Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Elon Musk raining down 11,000,000 pounds of flaming toxic garbage on the newly-named Gulf of America seems somehow symbolic.

There's now a worse gig than Spinal Tap's puppet show and it's Trump's Kennedy Center. https://www.patreon.com/c/BrianMcFadden

On this day in 1942, Lucy Parsons passed away. Born into slavery, she became one of the most radical voices for labor rights, anarchism, and free speech in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She fought for workers, women, and marginalized groups - challenging capitalism and state oppression at every turn. Despite constant surveillance and censorship, she never wavered. Her words and actions continue to inspire us today.

“Governments never grant rights. They can only suppress rights.”

Hi everyone, for several hours we are currently fighting with potentially malicious crawling. We are seeing distributed access on Codeberg that could have been crawling, however it seems to only use the most expensive routes. And each time we block an access pattern, a new one pops up immediately.

We are doing our best to keep the performance up.

At least my state is staying out of this #crypto nonsense.

"I am not signing on to that stuff and I can't imagine a majority of your constituents want you to," Montana Republican State Rep. Bill Mercer said during floor debate.

https://boondoggle.substack.com/p/fighting-the-bank-merger-heist

Republicans and Democrats coming together to support...crypto. ofc.

"A North Carolina House committee this week held an initial hearing on a bill — titled the Digital Assets Investment Act — that would give the state treasurer authority to invest state funds in cryptocurrency...
The bill has the enthusiastic backing of North Carolina’s new House Speaker, Republican Destin Hall, as well as support from Democratic Gov. Josh Stein."

https://boondoggle.substack.com/p/fighting-the-bank-merger-heist

💥 DMA & Free Software: what Free Software organisations need to know 💥

📣 For Free Software organisations!

🖥️ Online Q&A Session
🗓️ 24 March 2025
⏰ 17: 30 CET

About the #DMA and its importance for representatives of #FreeSoftware organisations.

Join us for this strategic discussion!

https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20250306-01.en.html

At some point the rate of SpaceX exploding and crashing things is going to exceed my rate of giving lectures about space junk. But not quite yet... guess I know what to add to my lecture for tomorrow.

Ugh. Getting email rejected by Google, who claim my mail server doesn't have a PTR record set up for its default IPv6 address... and yet, it does. For the very same IPv6 addy they cite as not having one. A `dig -x` verifies it. Wonder if Google have dodgy DNS lookup systems.

it's nice to see reporting that doesn't mince words.

"Google’s featured snippet is pulling in an Amazon AI summary of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi manifesto Mein Kampf that calls it “a true work of art” in the latest AI-related fuckup affecting top search results."

https://www.404media.co/google-amazon-ai-search-mein-kampf-reviews/

Having ditched my subscriptions to NYT (long ago), WaPo and the LA Times, I'm glad to be a paid subscriber to the journalism from places like @404mediaco.

#journalism #AI #Google #search

If you publish your anti-extremist, pro-democracy newsletter on Substack -- a platform that was funded in large part by Trump-loving VCs and is run by people who have no problem helping right-wing extremists spread and monetize their bile -- you are not just missing the point. You are helping the people you say you oppose.

Feeling very pleased with myself for having correctly predicted where the vulnerabilities would be in this project.

And lo, a check had indeed been separated from the thing it had protected, and new (and vulnerable) attack surface was exposed.

Gonna slowly be building out my portfolio (and testing site bugs) over here: https://jadedtwin.cyberoptics.net

(it ain't an insta-crap replacer or a pixelfed alt, but a nice way to keep a tight portfolio of my work)

@cyberoptics <--- follow here for more info on the site

Huh, more about how Microsoft really isn't very good at anything it does. In this case, trying to cover the massive sunk cost of its AI moonshot by exploiting its hapless locked-in global user (hostage) base. https://theconversation.com/microsoft-cuts-data-centre-plans-and-hikes-prices-in-push-to-make-users-carry-ai-costs-250932

#gitAnnex compute special remote is live and coming soon to an autobuilder near you!

https://git-annex.branchable.com/special_remotes/compute/

I spent a few minutes to write a first compute program for it, which allows, for example:

git-annex addcomputed --to=imageconvert foo.jpeg foo.png

The code to that shows how simple it is to write these. Who will contribute the second one? https://git-annex.branchable.com/special_remotes/compute/git-annex-compute-imageconvert

How #RepairShops are giving #broken #devices a new lease of life | #Recycling | The Guardian

It’s disgraceful so much stuff specifically designed not to be repaired these days.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/06/repair-shops-broken-devices-new-lease-of-life

#Repair #Reuse #Waste #Environment