Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

FAQ on Refusing Illegal Orders

(from the Military Law Task Force of the National Lawyers Guild:

https://nlgmltf.org/military-law/2025/faq-on-refusing-illegal-orders/

PDF: https://nlgmltf.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Illegal-Orders-FAQ-17JUN2025.pdf

Please boost, promote, and distribute to servicemembers!

("DoD Instruction 1325.06 permits a servicemember to possess a single copy of this document.")

If you’re arrested you should be able to examine the technology used to identify you, especially if there’s a history of inaccuracies. We argue just that in our latest amicus brief. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/eff-nj-supreme-court-prosecutors-must-disclose-details-regarding-frt-used-identify

"In this short piece I will portray the work of our team in collaboration with two different networks in Argentina, one related to rural secondary schools in the Province of Buenos Aires, and the other one related to small workers cooperatives to support people who suffer from mental health-related challenges."
#WorkerCoops #SolidarityEconomy
https://geo.coop/articles/dynamic-coalitions-organizational-solidarity-practice

This week's comic now up on Daily Kos:
DONALD AND JOHN
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/6/19/2328762/-Cartoon-Tom-the-Dancing-Bug-takes-a-Calvinesque-and-Hobbesian-look-at-protests

I didn’t plan to write about Wayland yet. But Xorg is dying — not eventually, but now. GNOME’s dropping X11 support. RHEL already removed it. Ubuntu and Fedora are next. And if you rely on accessibility, you don’t get to wait this one out.
So here’s Post 4 of I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back.
I’m using Wayland now. Primarily. Not because I love it. Because the fallback is disappearing, and I want to be there helping fix what comes next. GNOME with Orca actually works. KDE and COSMIC are making progress. I’ve talked to the people involved. They care.
But a lot is broken.
MATE — the desktop most blind users preferred — isn’t on Wayland.
ocrdesktop doesn’t work. xdotool is gone.
wlroots compositors still don’t reliably support Orca’s keybindings, especially on laptops.
This isn’t GNOME’s fault. They’re the only reason accessibility on Wayland works at all.
But the old excuses are gone. “Just use Xorg” isn’t going to be an option much longer.
So yeah. I’m a Wayland shill now. Because I’m using it. Because I have to.
And I want to make sure we’re not excluded from what comes next.
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-want-to-love-linux-it-doesnt-love-me-back-post-4-wayland-is-growing-up-and-now-we-dont-have-a-choice/
#Linux #Wayland #Accessibility #Orca #GNOME #KDE #COSMIC #FOSS #a11y #BlindTech #xorg

In reading a fascinating and important discussion of the lack of a termination clause in the new Mastodon.social Terms of Service, I was GOBSMACKED to discover that the new ToS including a "binding arbitration waiver," which takes away your right to sue, no matter how badly the service abuses you.

These are profoundly unethical, terrible clauses. They should never, ever appear in "adhesion contracts" (that is, contracts that you merely click through, rather than negotiating.)

Shout out to @Framasoft for their awesome 'MostlyMatter' Mattermost fork removing the absurd 10k user limit, released within hours of official releases.

Saves a bunch of work. They work great.

https://framagit.org/framasoft/framateam/mostlymatter

Framasoft are a consistent force for good in the free and open software space.

#sysadmin #selfhosted

Great news everyone! Thomas Ptacek at Fly.io published "My AI Skeptic Friends Are Nuts", and it was shoved in front of me enough times that I have sentenced him to a swift death. Godspeed, Thomas, I pray that your incineration is speedy and painless.

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/contra-ptaceks-terrible-article-on-ai/