Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Can I ask a favour?

If you see someone who is asking for help using this place, and if no one else is helping them, could you tag me into the conversation and/or link to my website https://fedi.tips?

I'm trying to provide unofficial tech support for people using Mastodon and the wider Fediverse. I'm especially keen to help new people who want easy-to-understand advice, but they won't see me and I won't see them unless someone tags me.

Thanks 🙏

#FediTips #Fediverse #Mastodon

“Ring’s new partnership with Flock shows that the company is more interested in contributing to mounting authoritarianism than servicing the specific needs of their customers,” EFF’s Matthew Guariglia told @arstechnica. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/ring-cameras-are-about-to-get-increasingly-chummy-with-law-enforcement/

Fitness app knows I exercise and now ICE goons are peepin' in my window to learn the secret to doing a sit-up.

Collect 'em all, then throw 'em in the ocean. https://www.patreon.com/posts/young-trading-141446220

HBD to Ursula K. Le Guin, whose iconic sci‑fi and fantasy explored empathy, diversity, and humanity. Explore titles here: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_list&c=105

Masks off - time for the show trials.

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2025/10/36-minute-trials-and-no-jury-starmers-fascist-mass-courts/

Dear #Forgejo admins,
Planning to upgrade to Forgejo v13.0 soon? Join our upgrade party and upgrade together, get help from Forgejo contributors, and get to know the community.
Today, 21 October at 16:00 UTC (18:00 CEST). See https://codeberg.org/forgejo/discussions/issues/402 for details.

The economics of the H-1B visa system:

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/10/not-the-fix-the-tell-the-meaning-of-a-100000-h-1b-fee.html

Some recommendations to get off Spotify, the company that would rather fund the military industrial complex than musicians:

- Bandcamp's app recently added shareable playlists
- @mirlo is cooperatively owned and recently got a funding boost from NGIZero for fediversification: https://mirlo.space/
- If you have your own collection of digital music, consider plonking it onto your own @funkwhale server: https://www.funkwhale.audio/

(Yes I know they're not exactly the same, nothing is!)
#music

So. How many cataclysmic disasters will it take before the market shuts marketing bullshit up?

As seen on tumblr:

There's an alarming new article in the science magazine article #Quanta titled "How Soon Will the Seas Rise?"

"The uniquely vulnerable West Antarctic Ice Sheet holds enough water to raise global sea levels by 5 meters. But when that will happen — and how fast — is anything but settled. "

Note it's now "when", not "if".

I've now lived through the optimistic age of science articles all focused on telling us how very bad things are going to be if we don't do something.

We're now shifting into the age of science articles telling us that some of those very bad things we were warned about are now unavoidable but we don't know how soon they'll happen.

The 5 m rise is just from the West Antarctic ice sheet. Add in Greenland and the expansion of the warming ocean waters and other glaciers we could get 15 m rise.

Still, please do something. We'll now lose our coastal cities in a few generations, including my home of Christchurch, NZ, but there's still so much bad we can avoid if we act now.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-soon-will-the-seas-rise-20251020/

#ClimateCrisis #SeaLevelRise #ActNOW

I would of course never get any medals or recognition at all from anyone without the awesome friends and people in the Open Source universe.

I try to lead my example but I and #curl would not be where we are without the thousands of contributors.

I accept this medal, but know that you all helped me get it.

Thank you all. Let's improve the world, bit by bit the way we know.

https://kolektiva.media/w/jipJLsuANeULYQ2erZNqft?start=3m42s

Just over a year ago we announced our new series, InterRebellium. We had envisioned a series of documentaries covering a global uprisings around the world, examining their roots, analyzing their tactics and speculating how future militants could take things one step further.

InterRebellium was originally going to be a series of 30 minute mini-documentaries. We began working with an anarchist videographer in Chile, making connections, finding participants who we could interview. As we began watching the interviews we were beyond amazed by depth of the answers, the quality of the footage and the sheer amount of topics we would need to cover to do the film justice.

After 8 months in the editing room, we released InterRebellium 01. The Estallido Social in its final form, a 90 minute full length documentary. We hope this will be the first of many such documentaries. We eventually hope to cover the uprisings from 2018-2020 in Ecuador, Haiti, France, Hong Kong, Lebanon, Iraq, Sudan, Colombia, and The United States but we only have capacity to work on one film at a time and for now, we have set our sights on Canada.

We are now in the 2nd week or raising funds for the second film of the series. While we're grateful for those who have already pledged, quite frankly, we need more if we are to ever get this film off the ground. You can help us by sharing within your networks or by donating at

https://www.firefund.net/interrebellium02shutdowncanada

#BBC reporters cannot wear Black Lives Matter T-shirts in newsroom, says Tim #Davie - https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/oct/20/bbc-reporters-black-lives-matter-t-shirts-newsroom-tim-davie and yet giving #reform a megaphone without challenging it is ok; strange that asymmetry....

I was fascinated by the combination of simplicity and complexity involved in starting this vintage ship engine, even as I shook my head at the user experience. Everything is visible and exposed, and you have full control over the process, yet you must have deeper knowledge of how the engine works just to start it.

Watching this man explain it made me think of a traditional Linux user explaining how to do "simple" things:

https://youtu.be/CK7qD08baUM?t=2145

@_elena DuckDuckGo is a relative alternative: infrastructure is from Microsoft, data from Bing, and advertising is delivered by the Microsoft network (so: money fuels Microsoft cash flow).
https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/company/advertise-on-duckduckgo-search

@_elena @stefano you can selfhost Matrix on @yunohost just install Synapse from catalog, and Element-call there is even WhatsApp and Signal bridge that allows communiction between those networks! It's worth to try: https://apps.yunohost.org/catalog?search=matrix

As someone who studied Mass Communication in college, I am absolutely shocked by the little media coverage of the AI slop video published on social media by the U.S. president... where he puts on a crown, gets on a jet & proceeds to drop massive quantities of fecal matter on protestors of the No Kings day.

Had this happened 10 years ago it would have been front page news everywhere.

Are we so desensitized by his undignified behavior + AI slop that nothing shocks people anymore?