identijingle #messengers #communication #matrix

“Unchecked surveillance is not the solution to our city’s challenges. If passed, Proposition E would expand secret surveillance while stripping away hard-won safety policies,” EFF’s Nash Sheard said. #NOPEonE https://www.postnewsgroup.com/opponents-of-san-franciscos-prop-e-hold-rally-in-front-of-city-hall/

Just launched!

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Preorder & help this book come to life on Kickstarter http://tinyurl.com/MissingMusicKS

#books

Surveillance capitalism is predatory data mining typically via addictive and harmful sites and applications with social validation feedback loops/intermittent variable rewards posing threats to end users.

Read more at: https://puri.sm/posts/missing-from-privacy-legislation-the-abolishment-of-surveillance-capitalism-predatory-harmful-surveillance-business-practices/

@paulcox Yes. Because racism is a lie that's much easier to maintain with a little distance. There were at least some Alabama players whose first sustained exposure to a real life Black person was on that team. At least a few of them became less racist as a result of those encounters.

In general, having close Black coworkers does a lot to reduce racism.

Which is part of why there is *less* anti-Black sentiment among working class white folks, than wealthy white folks.🙂🙃

Seriously. Much less.

New: We published body camera footage of a sheriff in Idaho hunting for 'obscene' books at the library to use for a political stunt last year in which he announced he was holding two stolen books hostage at a public meeting.

Those books were actually stolen from another library. The sheriff returned them mutilated, and they have not been returned to circulation

https://www.404media.co/police-bodycam-shows-sheriff-kootenai-idaho-hunting-for-obscene-books-at-library/

This little jab at economists is pretty funny (and on point).

(from The Origins Of Enduring Economic Inequality, Samuel Bowles & Mattia Fochesato; January 2024)
https://www.aeaweb.org/content/file?id=20176