Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Someone said DuckDuckGo uses Microsoft for search. Is that why when you search for news all you get is MSN links? Do we see how corporate greed just breaks everything yet?

Adding more clumsy animal metaphors to the donkeys and elephants in election coverage. https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2024/09/16

“There are forbidden topics in the hacker community. One is sternly reprimanded for bringing them up, by their peers, their leaders, and the community at large. In private, one can expect threats and intimidation; in public, outcry and censorship. […] Our community has problems, important problems, that every hacker should care about, and we need the bravery and humility to face them, not the cowardice to retaliate against those who speak up.” (Drew DeVault, Sept 23)

https://www.kommunikationsliebe.org/en/post/talking-about-violence/#what-has-happened-so-far-a-summary

When the second assassination attempt drops

Larry Ellison, who was a terrible person long before the current generation of Silicon Valley terrible people emerged, is promoting a total surveillance society -- which is the linchpin to tomorrow's fascism.

The fact that his company stands to profit immensely from such a thing is probably not his top motivation.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/omnipresent-ai-cameras-will-ensure-good-behavior-says-larry-ellison/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Data center emissions probably 662% higher than big tech claims. Can it keep up the ruse?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/sep/15/data-center-gas-emissions-tech

Seems like everyone is having a grand old time dunking on bad LLM answers, but I can't bring myself to join in. Why? Because this is what's required to provide fodder for the jokes 👇 and I don't find it at all funny.

https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-ai-fumes

https://gizmodo.com/the-new-plan-to-power-data-hungry-ai-sink-server-farms-into-the-san-francisco-bay-2000497769

"LOL, lookit this dumb thing the LLM said! Totally worth poisoning poor people and fucking up an ecosystem for!"

The jokes just help normalize it. Don't laugh at it, demand its abolition. wtaf?

Wow, we're still not over @fediforum

It's truly amazing to bring some of the most exciting developments on the Fediverse together for a few days and see what everyone is up to. No other network has such a vibrant, committed, and supportive community.

If you attended (or even if you didn't) and you want to know a little more about what we're doing and about Patchwork - please get in touch!

#FediForum #PostConference #Unconference #Fediverse #Mastodon #Developers #Admins

Decisions concerning people’s freedom, mobility, and ability to seek safety in the United States should not be made by computers. That's why EFF and over 100 other organizations are calling on the U.S. government to stop this practice. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/09/eff-140-other-organizations-call-end-ai-use-immigration-decisions

The European mind cannot comprehend this:

“The University of California just announced a list of military weaponry it wants in order to escalate its warfare on its students:
3000 rounds of pepper munitions
500 rounds of 40mm impact munitions
12 drones
9 grenade launchers

Read the full list here: https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/sept24/c1.pdf “

I think the people of the US need to come to terms with the fact that we live in a "failed state." The entire state of Oregon, along with large sections of Washington and Idaho are currently ablaze, and we can't even pay firefighters enough to keep them around.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/12/us-firefighters-forest-service-labor-disputes
My current political stance is that ALL POLITICIANS at national level (and probably state and local levels too) need to be replaced, via sortition. Draw names out of a hat - we certainly couldn't do any worse.

I released #GNOME #Calls 47.0 yesterday 🚀 \o/

This is the first release running #gtk4 and #libadwaita

Thanks a lot to everyone who contributed code, translations and bug reports!

Find the release notes at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/calls/-/releases/v47.0

And of course, it has already been uploaded to 🎉

#LinuxMobile #phosh #Debian #Mobian #Librem5

NextNav's bid to privatize the 900 MHz band threatens a vital commons used by millions of devices and grassroots innovators. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/09/nextnavs-callous-band-grab-privatize-900-mhz

Study cited in cartoon https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/07/240730134759.htm

Latest comic: AI gone MAD
#tech #technology #internet #ai #cartoon #comic #cows

Introducing Casilda - A Wayland compositor widget!

A simple Wayland compositor widget for Gtk 4 which can be used to embed other processes windows in your Gtk 4 application.
It was originally created for Cambalache's workspace using wlroots, a modular library to create Wayland compositors.
Following Wayland tradition, this library is named after my hometown in Santa Fe, Argentina

Read more about it at https://blogs.gnome.org/xjuan/2024/09/13/introducing-casilda-wayland-compositor-widget/

@GTK #wayland #gtk

San Francisco: On Monday, you have the chance to ask the police your questions about drone surveillance in our city.

Extremists are so desperately hoping someone will find an actual immigrant eating a cat that I wouldn't be surprised if they stage something like this...

If you did NOT purchase your Deniz Camp comics with Justice Warriors, it's okay, every day is a new opportunity to make better choices to improve your life