Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

@lightweight I think it's a variation on the embrace extend strategy - back in the day, MS software would read your format but not export it, and Threads syndicating your posts but not letting people reply seems like the same kind of one-way gate to bleed people off.

Crazy, too, that it's not used much more widely when you realise that with NextCloud + OnlyOffice you
- host your own data, so *no* data sovereignty issues, and
- you can control the interface, language, etc. (it's all #libre software!) so this platform undermines digital colonisation as is aggressively perpetrated by 'bigtech'. You know: the folks pushing the software *all* our kiwi kids have to use *every day at every public school in NZ* - see https://davelane.nz/explainer-digitech-risks-school-boards. The MoEd is complicit.

Wow, just collaboratively editing a document in OnlyOffice, wrapped by NextCloud (with a 'chat' window next to it for discussion among the authors. This is a very sophisticated system - I don't see anything Google Docs does better. (Never used MSO 365, so hard to compare, but suspect it's certainly 'as good'). People need to realise that we can run these systems at breathtakingly low costs (~$10/month for a suitable VPS) for a small org. It would scale beautifully with gov't support.

Over 130 civil liberties and other organizations oppose a bill that would allow any administration to target nonprofits without due process. Tell your Representative they must vote no on this dangerous expansion of executive power. https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-not-to-weaponize-the-treasury-department-against-nonprofits

The Atlanta Police Department is surveilling the freedom to protest, online and off.  https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/08/atlanta-police-must-stop-high-tech-spying-political-movements

I've seen the stats that queer people overwhelmingly voted for Kamala Harris, does anyone know if there's a breakdown of race with that stat?

Must watch interview with two former Biden administration officials who resigned over the war crimes being committed with US complicity and support.

https://youtu.be/w88XdpvBhbw?feature=shared&t=2173

Where was all this pro-immigrant sentiment a few months ago when Biden and Harris kept bragging about how much they'd reduced "illegal" border crossings?

It occurs to me that the parallels with the modern world are profound, with so many people deluded by things they see and read about on the Internet that they live out their lives in a similar fantasy.

My take as well.

"What happened in this year’s election was not some kind of flowering of American fascism, but a rebellion against a hated, out-of-touch Democratic Party elite...Harris abandoned a raft of progressive policies that are wildly popular, some of which were featured on ballot initiatives that won by big margins in states that went for Trump. "

https://scheerpost.com/2024/11/16/the-democrats-deserved-to-lose-1000-times-over/

1/There is nothing more embarrassing than watching hordes of liberals willingly herd themselves into a pen funded by Russian capital. Blue sky’s principal funder Blockchain Capital LLC is run in part by Kirill Dorofeev, who also works for VK, Russia’s state social network.

Oh, look. the Mozilla Foundation is asking for community feedback about what folk want them to focus on.

Anyone have opinions?

https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/100

Liberalism is unable to meet our needs, because it is based upon the idea of the rational self-interested individual, rather than human beings as fragile vulnerable creatures. That political actor has no needs that they cannot meet themselves. Why should we expect its language to be different? If we have no language of need or of frailty, then it would seem we cannot escape. However, we do have a language of need. We find that language in care ethics, in human fragility.

Scientific American's editor -- who believes in, you know, science -- told some truth about the looming dark ages of the Trump regime.

She "resigned" soon afterward.

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/scientific-american-editor-chief-leaves-anti-trump-comments-rcna180400

@laurahelmuth's tenure at SciAm was honorable and important. She deserved better, but of course so do we all.

Some media outlets are already sane-washing Bhattacharya. To learn more about how he has spread disinformation that undermines public health, is widely discredit by real experts, and is funded by dark money, read this piece by Walker Bragman who has tracked him throughout the pandemic: https://www.importantcontext.news/p/everything-you-need-to-know-about

Accepted stands https://fosdem.org/2025/news/2024-11-16-stands-announced/

It seems like our joint stand with @forgejo at #FOSDEM2025 has been accepted, thank you @fosdem!

For those of you that don't know, #FOSDEM is an annual conference for free and open source software taking place in Brussels. We'll be there throughout the event to exchange words and/or stickers with some of you.

See you in February!

https://fosdem.org/2025/news/2024-11-16-stands-announced/

Ouch, bloody hell!

The supermarket in my area recently expanded and just reopened their doors. Guess what? It is ALL self-scan checkouts now. The floor layout guides you into this kinda voluntary sweatshop barracks where the customers are put to work to get their stuff scanned. Already there's ranks and status here, reputation. From clumsy beginners to confident Masters of the Scan™, who go in and out in seconds to the envy of others.

ALL self-scan checkouts, I said? Well.. one exception.

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UK must pick between US economic model or EU’s ‘socialism’, says Trump adviser - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/nov/16/trump-adviser-says-uk-needs-free-enterprise-model-to-aid-us-trade-deal people didn't vote for trumpian slash and burn economics, so we'll take the #EU, thanks...

I upgraded my system overnight to #Fedora41. I seemed to be running low in the #RootPartiition and so I moved the directory in /var/lib/dnf, where all the downloaded new #rpm files are temporarily kept, to another partition and created a symbolic link to it from there to that location. After that, everything went smoothly. I do like the new dnf output, it’s more informative than before.

#GNU #Linux #Fedora #F41 #FreeSoftware