Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

#CreativeCommons Launches its 2025-2028 Strategic Plan - https://creativecommons.org/2025/01/22/cc-launches-its-2025-2028-strategic-plan/ "ensuring a strong and resilient open infrastructure of sharing, and enabling a healthy and thriving creative commons powered by reciprocity and community in the public interest." #cc

We're hiring a software engineer in my team at the Wikimedia Foundation!

We work on wikitext support for Mediawiki & associated services for the Wikimedia projects, and it's a great team to be in :)

Oh, and it's a full remote (many countries) position.

https://grnh.se/4b15b3581us

#Wikimedia #hiring

I just unsubscribed from #TheContrarian (https://contrarian.substack.com/), #JenniferRubin and #NormEisen's new anti-Trump endeavor, after subscribing the day it launched.
I gave it long enough to be certain that it's neoliberal garbage through and through. Just a bunch of status-quoniks who aspire for things to be how they were before Trump. As if that will solve anything. Clueless idiots, the lot of them. Or maybe just clickbait grifters. (Why not both?)
#journalism #neoliberalism

Someone sent me a nice online "greeting card" and now I'm being relentlessly spammed by the company that provides the cards. Trying to unsubscribe but I'm not sure it's working...

Trump and his cult don't really know how to deal with demonstrations of courage in defiance of their malicious ways. Example:

https://newrepublic.com/post/190529/donald-trump-bishop-prayer-midnight-rant

We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer on the @securedrop team at @freedomofpress.

SecureDrop is open source whistleblowing software. The project is at a critical inflection point as we get ready to build the next-gen version based on a modern cryptographic protocol.

100% remote, full-time, $110-$120K base salary with comprehensive benefits for US-based employees. (If you're not in the US, we can discuss consultancy models.)

Hmu for questions.

https://grnh.se/813b998c5us

#GetFediHired

Repurposing old government information posters for my own ends.

May your winter days be filled with good books.

Remember, Donald Trump desperately wants to be in the news every single day. Every single day, there are going to be news stories about what terrible thing he just did or said. These things are meant to provoke outrage, and they will. The media delivers the message; they are his puppet. Clicks -> ads -> money.

Go for a walk. Build something. Call a friend. Volunteer. Spend time with people you actually like. Support local entertainment.

Avoid doomscrolling.

#uspol

having succeeded in purchasing positions of influence inside the White House, the billionaires and tech VCs have now set their sights back on Wikipedia

In the violin world when people ask questions like “how do I maintain motivation to keep practicing?” the answer is: habits are better than motivation. Instead of relying on motivation or inspiration to hit, you should make a plan, have a routine, build the habit of practicing day in day out. Politics are the same. When folks ask "how do we get people to care?" the answer is: culture and ideology are better than individual feelings. Instead of hoping people feel moved to act on a specific topic we need to build norms, and yes, habits.

Part of the power of unions is inculcating that culture and identity of “we are union people, which means we show up in solidarity when shit goes down.” Part of the power of anarchism is that you have a ready ideological framework for understanding power and don't have to reanalyze every new situation from scratch. You know what side you're on. You know what to do. You’ve practiced this with your friends.

In the link/reshare below, @Scott M. Stolz mentions having to ban users from some U.S. states based on age verification laws and the (IMO appropriate) lack of such technology for Hubzilla and other fedi platforms.  I find this quite alarming and am interested to hear other perspectives on how fedi admins are handling increasingly messy international laws on age restrictions and related issues.

(boosts welcome)

#^https://loves.tech/display/b8a8cddc-9649-4f5b-bd04-1de79f93f597
Scott M. Stolz wrote the following post Wed, 22 Jan 2025 12:52:54 +0100 @Der Pepe (Hubzilla) ⁂ ⚝

No Fediverse service offers that as it should be (except for reporting, which we hopefully will have soon). This would mean the complete end of Fediverse in the UK if it is really meant seriously.

I am already having to ban users from several U.S. states because of their age verification laws. So I am pretty sure we have to ban U.K. users too.

https://forums.cafe/page/community/rules said:

If your local law requires us to get parental consent for you to participate because you are under a certain age, you are not allowed to participate on this server. If your local law requires us to collect personally identifying information, such as your birthday, or requires us to verify your age, you are not allowed to participate in this server.

Der Pepe (Hubzilla) ⁂ ⚝ wrote the following post Wed, 22 Jan 2025 11:43:54 +0100 @Scott M. Stolz

Hubzilla does not have approved age assurance methods, files scanning for CSAM, or the ability to report posts by users, (and perhaps other things required under the law), and is, therefore, not compliant for a U.K. audience unless you run your own server as mentioned in #1 above.

No Fediverse service offers that as it should be (except for reporting, which we hopefully will have soon). This would mean the complete end of Fediverse in the UK if it is really meant seriously.

@Jupiter Rowland

That is, it could be some leftover residue from the app having been removed from the repository ages ago.

I don't remember this functionality. But it may well be that it existed at some point.

Congratulations to the ACLU, EFF and everyone else involved in this significant win for the Fourth Amendment.

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/court-rules-warrantless-section-702-searches-violated-the-fourth-amendment

The #GOP’s stunning response to #Trump pardoning those who assaulted police - https://wapo.st/4g6A2Vt #republicans are such spineless cowards

Should you be wondering why @LWN #LWN is occasionally sluggish... since the new year, the DDOS onslaughts from AI-scraper bots has picked up considerably. Only a small fraction of our traffic is serving actual human readers at this point. At times, some bot decides to hit us from hundreds of IP addresses at once, clogging the works. They don't identify themselves as bots, and robots.txt is the only thing they *don't* read off the site.

This is beyond unsustainable. We are going to have to put time into deploying some sort of active defenses just to keep the site online. I think I'd even rather be writing about accounting systems than dealing with this crap. And it's not just us, of course; this behavior is going to wreck the net even more than it's already wrecked.

Happy new year :)

#Trump administration fires members of cybersecurity review board in “horribly shortsighted” decision - https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/22/trump-administration-fires-members-of-cybersecurity-review-board-in-horribly-shortsighted-decision/

On 1/22/2018, we lost Ursula K. Le Guin. She was more than a storyteller—she was a radical thinker who used her craft to critique capitalism, patriarchy, and colonialism, imagining alternative futures grounded in community, equality, and ecological harmony.

Explore titles at pmpress.org.

Got laid off today. If you're looking for someone who knows imaging, static analysis, and compiler design in depth and a wide variety of other things HMU. Resume is here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HgW40cu1UhIVYI6o2KjfrwnNrnGlbGXhmQDR5kLW4qU/edit?usp=drivesdk

You're watching activists from a Mexican sex workers union storming the judicial building in Mexico City this week, following the attempted murder of a trans woman. Cops just let the alleged perp go. This is how we defend our comrades. No justice. No peace.

A quote from Daniel K Gillmor that didn't make the final draft:

“The act of switching to an encrypted messenger is a social act, it is a community-oriented act, and it is a beneficial act.”

Build community, one encrypted message at a time.