Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

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#UnitedNations #UN #Privacy #OpenSource #Forms #Studies FOSS

GitHub has gone - long live Forgejo (@forgejo).

Fully migrated out of Microsoft’s walled garden after they blocked us:

- 54k commits
- 9.5k issues
- 4.3k pull requests
- 100k comments

Everything moved. Nothing left behind.

https://git.omaps.dev/organicmaps/organicmaps

As always in #uspol, what’s controversial here is not that an American bomb leveled an entire apartment building in #Yemen killing 53 people (both Republicans and Democrats believe such operations are permissible), only that the plans to do so were discussed on an unsecured chat #signal #signalgate

Anyone with any regard whatsoever for the Constitution should recognize how fundamentally at odds this is with our values and should be deeply repulsed regardless of political leanings.

The arrest of Rumeysa Ozturk may serve as the canary in the coal mine for the First Amendment.

Read our full statement:

https://freedom.press/issues/fpf-statement-on-arrest-of-tufts-student/

Dear @Mer__edith and the the amazing @signalapp team,

After the last update, the Signal "desktop app" is requiring us to launch the mobile app - however, many of us do not have the Android or any other "mobile" version of the Signal app any more.

We are a large (by our standards) group of #Linux phone users, and **your "desktop" app is our "mobile" app** : )

Our previous phones on which #SignalApp was initially activated was an Android or Apple device and we have since then completely migrated to #Linuxphones. Some of us may have registered Signal on #signalcli, Flare, #Molly, Signal Android in #WayDroid, etc.

The #mobileLinux community is not growing - we have members spanning a good number of projects and devices, e.g.
- @purism #Librem5 and #LibertyPhone running #Debian-based #PureOS #GnuLinux, #Alpine-based #PostmarketOS or #Mobian,
- @PINE64 #Pinephone and PP Pro running #ManjaroARM, #SailfishOS, etc.
- @furilabs #FLX1 running #Droidian-based #FuriOS,
- a wide variety of Android phones (including OnePlus 6, Google Pixel 3, #Fairphone 4 & 5) running #Alpine-based @postmarketOS ,
- @volla , #Fxtec and #Brax3 devices running #UbuntuTouch by @ubports,
- devices running @mobian which is part of #Debian project, etc.

[Apologies to any project I may have failed to include - you are all appreciated]

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@kyle https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/03/26/atop/

Interesting cryptic news for anyone who uses atop:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/26/uninstall_atop_for_now/

#linux #sysadmin #devops

#Seattle and #Tacoma area folks: WSLC is calling on folks to meet outside the Tacoma ICE detention facility tomorrow, Thursday the 27, at 5:30 pm and rally in solidarity with two unfairly detained #union siblings

one is an SEIU member who works at a #UW lab and the other is an organizer with Familias Unidas por la Justicia, so I hope those of you in the university community will circulate this as well

more info at https://www.thestand.org/2025/03/solidarity-with-detained-union-siblings/?amp=1

“We’re the police,” members of the group are heard saying in the video.

A man is heard asking, “Why are you hiding your faces?”

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Masked government thugs snatching a student off the streets without even the hint she committed any crime. This is the US today.

https://apnews.com/article/tufts-student-detained-massachusetts-immigration-6c3978da98a8d0f39ab311e092ffd892

It takes a lot to shake me but this abduction of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Ph.D. student and Fulbright scholar at Tufts is bone-chilling.

Plainclothes, masked agents bundle her into an unmarked car.
https://apnews.com/video/turkish-student-at-tufts-university-detained-video-shows-masked-people-handcuffing-her-109ae65a4e734b12b357897376ea443b

It appears her thought crime was co-authoring op-ed in the Tufts newspaper, asking the university to take action in opposition to Israeli war crimes.

https://www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024/03/4ftk27sm6jkj

She's been whisked off from Massachusetts to Louisiana.

This is the new America.

Citizens are next.

Doctors in West Texas—where there is a measles outbreak—are seeing unvaccinated hospitalized patients with signs of vitamin A toxicity.

There is no evidence that it can prevent measles, but overuse of vitamin A can have serious health consequences.

This is a result of misinformation and is what happens when you appoint an anti-vaxxer to lead the national health agency.

Can anyone identify the original source for this brilliant illustration?

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.

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