Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Remember folks, we're the good guys (i.e. the US) and the good party is in power (i.e. the Dems) so obviously, this must be good.

"Once again, the United Nations General Assembly has overwhelmingly voted to condemn the US’ illegal economic blockade of Cuba, now in its 62nd year. In total, 187 countries voted in favour of lifting the blockage and just two against: the US and Israel."

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/11/javier-milei-fires-foreign-minister-for-opposing-us-66-year-embargo-of-cuban-economy.html

How do you organize mutual aid in a city without power, water, and internet?

Don't miss our latest episode of This Is America, featuring an interview with someone from Rural Organizing and Resiliance (ROAR) and volunteers @firestorm in #Asheville.

We discuss how hundreds of people across the city came together following #HurricaneHelene in mass meetings and helped to organize autonomous disaster relief and mutual aid. ROAR speaks about the challenges of mobilizing in rural areas.

We also speak with the two hosts of 'The Dugout' a Black anarchist podcast, roundup resistance news, and talk about how Trump is already moving to contest the next election.

Listen here on Mastodon or go here: https://itsgoingdown.org/this-is-america-202

At this point the US is not just an enabler of Israel but a full partner. We are committing genocide. We are war criminals. Biden and other top US officials should face ICC charges along with Netanyahu.

"Genocide as Colonial Erasure": U.N. Expert Francesca Albanese on Israel's "Intent to Destroy" Gaza

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDeOUFPQf3o

#UN should consider suspending #Israel over ‘genocide’ against Palestinians, says special rapporteur - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/31/un-should-consider-suspending-israel-over-genocide-against-palestinians-says-special-rapporteur "Francesca Albanese, who was stopped from appearing at US Congress this week, said Israel defied UN resolutions" #gaza #lebanon

Help, #rustaceans !

What does "unsafe" mean?

I want to pass around raw file descriptors (to image buffers), so that they can be consumed in many places. There are different kinds of descriptors on Linux, though.

Loading a regular file by accident instead of an image won't cause a segfault, but it may error out later when you try to use it.

fn load_image(fd: File) -> Result<ImageFd, LoadError>;

Should the above be an unsafe operation?

#rustlang #askfedi

If you followed the latest #FOSDEM news,
you may have already learned that the
FOSS on mobile devices devroom
is back for another round in 2025 🚀

You can view the Call for Proposals here:
https://gitlab.com/fosdem_mobile/devroom/-/blob/main/README.md

It should also show up soon on the mailing list archive:
https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2024q4/date.html

We are looking forward to all submissions 🎉
Submit today! 👌
or at least no later than the first of December ⛄

#MobileLinux #Mobile #FOSS #Mobian #postmarketOS #phosh #GNOME #KDE #sxmo #embedded #FOSDEM25

Software Freedom @conservancy: "Open Source AI Definition Erodes the Meaning of 'Open Source'"

"With this announcement, we have reached the moment that software freedom advocates have feared for decades: the definition of “open source” — with which OSI was entrusted — now differs in significant ways from the views of most software freedom advocates."

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2024/oct/31/open-source-ai-definition-osaid-erodes-foss/

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #OpenSourceAI #AI #OSI #OSAID

Every time random assholes call asking if I want to sell my house I tell them I"ll sell it for two million dollars. It makes me feel all warm inside when they hang up in disgust.

Elon #Musk skips court hearing in case challenging $1m swing state giveaways - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/31/elon-musk-court-hearing-voter-lottery it's almost as if there is one law for him, and a rather different law for us

It's Halloween! Try a podcast about a spooky modern fantasy set in rural Virginia, with magic, creepy rag things, and people who may or may not be faeries...

Episode One: Arrival
https://eviscerati.libsyn.com/the-points-between-episode-one-arrival

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

(New today!) Episode Three: The Chapel of Light
https://eviscerati.libsyn.com/the-points-between-epiode-three-the-chapel-of-light

#mazon donates to group backing hardline anti-#abortion Republican - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/31/amazon-doordash-cvs-fund-anti-abortion-republican wow, #bezos really wants to be loved, doesn't he?

EU emissions fall by 8% in steep reduction reminiscent of Covid shutdown - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/31/eu-emissions-fall-by-8-in-steep-reduction-reminiscent-of-covid-shutdown "Decline over 2023, helped by switch to renewable power, means greenhouse gas pollution is now 37% below 1990 levels" good to see, but much more work to do #ClimateCrisis

The #Forgejo monthly update was published ✨ It is a high level overview of the project activities.

Forgejo is two years old and has been a lively human adventure, a story worth telling. A hackathon organized by Codeberg generated thousands of new translations. Forgejo v9.0.0 was published, as well as a security patch release which was backported to Forgejo v7. A kubernetes cluster was created to replace the current infrastructure, running Forgejo from the Helm Chart.

https://forgejo.org/2024-10-monthly-update/

Dear #GitHub users, if you prefer the orange-themed heatmap for #halloween and would like to see it all year long: feel invited to move to #Forgejo or #Codeberg (and choosing a forgejo theme in the appearance settings). It's the default colour here.

I skated right up to the deadline, but I managed to submit my proposals to @socallinuxexpo on time! The call for presenters closes November 1 so you had better hurry if you want an opportunity to speak at one of the best Linux conferences around!

https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x/cfp

#scale22x

"A societal transition from fossil fuel dependency to reliance on low-carbon energy sources will be impossible without substantially reducing overall energy usage and maintaining this lower rate of energy usage indefinitely. This transition isn’t just about building lots of solar panels, wind turbines, and batteries. It is about organizing society differently so that it uses much less energy and gets the energy it uses from sources that are sustainable over the long run."
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/10/what-would-a-real-renewable-energy-transition-look-like.html

For my newsletter I decided on Ghost as a platform. This blog post from its co-founder will help you understand why:

https://john.onolan.org/democratising-publishing/

Your daily reminder that if the Biden administration had done anything resembling this -- Trump regime blocked aid to Puerto Rico after its disastrous hurricane -- it would have dominated the news for days or weeks.

As it is, one outlet cared.

Remember as well: This is how a new Trump regime will handle disasters: States that voted for Harris won't get help, period.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/new-probe-confirms-trump-officials-blocked-puerto-rico-receiving-hurri-rcna749

Whether Harris loses, or squeaks through with a narrow victory, the message for the Democrats is clear. Especially when read in combination with their results in 2016 and 2020. All of which were campaigns they could have won by a landslide. Had they not picked such weak and deeply unpopular candidates, every time, as a sop to the corporatist rump of the party.

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Europe can come and take Aotearoa New Zealand's hedgehogs back, where they are thriving at the expense of native species. One of the most destructive animals introduced to the country, they are a primary threat to the keystone insect species Weta, eat endangered native lizards, cause ground nesting birds to abandon their nests, and eat their eggs.

#conservation #extinction #aotearoa #nz

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/28/hedgehogs-near-threatened-red-list-decline-over-past-decade