Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

How the Non-Profit Industrial Complex keeps people quiet about genocide.

https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/items/ff4f7d06-ded6-42c5-92d0-90edc69c7418

Suggesting dumping money into the weapons industry will help the economic situation of the general public is suggesting trickle down economics works, all the evidence demonstrates it doesn't, it just consolidates wealth

Cutting green regulation leads to climate catastrophes that drive migration

War leads to catastrophes that drive migration

The feedback loop here should be obvio, I find it frustrating that its not

Spoke to a former colleague recently. Their employer monitors employee AI use and wants to see number go up.

Since the obligatory AI nannying, multiple product teams have fallen apart and they’ve stopped delivering new features of value while users are leaving.

A whole layer of middle management are destroying good products to make a Potemkin village of fake automation to justify their bosses buying crap enterprise software. It’s as if the entire industry had their heads kicked in by a donkey.

We just transitioned CoSocial from an ad-hoc combine of AWS, OVH, and DO to @fedihost, see https://fedihost.co, a Managed Fediverse Hosting outfit. Already feels faster, and should be cheaper too. Self-managed instances are cool but not, I suspect, the general-case future.

Browser 'privacy' extensions have eye on your AI, log all your chats
L: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/16/chrome_edge_privacy_extensions_quietly/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46306201
posted on 2025.12.17 at 17:04:18 (c=0, p=4)

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Drones are essentially flying police officers. “If I’m in my backyard, if I’m on my deck, do I expect that I have to encounter a law enforcement camera? I shouldn’t have to,” EFF’s Beryl Lipton told @TexasObserver. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-drone-fleet-doubled-in-size/

No, you’re not a “prompt engineer”, you’re a sloperator.

When the AI bubble bursts it is going to be so messy and there are going to be so many questions about how we wasted so much money on nonsense: https://www.wheresyoured.at/nvidia-isnt-enron-so-what-is-it/ #GenAI

Doing a war for oil in 2025? Why not blockade New Bedford just in case whaling comes back, too.

This is Europe’s secret weapon against #Trump: it could burst his #AI bubble - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/17/europe-donald-trump-ai-bubble-us-economy-eu?CMP=bsky_gu#Echobox=1765949797 "All Brussels has to do is crack down on #Ireland, which for years has been a wild west of lax data enforcement, and the repercussions will be felt far beyond."

Help! #Gamepads confuse me!

Root permissions:

$ ll /dev/input/event17
crw-rw----+ 1 root input /dev/input/event17

I'm not root:

$ groups
dcz dialout video wireshark

but I can read it!

$ head /dev/input/event17
#7-i�▒.#7-i�▒#7-i�C/#7-i�C#

SSH connection? Permission denied!

What's the access mechanism here?

#linux #askfedi

O hive mind: Can you point me to 501(c)(3) nonprofit news organizations that are explaining the depth and breadth of Trump world corruption? The "mainstream" press is doing such an abysmal job on this, and I want to donate to journalists who get why this is so important to flag for public notice.

Collaboration and cooperation are essential in countering facists, and people in some American cities are doing both to resist Trump's kidnap-and-deport goons. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/16/ice-immigration-raids-cities

On #Mastodon there are now
413 verified accounts from #news organizations in
21 languages and on
121 instances.

262 were active today.

Some accounts, that were active today are
@LesRepliques (FRA)
@blogoklahoma (ENG)
@appgefahren (GER)
@TexasObserver (ENG)
@WesternWayneNews (ENG)

Find the whole list on:
➡️ https://fingolas.eu/fediverse/overview.html

Built by @mho

#MastodonMigration #SocialMedia #Fediverse #Media #Press #Newspaper #TwitterMigration #Newstodon

""We're not incentivized to push one model or the other," Enzor-DeMeo told The Verge."

Not incentivized *yet*. The Mozilla push to integrate AI into the browser finally makes sense to me and I can't believe I didn't see the strategy before. It's not about the hype cycle, it's all about getting a lucrative investment ala Google from these AI companies to push a particular model as the default.

#AI #Firefox

https://www.theverge.com/tech/845216/mozilla-ceo-anthony-enzor-demeo

From this video, we were introduced to the anarchist derogatory term for Indonesia: Indoneshit

We have been using United Snakes and Klanada for years. Compas in Brazil and Chile have informed us of Bra$il and $hile through previous work.

What other anarchist and anticolonial derogatory names for states are we missing? Should people be creating be ones?

When People Realize How Good The Latest Chinese #OpenSource Models Are (And Free), The #GenAI #Bubble Could Finally Pop - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/16/when-people-realize-how-good-the-latest-chinese-open-source-models-are-and-free-the-genai-bubble-could-finally-pop/ #china

#Trump Has Announced Nine Different Things He’s Going To Spend His Unconstitutional Tariff Tax Revenue On - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/16/trump-has-announced-nine-different-things-hes-going-to-spend-his-unconstitutional-tariff-tax-revenue-on/ "Americans effectively pay twice—once through higher prices, and again through the tax refunds his unconstitutional gambit will require." #tariffs

Seems my decision from a while ago to move my repos to Codeberg and also run my own forgejo instance and my own runners was worth it :) #DigitalSovereignty for my code and repos!