Free Pietje @FreePietje@x0f.org

I'm starting to like Greta Thunberg more and more.
Other people constantly want to make it about her and what she has to say and she consistently pushes back on that.

"I don't want you to listen to me, I want you to listen to the scientists. And take action" 💯 💯 💯
And then submits the IPCC report to the congressional records as her testimony 👌

Looks like the US gov still hasn't heard of the Streisand effect :-P

RT @Snowden@twitter.com:
"The government of the United States has just announced a lawsuit over my memoir, which was just released today worldwide. This is the book the government does not want you to read: 'Permanent Record'"

(ofc I'm not including a link to amazon)

Do I understand it correctly that #RMS was ousted because he did what he always does? Mince on the precise definition of words.

I'm quite aware that once again he showed his lack of empathy and that more then once made me cringe (hard). I do think that's problematic. He's also far from a likeable person. But AFAIK that's not different then say 10+ years ago.
Only this time the SJW mob 'won'.

https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/09/14/2033212/richard-stallman-challenges-misleading-coverage-of-his-comments-on-marvin-minsky

Looks like we finally getting some proper coverage on the #climatecrises this week \o/

250+ news organizations have pledged to focus on Climate Change in the coming week #CoveringClimateNow reaching 1b+ people worldwide.

https://www.democracynow.org/2019/9/16/covering_climate_now_media_project

https://www.cjr.org/covering_climate_now/climate-crisis-new-beginning.php

Anyone experience with Decentraleyes browser add-on?

FF: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/decentraleyes/

website: https://decentraleyes.org/

General idea: replace files served by CDNs with a local copy

Interesting:
"Lifetimes of popular cryptographic hashes"
https://valerieaurora.org/hash.html

CC: @openoms

Does anyone (here) have experience with Liberapay (https://liberapay.com/)?
I'm in the process of completely ditching Patreon.

Liberapay is a non-profit organization based on French law
(https://liberapay.com/about/legal)
Anything I should be aware of wrt this? I'm from .nl, so also EU.

@joeyh Anything I need to be aware of when switching from Patreon?

"Do one thing and do it well."

And then systemd came along.
Lets implement a timer so programs can gracefully shutdown.
Sounds good.
Oh, and when the timer is up, we'll just extend the timer ... indefinitely.
Wait, what?!?
Lets implement sth that hard kills it all after you press Ctl+Alt+Del 7 times in 2 seconds.
Great
Just don't kill it too hard 😖

Fuck systemd.

At least REISUB still works.

Legendary Peace Activist Frances Crowe dies at age 100.

Question: How many times have you been arrested?
Her response: Not often enough
(it is ~100)

Her latest/last arrest was at age 98.
What a hero 😎
RIP

https://www.democracynow.org/2019/8/29/remembering_legendary_peace_activist_frances_crowe

PSA: I am no longer interested in bitcoin. If you followed me for bitcoin related things, feel free to unfollow/mute/block me.

Quite a number of my followers are from @bitcoinhackers.org, but also from other domains I know them through bitcoin, so it feels dishonest from me not to disclose that.
With this message I hope to rectify that.

I completely fucked up in my previous attempt to communicate that. Sorry about that.

Why I've lost almost all interest in #bitcoin:

Please tell me where the difference is between someone not leaving FB or any other privacy violating company "because it's convenient" and bitcoin core staying on GitHub "because it's convenient"?

I've always considered a complete bullshit argument, but I thought that with bitcoin the incentives were aligned? So it shouldn't be a problem to fund self-hosting and a security team, right?

Glad I moved back to Free Software where principles matter.