Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

We’re thrilled to be bringing you a upcoming feature to help you find your people on Mastodon: Packs. (Or something… we’re still figuring out the name.)
As always, we want to build this important feature for the community WITH the community.
Read this blog post about our approach and let us know what you think!

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/10/our-ideas-about-packs/

NewsGuard is becoming a serious problem in the way it rates websites. Example:

https://www.levernews.com/reporting-reality-thats-partisan-now/

Ted Cruz picks a fight with #Wikipedia, accusing platform of left-wing bias - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/ted-cruz-picks-a-fight-with-wikipedia-accusing-platform-of-left-wing-bias/ bad luck, ted, facts have a left-wing bias....

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting agents outside a Chicago ICE facility ... The rejection of charges by a grand jury, once extremely unusual, is growing more common in cities targeted by Trump's ICE and military...

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/grand-jury-declines-to-indict-two-chicago-area-ice-protesters

Do You Want To Run A Mastodon Instance - FREE?

Folks, this is a serious offer, coming from a super guy.

If this is for you, DM Rob.

California consumer privacy complaints can spark investigations. It’s important for all of us to speak up, because it really does make a difference. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/how-file-privacy-complaint-california

@lightweight "and by jumping to the fun part you're denying yourself the process" <- there it is; the core of it. it is the struggle that defines us, but the tech bro never experiences any and so feeds on the borrowed sense of achievement of others like a vampire, until all our creations are reduced to a pale and shambling, undead corpse. that's the risk of AI - that it robs us of our inspiration to even try.

“OpenAI is very seriously underestimating people’s creativity when it comes to harassment,” EFF’s @evacide told the Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/10/07/sora-cameo-deepfake-consent/

This is quite a thoughtful takedown of 'AI', especially in art. It helps characters/express something most of us feel but can't quite explain: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

And so are our gushing pro-space industry politicians - calling for Aotearoa to become part of the arms industry. They're souless shitmerchants. This woman needs a new job. One that doesn't involved making decisions. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/574893/government-unveils-strategy-for-the-defence-industry

As a plane & space buff with engineering qualifications and piloting experience, I'm a big fan, in theory, of aerospace stuff... but I fully support these protestors - https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/575302/arrests-as-protesters-target-christchurch-aerospace-summit - though there seem to be a few 'good eggs', there're way too many elements of NZ's aerospace industry (especially RocketLab) who have betrayed our social values and have sold-out to US military interests. Not acceptable. RocketLab is particularly dishonourable: https://northandsouth.co.nz/2021/03/14/rocket-lab-military/

📢 LAUTI Release 1.1.1

Today we have published the newest version of LAUTI - Open Source Community Calendar.

This one is a bugfix release of which are important:
🪳 Fix for password reset
🪳 gzip compression fix

Complete changelog and release:
https://codeberg.org/Klasse-Methode/lauti/releases/tag/v1.1.1

As always, the release comes with updated @coopcloud recipe:
https://git.coopcloud.tech/coop-cloud/

#Google’s Requirement For All #Android Developers To Register And Be Verified Threatens To Close Down #OpenSource App Store #FDroid - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/07/googles-requirement-for-all-android-developers-to-register-and-be-verified-threatens-to-close-down-open-source-app-store-f-droid/ the latest from me, fwiw...

We filed a brief opposing the SEC "gag rule," which bars those who settle with the SEC from talking to reporters to protect the SEC's reputation.

We shouldn't need to say this, but the government doesn't get to censor its critics to make itself look good.

https://fox4kc.com/business/press-releases/globenewswire/9540803/prominent-organizations-join-call-for-en-banc-rehearing-in-ncla-suit-against-secs-illegal-gag-rule/

What could 10,000 ICE jackboots each cost to recruit, Michael? $3,000,000? Wait, that cannot possibly be right *checks math*

"The [ad] campaign... is part of ICE’s $30 billion initiative to hire 10,000 more deportation officers by the end of the year."

Oh wow oh fuck jesus christ what the shit

https://www.apnews.com/article/trump-mass-deportations-ice-immigration-ads-473a7ac193cff625476f1ee21f82facd

The Tyrant In The White House - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/06/the-tyrant-in-the-white-house/ "A Deputy White House Chief of Staff—one of the most powerful people in the executive branch—declared that judicial review of presidential power is rebellion against the United States government."

Reason 3 To Choose Linux 😍

It's better for the planet! 🌍

Hardware abandoned by #BigTech is often still supported by #Linux.

Software drives #eWaste, the fastest growing wastestream worldwide. Disposal brings significant risk to the environment, workers and communities.

Further, device production accounts for 75+% of #carbon emissions over its lifecycle. Keeping a functioning device in use longer reduces #CO2.

At scale the savings are huge!

https://endof10.org/

#EndOf10 #FOSS #Windows10

I wonder if Microsoft secretly wants everyone to switch to Linux. There are certainly fewer reasons to stick to Windows every day: https://www.theverge.com/news/793579/microsoft-windows-11-local-account-bypass-workaround-changes

No surprise, time to buy goods from the first people's of turtle island. It's the only ethical "made in america" we got anyway.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/indigenous-nations-plan-tariff-free-trade-corridor-across-us-canada-border/