Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Because this zombie question refuses to die (and in fact someone asked me about developing an on-chain Lifehouse federation just the other day): as of mid-2026, so far as I am able to determine, there remain *zero* implementations of a DAO that (a) achieve ends that might generally be recognized as progressive, (b) which could not be achieved by other, entirely conventional means.

As is so often the case, the problems technically-inclined people are motivated to address are those which are congenial to their skills and predilections, not the ones which are salient. If you want to organize, I’m sorry: it still involves having to deal with other people, and will for the foreseeable future.

Gotta love the Onion - even when the humor has real bite.

anyway even if 100% of computer programmers *were* using AI, that wouldn't mean that AI is good or effective or worthwhile. could just mean that 100% of computer programmers are reckless shitheads

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116885989584245586

For me, there are four major reasons to oppose AI (with my note the other day about both disaggregating and aggregating in mind):

1. AI products are founded on eugenicist philosophy and primarily benefit fascists.
2. AI products are created by exploiting labor and are designed to continue undermining labor rights.
3. AI products carry unconscionable environmental costs.
4. AI products introduce unconscionable risk of new defects.

Only one of those is even indirectly about quality.

A good #sysadmin article on how to tell if AI scrapers are eating your bandwidth.

https://bunny.net/blog/how-to-tell-if-scrapers-are-eating-your-bandwidth/

Every federal prosecutor who's involved in cases like this -- blatant abuse of the legal system to punish people who've done nothing wrong except annoy the regime -- should end up disbarred. Losing these bogus cases isn't nearly enough to punish such flagrant misconduct.

https://newrepublic.com/post/212886/doj-pirro-loses-first-ask-reflecting-pool-vandalism-case-david-hearn?utm_campaign=SF_TNR&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Threads

"Worried about Flock cameras? All new cars in the EU now need to have a camera aimed at the driver's face in the latest privacy nightmare"

"Every new car sold in the EU must now include a driver-monitoring camera, sparking latest data privacy row"

https://www.techradar.com/vehicle-tech/hybrid-electric-vehicles/worried-about-flock-cameras-all-new-cars-in-the-eu-now-need-to-have-a-camera-aimed-at-the-drivers-face-in-the-latest-privacy-nightmare

#Privacy

I'd love to get into home solar and batteries, but I rent, so we can't modify the breaker box, roof, etc.

Our heat is a gas furnace with hardwired power, which means when the power goes out we also lose heat. (It might even be against code for the furnace to plug in! Not sure. This is MA, USA.)

Is it possible to set up a solar/battery combo to weather a heat or cold emergency in this situation?

(more details in thread)

The House passed the KIDS Act, but the fight isn’t over. The Senate can still reject this package of internet bills that will harm our privacy and free expression. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/house-passed-kids-act-senate-should-reject-it

RE: https://social.coop/@coopcloud/116812106394313102

Kite-flying again, today, in ~52 minutes 🤙

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Across the U.S., cities are being told the answer to crumbling, overcrowded jails is to build more cages. Organizers have a different answer.

Join us on July 15th for a panel on how communities are fighting jail and prison expansion, and winning. https://bit.ly/howtostopajail

Die "Deutsche Stiftung für Engagement und Ehrenamt" marschiert dann mal konsequent 2026 in die falsche Richtung. Ich musste das drei mal lesen 🤦🤦🤦.

Absolut nicht DUTgemacht. Bitte überlegt euch das noch mal.

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#Forgejo 15.0.4 and 11.0.16 were just released! They are security releases.

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#forgejorelease

#ChatControl 1.0 HAS PASSED - despite a majority voting against it (314:276) 🚨

After the EU parliament has rejected it TWICE in the past, it has been pushed as an urgent procedure for a new plenary vote. The EU has simply continued to put the vote on the agenda to get the outcome they've wanted since the start.

This is not democratic‼️

📸 Roberta Metsola (EPP) who revived Chat Control 1.0 shaking hands with Mark Zuckerberg. Taken from EP_President posted May 27, 2026 on X.

was out at a customer site today doing some work because i do like to get out occasionally. anyway, since i was suspiciously hanging around with four phones and a laptop, when i saw one of their employees walk by, i felt inclined to introduce myself, lest they thought i was some sort of criminal.

we exchanged hellos and i said, “i’m mike and i…”

before i could finish the guy said “they don’t pay me enough to care who you are, go nuts”

so #infosec tip of the day, pay people enough to give a shit

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

In general my stance is: Our communities (meaning actual communities not "everyone on the Internet who uses the same Kernel" or something) should be way more restrictive and explicit about what we accept and what not.

Your Mastodon server or forum or code forge or whatever _does not need to serve the world_. It should serve you and your community. Sure, there will be conflicts but we really need to make those political differences visible and explicit. Not to constantly fight but in order to know where who stands on what topic. We need to re-politicize tech and infrastructure.

The fact that your service comes with a whole bunch of rules is _good_. Don't let some dumbass libertarian guilt-trip you with "the Mastodon HOA again". Fuck that. Stand for something.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116886123649607641

Not saying that the entirety of the AI industry is the worst people on the planet… but no actually I am saying that, there is no aspect of working on this shit that doesn’t also directly contribute to the most vile outcomes. If you work on any of this stuff, you should feel bad, and you should do something to start making up for it

@bobdobberson @yacc143 @ChrisMayLA6
A huge proportion of UK agricultural land is used for keeping beef cows and growing food for them + we import a lot of feed for them.

> a study that showed that this 85% of agricultural land which is used to produce meat and dairy provides only 32% of total calories and 48% of total protein.
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5804/cmselect/cmenvaud/312/report.html

Theres also a lot of other land that could be used for food production (e.g. for big examples see my last post + most land thats household gardens doesnt grow food)

Finally small farms produce more food per land area. Unfortunately farm sizes continue to grow (lots of farms are sold to larger farns) at the cost of the amount of food produced.