Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Doctrow's essay this morning sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole. It was a good rabbit hole, and now I share with you all what I found at the bottom.

https://archive.org/details/the-real-world-of-technology

Good news for #Nexcloud users!

The #ONLYOFFICE connector for #Nexcloud has been updated to version 9.7.0.

The latest update introduces support for new file formats (Pages, Keynote, Numbers, hwp, hwpx) and compatibility with #Nextcloud 31.

Get the updated connector here: https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/onlyoffice

More information about the integration: https://www.onlyoffice.com/office-for-nextcloud.aspx?utm_source=social&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=fosstodon

Yep, he was kinda right about everything all along... https://yewtu.be/watch? v=SD3_ZwzXvgQ or if you're ok with Google all up in your bidness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD3_ZwzXvgQ

Sanders was the US' salvation, but we/they (mostly the DNC) screwed it up entirely.

You’ve seen in the news that Starbucks laid off some 1100 employees yesterday. It’s true, and I was one of them. I am actively seeking my next role.

I love to build and lead teams and organizations doing values-driven work. Looking for remote or Seattle. http://linkedin.com/in/patloughery #FediHire

General rule of thumb: Every time an organization updates their terms of service and/or privacy policy, it is never because they have your best interests at heart.

Specific thoughts on this latest Mozilla action (https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/firefox-terms-of-use/)

Setting aside the "worldwide license" bullshit, the privacy policy appears to have broadened both the classes of data Mozilla aims to collect, and the situations in which they collect them.

These are not the actions of an org that cares about your privacy.

A lot of people who use software fall into the trap of thinking that because something is familiar to them, that it's 'user friendly'. They also frequently fall for marketing of software products which invariably labels their product as 'intuitive' or 'user friendly' even though in many cases, that's just wrong. 1/2

Texas #measles outbreak claims first child as anti-vaxxers blame the vaccine - https://boingboing.net/2025/02/26/texas-measles-outbreak-claims-first-child-as-anti-vaxxers-blame-the-vaccine.html wow, when you think moronic #antivaxxers can't be more stupid, they show you they can be...

Out today: THE TOXIC AVENGER #5 🛢️☣️ Get to your comic shop!

Concluding our series with a glorious double page spread you have to see in print and a final page that will tell you where we're headed next...

Covers by Fred Harper, myself, and Zander Cannon.

Hey FLOSS peeps, any recommendations for good software with basic bookkeeping functionality for multiple accounts? Asking for a small non-profit. Thx.
#Bookkeeping #Software #PleaseHelpUsEscapeQuickbooks

BP to raise oil and gas spending to $10bn a year in pivot away from green goals - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/feb/26/bp-oil-and-gas-spending-green-energy-scale-back #bp shames the UK

@EUCommission Clean Industrial Deal sounds a total disaster - https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2025/02/polluters-get-paid "deepens the EU’s commitment to false solutions to the climate disaster." #CID #lobbying

No war but class war. Organizing is back!

This book offers up a radical new practice for investigating employers. The authors propose a member-based, democratic approach to corporate research that will train an army of rank-and-file researchers to investigate and beat the firms that control so much of our lives.

Back the Kickstarter via the link in our bio.

How can we organise against the greenwashing extractivism of Big Tech?

Join The Infrastructural Rehearsals Collective and many others at #2dh5 this weekend
https://www.2dh5.nl/en/event/how-can-we-organise-against-the-greenwashing-extractivism-of-big-tech/

#GreenTechIsALie #InfraResistance @2dh5

@GuerillaOntologist

"Capitalist Realism – the widespread sense that not only is capitalism the only viable political and economic system, but also that it is now impossible even to imagine a coherent alternative to it."

YES! Or as Ursula K Le Guin would say...
https://medium.com/the-nib/nothing-is-inescapable-6157cea8723b

(I quote her and a bunch of other stuff in this ep where I talk about the doom loop of fascism and the climate crisis and how to imagine our way out of that: https://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/episode-24-lets-talk-about-the-doom )

@laprice

How has everything gone so wrong in the last few decades? David Graeber gives us a clue as to what has happened!

"A vague notion of graduate employability that hasn't changed since the Cold War" hits mighty close to home 😭

An Accurate Organizational Chart of Your University

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-accurate-organizational-chart-of-your-university

Props to the admin assistants who keep the whole thing going.

Be like George.

https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-02-23-dale/

"The rebellion against the rich and their misrule has been treated by national Democrats as a threat to the status quo, from which they get rich. Thus they force the rebellion to be led by Trump, where it’s badly misused."

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/02/the-frog-or-the-scorpion-do-democrats-really-need-to-ask-who-caused-the-mess-were-in.html

Encryption shifts the economics of attack.

Plaintext can be slurped up by dragnet surveillance and analyzed at the attacker's convenience.

Transport-layer encryption makes passive attacks ineffective, forcing governments to attack the servers to spy on everyone.

End-to-end encryption like Signal forces governments to choose their targets and expend resources on attacking each one, proactively.

The more people that use E2EE for traffic the governments aren't interested in, the more goddamn haystack there is to sift through in search of needles.

The economies of scale go away if the E2EE makes popping servers useless to the governments. This is why I insist the centralization of Signal is a red herring.