Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Latest cartoon on Alabama decision that IVF embryos are people

#theorcracy #reproduction #ivf #health #medicine #science

Limitarianism The Case Against Extreme Wealth by Ingrid Robeyns

"A powerful case for limitarianism—the idea that we should set a maximum on how much resources one individual can appropriate. A must-read!"
—Thomas Piketty, bestselling author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century
An original, bold, and convincing argument for a cap on wealth by the philosopher who coined the term "limitarianism."

@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#limitarianism
#wealth

Hot Shots Racing on Steam just went on sale for $2, so I picked it up and gave it a go last night. Definitely worth the price, especially if you're into flat-shaded polygons (i.e. grew up in the 90s) and drifting. If anyone wants to put together a little online multiplayer action, I'd definitely be down.
#FediRacing

I couldn't believe it so I checked Google's AI (Gemini) myself

#Google #Gemini #Israel #Palestine #Gaza

I like #Forgejo more than #Gitea.
#FreeSoftware #development #Git #forge #meme #doge

@artfulrobot @Codeberg if you have a few repositories to do, this bash script may be handy and it's availability on codeberg.

https://codeberg.org/librecast/giveupgithub.sh

#GiveUpGitHub

As a PhD student, I was fascinated to see how many bright peers were developing price-fixing algorithms, under the rationale of market optimization and helping businesses.

This month, the FTC reminded everyone that this is still illegal.

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2024/03/price-fixing-algorithm-still-price-fixing?utm_campaign=landlords_and_property_ma&utm_content=1709317844&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin

Very cool-- research confirms horses were in North American well before Europeans showed up. Indigenous people told us that :) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-02/newsradio-native-americans-rewrite-history-books/103526100

In the Absence of Care: Building Solidarity in Athens

“Progressive activism invests in the endurance of life in spaces of state and social abandonment because these spaces are capable of providing a potential for cultivating a new ethics of life and sociality.”
#Healthcare #Solidarity

https://averyreview.com/issues/54/in-the-absence-of-care

Folks, do you happen to have access to the Italian library for the blind called Fondazione Ezio Galiano? If so, please kindly contact me. Also please boost this. Thanks.

The drm subsystem maintainer tool, affectionately named dim, now supports applying patches and series using b4.

See the two new subcommands, dim b4-shazam and dim b4-shazam-branch.

b4 v0.13 or later is required to properly filter out trailers from CI and build bots.

https://drm.pages.freedesktop.org/maintainer-tools/dim.html#b4-shazam-branch-branch-b4-shazam-arguments-message-id

For those of you interested in our recent video offloading / zero-copy playback work: I quickly put together some #livi #flatpak s to make it easy to test stuff already. Compositor offloading should work on all semi-recent Intel/AMD and a variety of ARM64 devices.

If you trust the sandbox you can get them here:
https://cloud.silentundo.org/s/r8733siTjP4yRJp

I expect quite a few people hitting driver bugs, so please help tracking those down :)

#LinuxMobile #gtk #GStreamer #Wayland #GNOME

The #Forgejo monthly update was published ✨ It is a high level overview of the project activities.

Forgejo started as a soft fork of Gitea, in reaction to governance changes within the project. Over time, it developed its own identity, adopted both development and governance practices - to ensure the stability, quality, and openness of the project - that made it more challenging to remain a soft fork. The decision was made to become a hard fork.

https://forgejo.org/2024-02-monthly-update/

Found online:

Corporations are people. Embryos are people. Is there anything MAGAs don't think are people?

Oh, right. Women.

NEW: Popular internet-connected video doorbells can be hijacked by anyone who's close to them, researchers find.

All someone needs to do is download an app, hold the doorbell's button for eight seconds, and they can pair the camera with their phone.

These vulnerable internet-connected video doorbells are still on sale on Amazon, while Temu and Walmart took them down after Consumer Reports alerted them.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/29/popular-video-doorbells-eken-tuck-hijacked-researchers/

Anyone who tells you "we are running out of time" is using a trick known to fiction writers everywhere.

Yes, I also have a master's in fiction writing 😂

It's called the ticking clock device. It creates suspense and keeps readers glued to the screen or turning pages.

Stoping now because JJ is insisting on a walk, and have you ever tried arguing with a dog?

4/

I was recently honored to receive the Berryman Award for editorial cartooning from the National Press Foundation. Sharing a couple pics from the awards dinner in Washington, DC. I had a great time (and got to meet Al Roker!)

Photo credit: Lisa Nipp for NPF

#media #journalism

GitHub is struggling to contain an ongoing attack that’s flooding the site with millions of code repositories. These repositories contain obfuscated malware that steals passwords and cryptocurrency from developer devices, researchers said.

The malicious repositories are clones of legitimate ones, making them hard to distinguish to the casual eye. An unknown party has automated a process that forks legitimate repositories, meaning the source code is copied so developers can use it in an independent project that builds on the original one. The result is millions of forks with names identical to the original one that add a payload that’s wrapped under seven layers of obfuscation. To make matters worse, some people, unaware of the malice of these imitators, are forking the forks, which adds to the flood.

“Most of the forked repos are quickly removed by GitHub, which identifies the automation,” Matan Giladi and Gil David, researchers at security firm Apiiro, wrote Wednesday. “However, the automation detection seems to miss many repos, and the ones that were uploaded manually survive. Because the whole attack chain seems to be mostly automated on a large scale, the 1% that survive still amount to thousands of malicious repos.”

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/02/github-besieged-by-millions-of-malicious-repositories-in-ongoing-attack/