Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Footnote: During a tech bubble you don't need to make sure that whatever you're selling "is working", you just need a minimum viable demo and a herd of panicking investors afraid of losing out.

It was like this in 1998/99.

Hey Fediverse. If you're hiring for a senior-level software or cybersecurity role, please hit me up. I know folks looking for a place to land and it'd be lovely to have some leads.

Insurance premiums through the roof? Don't worry, the shutdown didn't fix it, but it's all part of Chuck Schumer's master plan. https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

🔴 Brand new comic now up on Boing Boing!
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THE FIVE STAGES OF MAGA SCANDAL GRIEF
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https://boingboing.net/2025/11/19/tom-the-dancing-bug-the-five-stages-of-maga-scandal-grief.html

I've finished my report on burnout in OSS and how to reduce it! Read more (and find the link to the full report) on the Open Source Pledge blog!

https://opensourcepledge.com/blog/burnout-in-open-source-a-structural-problem-we-can-fix-together/

Huge thanks to all the OSS devs who shared their perspectives 💜 Let's keep shining a light on this under-recognised issue!

Not to be missed if you're on the OG colonizer continent of Europe. The Anarchist Bookfair Amsterdam afterparty with the one and only @leereed

Keeping promises on #renewables, energy efficiency and #methane ‘would avoid nearly 1C of global heating’ - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/19/keeping-promises-on-renewables-energy-efficiency-and-methane-would-avoid-nearly-1c-of-global-heating come on, we've almost got this... #cop30

In a world of MAGA decay, dishonesty, and deceit, just doing the right thing is an act of resistance.

Maybe the reason Trump is now agreeing to open up the Epstein files is that his apparatchiks at the "Justice" Dept have had enough time to complete their destruction of documents etc that would nail him, and/or forgery of ones implicating his enemies.

Cloudflare just put up a blog post on today's incident.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/

GOP overhaul of broadband permit laws: Cities hate it, cable companies love it
L: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/gop-overhaul-of-broadband-permit-laws-cities-hate-it-cable-companies-love-it/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45974710
posted on 2025.11.18 at 20:22:10 (c=0, p=4)

Google demonstrates its increasingly evil nature, again. https://www.theverge.com/news/820600/google-nest-learning-thermostat-downgraded-data-collection

“Open source has proven itself to be a winning strategy — not recently, but for decades.” — Adriana Groh, Sovereign Tech Agency CEO.

#EUSummit #DigitalSovereignty,

Every journalist hit with a stinger grenade or pepper ball by law enforcement while covering a protest is a message from the government: Stop showing the truth.

Journalists must speak out.

https://freedom.press/issues/journalists-cameras-become-targets-at-oregon-protests/

Quick FYI: Codeberg.org has been operational since at least 20:23 UTC (21:23 CET), but our super-duper highly appreciated system administrator grew a bit too tired after dealing with the situation that they shared in the past two posts, so another social media manager is sharing this one.

This process was a little bit more adventurous ✨ than anticipated, but we believe it was worth the trouble.

Wishing you all a pleasant evening! :)

Our hosted #ForgejoActions now have a `medium` runner available with 10 minutes timeout. Take a look at the announcement: https://codeberg.org/actions/meta/issues/3#issuecomment-8339199

Hosted Forgejo Actions is our second hosted CI/CD next to the existing #WoodpeckerCI which already has more generous limits.

5️⃣7️⃣ MORE HOURS

to back the Kickstarter for Volumes 1 and 2 of The Complete Tom the Dancing Bug Library - Collecting all comics from the comic strip's start in 1990 through 1998! Here's just one of hundreds

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🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
We're suing the city of San Jose for its pervasive ALPR surveillance program. With nearly 500 ALPRs, the SJPD allows its officers to search millions of records, all without a warrant. These unconstitutional searches must be stopped. Read the complaint: https://www.eff.org/cases/siren-v-san-jose

Chatting with a friend about Cloudflare's intermittent outages today, they brought up an interesting point: How many organizations have started relying on Cloudflare to do basic security blocking and tackling stuff, like stopping SQL injection attacks at the edge? Maybe your devs were lazy at blocking this stuff in the past b/c CF was the control layer to compensate for that.

You might say well okay but if CF is down, so are the sites relying on them, and that's true. But a lot of organizations will switch CF off during these times to keep their sites and services reachable and running. And my friend's point was that for those organizations, they might want to take a closer look at the traffic they received during this eight-hour outage window or whatever, and I think that's sound advice.