Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Hey Fedi,

As things have changed with my current projects, I have the bandwidth (and need) for more work.

I'm a freelance software architect, engineer, and developer that's been working in tech for over two and a half decades now. I have experience designing and implementing small systems and large scale distributed ones. I've modernised old legacy systems to be more maintainable and manageable, and fully reverse engineered systems and rewrote them to make them more manageable.

I am very experienced with Linux based environments, containers, and Kubernetes, and like to manage my application from inception, to defining and deploying its environment. I have also written systems to manage large server farms.

I have extensive experience in multiple programming languages, but I have worked the most with Python, and Go, although the last year, I've developed a preference for Rust.

As I have done system administration next to my software creation activities, I also have an extensive homelab, and have developed a passion in reclaiming digital independence from big tech.

So if you, or your organisation needs someone to:

Help them modernise their stack.
Adapt their application so that it resiliently can run in a cloud or kubernetes.
Create a road map on how to move your data, and applications to Europe.
Design, and possibly implement, a distributed system.
Advice your organisation on how to get away from big tech.
Or just plain need some extra hands to work on your product.

I live in Berlin, Germany, and I am available for part time work both remote and in the Berlin area.

For more information, you can view my portfolio!

#FediHired #GetFediHired #GetFediHiredPartTime

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It is harmful to use AI to talk directly to people. Be a person and use your own fucking words.

Thinking out loud for a bit:

The problem with tech, as others have pointed out, is that tech as a whole isn’t exactly a humane environment filled with thoughtful and charming people, and it’s in a multi year cycle of layoffs. So, if the job itself is losing what fun it had most other industries start to look appealing in comparison.

And if I manage to get out of the coding-for-money racket and end up missing bits of it, I could always take up coding as a hobby

“OpenAI said that the breakout was “an unprecedented cyber incident, involving state-of-the-art cyber capabilities,” and that it was reinforcing its safeguards.”

This is an advertisement. This is intended to make their models seem so powerful as to be a scary threat in order to get more VC funding to pour in. No company would openly releases a security incident unless they are required to do so.

Facebook did the same thing years ago when they did a press release talking about how they had to do an emergency shutdown of their AI models because they had “developed their own language to communicate that the human observers didn’t understand” and it was portrayed as some incredibly frightening entity that might “escape the lab”. It was bullshit: the two LLMs were just babbling nonsensically at each other.

Personally, I think the next financial bubble should be centered on grotesque drawings of the worst people in the world. This isn't about self-interest! It makes economic sense!

Sitting on the train from Stockholm to #Hamburg together with my 16yo kid. His aim for our mini-holiday is basically to visit a maximum number of many squats, infoshops, independent record stores and other punk/subcultural spaces. It was his plan, not mine, but I can happily agree on it! 🏴
Even though @Rote_Flora will perhaps not be open(?), I just found out via @sperrstunde that an #anarchopunk band from Brazil is playing at Gaußplatz tomorrow night, which sounds just perfect.
We'll also briefly visit #Bremen and #Lübeck during this small family trip which now seems to have some kind of #HansaPunk theme 🙂

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116880003584050912

It passed.

https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1253#issuecomment-19820434

Codeberg bans vibe coded slop.

I also do not think that the infrastructure left over after the crash will be used for positive and humane purposes:
"When I see large data centers with a bunch of inference machines in them, there are clear uses but those probably won’t be the “cute” genAI some people use. The inference will shift to doing video processing and people classification because that’s where the money is: When a tech bubble bursts, the tech sector always turns to the state to either hold the bag or buy the remains. What will be left when OpenAI burns is infrastructure that players like Palantir will use because their problems fit the hardware and their business model can create the necessary money from governments all over the planet. "

Hey everyone,

Please boost!

I’m looking for contracts so I don’t have to teach an AI slop machine how to make better slop. Any kind of open-source bounty work would be lovely.

I’ll also write code for you. No job too big or small. My GitHub is at https://github.com/Elizafox — I also have contributed to pkgconf considerably and aided with the 3.0 release, as well as a CMake module.

If you can’t do that, tossing a few bucks in the tip jar helps a ton right now. It’ll help me keep the lights on at my place.

Trying to raise like $300 which would help me so much rn for paying my light bill and Internet.

PayPal: https://paypal.me/Elizafox
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I actually like coding and talking about code. What’s the point of the job if you take away the fun part?

No, OpenAI's new magic models did not autonomously hack Huggingface.

Per OpenAI's PR blog post (https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/):

"This incident occurred during an internal evaluation which prompts models to pursue advanced exploitation using complex attack paths, in an effort to quantify their cyber capabilities. We estimate maximal cyber capabilities by running this evaluation without production classifiers used to prevent models from pursuing high-risk cyber activity."

So they prompted their model running without guardrails to hack some shit. OpenAI told it to do that, the model didn't do shit autonomously (no LLM ever does anything autonomously, it's always prompted).

The whole story is PR. We know that from Anthopic's Mythos: "Look we have this super secret new model and it's so powerful. We are scared ourselves. And you will soon be able to rent it!"

I’m surely not the first to come to this realisation, but the LLM industrial complex is to tech-life what MAGA is to politics: erode any and all trust in established institutions, people and practices for the benefit of the very few and worst people on the planet in the (poor) guise of freedom.

The other issue is more personal: you can’t have conversations about code with people any more. Ask them for their personal opinion on a piece of code and you’ll just get a chatbot text extrusion back

Makes the job a whole lot less fun and personable.

This kinda bothers me more than the bug misrepresentation

One disconcerting thing I encounter when working on projects with LLM users: their models do find some bugs (though also a tonne of stuff in the ‘that’s not a bug, that’s just software” category) but the explanations are often bullshit. As in, they misrepresent how the code works. The bug, though it exists, isn’t as described and the proposed fix would just make things worse

The understanding of anybody relying on these tools, AFAICT, could slowly drift away from factual reality of the code

This is #AIhype disguised as a confession. OpenAI wants to pretend that its product has supernatural powers. The LLM didn't "go rogue" and it didn't "infer" anything. It did what its programmers designed it to do, when they gave it the necessary information to target Hugging Face and failed to isolate it in a sandbox.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/technology/openai-attack-hugging-face.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zlA.kI7n.HgoniJc3OqNw&smid=url-share

It's essential that people understand the flagrant contempt for law that Elon Musk demonstrates on an ongoing basis. A current example: dozens of fossil fuel generating turbines with no permits and poisonously placed near black communities. https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/pollution-musks-unpermitted-xai-power-project-hits-hardest-black-communities-2026-07-14/

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