Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

“Offensively cheap”: #Solar power is looking up - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/offensively-cheap-solar-power-is-looking-up/ " Chinese-made panels on rooftops across the world are changing the facts of life for big utilities. " reasons to be cheerful

25 Years of Mass #Surveillance Is Enough - https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/09/25-years-of-mass-surveillance-is-enough.html "as it becomes increasingly evident that the Trump administration is using mass surveillance to keep itself in power, stifle dissent, and undermine political opponents, these questions are now more urgent than ever."

#Forgejo 16.0.5 and 15.0.9 were just released! They are security releases.

We recommend that all installations are upgraded to the latest version as soon as possible.

Check out the release notes and download it at https://forgejo.org/releases/. If you experience any issues with this release, please report to https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues.

#forgejorelease

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“What kind of Software should we fund?”

https://tante.cc/2026/09/17/what-kind-of-software-should-we-fund/

Separately from what I’m responding to, Tante, though, does a good job of gleaning useful observations from the original post. Read this; don't read the original it's responding to

Giving the vibe-written ideas of an npm founder whose track record is such that, if they found the philosopher’s stone they’d use it to turn gold into lead, any airtime is probably not the most constructive use of anybody’s time

Esp. since said idea is basically “Spotify for OSS libraries”

Spotify being a model FAMOUS for paying artists a liveable wage…

Wait, no. It’s famous for the other thing. The opposite.

opened the iOS 27 mail app yesterday and discovered it had enabled intelligence priority inbox or whatever. Setting aside the fact that I don't get enough email to need it and whatever your feelings are about whether LLMs help with email. The fact that I now don't know for sure whether my phone sent my emails to some server somewhere without me enabling it is a very terrible experience for a "we're all about your personal privacy" company.

This is the first iOS I seriously consider rolling back

RE: https://journa.host/@MillMessenger/117285129052695405

time to move UN from #murica if it can't do its job there...

RE: https://mastodon.green/@alberto_cottica/117284934879064075

this is also the kind of thing that a "malevolent" AI would do, which is the real future threat, not some abstract annihilation...

Epstein had huge cache of child sex pics; victims sue to find out who’s in them - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/lawsuit-trump-doj-notified-very-few-victims-in-epsteins-stash-of-child-sex-images/ " Survivors appalled nobody will tell them if they’re in Epstein’s #CSAM collection. " we need to talk more about #epsteinfiles

#DOGE spent $6.7 billion paying federal workers not to work - https://boingboing.net/2026/09/16/doge-paid-leave-6-7-billion.html efficiency, huh...

Dear Fedi friends,

I want to share a discovery that made my MONTH.

10 days ago, while I was putting together the slides for my presentation at Berlin #FediDay, I noticed a new entry in the @cercle directory (the Mastodon instance set up by the Service Numérique of the French Ministry of Culture):

✨ @MuseeOrsay ✨

Ouiiiiii!

Paris' super prestigious museum - that welcomed 7.3 million visitors last year - is now on the #Fediverse !!!🥳

Let's give Musée d'Orsay a warm welcome ❤️

business school isn't actually teaching you a science. It's teaching you an ideology.

It exists to produce the managerial class - enforcers of capital who normalize the idea that "profit" is the natural goal of human existence, rather than a parasitic extraction.

#capitalism #workingclass #labor #profit

Good news or bad news depending on your POV: Usenet archives are suddenly easy to dig through, thanks to a new service. It’s built by a big data guy, and it’s packed with every awkward thing you ever wrote in a newsgroup in 1997.

My deep dive: https://tedium.co/2026/09/14/usenet-rewind-archive-revival-website/

new @tedium

I’m still kind of mad about HTML email tbh. That was the beginning of the end.

RE: https://chaos.social/@andre_meister/117280716531020144

Reminder: eIDAS, which the EU recommends as the "privacy-preserving solution" to this, is not sovereign, it has a hard (and intentional!) dependency on remote attestation powered by Google and Apple. Users of Linux or anyone not using a phone will not be able to read anything with user-generated content as a result.

they should ban web developers from having more than 2GB RAM

Let's meet in person to support each other getting free of big tech 💚

We will be hosting cozy hangouts where we help each other fight surveillance capitalism in hands-on ways. Come join and bring ur friends 🐌 🪱 🐜 🦋 🐛 🐞

Check out our upcoming events:
https://dukop.dk/en/group/1904/

@dukop #dkmastodon #aarhus @aarhus

It must be frustrating to work your way up to the federal bench only to spend your days answering grade-school-level questions like: Can feds show up at someone’s home and hotel room to threaten them with prosecution for criticizing the government via email?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/09/16/ice-likely-violated-first-amendment-by-issuing-warning-critic-judge-rules/