Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

@lwriemen Very fair! There are other ways to contribute, eg.: https://codeberg.org/fediverse

Four solid months into my Linux journey, and I had a realization:

I will never need Microsoft Windows again, for anything. I really cannot express how liberating this feels.

It feels like escaping the matrix.

#linux #foss

@tinker I actually tried an… experiment last year.

I sent two copies of my resume in for a bunch of jobs. Lots of different jobs, but a new account for each resume for all ten. Marked myself as male for the demographics for the male resume, “prefer not to answer” for the femme version.

One had my name and my dates and so on so forth. Full first name to signal “male”.

Other had shortened first name (is genderless, if more commonly male). No dates. Same “things” there, but just less info that made me seem “male”. Less detail about some of the work I’ve done, more high-level. Literally, I applied my (admittedly dated) linguistics skills to it, to the point that I asked my dad to review “a resume” for me and he said “wow this chick sounds a lot like you”.

Male-coded resume got a callback from every job.

Femme-coded? One call out of ten applications.

And it was not a bad resume, it read to my dad as “pretty much exactly you, wow, you guys should hire her”.

I only interviewed with the one who responded to the femme-coded resume. I did not, unfortunately, get the job, though I _did_ get a short “oh I thought you were a chick” look from the hiring manager when we zoomed, which I will forever be proud of.

This is a very accurate graph of anything in my lifetime in the US.

Once fuel shortages hit lawnmowers, HOAs are going to be pissed.

The enthusiasm for Artemis II should inspire a revival in people trying to beat famous 1970s Guinness Records. Who wants to eat burgers and ride tiny motorcycles with me?

Our dumbest war yet will require our dumbest exit. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2026/4/3/2376106/-Exit-strategies

This week's comic on the authoritarian takeover of US media

#media #uspol #democracy #journalism #authoritarianism #oligarchy

Vendor-neutral open standards - the new ODF mandate in Germany (and much of Europe). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7jYaEJ8LFU Excellent explanation and arguments. MS' OOXML is not considered an 'open standard' under their definition. About time, I say.

Also online now: our How-To for using #Faircamp and #neocities to make your own band website.

https://the-counterforce.org/faircamp-how-to/

Hi @freebliss

The TENTH print issue of The Counterforce #zine is here and ready to print:
https://the-counterforce.org/zines/the-counterforce/

We got some requests, so an A4 version of this and a few previous issues is coming soon.

"In my daily life and organizing, I encounter people of various ages and backgrounds who feel stuck or unsure of what to do in this America. That’s when I recall Mr. Rogers’ wise words: “Look for the helpers”—particularly, the helpers most impacted and closest to the issues."

https://msmagazine.com/2026/04/01/community-building-local-organizing-mutual-aid-democracy-trump-activists/

Age-verification is hurting sex educators and sex workers, studies suggest - https://mashable.com/article/age-verification-is-hurting-sex-workers-educators "These laws aren't working to keep minors off adult sites, but they are hitting creators' incomes."

You knew Linked-In was evil, but did you know how evil?

"Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers and to third-party companies including an American-Israeli cybersecurity firm. The user is never asked. Never told. LinkedIn’s privacy policy does not mention it."

https://browsergate.eu/

Visit https://www.thewarehousenyc.com/ for event info!

But what if, just maybe, some of the things we think of as "boilerplate text" that "no one reads" are actually occasionally extremely important.

Think about incident reports following accidents in factories, documentation of medical practices, or judicial opinions (see: https://washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/04/02/judges-ai-hearings-rulings/).

Sometimes the boring stuff is important.

3/3

Creating an AI Means-Testing Machine. I know it's evil, but I need rich idiots' money.

Interactive timeline of warrantless surveillance in the United States:
https://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/2223082/A-History-of-Warrantless-Surveillance/

#surveillance #privacy #USPol

No wait, it's worse than you thought!

Membership [of the x402 governing body] will be comprised of participants from multiple verticals with initial intent and support being expressed by Adyen, Amazon Web Services, American Express, Ampersend.ai, Base, Circle, Cloudflare, Coinbase, Fiserv Merchant Solutions, Google, KakaoPay, Mastercard, Merit Systems, Microsoft, Polygon Labs, PPRO, Shopify, Sierra, Solana Foundation, Stripe, thirdweb, and Visa.

This is a list of people I don't want in charge of my money. And yes, I am forced to use some of them. Doesn't mean I trust them.