Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

There were four people arrested at the A15 action in Toronto, including two Dene/Anishinaabe activists. Palestinian Solidarity activists in Toronto have been targeted for increased surveillance and repression. Settler-colonial states have each other's backs, and we need to too!

Support them at
https://www.tcjf.ca/

Does anyone know of stories about universities that have successfully transitioned to hosting their own Mastodon or other fedi instances?

Would appreciate either personal accounts or links to stories about this having happened.

(boosts welcome)

Earth Day still on your mind? Our “planned obsolescence” throwaway culture doesn’t have to be, and shouldn’t be, a technology status quo, @RepairCoalition leader Gay Gordon-Byrne tells EFF’s Cindy Cohn and @jgkelley on the new episode of “How to Fix the Internet.” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/podcast-episode-right-repair-catches-car

We are happy to announce the Librem 5 + Librem AweSIM cellular service bundle and payment plan starting at $99/mo (4GB Data), or $129/mo (10GB Data), or $169/mo (Unlimited Data).

Buy Here: https://puri.sm/

https://victoriaanarchistbookfair.ca/

Folks on the west coast of so-called Canada should check out the Victoria Anarchist Bookfair and Film Festival.

There will be a screening of our work Transmissions and This is Parkdale

I'll add that she wasn't recognized because she was a girl, poor, and black—what scholars call the “triple invisibility.” After her strike, her life was threatened and her family home was burned down.

Scholastic Magazine asked me to write two articles about Barbara, one for middle school level readers, and one for younger readers.

You can read one of my articles by clicking here:
https://terikanefield.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/imagine-this-was-your-school.pdf

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Today is an important anniversary.

73 years ago, on April 23, 1951, in Farmville, VA, Barbara Johns led a walkout of her segregated high school to protest the unfair and deplorable conditions of her school.

What?! You don’t know who Barbara Johns was?

She led her walkout more than 4 years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus, and before MLK, Jr. embraced nonviolence as the way to equality.

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Universal Blue is generally available today! We're out of beta and ready to showcase everything a Linux desktop can be. Our work has been to show how many problems in client Linux are already solved from the cloud native world. We hope you'll join us on this journey!

Learn more: https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/universal-is-now-generally-available/1233

The uBlue maintainers also have a message they want to share for @fedora :)

Updates on Bluefin, Bazzite, and Aurora coming soon!

#uBlue #Bluefin #Bazzite #FedoraAtomic #Fedora #Linux

#Forgejo v7.0 was just released! Get it at https://forgejo.org/download/. 🚀

Forgejo v7.0 is available with translations in Bulgarian, Esperanto, Filipino and Slovenian; SourceHut builds integration; support for the SHA-256 hash function in Git; source code search by default and more. It also is the first Long Term Support version. The adoption of semantic versioning is the reason for the version bump from v1.21 to v7.0 and is compatible with existing tools. ✨

Read more at https://forgejo.org/2024-04-release-v7-0/

Nostalgia! At the Cineplex. https://brianmcfadden.org/2024/04/12/nostalgia-movie-marathon/

Accessibility Question: Are there screen readers that do a good job with mathematics by reading, for example, LaTeX source code or MathML code? Plain text? #Accessibility #Mathematics

Very, very happy that our proposal for adding #cellbroadcast support to #ModemManager and #Phosh was accepted by @NGIZero : https://nlnet.nl/project/SMS-CB 🗼 〰️ 📱

#LinuxMobile

PEOPLE, I BEG YOU
post links directly to the source, don't use Apple News or Bitly or other links hijackers. if they decide to change the service or go out of business, we have lost link to the original source.

keep the web as open as possible. say no to link shorteners and traffic hijackers 👍🏾

The reauthorized FISA 702 was a clear dereliction of Congress’ duty to oversee the intelligence community in order to protect all of the rest of us from its demonstrated overreach. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/us-senate-and-biden-administration-shamefully-renew-and-expand-fisa-section-702-0

➡️ It's a Big Freaking Deal when we can move any #UnitedNations organization away from #Microsoft.

The system-wide IT shop UNICC has announced its move to #Matrix:

https://www.techradar.com/pro/the-united-nations-ditches-big-tech-in-a-bid-for-security

Notable that the UN has moved to Element (Matrix protocol) as the basis of its messaging.

I'd like to see tech journalists do some serious coverage of Element, which seems to be a genuine alternative to the centralized, rapacious tech giants that spy on their customers for a living.

https://www.techradar.com/pro/the-united-nations-ditches-big-tech-in-a-bid-for-security

THEY DID IT!!!!

My local library built the seed library!

The local Master Gardeners provided a lot of the intitial seeds (oh my gosh we are stocked!!!). They used an old card catalogue to store them. Today's the kickoff!

The idea is you "check out seeds" from the library, plant/grow/harvest, let some go to seed, then "return the seeds" back to the library!

Free seeds for everyone!

#solarPunk #postScarcity #gardening #mutualAid

Yes, this is good to see! https://activitypub.ghost.org Read all the way down...

ICYMI: Last night, students at #Emerson, #MIT, and #Tufts started #Palestine solidarity encampments.
https://mastodon.social/@ifnotnowboston/112311845322640669

@palestine

My #jewish socialist #ttrpg A Great Miracle Happened Here is in the #itchio Palestinian Relief Bundle. Chag pesach sameach.

https://itch.io/b/2321/palestinian-relief-bundle