Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Oh snap, I guess you're going to have to find some other indulgent consumerist way to feel superior to the poors and the unenlightened.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/nobody-told-ev-owners-how-quickly-they-burn-through-tires

Q: Why is Donald Trump suddenly selling $60 bibles?

A: It enables churches to funnel money to him without violating the (US law) ban on political campaigning by churches—it's a form of money laundering, in other words.

Oregon governor signs nation’s first right-to-repair bill that bans parts pairing

Starting in 2025, devices can't block repair parts with software pairing checks.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/oregon-governor-signs-nations-first-right-to-repair-bill-that-bans-part-pairing/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

The "Trump Media & Technology Group Corp." isn't just another way to separate Trump cultists and meme-stock speculators from their money.

It's an unprecedented opportunity for the criminal-in-chief, the people in his orbit, and the people who want him in their debt to engage in pure corruption.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/27/us/trump-media-truth-social-campaign.html?ugrp=c&unlocked_article_code=1.gE0.wNMX.hemmyuQRvRRM&smid=url-share

(No paywall on this one.)

The @SocialCoop Finance Working Group is seeking suggestions for projects/organizations to donate to, as part of our Community Contribution Budget. Make your recommendations here:
https://www.loomio.com/d/2k8IHs9Y/please-suggest-projects-for-sc-to-contribute-to-from-fwg-

#Watercompanies in England face outrage over record sewage discharges - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/27/water-companies-in-england-face-outrage-over-record-sewage-discharges "rivers in England are at crisis point, suffering from a toxic cocktail of raw and treated sewage pollution, chemical toxins and agricultural runoff."

Check out our interview with Jay of Flora #Cooperative and Cooperation Milwaukee.

https://youtu.be/Uws1_weIdt4

I may have some light criticism concerning the fact that "Bash inside a string inside YAML" has become the universal language for cloud computing

A medium amount of hacking (and one small unplanned service outage) later, and the Owncast instance for tomorrow's livestream is up! Point a web browser at https://cast.coopcloud.tech/, **Thursday 28th March at 20:30 (8:30pm) UTC**

And for the non-Black* people wondering if Coeur d'Alene really is that racist... yes it is.

Because a good portion of the biggest self-described racists and white nationalists in the USA, intentionally moved to the area to set up shop. And the US has no institution capable of stopping racists from moving to an area, setting up shop, and taking over local government. 🤷🏿‍♂️

https://idahocapitalsun.com/2022/08/11/hate-makes-a-comeback-in-idaho-this-time-with-political-support/

The Utah coach's question was "Why would you put us there?"

(*Many Black people know this already).

HEADLINE: "Trump is selling ‘God Bless the USA’ Bibles for $59.99 as he faces mounting legal bills"

ALT HEADLINE: "As a lifelong grifter and conman, Trump has developed an instinct for finding suckers willing to give him money for worthless goods and services" https://apnews.com/article/trump-god-bless-usa-bible-greenwood-2713fda3efdfa297d0f024efb1ca3003

New #Abra is released! `abra upgrade` & enjoy! No migration steps required afair. Change log is here: https://git.coopcloud.tech/coop-cloud/abra/releases/tag/0.9.0-beta let us know if you run into issues 🎺 thanks to everyone who helped get this one out 💝 -- @decentral1se

Well, this is a transcendent level of evil: Facebook bought a VPN company and deployed it, in part, to spy on its users.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/

It's a reminder that VPNs have their own risks, beyond technical ones if operated incompetently -- namely, that you have to trust the VPN company itself.

🚨NEWS: The company that chartered the ship that destroyed the Key Bridge was just sanctioned by regulators for silencing whistleblowers raising safety concerns.

Maersk’s policy violated the law, according to federal documents reviewed by The Lever. https://www.levernews.com/feds-recently-hit-cargo-giant-in-baltimore-disaster-for-silencing-whistleblowers/

So... I'm visiting the US. And can I just say one thing: FOX News is destroying this society, hastening demise of an empire already primed with broad-spectrum disaffection and staggering ignorance.

"From my part, I believe the very concept of exclusive intellectual property with respect to recorded music has come to a natural end, or something like an end. Technology has brought to a head a need to embrace the meaning of the word “release”, as in bird or fart. It is no longer possible to maintain control over digitised material and I don’t believe the public good is served by trying to."

#SteveAlbini, 2014

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/nov/17/steve-albinis-keynote-address-at-face-the-music-in-full

#IP #IntellectualProperty

A state rep got caught committing securities fraud. A grand jury indicted him on felony charges. Years passed. The defendant was elected attorney general. Years more passed.

Now he has agreed to accept punishment. He must pay nearly $300,000 in restitution, take legal ethics classes and perform 100 hours of community service.

And he remains attorney general.

Given these impossible facts—what state are we in?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/us/politics/texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-texas-plea-deal-securities-fraud.html?ugrp=c&unlocked_article_code=1.fk0.8BHi.hUSHim_e5rvK&smid=url-share

US Politics in a nutshell:

The US forked British Monarchy™ in 1776, but froze the dev branch with Constitution 1.0, so didn't bother to backport any of the subsequent bugfixes and security patches (1831, 1918, 1938, etc.) from the main British branch.

Anyway, you've got a bunch of British Monarchy™ users who instinctively want to tug the forelock but don't have anyone to tug it *at* and it upsets them because homebrew is no good—it takes 700 years of inbreeding to roll your own nobility.

Coming Soon: "Selfhosted Infrastructure Any%", a speedrun-themed livestream demo of setting up some libre software tools using Co-op Cloud.

This Thursday 28 March 2024 @ 8:30pm (20:30) UTC https://time.is/compare/830PM_28_Mar_2024_in_UTC

–3wc

La la la. No this doesn't sound sketch.

Telegram is offering a new way to earn a premium subscription free of charge: all you have to do is volunteer your phone number to relay one-time passwords (OTP) to other users. This, in fact, sounds like an awful idea — particularly for a messaging service based around privacy.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/25/24111818/telegram-peer-to-peer-login-otp-two-factor-volunteer