Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Powerpoint suggests alt text now when I make slides for class, which is great! Like for this image: "A police officer helping a person with a dog"

"We are disappointed in today’s opinion about the Internet Archive’s digital lending of books that are available electronically elsewhere. We are reviewing the court’s opinion and will continue to defend the rights of libraries to own, lend, and preserve books." - https://blog.archive.org/2024/09/04/internet-archive-responds-to-appellate-opinion/ bad news

🧵 As many as 90% of government secrets shouldn’t be secret in the first place.

A good, new bipartisan bill hopes to fix this — but it’s missing a key ingredient.

By Lauren Harper, FPF's inaugural Daniel Ellsberg chair on government secrecy

https://freedom.press/news/new-bipartisan-senate-bill-seeks-to-reduce-overclassification/

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I'm currently in a thread where someone put forward the idea that the term "AI" should only be used when and if we ever develop machines that "approach personhood."

Granted that some people also argue for broadening the definition of "personhood," I just want to state for the record that I think that humans are far from the only organisms with intelligence.

"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!

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📬 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

Either way I just registered editingmonth.org as an alternative to National Novel Editing Month to help people find other humans to help edit their novel. Will spin up a website for it soon.

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