Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

#Frontend developers around? We'd appreciate a helping hand with improving the Codeberg dark theme (also w.r.t. colour contrast), or even more contributors to Forgejo.

If you're interested, please say "Hi".

Colorado’s two largest cooperatives are each poised to leave their long-time power suppliers — Xcel and Tri-State — and strike out on their own.

https://coloradosun.com/2024/04/30/core-united-power-xcel-tri-state-breakup/

#Forgejo v7.0.2 was just released! This is a bug fix release.

We strongly recommend that all installations are upgraded to the latest version as soon as possible.

Check out the release notes and download it at https://forgejo.org/releases/. If you experience any issues with this release, please report to https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues.

#Orangutan seen treating wound with medicinal herb in first for wild animals - https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/may/02/orangutan-seen-treating-wound-with-medicinal-herb-in-first-for-wild-animals-max-planck-institute-sumatra "Sumatran ape applied sap and leaves to open cut after suspected fight with another male, say scientists" properly protecting these amazing creatures is long overdue

@lwriemen

Also this (CW: creepy crawlies): https://robdunnlab.com/projects/

@lwriemen

I'm just going to leave this here: https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1890/070062

…and here are my #FreeSoftware bits for April:

https://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/Free_Software_Activities_April_2024.html

#LinuxMobile #phosh #debian

So apparently I've acquired a new hobby and it's designing card games. Not what I would have expected. This is the second one I've made this month. It's a rummy type solitaire game with an animals-and-biomes theme.

Cloud storage firm DropBox says hackers breached production systems for its DropBox Sign eSignature platform and gained access to authentication tokens, MFA keys, hashed passwords, and customer information.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dropbox-says-hackers-stole-customer-data-auth-secrets-from-esignature-service/

That overturning of Arizona's hardline abortion ban? It isn't what you're being told. https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2024/05/01/arizona-1864-abortion-law-not-repealed/73533621007/

Now is a good time to get involved with #Forgejo, because the roadmap for the next release is being determined.

Get involved, be it as a designer, frontend or backend developer, translator, user researcher or by helpin to triage bugs and determining feature priority.

Reach out if you need onboarding.

The new comics section at In These Times is up with work from Brian McFadden, Jen Sorensen, Tom Tomorrow and this one from Lubchansky

https://inthesetimes.com/article/the-founding-fetus-society-comics

“License plate readers are not documenting crime — they are documenting the perfectly legal activity that is driving your car on a public road,” EFF’s Dave Maass told The News & Observer. “It’s capturing more information on innocent people in that neighborhood.” https://www.newsobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article286920890.html

Biden cancels student debt to the Art Institutes, where I once went to school, saying they "falsified data, knowingly misled students, and cheated borrowers into taking on mountains of debt without leading to promising career prospects at the end of their studies."

https://www.newsweek.com/student-loan-debt-cancelled-biden-art-institutes-1895976

"The governments across the West are increasingly turning to Stasi-like systems in efforts to silence criticism of the ruling class policies – from unpopular wars and climate change inaction to plunder and eugenic public health policies."

Unlike the East Germans, however, we all now willing carry our surveillance devices around with us everywhere we go. 😕

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/05/stasi-in-the-west.html

If you're not watching the #CityNatureChallenge in Aotearoa, things are heating up! We've got until the end of Sunday to upload all our observations and get all our species IDs completed.

Wellington burst out to a lead of over 2,000 observations during the four days of observing, but Christchurch has been steadily chasing them down. Wellington's only 535 observations ahead now.

Our cities are currently #9 and #10 in the Europe-Asia-Oceania-Africa competition.

https://inaturalist.nz/projects/city-nature-challenge-2024-aotearoa-new-zealand

#CNC2024

Finished putting together my first card game. Going to playtest it with a friend this weekend. Pretty psyched.

TIL that the delimiter before an email signature is supposed to be "-- \n“ (two hyphens, a space, and a carriage return), per RFC 3676. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3676#section-4.3