Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Long, thorough, and persuasive explainer about "Open"AI and its unsustainability -- and why that poses a systemic risk for some of tech's biggest companies.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/openai-is-a-systemic-risk-to-the-tech-industry-2/

"I was just following orders" will not hold up at the Hague.

#ICE #NYPD #SeeYouAtTheHague #US #USA #America #History #Remember

Back to #Wayland and input methods.

What's your favorite input method?

Cause for me it was the one on old #Nokia phones. I could type with my hands in my pockets! Handy in winter.

https://codeberg.org/dcz/stiwri

Tested with #cosmic and #GTK .

This is just the beginning. Actually useful stuff is coming in the future. #Mobile keyboards, #Chinese input is what it's for:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/396

#dumbphone #mobilelinux #linuxmobile #CJK

This week Semios/Almanac laid off an estimated 10% of headcount, including yours truly just today.
#GetFediHired #FediHirerprise, but that doesn't make it suck less.

Which is to say: I'm now 100% available for full time, contract, paid speaking, board, advisory positions. #OpenSource, #BusinessStrategy, #BizOps, #Standards, #Leadership, etc.

CV: http://vmbrasseur.com/resume.pdf

#GetFediHired #FediHire #PleaseBoost

Fraud seems to be a key part of the Tesla business model. https://futurism.com/tesla-accused-odometers

With Trump reportedly planning to end the IRS Direct File program, there's no better time to remember how TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free.

(Published 2019)
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-fight-to-stop-americans-from-filing-their-taxes-for-free?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#Trump #Tax #IRS #News

The records show that Palantir is actively working on the technical infrastructure underpinning the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts which could soon impact U.S. citizens.

🔗 https://www.404media.co/ice-just-paid-palantir-tens-of-millions-for-complete-target-analysis-of-known-populations/

I've been making the common mistake of calling the slave-labor-and-torture facility in El Salvador a "prison" when, in fact, the correct expression is "U.S.-supported concentration camp" or "U.S.-supported gulag" -- and will use the accurate language going forward.

I urge you to do likewise.

From the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker:

Update: The White House on April 14 cut the permanent press pool slot for wire services.

The AP says the move subverts a court order that the Trump administration can’t ban it for continuing to refer to the “Gulf of Mexico.”

https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/ap-reporters-barred-from-white-house-events-over-editorial-style-policy/

#Forgejo 11.0.0 was just released!

We recommend that all installations are upgraded to the latest version.

It comes with a number of new features and improvements making user experience more convenient and productive. It features a new UI language, easy access token regeneration, better search options, and makes it possible to download entire folders in one click. As an LTS version, it will be supported until 15 July 2026.

Read more at https://forgejo.org/2025-04-release-v11-0/

#forgejorelease

Due to some hardware problems at Codeberg (fixed) the release of the 11.0 version of #ForgeJo got delayed. It'll come any moment now, but I will update tomorrow as I am tired and need some sleep :)

@sarahtaber
In Missouri once I had a guy farming a plot do everything he could to make life difficult, including showing up with a gun to intimidate my crew. He already had turbines on his own land, so why? He was leasing that property from absentees and if turbines went up he would need to pay more to buy it! At best get less yield. Smart! That jerk.

@sarahtaber That is the thing about these folks I honestly don't understand. They're basically standing up in the biggest forum they can find and are screaming "I AM DESPERATELY INCOMPETENT AT MY JOB, COME SAVE ME SO I CAN KEEP BEING INCOMPETENT". It's impressive, really. Appalling, but impressive.

To wrap it up, here's some important info on US farmers & wealth.

Most US farmers today are millionaires- yes, small family farms too. They make way more take-home pay, AFTER farm debts & expenses, than non-farmers.

It's been like that since 1998.

ps. The $1.2M median net worth for US small family farms? Yeah that puts you in the top 10% of Americans for wealth.

"85% of what happens on a farm is up to God" I'm sorry, no.

YOU own the land. YOU decide what you plant.

When YOU choose to keep raising things like cattle & tobacco, that have been known for decades now for unreliable income even in a good year- you can't blame God for that!

And here we see the result: People who get born into wealth that was built on the taxpayer dime.

They never develop the entrepreneurship skills needed to survive on their own.

Of course they're begging for handouts. It's the only life they've ever known.

By the way this conversation happened in a large arena/convention hall with her family's name on it.

"Poor salt of the earth" these folks are not.

To understand US agriculture right now, you have to start with their wealth situation.

Most of US farmers today are quite well off financially, thanks to inherited wealth. And a lot of them are way more skilled at complaining on TV than they are at running the farm they inherited.

I don't know Batten, but Kim Kornegay in particular is one of the least reliable narrators you could hope to find on agriculture.