Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

This is a kidnapping.

The word "detained" is inadequate to describe what is going on around the country these days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuFIs7OkzYY

@dangillmor here's another one

https://thecrimsonwhite.com/120415/news/ua-student-reportedly-detained-by-ice/

#AlirezaDoroudi #ICE #USPOL

I have a reader that I have worked with, located around Chicago, that I want to connect with other readers for networking reasons. I will vouch for their sanity and competence. If anyone here is down to grab coffee with them, could you drop me an email at the ol' blog address?

Trump, and authoritarians like him, want us to be afraid. Unmarked agents of the state grabbing our friends and neighbors off the street and hauling them off to prison sites is a deliberate strategy to quash dissent and stoke fear. We won't stand for it, and we will only fight back harder until everyone involved in this cruelty is thrown out of power.

Please follow leaders on the ground with Community to Community for additional ways you can support. https://www.foodjustice.org/

We just added 174 new entries for CRIMEWATCH camera registries, including in cities in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Florida, and Texas, to the Atlas of Surveillance. https://atlasofsurveillance.org/search?vendor=CRIMEWATCH

India's use of immigration law to punish a Reuters journalist for investigating corporate wrongdoing may be a preview of where the U.S. is headed.

https://freedom.press/issues/if-trump-can-deport-pro-palestine-activists-journalists-could-be-next/

We were rather negligent last year in our fundraising efforts, so we're trying to make up for that now as our funds are running a bit low. The upside is that our procrastination on asking for contributions gave us time to switch away from PayPal 🥳

If you've got a few dollars you can spare to help support coverage of #WorkerCoops and the #SolidarityEconomy, we promise to put them to good work.

https://givebutter.com/PpQwWi

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Given that the Trump regime is crooked from the top down, it should be no surprise to learn that one of Musk's Doge incels is (like his boss) shady as hell.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/doge-staffer-big-balls-provided-tech-support-cybercrime-ring-records-show-2025-03-26/

I had missed this gem from “USA TODAY”, America’s most inconsequential news organization…

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2025/03/25/trump-secret-signal-chat-fail-relatable/82656180007/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=67e327189d13bf0001ed58f5&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

The government is taking dramatic steps in response to Teslas catching on fire and what's weird about this is they only care when there are *not* people in the car. If a Tesla catches on fire while it is empty that is a big deal to the government and they investigate it as terrorism and hate crimes. But if a Tesla catches on fire while people are driving it that is normal and the government sees nothing there to investigate

The AI bots that desperately need OSS for code training, are now slowly killing OSS by overloading every site.

The curl website is now at 77TB/month, or 8GB every five minutes.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/devs-say-ai-crawlers-dominate-traffic-forcing-blocks-on-entire-countries/

NASA Deletes Comic Book About How Women Can Be Astronauts
https://futurism.com/nasa-deletes-comic-women-astronauts

@fsfe are you in touch with the EU regarding the digital wallet (https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20240223IPR18095/meps-back-plans-for-an-eu-wide-digital-wallet) already? This will/can e.g. be used for the driver license in the future?

I skimmed through the documents and didn't read anything on OpenSource/#FreeSoftware there. Would be great if we could ensure first class support for #LinuxMobile. Is that on your list? Otherwise I could at least write the contact address there.

Welp, I can report that I have managed to disassemble my venerable OnePlus 6T phone, replace the battery & find I have the wrong USB socket replacement (prob for my now obsolete 3T instead), but managed to clean the USB connector contacts, removing the need for a replacement, & reassembled it successfully. Subsequently, I (for the umpteenth time) managed to do a painless major version upgrade of LineageOS to version 22.1 (from 21.1). Amazingly, everything is functioning! Big sigh of relief.

One of the first things that I tell survivors of domestic abuse who are concerned about the safety of their devices to do is to check the security of their accounts. Techcrunch has a guide on how to do that.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/25/how-to-tell-if-your-online-accounts-have-been-hacked/?guccounter=1

I installed Docker on a laptop so I could use #Immich, because #Nextcloud Photos is slow and keeps getting my IP addy softbanned from my new non-US shared hosting.

I was nervous.

But it was very easy.

It pulled Immich!!

I added my first folders of images... It was FAST! AND IT'S PRETTY!!

Hurrah!

Please note, this stuff didn't exist when I was a youngling and I am not a coder.

@pjf thankyou so much for mentioning it a little while back. I didn't realise Docker was so easy.

Next to get everything off of #GooglePhotos, get my phone sending everything to Immich, and learn & make backups of all on a Raspberry Pi!

#guix social talk this week by @paulbutgold on self-hosting @forgejo using #oci / #docker #containers

His Gocix project brings the power of declarative configuration to running container services.

Details on the Wiki or register at the Meetup:

- https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/GuixSocial

- https://www.meetup.com/guix-social/events/306340848/

@fnat

#guix #nix #linux #containers #docker #oci #scheme #guile #selfhosting #forge #foss

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