Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

De #NRC, one of the main newspapers in the #Netherlands, set up its own Mastodon server!

Journalist @MarloesdeKoning played a key role in this development.

We believe ournalists and academics have a special responsibility to start building the alternative networks of the future. Step by step.

Great to see like minded people getting stuff done!

@MarloesdeKoning https://nrc.social/@MarloesdeKoning/117371677348205922

#FediScreen

The pro-crypto legislation didn't pass after all, and some of the credit for this surely must go to Molly White. She is without question doing the best, most relentless coverage of that irredeemably slimy and corrupt industry -- joined at the hip with the irredeemably corrupt Trump world. And there's ample evidence that her work informs the debate in a significant way.

Some morning musings on AI. We need to stop talking about this as technology issue. It's an ethics & law enforcement issue. Thread:

RE: https://social.coop/@coopcloud/117367491305362429

Co-op Cloud is a really unique project that blurs some of the lines around what open source is. It's both a toolset and a federation, software and community, that can't really be disentangled. It is an exercise in community management, in software as a commons shared within a social (real) community, that's fascinating and inspiring.

I'd definitely recommend folks check it out, especially those interested in self-hosting for their community or activist circles.

(The link to her legal defense fundraiser is here btw, it's also got the details to what's going on with her case!)

We are EXTREMELY confident she'll win, & in time to work the election. We just gotta raise the legal fees.

As of right now, we're already at $5.6K!

https://fundrazr.com/f2mog6?ref=sh_1FAJH1_ab_8eqycqccACD8eqycqccACD

That they are winding down the "Forkiverse" is fine. Nothing has to last forever. But with the hosts all admitting that they mostly just rented a Mastodon instance they then didn't moderate and use I wonder how it could be labelled an "experiment". What was the hypothesis?

And when I heard Kevin Roose just saying "yeah there's thousands of accounts but since nobody built a business there we can just pull the plug without a second thought" it because clear that - at least for Mr Sloplord - it never was about creating a social space but about creating a mall.

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Something that struck me as I was writing that Zig tutorial last night: I can't really remember the last time I had a conversation with a software engineer at work who was familiar with how memory worked in their code.

So many people aren't programming computers, they're programming their abstractions; they know very little about the computer itself.

Talk about alienation.

TV's gettin' stupider thanks to these two. https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

I don't know what's going on at Netlify but it sure looks like they're doing something seriously dodgy with how they calculate bandwidth use.

Trump Tourism Effects, or, that can’t be right. https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2026/10/01/trump-tourism-effects/

Amazon seeks to offload $8bn of Nvidia chips to external investors

https://app.ft.com/content/97d8d346-519e-48fb-8df8-66cf5f12ef62

Interview: AI is not the threat. It's the people building it "that are the existential risks to humanity."

"If a bridge collapses, we don’t ever ask, “Was the bridge uncontrollable? Was the bridge unethical?” And really, AI is no different than that."

When we describe these systems as if they have their own agency, we’re helping the companies market themselves. "We’re also helping them sidestep accountability."

~Timnit Gebru

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/10/1/timnit_gebru_ai

#USPol #EUPol #News #AI #TechFascism .

“Anthropic IPO filing: the disaster in numbers – Pivot to AI”

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/01/anthropic-ipo-filing-the-disaster-in-numbers/

> Anthropic warns how many of its largest clients are not locked into long-term contracts and could drop Anthropic in a moment.

A carpenter friend in California told me today that the price of copper has gone through the roof -- e.g. $100 for a short section of pipe. He said the data centers are hoovering up raw materials in such a frenzy that the cost of essentially all construction materials is insane. I haven't seen any coverage of this angle (apart from IT hardware) in the media, but I guarantee that regular folks have noticed. More Trump-caused damage, and the worst is ahead of us, not behind.

I made another Zig tutorial. This one covers adding dependencies and parsing CSV: https://manchicken.com/2026/10/01/adventures-in-zig-csv-parsing/

Sometimes it's best to simply eat rice & beans.

An introduction to Public Interest Infrastructure Co-operative Cloud: save the date!

**Thursday, 15th October @ 19 UTC** (https://time.is/compare/1900_15_Oct_2026_in_UTC)

A public event reintroducing our project: a community of support for self- and community-hosters, a commons of production-ready configurations for libre software apps, and human-friendly tooling to manage it all. Developed and managed by an international democratic federation.

#CoopCloud #Cooperatives #LibreSoftware #OpenSource

There's a new very lightweight Fediverse platform that's just been released called littleFedi. You can follow its new official account at:

🌱 @littlefedi_official

Its official website including download and source code is at:

🌱 https://littlefedi.org

LittleFedi is intended for techy people who want to create their own Fediverse server using as few resources as possible.

It's written by @stefano (who also created the weather service FediMeteo).

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #FOSS #SelfHosting