Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Ooc: I grew up in a union household. I owe my life to organized labor. At some point during my life, dems stopped doing fuck all for labor and became a party that modeled itself around the motherfucking Cheneys. These people basically agree with the right wing in substance but not style. I can't work with this half-hearted performative nonsense. This is a serious time that deserves a serious response, not unserious morons fiddling while the republic burns.

Do your bit to help advance the AI revolution by sitting in the dark, drinking less water, and showering less. - Save the AI https://savethe.ai/

Huh, could it be possible that Microsoft, in addition to being almost entirely unable to write software, has expanded their incompetence diversity to include quantum computing as well? https://yewtu.be/watch?v=bJTsFZtD7xE or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJTsFZtD7xE

Right, just upgraded 4 Mastodon instances from 4.3.0 -> 4.3.4 (due to a critical security issue) in about an hour. Fairly well scripted. This stuff isn't that hard (if I can do it 🤪 )...

Meanwhile in NYC...

https://www.work-bites.com/view-all/nomore24busts

Huh, imagine, gov't IT systems vastly over priced: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/543767/acc-s-botched-it-project-needed-overseas-expertise-to-help and imagine - the soluion: "buy more off-the-shelf". 🤦 How about pay local providers to build #libre / #FOSS solutions that can be used across gov'ts around the world! We're not competing with other gov'ts! What if they did the same & most of our gov't IT systems came from other countries' libre efforts, supported by our *local* industry, not Trump's BigTech puppetmasters (or minions, depending on your POV).

“Your driving data goes to a half a dozen companies you’ve never even heard of for reasons you’d perhaps never agree to if asked directly,” EFF’s @Thorin told @ConsumerReports. https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics/personal-information/how-to-stop-your-car-from-collecting-sharing-driving-data-a1233378612/

Investigating journalists for accurately reporting comments critical of the Dear Leader is something we used to expect from North Korea, Iran, and Russia, not the United States.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/business/media/voice-of-america-trump.html

Secret police, secret arrests, secret jails, and secret courts.

If that sounds un-American to you, that's because it is.

https://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/2025/03/secret-arrests-hidden-jail-rosters-shrouded-records-immigration-court-lacks-the-transparency-of-other-courts-experts-say.html

I don't really know how to shout this from the rooftops any louder: If this actually happens, it would spell the end of U.S. numerical weather prediction--the scientific models, run on supercomputers, used to create virtually all weather forecasts. https://www.axios.com/2025/03/03/doge-noaa-weather-building-leases-trump

All corruption, all the time in Trump world... https://gizmodo.com/sec-drops-charges-against-chinese-billionaire-after-he-pumps-30-million-into-trumps-crypto-scheme-2000569966

Google: We’ll reach Artificial General Intelligence if you slackers just show face in the office 60 hours a week

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/03/google-well-reach-artificial-general-intelligence-if-you-slackers-just-show-face-in-the-office-60-hours-a-week/

Hearing someone unironically refer to the US and Western Europe as "The Free World" is just hilarious.

I keep reading that #China (murderous dictatorship) is the world's biggest carbon emitter per nation. This is true but irrelevant. The number we should look at is carbon emissions *per capita*. Here are the top ten in 2023:

* Palau
* Qatar
* Kuwait
* Brunei
* New Caledonia
* Bahrain
* United Arab Emirates
* Trinidad and Tobago
* Gibraltar
* Saudi Arabia

It's the Arabian peninsula, people. China is doing better than Canada, Russia, Australia and the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions_per_capita

#co2 #climate

Ah, Trump just paused all military aid to Ukraine, lifted sanctions on Russia, cancelled all cyber operations (offensive and defensive) against Russia, and fired a bunch of the Cyber team too. Oh and he took whatever classified documents he had back to Mar-A-Largo as well.

And we still aren't openly saying he's a Russian asset yet?

#Trump #Russia #Spy #AgentOrange #TrumpIsARussianAsset #USA #Politics #Ukraine #CyberSecurity

I've seen AppArmor used primarily to *harden* the security of an existing program. Is it also reasonable to use it to *sandbox* known-malicious code? Or are other methods required?

Incredible statement from the American Meteorological Organization. It takes a lot for a scientific organization to issue a statement like this:

"U.S. leadership in scientific innovation is at risk due to the recent and ongoing reductions in U.S. federal science capabilities. The consequences to the American people will be large and wide-ranging, including increased vulnerability to hazardous weather...Recent terminations within the government workforce for science are likely to cause irreparable harm and have far-reaching consequences for public safety, economic well-being, and the United States’ global leadership."

Full statement here: https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-ams/ams-statements/statements-of-the-ams-in-force/the-u-s-weather-enterprise-a-national-treasure-at-risk/?_zs=m2nfc1&_zl=iOL6A