Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Has anyone had luck getting #MacVenture games to run on Linux *outside* of the #BasiliskII Mac Classic emulator?

#retrogaming #MacClassic

"Competent Cop" is a more fantastical creature than any dragon garbage.

Society went wrong when pop culture stopped making dipshit cops the baseline depiction. Barney Fife, Rosco P. Coltrane, things of that nature. Dick Wolf is a fascist.

Kabul at risk of becoming first modern city to run out of #water, report warns - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/07/kabul-could-become-first-modern-city-to-run-out-of-water-report-warns "aquifers have dropped by up to 30 metres over the past decade owing to rapid urbanisation and climate breakdown" #afghanistan

Two upper-caste 'left thinkers' discuss on the Left’s growing irrelevance in India, blaming technology for its disconnect from the masses. How typical. It's not surprising then that they do not mention the near total absence of #Dalits and other oppressed communities in Left leadership since 1957. Think-tanks like #ProgressiveInternational should first send their folks to live in our communities—without income—for at least 5 years before they’re allowed to pontificate.

https://act.progressive.international/the-internationalist-issue-4/

Even a former prime minister of Israel admits his country is committing war crimes.

Meanwhile, defenders of these crimes are saying, essentially, that anyone who criticizes the Netanyahu regime is anti-Semitic.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/why-ehud-olmert-thinks-his-country-is-committing-war-crimes

DOGE used flawed AI tool to “munch” Veterans Affairs contracts
Staffer had no medical experience, and the results were predictably, spectacularly bad.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/doge-used-flawed-ai-tool-to-munch-veterans-affairs-contracts/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#FediForum premiere for my Fediverse promo film = done.

How did it go? So well that I've been fighting back tears for the past half hour.

Getting such warm, positive comments from builders and champions of the fediverse is EVERYTHING ❤️ Thank you @j12t for this opportunity.

I'm almost tempted to "deploy on a Friday" and share the link to the video now 😅 But nah, I know better. Tuesday it is! (Monday is a public holiday here)

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

#EleFediVideos

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Oh no I just got some bad news: Monday is a public holiday in France; my daughter's pre-school will be closed. So I will have to wait till Tuesday to release the Fedi promo video on my site 😭

Launching it on a public holiday is the same thing as deploying software updates on a Friday afternoon.

How much time to work will I have on Monday? 0 minutes. And I want to be on top of things in case there are any issues... and respond to people's feedback.

So Tuesday morning? 🥲

#EleFediVideos

Oil giant funds computer game that promotes fossil fuels to schoolchildren - https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025-06-05/oil-company-uses-computer-game-to-promote-fossil-fuels-to-uk-schoolchildren outrageous; must be thrown out

‘It’s goodbye to French fishermen’: Macron under pressure as crucial UN ocean summit opens - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/06/fishing-ocean-un-summit-france-macron-bottom-trawling-french-marine-protected-areas bottom trawling must be banned - it's so destructive

Self hosting your own media considered harmful (according to YouTube...). https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/self-hosting-your-own-media-considered-harmful

@lightweight yeah, LLM's ... Been thinking about that a lot lately. They're a useful tool once you've built up a large body of knowledge and have healthy skepticism. I'm concerned about a future where students and workers just rely on their output without being able (or willing) to question their output.

Feels like creeping ever closer to idiocracy

Catalyst IT, with all it's open source philosophy, and its contract for PACT, and it's support of Mahara .. you think they'd have the foresight to push for Linux based laptops in schools over MS/Google captive-ware.

The thing is, the NZ government is known for legally domestically spying on all of you (I was there during the GCHQ protest, where John Key and Parliament retroactively changed the law to make domestic spying on Kim Dotcom legal). Chromebooks are all about spying on students and setting them up with Google accounts at a very young age (All schools monitor students in the US. It's insane). Win 11 will push the same with MS accounts. Under the covers, school systems probably want this, because it allows an insane amount of control and privacy violations.

Students and parents should have the option to opt out of both.

Folks in NZ are starting to realise the implications of the impending EOL of Microsoft Windows 10 for our education system. In its finite wisdom, our MinOfEd has effectively locked all schools into either the use of MS Windows or Google ChromeOS. Both have fundamental issues like endless license hassles, EOLing OSs, ending support for Window or ChromeOS on specific computer models, etc. And that doesn't even start to talk about digital colonisation & sovereignty (see https://davelane.nz/explainer-digitech-risks-school-boards) 1/n

I don't know whether the Trump-Musk feud is real or just an elaborate con. What is clear is that both of them are sociopaths who lie relentlessly, have total contempt for laws they find inconvenient, and view the rest of us with pure contempt. If they harm each other, that's a win for humanity.

The President of the United States promising to wield government contracts and regulatory authority to punish an ex-crony who has now hurt his little feelings … would have seemed improper, once upon a time. Illegal, even.

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