Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I feel like a lot of liberals and progressives have been fooled into supporting state repression of free expression by the whole "Russia stole the 2016 election via online disinfo and social media shitposting" narrative. Well guess what peeps? We live in a two party system in which Dem control of gov't is followed inexorably by Repub control. Signing off on gov't censorship when it seems to suit your politics will always backfire.

https://lpeproject.org/blog/social-media-authoritarianism-and-the-world-as-it-is/

I'm sorry ya'll, but the people developing this tech are idiots. The people deploying this tech are idiots, and the people trumpeting the power of this tech are, unsurprisingly, also idiots. [NYC AI Chatbot Touted by Adams Tells Businesses to Break the Law]
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/03/nyc-ai-chatbot-touted-by-adams-tells-businesses-to-break-the-law.html

Heads up for distro maintainers:

gnome-session 46 dropped support for the `--systemd` option.
(https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-session/-/merge_requests/93)

So if you want to use #phosh with gnome-session >= 46 make sure to drop that option from `/usr/bin/phosh-session`. A point release fixing this is in preparation: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/merge_requests/1387 . Until then the safest thing is to stick with gnome-session << 46.

Small thing that I have found missing in the current discussion around the xz debacle:

If a project that you have an interest in has already a problem with maintainer capacity, probably the worst solution is to just add a maintainer (and even worse doing it in a rush).

You don't need to arm-twist the overworked maintainer in sharing power, you can just start doing non-binding reviews, answering questions and offloading other work from the maintainer(s).

Whenever security incidents happen, you always see certain vendors take part in ambulance chasing: blog posts that talk about how *their* product could have prevented it.

I've come to expect it from commercial vendors, but I didn't expect OpenSSF to do it, especially when their charter is precisely to prevent things like this from happening in exactly these kind of under-resourced-but-important projects.

https://openssf.org/blog/2024/03/30/xz-backdoor-cve-2024-3094/

At Jacks arraignment, the State dedicated 15 mins to analysis, debate, and denunciations of the Zapatistas, a Mexico-based movement Jack is said to have visited in January. The prosecutor went so far to threaten war with the indigenous group. Who are they and why does GA care?

On Jan 1, 1994, thousands of Maya campesinos and students rose up in arms in Chiapas, MX against the famously corrupt Mexican government and the newly-signed NAFTA agreements which would impoverish and endanger their communities.

After 12 days, the Ejercito Zapatista Liberacion Nacional and the state of Mexico called a ceasefire and initiated peace talks, known as the San Andres, bringing peace, recognition, protection, and land to the indigenous peoples of all of Mexico.

For the past 30 years, thousands of Zapatistas have organized workshops, farms, schools, shops, festivals, and villages in the spirit of communalist, egalitarian, self-rule.

On Jan 1 of this year, thousands of people from around the world convened in Chiapas to celebrate the anniversary of the Zapatista uprising. Jack is alleged to be one of those thousands of students, artists, intellectuals, and empathetic people.

Currently, the Zapatistas face new challenges, as drug traffickers and paramilitaries threaten and kill Zapatista women and youth, who do not permit alcohol, drugs, or violence in their communities. The Mexican government also aims to build a train, the Tren Maya, in their lands.

This project will allow the gov't to place armed forces across the area, violating the San Andres accords, jeopardizing the safety of the region for the purposes of profits, and at the behest of the USA, who hope to push the system of border checkpoints south into the Yucatan.

ince 1994, the Zapatistas have inspired generations of dreamers and activists across the world, representing the new-era of post Cold-War resistance to exploitation, state terrorism, global capitalism, and violence.

The City of ATL and the State of GA are opposed to those movements, because they have dedicated considerable resources to training, arming, and funding counterrevolutionaries, terrorists, narcotraffickers, and paramilitaries in Central America at the School of the Americas.

And that pits them directly against freedom movements like the Zapatistas as well as our movement to stop Cop City, and to defend (as well as rebuild) the Weelaunee Forest. If this is the accusation, Jacks family should be proud of his alleged attendance at their ceremony.

