Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

#DonaldTrump floats idea of three-term presidency at NRA convention | #USElections2024 | The Guardian

The last #president to float the idea for #RonaldReagan; another would-be dictator.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/19/trump-nra-convention-dallas

#US #Politics

To those Americans getting offended that their president and country is being criticised for arming a genocide may I just remind you that there is something a tad more offensive than being criticised for arming a genocide which is arming a goddamn genocide. Get some fucking perspective.

Okay, so the interview with Euclides Mance is up and he hits a lot of hot topics -- I am eager to know what you make of it.

#floss #blockchain #Digital_Alternative_Currencies #solidarityeconomy #circulareconomy #globalsouth #popular_education #platformcoop #valueflows #cooperatives #alternatives_to_development

https://geo.coop/articles/liberation-economist-part-2

The guys running this shit show, ALL of the guys running this shitshow, mean to wax you and your family for five pennies on the share; what they're arguing about is when, and which types of people "deserve it." I'd say I'm sorry if you catch strays, but I'm not, because my aim has never changed and the reason you're in your feels is because sometimes when I criticize fascism and capitalist mass murder, it hits a little too close to home for your politics and your favorite killers.

Man, they got me one time. Literally one time and I ain't gonna be that much of a sucker again. I woke up and suddenly a bunch of libs in suits were like "yes it is fascism, yes they don't care about you, yes they're trying to fucking kill you" and for one brief moment I thought "okay, just maybe we can fight back."

Then y'all got elected, did shit fuck all to punish fascists, gave murderpigs billions of dollars and went right back to "the real enemy is the left and poor people."

We ova...

Via @waldoj

Virginia's governor vetoed bills that would support the right to contraceptives.

https://mastodon.social/@waldoj/112465190628995562

"...the Ministry for the Environment said it was 'cloud infrastructure agnostic' but expressed a preference in two tenders as the solution had to 'integrate' with what it already had from Microsoft or AWS."

#PhilPennington, 2024

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/495883/growing-government-reliance-on-offshore-cloud-services-has-security-experts-worried

This kind of lock-in is precisely why we don't want public agencies leasing hosting from foreign DataFarmers.

One of my talks for #GPN22 got accepted!

I'll talk about how "My files are a mess!", and how it will stay this way unless we achieve a collective enlightenment.

https://cfp.gulas.ch/gpn22/talk/ZRKD3G/

Now I finally have an excuse to do the research on the topic XD

#gpn #ccc #filesystem #semantic #database #presentation #UX

Latest comic: The Great Regression

#cartoon #comic #fascism #race #abortion #lgbtq #democracy #uspol

I do have to hand it to the #AI developers out there: you all have managed to figure out how to simultaneously solve our plausible-sounding-bullshit-and-soulless-art shortage, while also addressing our oversupply of unpolluted air and water. Truly, you have killed two birds with one stone. Sure, your work may be directly contributing to our already massive economic inequalities, but at least it's also speeding up the end of life as we know it. Personally, I find that admirable.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/05/ssh-backdoor-has-infected-400000-linux-servers-over-15-years-and-keeps-on-spreading/

Kernel.org folks never provided the postmortem they promised in 2011 after finding their infrastructure had been rooted. They also didn't bother to respond to my email earlier this week seeking comment on new information that, in fact, their servers had been rooted 2 years earlier by a 2nd, even more sophisticated piece of malware.

While no one responded to me, here's Linux Foundation member Konstantin Ryabitsev responding elsewhere to my post that the breach was the subject of an FBI investigation, and later of a lawsuit. This says lots about the obligation kernel.org, an organization entrusted with huge responsibility, feels toward transparency. If Microsoft did this, people would be apoplectic.

If you use Slack for work, your messages and DMs to friends and colleagues are now being used to train the company’s machine learning features — and everyone is opted in by default.

A quiet update to the company’s policy suggests messages, data and files sent by users are helping Slack to improve its in-app features like channel recommendations, search results and emoji suggestions, reports @PCMag. Individual users can’t opt out either, something critics have called a “privacy mess.”

https://flip.it/Tb1gRM

#Slack #AI #MachineLearning #Tech

Here comes a thread on light pollution from satellites, with a concrete action that you all can take to help push for regulation of satellites in orbit!

Astronomers have been worried about light pollution from satellites (if you've been following me for more than 24 hours, you've perhaps heard a bit about this). Astronomers spent SO much time and effort begging and pleading with Starlink to make their satellites fainter, with mixed results.

Google Cloud accidentally nukes customer account, causes two weeks of downtime

UniSuper, a $135 billion pension account, details its cloud compute nightmare.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-cloud-accidentally-nukes-customer-account-causes-two-weeks-of-downtime/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

We told Project Censored that lawmakers who say they’re concerned about authoritarianism in a second Trump term need to stop handing future administrations a "dictator’s dream toolkit." https://freedom.press/news/bipartisan-bill-could-let-trump-shut-down-nonprofit-news-outlets/

#NetBSD #openai #chatgpt

"Code generated by a large language model or similar technology, such as GitHub/Microsoft's Copilot, OpenAI's ChatGPT, or Facebook/Meta's Code Llama, is presumed to be tainted code, and must not be committed without prior written approval by core."

https://www.netbsd.org/developers/commit-guidelines.html

I've been posting a series on LinkedIn about my water heater upgrade, from gas-fired water heaters to heat pump water heaters. (For those that missed it, I co-founded Onsemble to make this upgrade easier for homeowners.)

Figured a few folks here might appreciate seeing links to those posts:

- Post 1: Upgrading my water heaters avoided 20 metric tons of carbon emissions from being emitted over the life of the prior water heaters. (This stat still boggles my mind. One house. TWENTY METRIC TONS OF EMISSIONS AVOIDED.)

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rickklau_decarbonization-sfclimateweek-activity-7188574858480443394-Sw-m?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_detail_base%3BoRBTTSpCRZm0OalHfwPghw%3D%3D

Such moral cowards running New York University -- ordering student protestors to write phony apologies.

This is right out of the authoritarian playbook -- and it craps on every notion of freedom of expression.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/17/nyregion/nyu-protests-apology-letters.html

You don't have to agree with the protestors' politics. But you should damn well understand that America is in wave of McCarthyism right now.

@purism Nice you like the release but wouldn't it be better to boost https://fosstodon.org/@phosh/112445825369450917 rather than copy the message verbatim?