Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Will International Solidarity Turn the Tables in Favor of Striking Gaming Workers in Georgia?
#Gaming #GameDev #Solidarity #Georgia
https://www.labornotes.org/2024/11/will-international-solidarity-turn-tables-favor-striking-gaming-workers-georgia

#ICC issues arrest warrant for Benjamin #Netanyahu for alleged #Gaza #warcrimes - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/21/icc-issues-arrest-warrant-for-benjamin-netanyahu-israel "Warrants for Israeli PM and former defence minister put them at risk of detention if they go to some other countries"

@cinebox you joke, but Israel actually does block Palestinians from gathering rainwater in the occupied territories under the pretense that it's the property of Israel https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2017/11/the-occupation-of-water/

If a fascist state is trying to get copies of your messages, then maybe you and the person you sent messages with don't have fingerprint access on. OK. But then what happens when they tell the person you were messaging with that they will waterboard them if they don't unlock their phone?

Conversations about how far people will go and how much people will resist is a waste of time, imo. You should never put someone in a position where they could be tortured to get access to messages like that.

Don't boast. Don't get edgy. If you don't want something to come up in court through discovery, don't ever store it.

That's actual opsec. Everything else is mitigations to lower risk a bit and/or just security theater.

Interesting to see this: https://talkpython.fm/blog/posts/we-have-moved-to-hetzner/ Others are finding that Hetzner.com offers the best commodity cloud services value. We cut our cloud hosting costs by ~95% by dropping AWS & MS Azure and switching to Hetzner. If you think: "but we depend on specific services we can't get on Hetzner!" offered AWS or MS Azure, then you, my friend, are fully locked in. I'd be questioning the governance of your organisation.

Just updated my Rustdesk server... took about 15 sec. If you're using PC Anytime or TeamViewer to provide remote support... don't. Seriously, just don't.

https://rustdesk.com is fully #libre / #FOSS, has clients for *every* platform, and you can run your own server trivially, so you don't need to trust anyone else.

If you're an IT support organisation and you think it's too hard to run your own service (on a $3/mo VPS)... then I must impugn the cred of your business.

We've already stopped one bill this year that would have rolled back progress on patent reform. But another one is coming up for a vote tomorrow. Help us speak out against it. https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-we-can-t-afford-more-bad-patents

It’s Perfectly Fine To Patent Inventions Obtained By Immoral Means Says European Patent Office - https://www.techdirt.com/2024/11/20/its-perfectly-fine-to-patent-inventions-obtained-by-immoral-means-says-european-patent-office/ that's #patents for you... (article by me, fwiw) #epo

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🚨 UNION SWAG alert!!! 🚨

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#GameDev #GameDevUnion #UnionSwag #JoinAUnion

So anyway, I had this idea that everyone, particularly young people, should learn what is taught in law school.

I also had the idea that the way it is taught to young people is boring.

It wasn't until law school that I realized how interesting this stuff is.

The result ⤵️

Patches of wildflowers in cities can be just as good for insects as natural meadows – study - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/20/patches-of-wildflowers-in-cities-can-be-just-as-good-for-insects-as-natural-meadows-study-aoe "Researchers found no difference in the diversity of species in urban meadows compared with those in rural settings" let's do it

Rather delighted I am able to use beeswax from my beehives for waxing my bicycle chain, instead of PTFE-based chain lubricant (a "forever" chemical!!). Although, the paraffin it's paired with is a fossil fuels byproduct. (curious if pure beeswax would work or not.)

For those who keep claiming that everything in the economy is peachy keen because "inflation is down" and the people bitching about it are just looking for an excuse to complain 👇

"The inflation increases were so large in categories that many consumers find essential that the fact that the rate of increase has dropped a lot still leaves them at a durable new high level compared to a few years back."

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/11/how-the-wall-street-journal-blew-the-story-of-the-democrats-and-inflation.html

Can't decide if I like this or not:

"Eduir has been called the Jewel of Darish by many a bard and poet. If I didn’t happen to know a number of bards and poets myself I would tell you this is proof that bards and poets are inherently unreliable and prone to the most vulgar lies, but since I know *many* bards and poets I can tell you that the *actual* proof that bards and poets are inherently unreliable and prone to the most vulgar lies is that I know many bards and poets."

I spent yesterday at Woodside, John and Rosalie Wardle's NZ black beech forestry property in North Canterbury.

NZ forestry mostly uses fast growing selections of Nth American radiata pine, clear-felled & replanted every ~30 years.

The Wardles do it differently, selectively harvesting from a natural black beech forest. It's sold for furniture and flooring, and the buyers want more than they can make.

Have a listen to the difference.

https://www.nzffa.org.nz/farm-forestry-model/resource-centre/tree-grower-articles/february-2017/woodside-a-small-forest-managed-on-multiple-use-principles/

#forestry #nz #BirdSong

To recap: Trump is a rapist found liable for defaming the woman he raped. His pick for attorney general is currently accused of statutory rape at sex parties. His pick for defense secretary is accused of sexual assault.

But Sarah McBride using a restroom is the threat.

Okay.

“Spain will legalise about 300,000 undocumented immigrants per year over the next three years as it seeks to expand its labour force in the face of an ageing population, Migration Minister Elma Saiz told reporters.”

“’Spain has to opt between being an open, prosperous country or being a closed and poor one, and we have chosen the former,’ Saiz said.”

"Spain's economy is the fastest-growing in the EU."

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/spain-regularise-about-300000-undocumented-migrants-per-year-2024-11-19/

#immigration #Spain

Listening to Stratechery and Ben *again* tries to argue that if you built it then you deserve to do what you want. Yes, Google built Chrome. Standard Oil also built their success. So did IBM. So… what? Fundamentally misreading the point of antitrust.