Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

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Here are some more in depth articles:

https://www.pcmag.com/news/this-is-insanity-ddr-ram-prices-soar-due-to-ai-demand

https://www.gadgets360.com/ai/features/why-ram-prices-are-skyrocketing-shortage-global-price-hike-volatility-ai-data-centres-9704004

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/dram-prices-are-about-to-skyrocket-ddr4-and-gddr6-among-formats-that-could-increase-in-price-by-up-to-45-percent

🔴 Brand new comic now up on Boing Boing
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Billionaire Hollingsworth Hound explains who's to blame for the housing crisis.
It's... PATO AFORTUNADO!
"The poor migratory duck who's rich in luck"
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https://boingboing.net/2025/11/26/tom-the-dancing-bug-hollingsworth-hound-presents-the-real-reason-for-the-housing-crisis.html

Using GenAI is the internet equivalent of rolling coal.

Huh, think I might've figured out why one (but only one) of my NextCloud instances loses contact with the OnlyOffice instance on the same host... Figured out it *might* be because of frequent polling that's resulted in the Mailcow instance (also on the host, as I'm trying to economise) is seeing it as making too many connections and is temporarily fail2banning it nightly. I've added the host's IP(v4&6) to the Fail2Ban whitelist... 🤞 it's still connected tomorrow!

Jeepers, Piwigo has come out with an impressive new version! https://piwigo.org/release-16.0.0 (I've been running one for a decade or so). Impressive.

Smart meter data can reveal intimate details inside your home. A court just ruled police can’t run dragnet surveillance on that data. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/victory-court-end-dragnet-electricity-surveillance-program-sacramento

Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.

This is a must read, and a good one to share with people who insist either that 1) the economy is fine because the statistics say so (like alot of Dems before the last election); or 2) that people are poor because they don't work hard enough.

The truth is it takes more years of work to pay for essentials now than it did 20 or 40 or 60 years ago...much, much more.

https://www.americasundoing.com/p/it-works-if-you-work-it

We're a scrappy team of disabled-led non profits, fixing up Andrei's wheelchair, and flying a repair tech to Moldova to put it all together. Please donate to get him independent and in motion again! And, read his story, it's powerful and moving. He hasn't been outside in over a year. Fuck that, we are going to get him back out there. https://www.openassistivetech.org/andrei-rolling/

Today, Nehirowisiw land defenders and their allies forced several logging trucks from the company Crete to turn back after attempting to harvest wood illegally on unceded territory.
The struggle continues, and physical support is urgently needed at km 134 on Chemin Parent.
If you can’t make it in person, you can donate at campsouverainete.org.
To learn more about this fight, watch our film BLOCKADE / BLOQUAGE.

#Nehirowisiw #CampSouverainete #LandDefense #Blockade #ForestDefense #UncededTerritory #AntiColonial #Atikamekw #Solidarity #DefendersOfTheForest

https://theintercept.com/2025/11/23/prairieland-ice-antifa-zines-criminalize-protest-journalism

Things in the United Snakes seem to be going swimmingly

Ugh. Listening to Kathryn Ryan interviewing someone from ACC on RNZ's NineToNoon. They talk about 'AI' like it's magic and there seems to be no actual understanding. No questioning whether it's a good idea or bad, what the implications might be, the dependencies it creates, etc. Seems like the inept leading the inepter.

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No president should have the power to silence journalists or control who gets to question them.

Good for the AP for refusing to back down. Others should follow their example.

https://apnews.com/article/associated-press-free-speech-white-house-a1d29b0efc3dc2c0176c7be2471f2a3b

DHS is abusing its authority to shut down ICE-watching accounts.

Reporting on public ICE activity is protected by the First Amendment. It’s also something journalists do routinely.

Senator Wyden is right to call out this attack on the First Amendment.

https://theintercept.com/2025/11/21/wyden-noem-dhs-customs-unmask-social-media/