Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

In today's Help Desk, Mark obviously needs coffee.

https://www.eviscerati.org/comics/hd/2024/10/not-quite-there/

Mozilla’s downfall into shittiness is a lesson as to why public needs cannot be fulfilled by for-profit entities. We need a public internet infrastructure. No CEO and no corporate board will ever work for it.

Cooperatives and socially-owned institutions. Only way to go.

From: @jwz
https://mastodon.social/@jwz/113246768350299784

The last 20 odd years or so of my being politically aware have often felt to me like what I imagine people must feel like who are stuck in dysfunctional, abusive families. I point to the horrible things being done by the people in power (Dem, Repub, doesn't matter), and am met by denials, downplaying, and justifications. Maybe now though, things have gotten so transparently f-ed up that more people are realizing that even though mommy is less abusive than daddy, she's still an abuser.

Palante Technology Cooperative is seeking a new Web Developer to join the cooperative!

https://palantetech.coop/jobs

#getFediHired #techCoop

Persistent, stealthy Linux malware has infected thousands since 2021

The ability to remain installed and undetected makes Perfctl hard to fight.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/10/persistent-stealthy-linux-malware-has-infected-thousands-since-2021/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

A really annoying thing that absolutely needs to stop:

- "More info in the discord!" / "Changelog in the Discord!"

STOP THAT.

Discord is a closed, proprietary platform. Post your stuff on the actual open web where more people will see it.

My close friend @iris_meredith published this on corporate norms around "Who is allowed to know things" at companies. Tech debt isn't real unless someone in power affirms it in a PowerPoint.

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/epistemology

I love it and have made the same point. On Hackernews, it was accused of being "extreme left wing content" and the author is trying to "seed violent ideas into the minds of mentally unstable people".

Read it, and if you liked it, please send Iris some positive vibes.

Today's completely random thought, genuinely unconnected with anything I'm actually working on:

"Oh look over there. It's CapsLock America."

"HEY GUYS WHAT'S UP"

You don't get to accountable tech by making Mark Zuckerberg be better. You get there by not having Mark Zuckerbergs.

For the longest time, back when doing Help Desk was my main thing for 20+ years, I always assumed the vague dissatisfaction I felt was that I chafed from my lack of artistic ability. But it turns out that the real thing is that I just really dislike drawing.

WAIT HEAR ME OUT 1/?

One of the things I have wanted to do since the early 2000s was find a way to do a parody of The Prisoner in Help Desk. But The Prisoner, aside from being an outstanding show just in general, was also a very visually _interesting_ show, which requires doing the thing I really dislike doing. 6/?

Which brings me to today. I'm finally doing The Prisoner parody. And now I have to draw.

Fucking Windmills, I Swear To God

The first early review of The Toxic Avenger #1 is out and—they claim—it is great. In comic shops next Wednesday!
https://boingboing.net/2024/10/01/the-new-toxic-avenger-comic-book-is-great.html

Nuclear power plant owner wants $1.6 billion "loan guarantee" -- this means, in the end, a gift form the taxpayers -- to supply power to tech monopolist Microsoft.

This stinks in every conceivable way..

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/10/03/nuclear-microsoft-ai-constellation/

I am trying, today, Rosh Hashanah, to think about the sweetness of the new year.

All I can think of is the bombs being dropped far away, funded by my taxes, exploded in my name.

It feels unfair that Israel should be able to take this from me. I don’t want my celebration of Jewish holidays to be predicated on what Israel is doing. I often say that my Judaism has nothing to do to Israel. My ancestors were Jewish long before the modern state of Israel existed.

https://chromamine.com/2024/10/lshana-tova/

I really want to wish people a #ShanaTovah but there's an ongoing genocide, committed in our name, and I just can't imagine this year being a good year, or what a good year would even mean.

Do you have any experience in Python and GTK4? Do you want to help maintain an app with literally tens of users? Do you hate every web browser to the point you want to avoid it altogether?

Web Apps is the app for you (to help maintain)! I have marked a few issues as 'contribution welcome' here: https://codeberg.org/eyekay/webapps/issues?q=&type=all&state=open&labels=230053&milestone=0&assignee=0&poster=0&fuzzy=false

University is starting to keep me busier than usual, but I don't want to let it create yet another abandonware strewn in the GNOME ecosystem.

#gnome

We have merged user / org agents #feature ✨

https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker/pull/3539

So if you administer a huge instance you might look out for it 🚀

It’s 1:15am in #Beirut and #Israel issues three more evacuation orders. They’ve been doing these bombings at night on short notice on purpose. They are forcing everyone in Beirut to go through prolonged sleep deprivation. Absolutely demented army. #Lebanon