Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

The billionaires who will make up the majority of (nominated) Trump cabinet are (like the boss) walking, talking conflicts of interest.

Which is, of course, one of the reasons they were invited to join. They'll cash in, and as in any gangster operation, a cut of the loot will find its way to Dear Leader and his family.
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The burden of catching malware or adware should not be placed on the consumer. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/one-down-many-go-pre-installed-malware-android

If you're a "senior associate scientist" at a large Pharma company, you can now afford to live with your siblings. In other news, the economy is great.

https://archive.ph/3zNx8

"Grant and Dylan Gechtman, 25, share a rented three-bedroom home in Fremont, Calif. They do almost everything else together too. They work as senior associate scientists at the same pharmaceutical company, share a Mazda CX-5, and even joined the same Jewish fraternity in college."

Latest comic: Experts explain why America voted for plague

#cartoon #comic #politics #uspol #media #journalism #election #authoritarianism

We can discus pros/cons/features/implementation/culture all we want … but have y’all considered that most folks aren’t making a well considered choice after thorough research? At most they’re going off the vibes, and more likely they haven’t even heard of mastodon. BlueSky is just a lot bigger and well known. Addressing much needed changes around here is important, but “people won’t join mastodon until…” just doesn’t feel like a real thing to me.

(This is separate from whether aspiring to have more people / replace Twitter is the best goal, which gets into social vs the social-but-actually-broadcast media that twitter became and many people seem to want and then the algorithm amplified because it mistakes engagement for wanting.)

Daraya is free!

"Daraya was a star before the revolution and a star during. What the young men and women of the city built took immense efforts and resulted in a small exemplary model for the future of Syria, the one we dream of."
https://leilashami.wordpress.com/2016/08/26/daraya/

What's on the Schmaltzmark Channel this month? https://www.dailykos.com/story/2024/12/6/2290489/-Cartoon-Schmaltzmark-channel-holiday-specials

Did you know that @gnome contributors have curated a list of issues for you to work on as you’re just starting?

https://gitlab.gnome.org/groups/GNOME/-/issues/?state=opened&label_name%5B%5D=4.%20Newcomers

The #Newcomers label will make for an easy onboarding. Join us now!

Elon #Musk revealed as sole funder of RBG Pac that claimed Trump and Ginsburg were aligned - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/06/elon-musk-rbg-pac-abortion "Musk bolstered Pac with $20.5m ahead of election while late supreme court justice’s family denounced it as ‘appalling’" this man is a liar from top to bottom

‘#Brexit problem’: UK tap water safety at risk after testing labs shut down - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/07/brexit-problem-uk-tap-water-safety-at-risk-after-testing-labs-shut-down "EU countries will share laboratory capacity but UK rules mean products cannot be tested abroad" what a continuing insane fiasco

#Israel attacks hospital in northern #Gaza, leaving bodies lying in streets, director says - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/07/israel-attacks-hospital-in-northern-gaza-leaving-bodies-lying-in-streets-director-says "Head of Kamal Adwan hospital says ‘large number’ of dead left by Israeli attack; Israel denies targeting medical complex" so normal, people don't even notice it now... #genocide

in all the coverage of the woolworths strike — which is partly about opposition to the company's new "efficiency" staff monitoring system — i'm not seeing enough people crediting the guardian's Ariel Bogle for her investigation which was the first media coverage of the system and its issues

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/oct/23/woolworths-staff-efficiency-productivity-crackdown-timed

Please read this 2014 plea by a very rich guy to his fellow very rich people to help rebuild, not wreck, what's left of the middle class.

"The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats"

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014/

Turns out the 'falling sales' of electric cars in the UK were wishful thinking.
November sales: battery electric vehicles +51% year-on-year; petrol/gasoline -35%.
Via Simon Evans on the birdsite
#EVs #cars

#opengl is like:

let's throw a bunch of global variables around and call it a state machine.

#gles 2.0 is the following circle of hell.

I had a bug in my OpenGL and I knew immediately what it was. I'm scared of what I had become.

#etnaviv

If you use #Codeberg for your #Git hosting, which other services you rely on can you recommend further?

For instance, we appreciate the service by #LetsEncrypt for our TLS certificates and @Anoxinon for our Mastodon instance.

They think we're weird for thinking these guys aren't normal. https://brianmcfadden.org/2024/11/27/normalization-nation/

If journalists have to fact-check everything "AI" spits out, wouldn't it be simpler -- and less time consuming -- to do the research in the first place?

Or is the point saving time and labor (i.e. money) and screw the consequences?

(That second question was rhetorical.)

https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/5/24313222/chatgpt-pardon-biden-bush-esquire

So does everyone now admit that "Obamacare" was an inadequate solution to the healthcare crisis? Just checking.

The Fedora Project is looking for a new git forge to move to, and right now the preference is toward @forgejo over GitLab. We're looking for feedback one more time from the community before the Fedora Council has a vote on it!

Learn more: https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-moves-towards-forgejo-a-unified-decision/

#Fedora #Forgejo #GitLab #OpenSource #Git