Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I'd be happy to share my notes - I'm no hosting genius, but I've been running email services that are great to use, full-featured, and provide user-friendly delegation to others wanting to manage their own domains &/or mailboxen. Happy to share my notes.

I wish more people capable & confident to do so would run their own email services, and provide access to them for their friends (who would, one hopes, realise the great benefit of having a family domain). That'd help to undermine the current cabal of mostly ill-intentioned email providers out there. Email's too important to trust to a colossal corporation that sees you (and your correspondents!) as a resource to be data-mined. Plus, it really isn't nearly as hard as people make it out to be.

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Find out more: https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/leaking-clock-what-your-sources-need-know/

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🚨 PSA: If you are an Israeli army soldier or officer and have firsthand knowledge of unreported war crimes or other atrocities committed in Gaza, the West Bank, Israel, Lebanon, or Syria, find a news outlet that uses @securedrop and send it an anonymous, encrypted tip.

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Have been referred by my doctor for an X-ray. Got sent a txt to a mobile 'appointment creation' webservice by the local (private) radiology monopoly. Haven't made appointment (it's not urgent) because I'm going to be away fro a while. So someone from that monopoly rang me today to help me book... I informed her that I was going to shift my appointment to the alternative (competing, smaller, private monopoly), just to help balance things. She sniped that they're also owned by a 'big co'... 1/2

The bug was fixed and the release rescheduled 16 January. 🤞

https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/milestone/8377

oh shit this is good advice

"keep records of your IDR loan forgiveness tracker via screenshots or converting the webpages into PDF images. You then save them to your computer, print them out as hard copies, or both."

Huh, I didn't know this was in the works... https://dri.es/drupal-cms-1-released

New episode of the Beautiful Idea just dropped!

We spoke with an immigrant rights activist in #California about the threat of mass deportations, @tom_nomad about how Trump is pushing to consolidate executive power - with the help of key #Projec2025 architects, and we spoke with an anarchist in #LosAngeles about how mutual aid groups are organizing in the wake of catastrophic wildfires. Plus resistance news and upcoming events!

https://thebeautifulidea.show/episode-3-news-roundup/

Here's a freebie first panel from it.

Still time to help some bros out, Joe. https://www.patreon.com/posts/panhandling-for-120077149?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

There's a reason I refer to neoliberals as neofeudalists.

Fossil fuel car companies pay EV car makers to meet the EU's emissions goals. Basically accelerating their own death instead of fixing their emissions.

Also turns out large part of Tesla's profit come from these deals so more money into a rich man's pocket. You can't make that 💩 up.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/stellantis-toyota-ford-mazda-subaru-plan-pool-co2-emissions-with-tesla-2025-01-07/

@kalikiana @fsfe Because university management and comms teams are very conservative and indicator-driven. Wider questions like civics and ethics are generally discounted. There are worries that FOSS solutions don’t have “reach”. And they worry that they will have the burden of moderation and potential legal challenges.

It is all part of the corporatisation of universities which are increasingly run by people who ape what they think is how a company should behave.

Why don't universities run their own Friendica? Why don't students get a Mastodon handle along with their email address? Why don't universities host lectures on PeerTube? Melanie Bartos will share her experience at the University of Innsbruck at our next @fsfe Women meeting on January 20 from 20.00 Berlin time!

The group is women-centric and open to all women, inter, trans and non-binary people.

Details how to join remotely via Big Blue Button here https://wiki.fsfe.org/Teams/Women

A regression was discovered on the release candidate for Forgejo v10.0.0. The release date was supposed to be 15 January and is postponed until this is fixed.

Big oil pushed to kill bill that would have made them pay for wildfire disasters - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/15/polluter-pay-bill-climate-disasters "Legislation has new life in wake of Los Angeles catastrophe but US fossil-fuel industry is already mobilizing against it" #ClimateCrisis #dirtyoil

The US government banning TikTok for its citizens while itself staying on the platform in order to propagandize the rest of the world is, frankly, pretty on-brand.

Multiple jobs at @sovtechfund :

- Technologist
- Technical Program Manager
- Cybersecurity Program Lead
- Back-Office/Administration Manager

https://www.fossjobs.net/

#fossjobs #getFediHired