Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Today I'm finding myself in the awkward position of being resentful that 99% of human society is founded on what I'm quite sure are fundamental lies.

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-is-solidarity

"Right now, our society is awash in various things that resemble #solidarity but fall short of the real thing. Appeals to benevolence, altruism, deference, or “allyship” are widespread, and invite us to be empathetic and kind; but they all place the onus on individual action rather than larger collective engagement, and on activating pity or guilt, rather than a sense of shared responsibility or shared fate"

“No one involved in this shift towards encrypted NYPD communications has ever bothered to recognize the cognitive dissonance that says protecting private people’s communications is a net loss for society while protecting cop communications is a net gain.”
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/03/11/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-says-that-if-police-radio-transmissions-arent-encrypted-the-terrorists-will-win/

For decades, software developers have relied on the settled view that a work is not derivative under copyright law unless it is “substantially similar” to a preexisting work in both ideas and expression. We’re asking the Ninth Circuit to uphold that view. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/eff-ninth-circuit-theres-no-software-exception-traditional-copyright-limits

to the surprise of absolutely no one who's been paying attention -- but nonetheless good to know that the data prove it -- the hedge fund and private equity looters are much worse for local news coverage than "regular" capitalists. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3939405

Boeing whistleblower's concerns are finally getting some traction and he decides to off himself in between testimonies...Yup, that checks out. Nothing sus here at all.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68534703.amp

My story about how telematics data from people's cars unexpectedly raised their insurance rates is on the front page today...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/technology/carmakers-driver-tracking-insurance.html?unlocked_article_code=1.b00.DzhQ.GXkvg-kgWebx&smid=url-share

... and this is where it started: me lurking on car forums and seeing comments like this.

If this story doesn't convince lawmakers we need a strong federal privacy law, I'm not sure what will.

Putting AI in everything quickly usurped blue LEDs in everything as the most useless add-on.

My #smashbysmashwest talk is in less than 24 hours! <3 Please share widely! I'll be discussing the intersection of #teen liberation and #trans #anarchy, and how #radical spaces can be more inclusive of #youth. It'll be gay, bro.

Flyer reads:

queer youth liberation workshop
@ Smash By Smash West
this discussion-based workshop on youth liberation, recently presented at Queers Bash Back 2023, will explore the intersection of anti-queerness and ageism, how radical spaces can be more inclusive to young organizers, and what it means to be, well, an angry queer teenager. organizers of all ages welcome.
facilitated by trans teen organizer mk zariel (they/them) of Debate Me Bruh, THE CHILD AND ITS ENEMIES, and the Anarchist Review of Books.
7PM to 8:30 PM CT, March 12
jitsi.anarchy.chat/YouthLiberationSXSW
& in-person at Monkeywrench Books

shellcheck

Permalink: https://wizardzines.com/comics/shellcheck/

@lightweight @KennetMattfolk Invidious is a wrapper for YT, and certainly a more hygienic way to view YT videos. More convenient, too. Playback settings are sticky, not bouncy, even without logging in. The video component of the Fediverse is #PeerTube. It is in something of a larval stage. Like DIY and open source communications in general, it's not particularly monetization friendly, so don't expect the slick professional production values of the slick professionals. The closest thing to a search over PeerTube instances would be #SepiaSearch, which is particularly larval and not very gratifying, but no-nonsense interfaces like "simply download this" are hella refreshing.

sepiasearch.org/

Oh look, more spam sent to my server from Google's Gmail servers, complete with valid DKIM.

This is your reminder that all of the "anti-spam" stuff that Google uses as an excuse to deny inbound email to Gmail users is actually just anti-competitive nonsense that does not work. They're the largest source of spam themselves. The call is coming from inside the house.

#GmailSpam #DontBeEvil

Wow, I've *really* gone off IT Professionals NZ. They're trying to sell me (a lapsed member) a seminar on AI in Ōtautahi with 'exciting presentations from Microsoft and Earnst & Young reps'. Ugh. What utter bollocks.

It's official. After 3 months of back and forth, a major medical provider has elected to drop me as a patient for not having a Google or Apple device.

It is unclear if this is legal, but it is very clearly discriminatory and unethical.

Any tech journalists or lawyers interested interested in this?

I would like to do anything I can to ensure this never happens to anyone else.

There are a few rituals where the initiation process has nothing to do with if you’re actually good at the job.

1. Dating isn’t a good test for being a good spouse.
2. Whiteboard interviews aren’t a good test for software engineers.
3. Fund raising and presenting pitch decks isn’t a good test for running a company.

The so-called "creator economy" is turning into a clone of the big-corporate one: Making money by using (the precise word) cheap labor from other countries and passing the work off as your own.

https://www.404media.co/email/859d66c7-c3cd-4e28-9af9-cd064e20e216/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

Bill McGuire at CNN (shortened): " I’m a climate scientist. If you knew what I know, you’d be terrified too".

"We’re experiencing, in our lifetimes, a heating episode that is probably unique in the last 4.6 billion years."

"In fact, this isn’t a matter of scaring people, but of informing them. As a climate scientist, it is my duty to tell you."

"Everyone has the right to know the facts so as to provide the opportunity to act upon the reality of what we are doing."

https://us.cnn.com/2024/03/07/opinions/climate-scientist-scare-doom-anxiety-mcguire/index.html

The right-wing "think tank" turning out some of the most extremist garbage has some unsurprising bedfellows. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/11/claremont-institute-society-for-american-civic-renewal-links

This report from @briankrebs is really something: A darknet marketplace -- which by definition has embarrassing (or worse) information about at least some of its buyers and sellers -- is extorting them. How? By threatening to reveal what they've bought and sold.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/incognito-darknet-market-mass-extorts-buyers-sellers/

If you bought or sold something on the darknet bazaar Incognito Market, you may be in for a surprise. Apparently Incognito is now extorting all of its former users, saying that depending on their vendor level, not having your info leaked could cost between $500 and $20,000.