Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I know I have had the privilege for far more education than my neighbour, but it's hard to understand how some people can be so prone to intellectual dishonesty when it becomes clear that the way we've lived for the past couple generations has caused the problems we're facing as a global society & biosphere. Seems changes in social expectations they thought they understood undermines their pride in what they've accomplished in their lives & careers or things they hold dear, e.g. petrol cars.

PSA from John Cusack: Democracy is under attack — and paywalls shouldn’t stand in the way of accessing vital public records.

News outlets, it’s time to drop the paywalls for FOIA-based reporting.

Wired did it. @404mediaco did it.

Now, it’s your turn.

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#AI models routinely lie when honesty conflicts with their goals - https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/01/ai_models_lie_research/ "Keep plugging those #LLMs into your apps, folks. This neural network told me it'll be fine"

Standards are anti-capitalism.

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-anti-capitalist-case-for-standards/

"... one of the most pragmatic anti-capitalist things that one can do is to ... participate in the standards development process. Encouraging organizations within a capitalist system to participate in a process that rests on openness, consensus, and lack of dominance erodes the power of that very system. It ensures that information — which, as we know, is power — is a public good."

The administration claims leaks to reporters damage U.S. policy interests.

But the examples it cites are damaging only to their reputations.

https://freedom.press/issues/new-doj-policy-on-journalists-and-sources-fuels-trumps-lies/

look guys I finally made a nice video about nice things

(Costco is legitimately great! It also does a lot of the heavy lifting to keep the US food system safe & sanitary, filling holes in state & federal food safety enforcement.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNO8TBZn0rs

So Israel just gets away with this then?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/02/gaza-humanitarian-aid-ship-bombed-drones-waters-off-malta

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #WarCrimes #Malta

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Today's Help Desk: "We Hope It's Not A Wake-Up Call"

https://www.eviscerati.org/comics/hd/2025/05/we-hope-its-not-a-wake-up-call/

You’re not “vibe coding” or “using AI”, you’re being lazy, producing shitty code, stealing people’s work, destroying the environment, and empowering the broligarchy.

The block list grows.

Contest to be the absolute worst is heating up...

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So I have this #USB #SATA controller from #asmedia . I want to flip some bits in the #firmware for great good. But when I do, the flashing utility fails.

Does anyone have a clue how they might checksum their firmware?

It uses the ASM1053E chip.

#ReverseEngineering

Looks like Corporate #infosec has made it's choice.

#RSAC is filled with talks embracing AI and making it "secure".

And they invited and encouraged the Trump regime to spread its disinformation - fully sanctioned and encouraged by the conference leadership(and by conference attendees who laughed at the regime's jokes and lies and issued no challenges or stands during the talk).

With the ostracization of #ChrisKrebs by industry and the full embrace of Kristi Noem as a speaker, this was the moment that infosec made its bed.

Y'all lie in it now.

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