Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Nice tips document on how to write accessible app UIs, or debug accessibility when it doesn’t seem to be working quite right: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/orca/-/blob/main/README-APPLICATION-DEVELOPERS.md

#GNOME #accessibility

Glad I'm not the only one who can put 2 and 2 together. Take a look at what US economists did to Russia after the break-up of the Soviet Union (i.e. "shock therapy") and consider the fallout of those policies (mass immiseration along with the creation of ultra-rich oligarchs). Then imagine that you are the methed up scion of a racist South African mining family, and suddenly it all makes a terrible kind of sense.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-musk-intentionally-crashing-economy

A group backed by billionaire #Elon #Musk is behind a set of deceptive attack ads and text messages targeting voters just weeks ahead of the 👉election for a seat on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court,
employing a battleground state strategy it used last year against Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
The ads are labeled as coming from "Progress 2028" (a fictitious group) and are made to look like authentic messages of support for Dane County Circuit ✅Judge #Susan #Crawford -- who is backed by Democrats.
They describe her as a “progressive champion” who will “stand up for immigrants,” defend Planned Parenthood and promote a justice system that gives criminals “second chances.”
But records show the ads that appear on Facebook and Instagram and in text messages to some voters are underwritten by❌ "Building America’s Future".
That’s a national conservative group that counts Musk among its biggest donors, a Wall Street Journal report revealed

The new collection of ads is the latest example of how Musk’s extraordinary wealth has been used to promote the Republican Party’s political interests,
-- including in a contest for ideological control of the highest court in one of the country’s most important presidential swing states.

https://apnews.com/article/musk-progress-2028-wisconsin-supreme-court-acb3b82275e466909c45fe284aa52dbf

The people currently slashing science funding don't know the difference between transgender and transgenic.

Archivists recreate pre-trump CDC website and host it in EU.

https://www.404media.co/archivists-recreate-pre-trump-cdc-website-are-hosting-it-in-europe/

TLTR - here is the website

Restored CDC site

"Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not)" is perhaps Mike Masnick's most important TechDirt post -- which is saying something given how long he's been publishing this essential-reading blog.

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/why-techdirt-is-now-a-democracy-blog-whether-we-like-it-or-not/

I always feel a bit let down when I see good #libre devs using VSCode.

Last night, President Trump said he wants to sign the Take It Down Act into law, then use it to remove content about him. He won’t be the only one.

Cell-site simulators (CSS, also known as Stingrays or IMSI catchers) are devices that masquerade as legitimate cell-phone towers, tricking phones within a certain radius into connecting to the device rather than a tower. Our new tool, Rayhunter, can help you find them. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying

https://kolektiva.media/w/1knET2arztjo6kapZo9Q89

Coming this April. The long-awaited premiere of subMedia’s new documentary series: Interrebellium.

InterRebellium #1 : The Estallido Social

In October 2019, protests against a transit fare hike in Santiago erupted into a nation-wide insurrection against the Chilean state. For six months, the streets were transformed into vibrant laboratories of self-organization, creativity and resistance, before ultimately being cleared by the promise of a new constitution and the spread of a global pandemic.

In the opening installment of Interrebellium, subMedia traces the history of the Estallido Social through the first-hand experiences of it participants, as they share battle-tested street tactics, and hard-won lessons about the lengths that the state will go to repress and recuperate challenges to its rule.

Interested in organizing a local screening with comrades, or at your anarchist infoshop, squat or social center? Get in touch!

You heard the man, America.

The Democrats big idea for combatting a billionaire controlled opposition:

"Move away from the dominance of small-dollar donors whose preferences may not align with the broader electorate."

🤦‍♂️ What a joke these people are. Anybody sticking with them after this...well...you know what you're getting 🙄

"That’s where we are now, ruled by monstrous men using both political parties to work their will. From this there are only two outcomes, centrifugally opposed: the people rebel and the rich lock down control (think the Stasi and their DDR), or the people rebel and tumbrels start coming out (think Luigi Mangione)."

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/03/capitalism-in-decay.html

Ooc: I grew up in a union household. I owe my life to organized labor. At some point during my life, dems stopped doing fuck all for labor and became a party that modeled itself around the motherfucking Cheneys. These people basically agree with the right wing in substance but not style. I can't work with this half-hearted performative nonsense. This is a serious time that deserves a serious response, not unserious morons fiddling while the republic burns.

Do your bit to help advance the AI revolution by sitting in the dark, drinking less water, and showering less. - Save the AI https://savethe.ai/

Huh, could it be possible that Microsoft, in addition to being almost entirely unable to write software, has expanded their incompetence diversity to include quantum computing as well? https://yewtu.be/watch?v=bJTsFZtD7xE or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJTsFZtD7xE

Right, just upgraded 4 Mastodon instances from 4.3.0 -> 4.3.4 (due to a critical security issue) in about an hour. Fairly well scripted. This stuff isn't that hard (if I can do it 🤪 )...

Meanwhile in NYC...

https://www.work-bites.com/view-all/nomore24busts

Huh, imagine, gov't IT systems vastly over priced: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/543767/acc-s-botched-it-project-needed-overseas-expertise-to-help and imagine - the soluion: "buy more off-the-shelf". 🤦 How about pay local providers to build #libre / #FOSS solutions that can be used across gov'ts around the world! We're not competing with other gov'ts! What if they did the same & most of our gov't IT systems came from other countries' libre efforts, supported by our *local* industry, not Trump's BigTech puppetmasters (or minions, depending on your POV).