Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

This week's comic is for my home state of Pennsylvania and other swing states that will decide the US election.

#cartoon #comic #uspol #USPolitics #election #pennsylvania

I find quite annoying, that #Samsung requires me to accept new licensesing terms somehow often. But the won't offer me just difference from last terms I have accepted. I find it rude. They demand me to accept terms without reading or need me to make difference and storing original terms myself. They don't provide old terms when asking. Or read them whole and process again what I did already, without knowing a reason they ask again.

Do you all remember Shireen? Journalist. US citizen. Killed in 2022 by the IDF. When I say killed by the IDF that isn't speculation or insinuation. She was shot by an IDF sniper while where a blue press vest. When news of her death first came out Israel said: It wasn't us. "We weren't even in the area. It must have been Palestinian militants". Then they said "Ok, so maybe we were in the area, but we don't think we shot her. The Palestinian militants were shooting at us, so it was probably them." And finally they fell back to "Maybe we shot her while returning fire or something but we didn't know who she was." However, separate investigations from CNN, the Washington Post, and the New York Times all established that there had been no Palestinian gunfire prior, that Shireen was standing with a group of other journalists and wearing a clearly marked blue press vest, and her wounds were consistent with being shot by an IDF sniper (whose presence nearby has been admitted to by the IDF).

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"Equally unusual, for its time and place, was the solution that Collier proposed. The antidote to the predations of industrial capitalism, he believed, was for non-Indigenous Westerners ultimately to come to understand that they must emulate the Navajo, Hopi and other tribal nations in cultivating “that passion and reverence for … the web of life and the earth which the American Indians have tended as a central, sacred fire since before the Stone Age.” "

https://www.noemamag.com/its-time-to-give-up-hope-for-a-better-climate-get-heroic/

"A CNN commentator called six-year old Hind Rajab, who was murdered by the IDF in January 2024, a woman. Conversely, Sky News called the 19 year old Israeli soldiers killed by a Hezbollah drone in October 2024 'teenage victims.' "

https://www.hauntologies.net/p/the-madness-they-suffer-from

I have used a 2D library called gg to make the clock render more quickly and with less CPU load. It is still far from perfect and has the wrong DPI on a mac. But I put it on #Codeberg none the less. So anyone, who is interested, may have a look.

https://codeberg.org/Bitnacht/fyck

#Amiga #golang #fyne

The Navajo build thriving farms in parched landscapes
Using traditional rock and stick structures like the ones built by Indigenous peoples to capture water before the arrival of Europeans, Navajo communities in Arizona are defying changing conditions to create productive farms. Scientists confirm that these structures mitigate erosion and increase downstream water availability. Yale Environment 360 https://buff.ly/4h4SJdQ
#ShareGoodNewsToo

Outstanding.

"The pro-car zealots at the city council insist on ramming car lanes through the city even though no one in my limited social circle supports them. I personally do not drive a car to work, and therefore I cannot comprehend how a car lane might be useful for someone else.

You cannot turn Wellington into Houston or Los Angeles. The city is different – it has hills, winding roads, and sometimes there is weather. There isn’t enough room to sprawl out with the motorways and wide arterial roads you need for a good car-based transport network.

It’s time someone said what everyone is thinking: the car lanes have no cars. I went out to Kent Terrace at 6am on a Sunday and couldn’t see a car. A survey in 2023 found that just 28% of people in Wellington city usually drive to work. Why are we designing our entire city around a hobby for a small minority of middle-aged men? "

https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/18-10-2024/a-ghost-town-car-lanes-in-the-city-are-stuffing-up-wellington

@lwriemen
> I wish people would add content warnings to posts that contain links to Threads, Bluesky, Twitter, etc

Or just ... not post links to them at all? Like any sociopath or narcissist, giving those DataFarmers' platforms attention just encourages them ...

After a "Technology is Not Your Friend" induced hiatus, the next episode of the audiobook podcast of The Points Between is finally online!

https://eviscerati.libsyn.com/the-points-between-episode-two-dust-to-daylight

In other news, I'll share something that you may have missed: @forgejo ships with a couple of theme variants for the colorblind: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/pulls/1746

These are also available on Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/user/settings/appearance

New York officials call for big oil to be prosecuted for fueling climate disasters - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/17/new-york-big-oil-fueling-climate-disasters "Oil majors’ conduct can constitute reckless endangerment due to fossil fuels’ effect on global heating, advocates claim" more eco lawsuits, please...

Home Office hires 200 staff to clear huge backlog of UK modern slavery cases - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/18/home-office-hires-staff-clear-backlog-uk-modern-slavery-cases "More than 23,000 files were left open by the last government, says minister, with delays of up to four years in assigning victim status" it's really not hard to do if you want to; the tories didn't give a damn

We should be back for now. 🎊

While @Codeberg is working on fixing the outage, you can get Forgejo container images and binaries from an alternate location:

https://code.forgejo.org/forgejo/-/packages/container/forgejo/versions

https://code.forgejo.org/forgejo/forgejo/releases

Hi. Yes, we have a full outage right now (status.codeberg.eu).

This acknowledgment comes from the social media manager that _isn't_ a system administrator. I can't share more details right now, so all I have to say is the following for now: It has been a weird and challenging week, sorry for the inconvenience. ~n

Does your institution have a CompSci department? Or do software development training? Why is it not a standard project for such department to run such services for the benefit of the institution?! It'd be a massively useful real-world teaching opportunity, with huge cost benefit for the institution, too. Seems like a total no-brainer to me. Anyone able to explain why we don't see this everywhere already?

It sorta amazes me to see educational organisations - especially those based in Canada - using Zoom for online educational events. What's wrong with BigBlueButton? It's at least as cost effective (for us, it's $0! Use ours!) because it's fully #libre and we host our own (you - or your institution - could, too).. And it's a community-run project led by Canadians! Unlike Zoom, which is built for corporate drones, BBB is built for education from the ground up. I can't see what's so hard about this.

Open letter to "Forests" after they offered me a 100% discount for publishing one of my papers:

Dear Ms. Kira,

I am sorry but I no longer trust your journal. I was asked to referee a paper that was clearly badly flawed. I pointed out the flaw and you published it anyway. As far as I can see Forests is a predatory journal and I don't want anything to do with it.

Kind regards,
Euan Mason

#science