Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

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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!

Open-source communities, small businesses, law professors, patient advocates, and thousands of individuals all told the USPTO the same thing: we need a real way to challenge bad patents. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/thousands-tell-patent-office-dont-hide-bad-patents-review

Cory Doctorow on why countries should fight fire with water.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/16/k-shaped-recovery/#disenshittification-nations

'Funnily enough, this case is so convincing that I've started to hear from Canadian Trump appeasers who insist that we must not repeal our anticircumvention laws because this would work too well. It would inflict too much pain on America's looting tech sector, and save Canadians too much money, and make too much money for Canadian tech businesses. If Canada becomes the world's first disenshittification nation (they say), we will make Trump too angry.'

Reminder - if your software is 'a little bit proprietary', it's entirely proprietary. It's like claiming to be a little bit pregnant.

One of the myths that comes up again and again in FOSS is "It's run by a non-profit, it's safe, the corporate world cannot take it over".

Mozilla shows how incorrect this assumption is: https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis/115730052589989499

Non-profits can be captured by corporations very easily:

1. Evil corporation donates massive amount of money to a non-profit, far more than it got from individuals, grants etc.
2. Non-profit uses the massive donation to greatly extend its features and pay itself much bigger salaries
3. Non-profit can no longer function without corporate donations
4. Non-profit captured, does whatever corporation wants

#FOSS

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