PublicLewdness @publiclewdness@gameliberty.club

From the preamble of the GNU GPL: "[T]he GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change all versions of a program--to make sure it remains free software for all its users. [...]" https://u.fsf.org/3kz

#Intuit has done a lot of evil lately -- like doubling the costs of #QuickBooks Desktop every year, eliminating the ability to even use it longer than a year, and then killing off their point of sale and CC processor without actually contacting their users -- but I take personal issue with their latest stunt: removal of changelogs/release notes for the current version (2024). The company that recently released a buggy version of QB 2023 that literally (and we can only assume "accidentally") *doubled* the charges on invoices no longer wants you to know what they've fixed in their updates. Coincidence, I'm sure.

I have a lot of accountant clients -- does anyone have any good experiences with QB alternatives? I'm looking at pushing them to Manager.io

https://quickbooks.intuit.com/learn-support/en-us/help-article/update-products/update-quickbooks-desktop-latest-release/L7qUzlW1k_US_en_US

Did you know that Google and co are in the process of eliminating third-party cookies? Lofty ideal. Except that their replacement, #RWS / #RelatedWebsiteSets / #FirstPartySets is designed explicitly to allow them to simply use your device to talk behind your back. This new feature is hand-in-hand with the #floc functionality that was globally struck down only a year ago. They fixed it by changing the word "cohorts" to "sets" and giving you three new options to disable, the sum total of which fail to actually prevent the new behavior. This is exactly why there's this new push to eliminate ad-blockers on YouTube: it's all a part of the testing for RWS to ensure that the publisher and their advertisers can collaborate using backchannels literally hosted in your own browser.
https://developer.chrome.com/docs/privacy-sandbox/related-website-sets-integration/

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Jan. 6 rioter "QAnon Shaman" to run for U.S. Congress in Arizona
https://www.axios.com/2023/11/12/jan-6-rioter-qanon-shaman-jacob-chansley-congress

Tenacity 1.3.3 was released! 🎉 This is a quick release that fixes compatibility with wxWidgets 3.2.4 and updates vcpkg. See https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity/releases/tag/v1.3.3 for the full change log.

IT LIVES!

My old phone, running Ubuntu Touch, was getting rather oooold, with a sticky power button and built on an end-of-life version of Ubuntu, so I bought a new/old second-hand OnePlus 6T on eBay for £100, and finally managed to flash Ubuntu Touch 20.04 onto it.

It wasn't completely without trouble (the installer did NOT run as seamlessly as with my previous phones), but with a bit of study and thinking, got there in the end.

@ubports @tuxdevices

One company had the goal of building small nuclear reactors as if by assembly line. But its plans for the first small-scale nuclear plant are now dead—before construction even began.

https://www.ntd.com/first-ever-small-nuclear-plant-canceled_953704.html

Share your experience climbing the freedom ladder. Share where you may be struggling to integrate free software into your daily life and where you've succeeded. Share your story at #LibrePlanet 2024: Cultivating Community by submitting your session by November 17, 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC): https://my.fsf.org/lp-call-for-sessions #LibrePlanet2024 #FreeSoftware

Large areas of the United States could face “insufficient electricity supplies” in the winter due to cold temperatures and potential disruption in natural gas supplies, according to a recent report by power grid watchdog North American Electric Reliability Corp (NERC).

https://www.ntd.com/watchdog-warns-about-likelihood-of-blackouts-across-the-country-this-winter_953826.html

_600+ Hospitals Collapsing over Covid Mandates, Fed Arm Twists, Brain Drain_

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84DP00hr7lU

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