Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Provides no answers, brings up a lot of thorny questions. #Coal #GreenEnergy

https://montanafreepress.org/2024/10/24/the-future-of-coal-country-the-landscape-of-energy-in-montana/

Anyone who thinks they can vote their way out of fascism with their wallet has never seen a billionaire’s wallet.

If now isn't a time to dump 'windows', when is?

Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-fired-workers-israel-palestinians-gaza-72de6fe1f35db9398e3b6785203c6bbf

"More evidence has emerged that AI-driven demand for energy to power datacenters is prolonging the life of coal-fired plants in the US."

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/14/ai_datacenters_coal/

Never underestimate the ability of techbros to underestimate the amount of damage they are doing in the world.

I expect automatic transcription to make mistakes confusing similar-sounding words, but this? yikes. https://apnews.com/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-health-business-90020cdf5fa16c79ca2e5b6c4c9bbb14

This tool has been used to transcribe 7 million doctor visits, transcriptions which can't be checked for errors as the source audio was deleted. #AIIsGoingGreat

Hi! We "upgraded" our primary @matrix chat, (#codeberg.org:matrix.org) to room version 10. Upgrades are a part of the Matrix protocol: They create a new room in the place of the old one, and send invites to everyone in the old room. If you were in the old room, you should have received an invite.

We had 1588 members, but it seems like we only sent ~1180 invites. If you were a member of the chat, please accept the invite! If you haven't received one, please let us know!

https://matrix.to/#/#codeberg-space:matrix.org

Elon Musk, enemy of ‘open borders,’ launched his career working illegally

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/10/26/elon-musk-immigration-status/

Impound all his wealth as it stemmed from a crime.

In the immortal words of the boring VC mouthpiece Mike Ethereum, "Make crime illegal"

What if, instead, I wrote a second UI for this program so you could launch the program with the TUI or the second UI that I would write. The second one would *only* be accessible to screen readers. Either by interfacing with them directly to read stuff (and looking at it you just get a blank terminal), or by just printing whatever text the user has navigated to to the terminal, then when they hit keys we print the next thing.

Is this a thing anyone else does?

#Go #Golang #TUI #Accessibility

What's your impression? My colleague and I used it to collaboratively develop a peer-reviewed journal paper... which, incidentally was about #libre software in education... and the costs. Which are absurdly much better than what most institutions pay now. https://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/5763/5600#CaseStudy

Plus Amazon AWS, MS Azure, and Google Cloud are all eye wateringly expensive (like 20x the cost of the functionally comparable competition!). If you're going to pay that, for goodness sake support a domestic (not foreign-)owned Cloud provider. That way they'd have a hope of achieving the scale required to achieve competitive prices for the benefit of NZ-based companies, who could then cost-effectively use NZ suppliers to reach a global market.

Hello Fedi-folks with a food in the Javascript scene - I know npm (the dominant package manager for Javascript libraries/platforms) is largely run by Microsoft. If I want to avoid any dependency on Microsoft, is it worth selecting pnpm instead, or is it also compromised?

You've heard all the reasonable arguments, but here is my selfish pitch if you still need convincing. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/10/25/2279370/-Cartoon-Save-this-cartoonist

🚨NEWS: Trump's Senate ally Sen. Mike Lee is now blocking the appointment of the government's ethics enforcer, declaring the GOP wants the job open until Trump wins.

That would let Trump install a crony to waive anti-corruption laws for his new White House. https://www.levernews.com/senate-gops-scheme-to-let-trump-self-police-ethics/

They're tracking abortion patients across state lines.

This is why I was banging on about digital security when Roe fell.

Basically everyone should be using burner phones when seeking abortion care in abortion hostile states— or even states where abortion is legal now but in jeopardy. https://www.notus.org/technology/cell-phone-tracking-law-enforcement-abortion-clinic https://www.notus.org/technology/cell-phone-tracking-law-enforcement-abortion-clinic

Israeli airstrikes kill at least 72 across #Gaza - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/25/israeli-airstrikes-kill-across-gaza "Thirty-eight killed in Khan Younis including 13 children from same family, as survivors sift through rubble" the world has turned away, but it's still happening

Fascinating to hear on RNZ right now - a professor at University of Canterbury (talking about earthquake engineering and health implications) has just had a very well-founded rant about how people creating open source apps to help parents of kids with embedded medial devices track their kids health get sued by device manufacturers. They claim copyright over the device data that is *unique to the person's own body*. Those manufacturers are unethical and dishonourable.

San Francisco billboards call out tech firms for not paying for #opensource - https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/25/open_source_funding_ads/ "Puts Chief Tightwad Officers on notice" damn right

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I've already done the training myself, and I just made three calls, and two people picked up.

One of them isn't available on election day, but was happy to sign up for the phone bank tonight. The other said that he's unavailable this year but apologized and thanked me for what I'm doing : )

This really is a friendly phone bank.