Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I've read some stuff from the GitHub CEO which seemed kinda smooth-brained, and evidence seems to continue to point in this direction.

https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2025/08/lets-properly-analyze-ai-article-for.html

Cell-site simulators (CSS, also known as Stingrays or IMSI catchers) are devices that masquerade as legitimate cell-phone towers, tricking phones within a certain radius into connecting to the device rather than a tower. Our tool, Rayhunter, can help you find them. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying

Today during #BlackAugust we're rewatching 'The Revolution Has Come' sedition of It's the End of the World as We Know It and I Feel Fine.

Made during the early stages of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, this sedition covers the history of The Black Panthers, COINTELPRO, has a rad soundtrack and features and interview with Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin and JoNina Abron-Ervin

https://kolektiva.media/w/d6S7pYy2CAB8hPnC1DPy3Q

Wow, citing phonetics as a reason to keep books with Māori words in them away from beginner readers... makes me wonder what evidence National & the Minister of Education are citing... because, of course, English pronunciation varies absurdly because it's a conglomeration of a dozen languages, all of which have different phonetics. The variability in English is substantially greater than in te reo Māori. Maybe we should teach the latter first.

Indiana's police “buffer” law was just struck down.

Hopefully Tennessee's and Louisiana's will be next, and legislatures in other states will think twice before passing unconstitutional laws that prohibit journalists and the public from watching and recording police up close.

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/06/ind-25-foot-police-buffer-law-ruled-unconstitutional-in-federal-court-rcfp-aclu-first-fourteenth/85538083007/

The LAPD's brutal attack on independent journalists on Friday night is an attack on everyone's right to know.

The LAPD must be held accountable.

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/los-angeles-protests-journalists-police-20250810.html

@davidgerard

Yeah, the latent libertarian notions in open source culture are severely under-critiqued. It's cousin to the ideological strain the birthed all these tech cultist silicon valley dipshits.

I want municipal data centers that we all pay taxes for and are able to use for services we develop that benefit our community and which provide us the means to create large scale alternatives to private tech monopolies. I don't want libertarian tech, give me democratic community tech.

Reddit will block the Internet Archive - https://www.theverge.com/news/757538/reddit-internet-archive-wayback-machine-block-limit terrible news; #AI is breaking the open Web

Solder warriors, how do you protect your etched boards from corrosion?

I bought this one a lifetime ago. Clearly homemade. It's covered with rosin.

I thought rosin was corrosive to the traces.

What technique is this? What kind of rosin is used here?

#PCB #electronics #CopperEtching #AskFedi

Absolutely jaw-dropping talk by Micah Lee on the blinding national-security incompetence at the highest levels of the Trump regime.

https://micahflee.com/we-are-currently-clean-on-opsec-the-signalgate-saga/

If this had been any Democratic govt, Fox "News" and the entire right-wing media gang would make it the top story for weeks, if not months.

Finally, a journalism organization covers Trump family corruption (almost) the right way.

This excellent reporting shows that -- as of now -- the most corrupt president in history and his family are $3.4 billion more wealth since he took office, and escalating fast.

https://archive.ph/Z9rQ1

Militarizing DC isn’t about crime. It’s not about making the city safer.

It’s about eliminating the people they don’t want. Homeless people. Black & brown people. The “others”.

You’re far closer to becoming homeless than you realize. It can happen in an instant.

They need & deserve our support.

#uspol #fascism #dc

" GitHub’s strength has always been its role as a facilitator of decentralized, community-driven software creation. Its next chapter will test whether that ethos can survive inside the engine room of one of the world’s largest AI factories."

Microsoft + GitHub = Microsoft.

https://www.theindex.media/p/github-s-neutrality-is-over-ae97e9dfba287225

I continue to be amazed that anyone uses Amazon AWS, or Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Services. Only someone who's very happy to completely lock their business into a 3rd party proprietary stack they don't control, and loves paying 20x (2000%!) more than reasonable commodity infrastructure rates would do so. I'm amazed that these businesses are even viable. Just goes to show how much flab most corporations have. They're ripe for disruption and displacement.

We, the operators of this social media account, sometimes face dilemmas about what we want to post. For example: "Are you a Hubber and want to become a Berger? We're looking forward to you!"

Love it or hate it, one thing is certain: It doesn't really matter, because others are doing our marketing today. 🙃

#Codeberg #GiveUpGitHub #GitHub