Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

If journalists were doing their jobs, they would call the deployment of National Guard troops to Washington, DC, from three deep-red states what it is: an invasion and occupation force.

https://wsvn.com/news/us-world/3-states-move-to-send-hundreds-of-national-guard-members-to-washington/

Inequality is bad for your health, even if you're rich.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/money-cant-buy-life-the-richest-americans-die-earlier-than-the-poorest-europeans/

While I'm generally very pro-EU, this #ChatControl initiative they keep pushing - despite experts having persistently debunking the rationale behind it - is indefensible.

Instead, this initiative will create an extremely invasive surveillance state where everything you type, view and receive is automatically scanned & potentially (falsely) flagged for human review.

This would mean the end of privacy.

If you are an EU-citizen, please consider writing to your MEPs.

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

I'd like to start manufacturing more LLM poison, but I'm a little bit sniped on where to get good source data.

Basically, I want to run Dissociated Press (markov-chain text generation) over some input sources, but I want to use sources that I can either a) find as public domain, or b) use under a combined license. For example, a bunch of code under the MIT license (the *same* MIT license) could all be churned up together.

I also want to ensure that the text's words and topics cover the space that LLMs will be called on to generate within. One approach would be to use English Wikipedia, for instance. Another would be to grab a bunch of Rust or Python source code that's all under the same license.

Those both involve more curation than I was hoping to do. Are there other sources I should be thinking of?

#LLM

Latest comic on the uptick in NEPHs

#science #disinformation #conspiracytheories #media #health

If you want help collecting some Gaps in the Linux Phone App Ecosystem, please contribute to this pad:
https://pad.hacc.space/XP5opplBQ3mWEpAcv47oSg#

(It's part of this #FrOSCon #FOSSonMobile Talk: https://programm.froscon.org/froscon2025/talk/0a60d401-814a-473d-af0c-5d6ac5913065/ (which won't be recorded, sadly).

#LinuxMobile

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Stephen Miller is recruiting an army of pants-pissers. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/8/15/2338519/-Cartoon-Join-the-war-on-US-cities

While the new ChatGPT might not be 20X better than the old versions, it just might take 20X the power to use.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/08/how-much-energy-does-chatgpts-newest-model-consume.html

Oh gee, never saw this one coming...

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/15/g-s1-83087/otter-ai-transcription-class-action-lawsuit

*sigh* Firefox auto-installed AI on everyone's browsers and turned the option "on" by default without asking anyone's consent.

This thread has how to remove: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1511036

I'm not sure if it covers the new thing, so for that, go to Settings (i.e. about:preferences) and scroll down to Tabs, then uncheck "Use AI to suggest tabs and a name for tab groups".

Wishing I was in DC so I could buy a drink for the Subway Slinger. He’s going to drink free for the rest of his life. The highlight of this week’s news.

“We’ve already seen AI systems effectively collude to raise rent prices and point the finger at innocent black men based on faulty facial recognition tech,” EFF’s Kit Walsh told @SFPublicPress. AI recreates patterns in its training data, including biases. https://www.sfpublicpress.org/california-pushes-ai-regulation-as-experts-reveal-looming-dangers/

This is great. It reminds me of some of the complex hinged 3D-printed objects that come out as a single print.

https://hackaday.com/2025/08/15/liberating-a-collapsible-chair-from-a-single-piece-of-wood/

As things stand, Bluesky has *very bad* terms of service that every user who creates an account has to subject themselves to. In particular, Bluesky's ToS contain a "binding arbitration" waiver that forces users to surrender the right to sue Bluesky no matter how the company harms them.

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Newly released documents shed more light on previous efforts by Trump’s DOJ to undermine a key law protecting internet users’ speech. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/08/new-documents-show-first-trump-doj-worked-congress-amend-section-230

We have a list of explicitly blocked IP ranges. However, a configuration oversight on our part only blocked these ranges on the "normal" routes. The "anubis-protected" routes didn't consider the challenge. It was not a problem while Anubis also protected from the crawlers on the other routes.

However, now that they managed to break through Anubis, there was nothing stopping these armies.

It took us a while to identify and fix the config issue, but we're safe again (for now).

Oakland folx! Come see us at Manic Monthly Market at The Stork Club. There'll be vendors, artists, vinyl DJ's and food! See you there!

We apologize for a period of extreme slowness today. The army of AI crawlers just leveled up and hit us very badly.

The good news: We're keeping up with the additional load of new users moving to Codeberg. Welcome aboard, we're happy to have you here. After adjusting the AI crawler protections, performance significantly improved again.