Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

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Drones are essentially flying police officers. “If I’m in my backyard, if I’m on my deck, do I expect that I have to encounter a law enforcement camera? I shouldn’t have to,” EFF’s Beryl Lipton told @TexasObserver. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-drone-fleet-doubled-in-size/

No, you’re not a “prompt engineer”, you’re a sloperator.

When the AI bubble bursts it is going to be so messy and there are going to be so many questions about how we wasted so much money on nonsense: https://www.wheresyoured.at/nvidia-isnt-enron-so-what-is-it/ #GenAI

Doing a war for oil in 2025? Why not blockade New Bedford just in case whaling comes back, too.

This is Europe’s secret weapon against #Trump: it could burst his #AI bubble - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/17/europe-donald-trump-ai-bubble-us-economy-eu?CMP=bsky_gu#Echobox=1765949797 "All Brussels has to do is crack down on #Ireland, which for years has been a wild west of lax data enforcement, and the repercussions will be felt far beyond."

Help! #Gamepads confuse me!

Root permissions:

$ ll /dev/input/event17
crw-rw----+ 1 root input /dev/input/event17

I'm not root:

$ groups
dcz dialout video wireshark

but I can read it!

$ head /dev/input/event17
#7-i�▒.#7-i�▒#7-i�C/#7-i�C#

SSH connection? Permission denied!

What's the access mechanism here?

#linux #askfedi

O hive mind: Can you point me to 501(c)(3) nonprofit news organizations that are explaining the depth and breadth of Trump world corruption? The "mainstream" press is doing such an abysmal job on this, and I want to donate to journalists who get why this is so important to flag for public notice.

Collaboration and cooperation are essential in countering facists, and people in some American cities are doing both to resist Trump's kidnap-and-deport goons. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/16/ice-immigration-raids-cities