Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Contributing to Codeberg:

There are now chat rooms for #Backups and #Ceph under the Codeberg #Matrix space: https://matrix.to/#/#codeberg-space:matrix.org

Consider joining the efforts if you are interested.

Full list of areas looking for contribution, including non-technical work: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Contributing

What do House Dems like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Barbara Lee have in common with House GOPers like Thomas Massie and Andy Biggs? Not a lot. But they do know an unconstitutional bill when they see one, like this #TikTok ban. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/why-us-house-members-opposed-tiktok-ban-bill

It's the 26th anniversary of SNL's only airing of likely the most subversive sketch in the show's entire history: "Conspiracy Theory Rock" –– a Robert Smigel cartoon that, unsurprisingly, would be cut from all future reruns.

Smigel (my old boss!) posted this version today, which is much higher quality than the terrible one going around YouTube. Share this one!

His original post: https://twitter.com/TriumphICDHQ/status/1768279398132723857

For folks still actively using #Github for their #libre software activities, this is worth a read: https://sfconservancy.org/GiveUpGitHub/ I left Github shortly after Microsoft announced they were acquiring it (I should've done so sooner). Now I host a few Gitlab (Community Edition) instances and my own personal Forgejo instance. Both platforms are great (I prefer the fully #libre nature of Forgejo, though).

An Israeli tank killed Reuters reporter Issam Abdallah in Lebanon last year by firing two 120 mm rounds at a group of "clearly identifiable journalists" in violation of international law, a U.N. investigation into the Oct. 13 incident has found. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-tank-strike-killed-clearly-identifiable-reuters-reporter-un-report-2024-03-13/

Dev-focused tools that solve generic problems exclusively working with either GitHub or GitLab repos is really saddening. The software development world does not revolve exclusively around these two platforms. It is entirely possible to build most of these awesome tools in a platform-agnostic ways. The creators choose not to because it's easier and they don't care about those platforms, even though they end up excluding large swathes of the software development ecosystem.

Coming back to Adobe, while it's great that they've suddenly discovered digital credentials and have commissioned A Report To Tell Us How Great They Are, we'd be naive to think that this is a benevolent act.

What they're doing, it seems, is positioning the 'Adobe Certified Professional' digital credential as the one that you need in that particular industry.

That means tying 'creativity' to using certain tools, and having a very privatised 'rebundling' of knowledge and skills.

As someone who played SxSW multiple times and mostly enjoyed it, I would like to say bands should drop out of SxSW because it is in Texas and Greg Abbott is the governor and his party literally voted to greenlight alliances with Texas neo-Nazis because they, his party, are fucking neo-Nazis.
https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/music/2024-03-12/sxsw-responds-to-artist-dropouts-following-tweet-from-greg-abbott/

#ClimateDiary

“In a drastic attempt to protect their beachfront homes, residents in Salisbury, Massachusetts, invested $500,000 in a sand dune to defend against encroaching tides. After being completed last week, the barrier made from 14,000 tons of sand lasted just 72 hours before it was completely washed away”

#massachusetts #CoastalErosion

https://www.thedailybeast.com/dollar500k-dune-designed-to-protect-massachusetts-homes-last-just-3-days

How easy it is to create your own instance of Docsify-this using @Codeberg Pages? As easy as:

1️⃣ Create a new repository called pages
2️⃣ In the template drop-down select @paulhibbitts docsify-this-app
3️⃣ Tick Git content and click Create Repository

https://harlows.codeberg.page/

Urge your representative to vote no on the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act,” the #TikTok ban bill.

We shouldn’t waste time on a law that will get thrown out for silencing the speech of millions of Americans. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/congress-should-give-unconstitutional-tiktok-bans

@tess I think decentralized networks are what we're going to be living with, is the thing. They're here and the central platforms desperately want out of the game of dealing with all of the big liabilities.

So if I take that as a given, then identifying, say, covert coordinated genocidal campaigns and communicating that out to humans and offering protective interventions is actually the whole ballgame. (Mastodon hosts all kinds of horrors, too, they're just shunned by mainstream coalitions.)

Update on Newton, the Wayland-native accessibility stack I'm developing for GNOME and (eventually) other desktops: I have an end-to-end prototype, using a Wayland protocol extension for the connection between applications/toolkits and the compositor, and D-Bus for the AT-to-compositor interface. I have an experimental branch of Orca with basic focus announcement and mouse review working. 1/?

This is big news from the Department of Education. The Department of Education is starting a program to inform high school students about the importance of voting and promote voter registration.

This is getting no attention in the media and Laura Brill from the Civics Center (an organization I’ve volunteered with) is asking for help getting the word out. Please share this information where you can.

U.S. Department of Education Promotes High School Voter Registration:
https://thecivicscenter.substack.com/p/us-department-of-education-promotes

Happy Sunshine Week! Grab your popcorn and enjoy the "winners" of The Foilies, our annual faux awards that name and shame the agencies that thwarted the public's right to government information. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/foilies-2024

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/