Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

"If nothing is eating your plants then your garden is not part of the ecosystem."

https://www.samwallman.com/
#agroecology
#art #illustration #posters #climate #ClimateCollapse #environment

I wrote a piece for Truthout on how the worker strike at #Cornell is a symptom of tax-exempt #HigherEd institutions driving the conditions that displace locals.

It gets into how student demands for divestment (from weapons industries tied to the genocide in Gaza) and transparency about endowment restrictions could lead to greater scrutiny of nonprofit university spending.

#Ithaca

https://truthout.org/articles/cornell-has-driven-up-local-cost-of-living-workers-had-no-choice-but-to-strike/

Now it's Politico demanding registration before letting you read anything. Burner email address is now a must-have.

Free Facilitation Webinar from RoundSky Solutions, Sept. 5th!

https://www.roundskysolutions.com/clcp1/

📬 Our weekly newsletter is out! #Argentina #Venezuela #WorkerCoops #SolidarityEconomy

https://newsletter.geo.coop/archive/newsletter-9-3-24

New from @platformcoop: "Help Us Build Ghana’s First Worker-Owned Delivery Platform" https://platform.coop/blog/couriers-in-ghana-need-your-help/

It's heartbreaking for me to say this, but it's clear to me that the US is not an honourable ally. It shirks responsibility for its own, preferring to invest in raining misery on those elsewhere in the world.

‘Help us’: Guam's nuclear radiation survivors’ plea to the United States https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/526931/help-us-guam-s-nuclear-radiation-survivors-plea-to-the-united-states

BlueSky server doesn't even pretend it's decentralized anymore I guess, they make no distinction between their server and the service.

The YubiKey 5, the most widely used hardware token for two-factor authentication based on the FIDO standard, contains a cryptographic flaw that makes the finger-size device vulnerable to cloning when an attacker gains brief physical access to it, researchers said Tuesday.

The cryptographic flaw, known as a side channel, resides in a small microcontroller that’s used in a vast number of other authentication devices, including smartcards used in banking, electronic passports, and the accessing of secure areas. While the researchers have confirmed all YubiKey 5 series models can be cloned, they haven’t tested other devices using the microcontroller, which is SLE78 made by Infineon and successor microcontrollers known as the Infineon Optiga Trust M and the Infineon Optiga TPM. The researchers suspect that any device using any of these three microcontrollers and the Infineon cryptographic library contains the same vulnerability.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/09/yubikeys-are-vulnerable-to-cloning-attacks-thanks-to-newly-discovered-side-channel/

What secret thing did we just sign? Oh, it is our new employee that will help us further improving our platform in the coming months. Thank you all for your financial support which makes this possible.

Read about this and other human factors in our recent blog post:

https://blog.codeberg.org/letter-from-codeberg-software-is-about-humans.html

In 2020 two academics published a paper looking at how The Guardian has been mainstreaming the Far Right. At the core there is one problem (this is my simplification): the conflation of Far Right concerns with 'the people'. By default whatever the Far Right says has be taken more seriously than anything even left of center (let alone further left) which is also why the Guardian often uses 'populism' and 'the far right' interchangeably.

Something I really like about Forgejo is how seriously they are taking software freedom.
- They use Forgejo itself as their git forge, not GitHub
- No reliance or linking to proprietary corporate services such as Patreon, Twitter, Facebook etc. They use Mastodon and Liberapay.
- No Dockerhub, their OCI images are on Codeberg.
- No Discord! (really hate how many FOSS projects use it)
- Their documentation does not recommend proprietary developer tools such as VSCode or Sublime Text.
- They recently switched to a copyleft license

Very refreshing, considering how many other popular git forges are either proprietary or "open-core"

#Forgejo #Codeberg #FOSS #Git #GitHub

Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 11 users will not be able to uninstall the controversial “Recall” feature, despite earlier reports suggesting otherwise. Recall, part of the Copilot+ suite announced in May, automatically captures screenshots of user activity on the operating system including sensitive information such as passwords or financial data https://digitalmarketreports.com/news/25091/microsoft-recall-feature-on-windows-11-not-removable-after-all/ Do yourself a favor and get rid of Windows from your life—enough of these greedy companies. #privacy #security

Moving closer to usable cameras. https://gitlab.com/megapixels-org/Megapixels/-/merge_requests/29

Breaking News: Water is Wet!

https://archive.is/SLMtR

when you let money into politics — or when you fail to either break or nationalize monopoly — you get government of the sociopaths, by the sociopaths, for the sociopaths.

The mosquitos in our dense Massachusetts neighborhood are very intense. It's not *obvious* where they are breeding, but a very plausible hypothesis is in the same clogged gutters that the neighborhood birds use as bird baths.

Getting up there to clean the gutters is not at all straightforward, though.

I feel like a topic that should be discussed but that I never hear about is user-serviceable housing.

@ttpphd By democratizing environmental destruction, AI finally allows any one of us to pollute on the level of a billionaire with a private jet

Hearing an Amazon delivery truck's backup noise on Labor Day is a crime. You don't need that thing today. Let that person not piss in a bottle for one day.

@waldoj
My work is connected to plastics recycling. It does happen, but what's useful for recycling is pure truckloads of all the same type and color of plastic.
Which means mostly post-industrial waste: the leftovers from a manufacturing plant. Or you can do stuff like collect all the clear stretch-wrap from retail shipping and compress that and recycle it.
But post-consumer is hard because it tends to be many different kinds mixed together. Sorting them all out is necessary and expensive.