Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Do any of the the open source / Linux admin people out there have any advice/ideas for how to manage a classroom of Ubuntu Linux laptops? The aim is to authenticate against the school active directory. Are there ways to manage software and re-image machines without managing them individually?

I talked to @404mediaco about generative AI's impact on teaching. Apparently I wasn't alone... not by a long shot. @jasonkoebler got a ton of responses about this topic and ran many of them here:

https://www.404media.co/teachers-are-not-ok-ai-chatgpt/

While it's distressing to read all of them, it's good to see I'm not alone.

#generativeAI #higherEducation #teaching #academicChatter

“In 2017, ‘a confidential doc is leaked that reveals Facebook offering advertisers the opportunity to target 13-to-17yos across platforms during moments of psychological vulnerability when they feel ‘worthless,’ ‘insecure,’ ‘stressed,’ ‘defeated,’ ‘anxious,’ ‘stupid,’ ‘useless’ & ‘like a failure.’ Or target them when worried about their bodies & thinking of losing weight.’

They knew when a teen deleted a selfie & would bombard her w beauty ads, assuming she deleted it bc she felt ugly.” /1

@strypey I hit this problems too. I solved it buying a Oneplus Nord N10 for a very modest $165 from Aliexpress. This phone and several other Oneplus models can run LineageOS which also helped with my deGoogling efforts.

I used it for a couple of weeks on the stock image before I reflashed and that worked OK too.

https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/billie/

Just found out that an old intranet we created for a customer (on Drupal 5?) back in 2008-9 is still running (not on the open internet). Their MS Sharepoint replacement for it has been... less than stunningly successful in its designated role. I suspect that original Internet would've cost the orders of magnitude less in up-front development and per-year maintenance.

PieFed has a mobile app https://piefed.social/post/817564

A large #Lemmy instance is shutting down - https://lemm.ee.

Fortunately, #PieFed provides a way to migrate the posts in all the communities on it to somewhere else!

See https://piefed.social/post/667044 for a demo.

#fediverse

@lightweight Interesting bit on RNZ this morning about electricity generation, where the point was made that the gentailers goal of making a profit is directly opposed to the goal of reliable and efficient electricity supply.

So to add to your musings, I would say that things that are necessities (food, water, shelter, health care, education, security, electricity, internet access?) should be supplied by government - at least to a basic level (housing).

Making government supply of these things efficient is a management problem, not a reason for privatisation. Privatisation has it's own inherent inefficiency, in that it needs to make a profit.

After a recent discussion with a politically opposed (hard right) acquaintance is that neither full socialisation (left) nor full privatisation (right) are desirable options. My considered impression is that there's a middle ground - where you have to understand *where* privatisation makes sense, and where it's counter-productive, and socialisation makes much better sense. I think revolves around the sense of 'calling' among practitioners (or lack thereof).... 1/n

I'm envisioning an onboarding website that encourages creators to publish into the #fediverse, and shows them how. With sections on how to publish different kinds of media;

* long form text, eg news articles and blogs

* images, eg event photos or webcomics

* podcasts

* videos

* livestreams

Each section could have a comparison table of all the software software that can currently publish that kind of media over AP, and maybe a shortlist of recommendations.

(1/2)

#FediverseOnboarding

The PERA and PREVAIL Acts would revive invalid software patents and cripple our best tools for fighting patent trolls. https://act.eff.org/action/don-t-let-congress-bring-back-the-worst-patents

How the Farm Industry Spied on Animal Rights Activists and Pushed the FBI to Treat Them as Bioterrorists - https://www.wired.com/story/fbi-wmdd-dxe-animal-agriculture-alliance/ "For years, a powerful ‘#BigAg’ trade group served up information on activists to the FBI. Records reveal a decade-long effort to see the animal rights movement labeled a “bioterrorism” threat."

Ten jewels of English #nature at risk from #development and #Labour’s #PlanningBill | #Biodiversity | The Guardian

I’m sure there’s a better way of addressing the #HousingCrisis than riding rough-shod over delicate #ecosystems.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/03/ten-jewels-of-english-nature-at-risk-from-development-and-labours-planning-bill

#UK #Environment #Ecology #Housing #Politics

Fedi promo video status: picture lock 🥳

Now it's only a matter of fine-tuning the sound mix. Very thankful to @samaaberg & @patel.riyen for their great work on it.

We're premiering at a special event on Friday... and I'll probably post it on my self-hosted #PeerTube on Monday morning ('cause I'm not sure how my VPS will hold up and I'm not taking any risks on a Friday afternoon) 😅

Thank you for all your encouragement with this project ❤️

#DontDeployonFridays #EleFediVideos

Public support for #Israel in western Europe at lowest ever recorded by YouGov - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/03/public-support-for-israel-in-western-europe-lowest-ever-recorded-yougov "Survey says fewer than a fifth of respondents in six countries hold a favourable opinion of the country" #gaza

BWAHAHAHAHAAAAA!

"AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers"

A $1.5 billion AI company backed by Microsoft has shuttered after its ‘neural network’ was discovered to actually be hundreds of computer engineers based in India.

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/ai-company-files-for-bankruptcy-after-being-exposed-as-700-human-engineers-3208136/

A comparison of decision-making methods: majority vote, consensus, consent, autocratic decisions, and the trickiest one: "no decision-making method."
https://www.sociocracyforall.org/decision-making-methods-comparison/

#sociocracy #holacracy #democracy #hierarchy #leadership

If you're a US citizen, a trans woman, the gender on your passport is F, and you've reentered the US since March 1, what was your experience at the border? Please boost for reach.