Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

For those who keep claiming that everything in the economy is peachy keen because "inflation is down" and the people bitching about it are just looking for an excuse to complain 👇

"The inflation increases were so large in categories that many consumers find essential that the fact that the rate of increase has dropped a lot still leaves them at a durable new high level compared to a few years back."

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/11/how-the-wall-street-journal-blew-the-story-of-the-democrats-and-inflation.html

Can't decide if I like this or not:

"Eduir has been called the Jewel of Darish by many a bard and poet. If I didn’t happen to know a number of bards and poets myself I would tell you this is proof that bards and poets are inherently unreliable and prone to the most vulgar lies, but since I know *many* bards and poets I can tell you that the *actual* proof that bards and poets are inherently unreliable and prone to the most vulgar lies is that I know many bards and poets."

I spent yesterday at Woodside, John and Rosalie Wardle's NZ black beech forestry property in North Canterbury.

NZ forestry mostly uses fast growing selections of Nth American radiata pine, clear-felled & replanted every ~30 years.

The Wardles do it differently, selectively harvesting from a natural black beech forest. It's sold for furniture and flooring, and the buyers want more than they can make.

Have a listen to the difference.

https://www.nzffa.org.nz/farm-forestry-model/resource-centre/tree-grower-articles/february-2017/woodside-a-small-forest-managed-on-multiple-use-principles/

#forestry #nz #BirdSong

To recap: Trump is a rapist found liable for defaming the woman he raped. His pick for attorney general is currently accused of statutory rape at sex parties. His pick for defense secretary is accused of sexual assault.

But Sarah McBride using a restroom is the threat.

Okay.

“Spain will legalise about 300,000 undocumented immigrants per year over the next three years as it seeks to expand its labour force in the face of an ageing population, Migration Minister Elma Saiz told reporters.”

“’Spain has to opt between being an open, prosperous country or being a closed and poor one, and we have chosen the former,’ Saiz said.”

"Spain's economy is the fastest-growing in the EU."

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/spain-regularise-about-300000-undocumented-migrants-per-year-2024-11-19/

#immigration #Spain

FreeCAD 1.0 is out, and the binaries for various platforms are now available for download too (yesterday they released the source, but today binaries are available too). After 22 years of development, it's now a very robust app that competes head to head with heavyweights in the CAD space.

#cad #linux #opensource #foss #freecad #3dcad #engineering

There's a lot of discussion lately about breaking up with big tech, and I share this little tidbit not because I think it should work for you, but because I know it has worked for me.

I still get to use big tech like YouTube when I need it, but it doesn't follow me around anymore and I've really, really appreciated that. Even more so now.

Read more: The government abuses spying powers no matter who the president is — By Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy Lauren Harper

https://freedom.press/issues/the-government-abuses-spying-powers-no-matter-who-the-president-is/

Amusing to hear about 'Microsoft Ignite'. Thankfully, from afar. Sounds like my impressions of their comprehensive incompetence aren't being challenged. One wonders how *anyone* could take them seriously, never mind make their businesses, schools, organisations, and governments *fully* dependent on them.

The irony in the X suit is that during Trump’s first term, his administration used the same SCA provisions to secretly seize journalists’ phone and email records, including for reporters at The Washington Post, CNN, and The New York Times.

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/everything-we-know-about-trump-era-records-demands-press

@GuerillaOntologist yet, also, as the United States throws so much money at #war in Ukraine and Israel and beyond, … people are talking about how else we could be spending those billions of dollars. … people are pushing back against power structures that confine our options. … People are interested in alternative economics, alternatives to globalization as we know it, alternatives to Big Tech and Big Ag.
How do we create more boundary conditions for creativity?

‘Cow Vigilantes’ in #India Are Attacking #Muslims and Posting It on Instagram - https://www.wired.com/story/cow-vigilantes-india-instagram/ "Instagram has become a key avenue for #Hindu nationalist “cow vigilantes” to share their violent exploits with a wider audience, and even raise money." "cow vigilantes"... #2024

@Scott M. Stolz

Right now there is no way for an admin to change the server keys and not mess things up for existing channel names. Same applies for the user, except it would just mess up their channel.

My understanding is that the Zot/Nomad protocol can handle all the things discussed on this thread. But there was a deliberate clipping, or handicapping of the code to not allow re-use of channels... this was to be in line with, or compatible with, the rest of the fediverse.

The Zot/Nomad network does not need a specific server ID, as it is server independent. It does not care what server your using, it just needs your guid/private key hash.

On the other hand AP (activity pub) protocol 'does' need a specific server ID. This difference is why Zot/Nomad can introduce a security hole in these other networks... as it would become fairly easy to spoof channels on the other networks.

Having to handicap your code to suit other networks is unfortunate... the Zot/Nomad protocol seems to be ahead of the game, and just waiting for the rest to catch up.

You know, TINA ("there is no alternative") is just as much a lie when applied to party politics as it is with regards to economic systems. Just sayin'.

So cool - using my Forgejo instance's inbuilt Docker container registry capability rather than relying on hub.docker.com to store my containers for deployment. Feels good to ditch those training wheels. Forgejo is cool.

@puck @billbennett @lightweight this is it. Cloud is supposed to be commodity. But of course clouds want to "add value" and differentiate - so they build services developers want on top. And so developers then target those services, and their solutions aren't portable any more, so then clouds stop being interchangeable commodities.

Every executive (including one at a >$2B company) I've spoken to so far has told me that I should describe Hermit Tech as an "AI Accelerator" on my company website even if all I want to sell is competent software engineering, which I refuse to do, so I guess I'll just go fuck myself.

#^https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-17-2024
Quote:

"Telling the time by sundial and history not only was custom, but also was understood as following God’s time. The idea of overriding traditional timekeeping because of the needs of the modern world seemed positively sacrilegious. “People…must eat, sleep and work…by railroad time,” wrote a contributor to the Indianapolis Daily Sentinel. “People will have to marry by railroad time…. Ministers will be required to preach by railroad time…. Banks will open and close by railroad time; notes will be paid or protested by railroad time.”

The mayor of Bangor, Maine, vetoed an ordinance in favor of standard time, saying it was unconstitutional, that it changed the immutable law of God, that the people didn’t want it, and that it was hard on the working men because it changed day into night. Those planning for a switch to standard time tried to ease fears by providing that Americans would operate on both local time and standard time, with both times represented on clocks."

I've just realized that all arbitrarily large communities now contain some percentage of people that really dislike me, and I can't decide if this is great or terrible.