Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

At the table next to mine, a trio are talking about how they're going to integrate 'AI' into their organisational portal. These people do not inspire *any* confidence in their understanding or competence.

Rightwingers warn of another blaze of summer riots in Britain – but they’re the ones striking the match - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/10/rightwingers-summer-riots-britain-labour-civil-war true, but maybe #ukgov could try providing the facts, not cringing in fear of #reform and its lies

Palestine Action ban protest: half of those arrested were 60 or over, data shows - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/10/police-arrest-hundreds-london-protest-over-palestine-action-ban #starmer declares war on old people...what shameful course of action

NO FAKES is a major government overreach. A person’s name and likeness are facts, and the Constitution forbids Congress from granting a property right in those facts. https://act.eff.org/action/tell-the-senate-throw-out-the-no-fakes-act-and-start-over

Dear distro maintainers and "i build my own stuff" people:

In case you want to check out 0.49 release upfront: we've tagged the first release candidates (0.49~rc1) of #phosh and related components 🎉 📱 .

Release is planned 2025-08-15 (https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/wikis/Releases), just in time to celebrate at @FrOSCon .

Despite the date we hope it won't be 0815 but has some exciting bits for everyone.

We've also tagged the companion releases for #feedbackd 0.8.4 and feedbackd-device-themes 0.8.5.

It's funny because it's true

Forcing kids to take the Presidential Unfitness Test in gym instead of playing with that parachute tent thing is cruel. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/8/8/2337380/-Cartoon-Presidential-physical-fitness-test

Really, it would mostly be great to have something exactly like the internet but where you could use all the tools without a multiple nebulous third parties looking over your shoulder.

#infosec

Here's a little thread for things that regular people wish existed from an #infosec perspective. Feel free to add to it.

If any of these things already exist, feel free to reply to the relevant items with suggestions.

#Doonesbury by #GarryTrudeau on GoComics

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2025/08/10

#Humour #Cartoon

The point from day one was to facilitate financial crimes, so this is all in keeping.

https://www.thestreet.com/crypto/policy/ex-sec-staff-warns-of-another-lehman-brothers-collapse

At least significant number of the members of both communities have joined me on a Matrix instance I run... which will soon be moved to its new sponsored hosting infrastructure, thanks to Prodigi.nz! Hazzah. Here's to locally-hosted, community-run, not-for-profit, decentralised, (actually) secure (compared to *all* the proprietary options, at least), libre computing/communication infrastructure!

So, there're a couple communities I want to be part of which force me to use Slack. What a puke-in-the-mouth experience. Constantly being advertised to by the system (which is holding the community's content hostage - it is a ransomware business model). Just got a message telling me to 'go pro' so I can use 'AI' to summarise what I've missed. Get into the sea, Slack, and sink to the bottom where you belong. And yes, there are many others who should join you and Davy Jones.

Debian 13 "trixie" has been released, thanks to everyone involved! "trixie" images are available for download at https://www.debian.org/distrib/ or you can run apt full-upgrade as always ;-) #debian #debian13 #trixie #ReleasingDebianTrixie

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
― George Orwell

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250807-us-to-rewrite-its-past-national-climate-reports

What a vicious, stupid nation we have become when employees of the Centers for Disease Control feel obliged to hide where they work, for fear of violence from extremist vaccine deniers.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/08/cdc-shooting-trump-kennedy/683814/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

We’re looking for a creative thinker to join our social media team. If you want to fight for the soul of American democracy, we want to hear from you. https://ats.rippling.com/indivisible-project-careers/jobs/b531d36d-1dd7-47fd-81a7-43a178530f03

One study shows four in ten data brokers are leaving consumers exercising their privacy rights on read—in violation of California law. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/08/data-brokers-are-ignoring-privacy-law-we-deserve-better