For more info, we recommend "Rebellion in Chiapas" by John Womack Jr., "A Place Called Chiapas," a documentary film available online, and this article, from participants in our very own movement who attended the 2024 encuentro:

https://crimethinc.com/2024/01/18/the-2024-zapatista-encuentro-report-back-and-footage

Most disturbing about the #BU Dean (a computer scientist) suggesting using #ai for discussion section “feedback” is how it promotes or at least acquiesces to the burgeoning deepfake industry.

The suggestion didn’t mention the need to be honest with our students about it.

This is part of the pyramid of power, which includes who holds knowledge & who doesn’t. We faculty are “granted” agency to use tools without transparency with students, holding power of knowledge over them. 1/2

They say "rights," we say "restrictions" #DRM are not for your digital /rights/, they are /restrictions/ imposed on you. Celebrate your own intellect by staying away from DRM. Learn more about DRM-free living at https://u.fsf.org/1aj

This week's comic: What can we do about a Supreme Court packed with corrupt extremists?

#supremecourt #scotus #democracy #law #abortion #cartoon #comic

Coming at you live and direct once again, step through tomorrow at 14:00 (2pm) UTC for another episode of the ｃｏｏｐｃｌｏｕｄｃａｓｔ #livestream 📺

Join @decentral1se@varia.zone & @3wordchant@social.coop on our (Co-opCloud-hosted) https://cast.coopcloud.tech for some chill Sunday #libresoftware hacking

NBC's auditioning new conservative pundits. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2024/3/29/2232215/-Cartoon-NBC-s-pundit-search

New blog post! 📝 A write-up of Thursday's "Selfhosted Infrastructure Any%" speedrun attempt https://coopcloud.tech/blog/selfhosted-infrastructure-any/

–3wc

According to CNN, the lyrics for 🎶I'm proud to be an American🎶 are a "historic American document." 😂

"Inside, it has the words to “God Bless the USA” and the text of The Declaration of Independence, the Pledge of Allegiance and other historic American documents."

Eventually, this version of the Bible will become known as the KDV (King Donald's Version)

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/28/us/donald-trump-bible-christianity-cec/index.html

Again the FOSS world has proven to be vigilant and proactive in finding bugs and backdoors. The level of transparency is stellar, especially compared to proprietary software companies. What the FOSS world has accomplished in 24 hours after detection of the backdoor code in #xz deserves a moment of humbleness. Instead we have flamewars and armchair experts shouting that we must change everything NOW. Which would introduce even more risks. Progress is made iteratively. Learn , adapt, repeat.

@fleeky The Federal gov't does not fund it's spending with taxes - it has a legal obligation to offset spending through taxes or issuance of securities, but that is a self-imposed restriction. As father of modern econ Paul Samuelson once admitted, the idea that the government must fund it's spending is like "old time religion": not true, but a lie that's good for you to believe.

However, just like OTR, it's not actiually good to believe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_pasHodJ-8

And don't forget, the US has NO MONEY for social services. You see if we funded those, we'd have to raise taxes and that would be bad. However, we do have $2.5 billion to buy weapons for Israel, because assisting in an ongoing genocide is more important than healthcare or housing.

If I was a Democrat right now, I'd probably be going crazy from the cognitive dissonance. Fortunately for me, I had my eyes opened about the Dem party years and years ago.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/3/30/israels-war-on-gaza-live-fears-grow-of-wider-conflict-after-deadly-strike

#Web sites generating money from #advertising are like:

"Please understand us, we need money to survive, so we will sell access to your computer to X"

where X can be:
- literally anyone
- shady businesses
- personal data collectors
- organizations with a similar audience
- individually vetted entities

#ads don't have to be evil, but in my experience the louder they shout, the worse deal they want to push on the readers.

Shame that #projectwonderful is dead.

#smallweb #surveillance

I accidentally found a security issue while benchmarking postgres changes.

If you run debian testing, unstable or some other more "bleeding edge" distribution, I strongly recommend upgrading ASAP.

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4

In the United States, today, a million dollars might be enough to retire on if you're planning to either die young or stay fit and healthy to the very end of your life.

Canada, let's get real: restricting access to devices like the Flipper Zero will hamper development of strong, secure technologies, and won't solve the problem of car hacking. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/restricting-flipper-zero-accountability-approach-security-canadian-government