Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Less than a week until the Translathon starts! Everyone is welcome!

If you are a project maintainer that accepts translations from community members on Codeberg Translate (https://translate.codeberg.org), you should totally check out what we have in store for you: https://codeberg.org/codeberg/translathon-2024#for-project-maintainers-and-developers

We’ve been warning about this for literally three decades, ever since CALEA mandated wiretap-ready telecom infrastructure. And this is merely the latest example of how these dangerous interfaces can be turned against us by our adversaries.
https://mastodon.social/@fj/113253726161428151

China successfully compromised for months the infrastructure used to do wiretaps on the AT&T and Verizon networks.

This is a huge "told you so" moment for the cryptographic community that has been saying that such infrastructure does present a huge risk to national security. China reportedly used this capability for intelligence collection, obviously without a warrant ...

https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/u-s-wiretap-systems-targeted-in-china-linked-hack-327fc63b?st=b0mqxi9zkweti11&reflink=article_copyURL_share

Excellently nuanced piece from one of my favorite journalist, Naomi Klein on the psy-ops of memorialising grief in the context of 7 October
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2024/oct/05/israel-gaza-october-7-memorials?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

"Were it happening just in one place, a compassionate world could figure out how to offer effective relief. But it’s happening in so many places. The same day that #Helene slammed into the Gulf, Hurricane John crashed into the Mexican state of Guerrero...In Nepal this afternoon at least 148 people are dead and many still missing in the Kathmandu Valley."

https://open.substack.com/pub/billmckibben/p/water?

#Flooding #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCollapse #BillMcKibben

"All of this is a way of saying something I’ve said too many times before: we’re out of margin. We’re now watching the climate crisis play out in real time, week by week, day by day. (117 Fahrenheit in Phoenix yesterday, the hottest September temperature ever recorded there, smashing the old daily mark by…eight degrees)." ~Bill McKibben

https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/water

Do you enjoy making music and sounds, but you just don't feel like relying on Bandcamp anymore?

In that case, @freebliss's Faircamp is an excellent static site generator made just for you!

Free software, translatable, written in Rust. Perfectly suitable for your experimental noise rock album, your videogame's original soundtrack or your fire mixtape. 💥 (It is also very customizable!)

Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/simonrepp/faircamp
Web: https://simonrepp.com/faircamp

#CommunitySpotlight #FOSS #musicproduction

The Turing test taught budding computer scientists that intelligence is measured by not by actually achieving a philosophical definition of intelligence, but simply by whether a machine can *trick us* into thinking it is intelligent. It’s no surprise that sophisticated AI models are more likely to lie, because AI is built on a foundation of deception. https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/10/the-more-sophisticated-ai-models-get-the-more-likely-they-are-to-lie/

Introducing Mirror Hall: Turn any Linux device into a wireless second monitor

- P2P screen sharing optimized for low latency
- Sender: Currently only for Mutter-based DEs
- Receiver: Works with all DEs

This is the first *beta* release, so please report all issues you encounter and give us feedback. This is especially for #ARM users, as we need your help testing the gstreamer pipeline on a few phones.

Full post here: https://notes.nokun.eu/post/2024-09-22-mirrorhall/

#linux #opensource #foss #gnome #apps #gstreamer

The current firefox/browser overall issue once again has me wishing for stand-alone clients for things. (I have been wanting one for DW and pretty much all "social media" since LJ...)

"A pattern emerges: subsequent repression draws only a fraction of the concern that the broad left had earlier put into interrogating the legitimacy of an action. This is one of the most insidious functions of badjacketing and disavowal – it aids the state project of disappearing people. Speculation about false flags, made exponentially worse by social media and algorithms that egg on endless engagement, steals away energy that could be spent preparing for the repression to come. It turns actions into abstractions ripe for every person to project their own arguments. That abstraction removes militants’ humanity from the picture, enjoining us to forget that real people, putting their lives on the line for the movement, must have lit the match or thrown the brick. The collective failure to adequately show up for each defendant and prisoner in this section – and many more not named – goes beyond a culture of disposability. It is a mass forgetting that makes each of us who partakes in it complicit in the work of the police, prisons, and the carceral state to not only extinguish our resistance but also erase our memory of its very possibility – and our memory and connection to the people who’ve sacrificed to keep that possibility alive."

https://north-shore.info/2024/10/04/not-liking-someone-doesnt-mean-theyre-a-cop-on-bad-jacketing/

if I can't violate labor laws and dump toxic heavy metal wastewater into coastal wildlife preserves all human progress will immediately end

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.