Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Only half way through this and it's already worth sharing. The thing that hit me the most about working a lot of manual labor jobs, was how humiliating they were often made to be by ppl looking down on you for being a janitor or the like.

[Status, class, and the crisis of expertise
By celebrating "common sense" over expert authority, populism performs a dramatic status inversion. It gifts uneducated voters the power of knowledge and deflates those who look down on them.]
https://www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/status-class-and-the-crisis-of-expertise

Hey Fediverse, I want to have an incognito account where I post long form (2000chars+), and which is federated with as many places as possible.

What would you reccommend?

#askfedi #fediverse #mastodon #federation #friendica

‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Booms as Economic Pressures Mount - https://www.wired.com/story/bnpl-booms-as-economic-pressures-mount/ this will not end well... #bnpl

Ask not what you Free Software can do for you, ask what you can do for Free Software. Okay, but seriously, there are several ways you can help Free Software forces and keep #FreeSoftware a viable option for future generations. The Digital Freedom Foundation is dedicated to celebrating and supporting Free Software. We can't do it alone. Your contributions are vital.
#DFF #SFD2025 #SoftwareFreedomDay2025

Free in ~27 hours, at 12 UTC on Thursday, June 5th?

Join the Co-op Cloud Community for our informal, weekly(ish) drop-in "Kite-flying hour"

This week, we have 2 (TWO!) things so far, possibly in parallel if we can figure out breakout rooms:

1. Tagging maintenance issues with Abra (that's our command-line tool) for funded fixes, using our exciting new (&, for now, secret) grant money (hosted by decentral1se)
2. Collaborative co-operative Abra user troubleshooting (hosted by @autonomic)

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We usually learn a lot about this on conferences but let's try it here as well:

If you're daily driving #phosh we're keen to here on which phone (or other device)? Which distro do you use and which phosh version are you currently running?

#LinuxMobile

Do any of the the open source / Linux admin people out there have any advice/ideas for how to manage a classroom of Ubuntu Linux laptops? The aim is to authenticate against the school active directory. Are there ways to manage software and re-image machines without managing them individually?

I talked to @404mediaco about generative AI's impact on teaching. Apparently I wasn't alone... not by a long shot. @jasonkoebler got a ton of responses about this topic and ran many of them here:

https://www.404media.co/teachers-are-not-ok-ai-chatgpt/

While it's distressing to read all of them, it's good to see I'm not alone.

#generativeAI #higherEducation #teaching #academicChatter

“In 2017, ‘a confidential doc is leaked that reveals Facebook offering advertisers the opportunity to target 13-to-17yos across platforms during moments of psychological vulnerability when they feel ‘worthless,’ ‘insecure,’ ‘stressed,’ ‘defeated,’ ‘anxious,’ ‘stupid,’ ‘useless’ & ‘like a failure.’ Or target them when worried about their bodies & thinking of losing weight.’

They knew when a teen deleted a selfie & would bombard her w beauty ads, assuming she deleted it bc she felt ugly.” /1

@strypey I hit this problems too. I solved it buying a Oneplus Nord N10 for a very modest $165 from Aliexpress. This phone and several other Oneplus models can run LineageOS which also helped with my deGoogling efforts.

I used it for a couple of weeks on the stock image before I reflashed and that worked OK too.

https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/billie/

Just found out that an old intranet we created for a customer (on Drupal 5?) back in 2008-9 is still running (not on the open internet). Their MS Sharepoint replacement for it has been... less than stunningly successful in its designated role. I suspect that original Internet would've cost the orders of magnitude less in up-front development and per-year maintenance.

PieFed has a mobile app https://piefed.social/post/817564

A large #Lemmy instance is shutting down - https://lemm.ee.

Fortunately, #PieFed provides a way to migrate the posts in all the communities on it to somewhere else!

See https://piefed.social/post/667044 for a demo.

#fediverse

@lightweight Interesting bit on RNZ this morning about electricity generation, where the point was made that the gentailers goal of making a profit is directly opposed to the goal of reliable and efficient electricity supply.

So to add to your musings, I would say that things that are necessities (food, water, shelter, health care, education, security, electricity, internet access?) should be supplied by government - at least to a basic level (housing).

Making government supply of these things efficient is a management problem, not a reason for privatisation. Privatisation has it's own inherent inefficiency, in that it needs to make a profit.

After a recent discussion with a politically opposed (hard right) acquaintance is that neither full socialisation (left) nor full privatisation (right) are desirable options. My considered impression is that there's a middle ground - where you have to understand *where* privatisation makes sense, and where it's counter-productive, and socialisation makes much better sense. I think revolves around the sense of 'calling' among practitioners (or lack thereof).... 1/n

I'm envisioning an onboarding website that encourages creators to publish into the #fediverse, and shows them how. With sections on how to publish different kinds of media;

* long form text, eg news articles and blogs

* images, eg event photos or webcomics

* podcasts

* videos

* livestreams

Each section could have a comparison table of all the software software that can currently publish that kind of media over AP, and maybe a shortlist of recommendations.

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#FediverseOnboarding

The PERA and PREVAIL Acts would revive invalid software patents and cripple our best tools for fighting patent trolls. https://act.eff.org/action/don-t-let-congress-bring-back-the-worst-patents

How the Farm Industry Spied on Animal Rights Activists and Pushed the FBI to Treat Them as Bioterrorists - https://www.wired.com/story/fbi-wmdd-dxe-animal-agriculture-alliance/ "For years, a powerful ‘#BigAg’ trade group served up information on activists to the FBI. Records reveal a decade-long effort to see the animal rights movement labeled a “bioterrorism” threat."

Ten jewels of English #nature at risk from #development and #Labour’s #PlanningBill | #Biodiversity | The Guardian

I’m sure there’s a better way of addressing the #HousingCrisis than riding rough-shod over delicate #ecosystems.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/03/ten-jewels-of-english-nature-at-risk-from-development-and-labours-planning-bill

#UK #Environment #Ecology #Housing #Politics

Fedi promo video status: picture lock 🥳

Now it's only a matter of fine-tuning the sound mix. Very thankful to @samaaberg & @patel.riyen for their great work on it.

We're premiering at a special event on Friday... and I'll probably post it on my self-hosted #PeerTube on Monday morning ('cause I'm not sure how my VPS will hold up and I'm not taking any risks on a Friday afternoon) 😅

Thank you for all your encouragement with this project ❤️

#DontDeployonFridays #EleFediVideos