Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

#OpenPrinting is a fantastic project that has genuinely made the experience of printing on Linux easier; we published a blog post last month about how now it "just works": https://securedrop.org/news/implementing-just-works-printing-in-securedrop-workstation/

Unfortunately, its leader @till was recently laid off and is now looking for other funding.

Please support him and the OpenPrinting project if you're able:

https://ubuntu.social/@till/114932477260801209

I've been assuming this was the case ever since reading about Per Bak et al and their sand piles some 25 years ago.

[Abrupt collapse of Arctic sea ice may come with little warning]
https://www.earth.com/news/abrupt-collapse-of-arctic-sea-ice-may-come-with-little-warning/

https://thehonestscientist.com/per-bak/

Age verification is creating an information desert.

The Online Safety Act sets every UK user to child as default.

Teenagers? Blocked. Adults? Content denied unless we do age checks with unregulated companies.

It's not just porn! News on Gaza and Ukraine is being scrubbed from view ⛔

https://www.404media.co/uk-users-need-to-post-selfie-or-photo-id-to-view-reddits-r-israelcrimes-r-ukrainewarfootage/

#OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #OSA #palestine #gaza #ukraine #reddit #ageverification #ageassurance #privacy #censorship #ukpolitics #ukpol

So who sent out the memo to all the Western leadership that now's the time to start getting their alibis in order re the genocide? Everybody flips on a dime, all at once, like a flock of starlings...interesting, no?

This is certainly a naïve question on my part but, when I see all the talk about "vibe coding" and "AI agents" and whatnot I find myself asking: How much new code gets written in a day? How much new code do we actually need? Like, is that actually where the most work is?

I guess I don't really know what software engineers (is that what they're called?) actually do with their time. But, I would have (again, perhaps naïvely) thought debugging, refinement, responding to clients, planning/conceptualizing and such things were a bigger part of the job than just new code. I guess I don't really know what tech people are out there doing with themselves all day.

A very long overdue network for me to leave. It's been owned by Microsoft for a long time. It's corporate culture filled to the brim with AI slop is repellent.

But their bending of the knee to allow hate speech against transgender folks finally did it for me.

I've given the one month warning to folks who know me on LinkedIn.

If you're still on #LinkedIn perhaps consider leaving as well?

https://www.onepict.com/20250730-linkedin.html

Good morning Fedi friends!

My video "Introducing the #Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media" now features subtitles in Hungarian... bringing the total number of subs to 18!

Special thanks to Benedek @whitecold for the new translation! 🙏

🔗 : https://news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/

#TheFutureIsFederated

This piece gets at something I've been trying to gesture toward:
#^https://www.the-reframe.com/total-eclipses/

"And while it's true that many people who act in opposition to rising fascism often behave in performative and self-interested ways that betray a shallow understanding and suggest a lack of moral clarity or endurance or reliability, it's also true that we desperately need opposition to fascism ... and there is awareness happening here, however fleeting or ephemeral, a reaction against something unacceptable."

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Israeli public figures call for ‘crippling #sanctions’ on #Israel over #Gaza #starvation | Gaza | The Guardian

Will #Netanyahu and his government also label these people as being antisemitic too?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/29/letter-sanctions-israel-gaza-starvation

#Politics #Palestine #Israel

#UK to #recognise state of #Palestine in September unless #Israel holds to a ceasefire | Foreign policy | The Guardian

At last. Of course this should have been done years ago.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jul/29/uk-to-recognise-state-of-palestine-in-september-unless-israel-holds-to-a-ceasefire

#Politics

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“Everyone from U.S. senators to CBS employees to a dissenting FCC commissioner has said the settlement appears to have been a bribe to grease the wheels for Carr’s FCC to approve the merger,” we said in our ethics complaint against FCC chair Brendan Carr.

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5425320-press-freedom-fcc-ethics-complaint/

Thanks Brian Stelter for covering our disciplinary complaint against FCC chair Brendan Carr in today's Reliable Sources newsletter.

https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/1753795315253dde4ee365d16/raw

California law explicitly protects the privacy of power customers, prohibiting public utilities from disclosing precise “smart” meter data in most cases. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/when-your-power-meter-becomes-tool-mass-surveillance

The City of Lyon is transitioning from proprietary to open source software, supporting digital independence, sustainable IT, and aligning with EU public sector trends.
Read the full article: https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/news/municipality-lyon-moves-towards-open-source

Mailer from the Kraft campaign. Tip: if people think you’re too close to Trump, a ghostly image of him looming behind you like he’s Palpatine and you’re his lil padawan probably doesn’t send the message you want, no matter what the words say.

Who Says You Can’t Have Privacy and Security in an Operating System?

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Just freedom, transparency, security, and full control over your device—the way it should be.

Read more at Purism: https://puri.sm/posts/what-is-pureos-a-beginners-guide-for-ios-android-and-windows-users/

Help bring Fearless Benjamin to life—a children’s book about Benjamin Lay, the 18th-century Quaker dwarf who was among the first to call for the total abolition of slavery. Support the Kickstarter today:
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