Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

'Sup nerds, if you live in Canberra, I've become a preferred recruiter for Vivanti, and they've agreed to have me provide them with senior-to-principal engineering candidates (especially in data).

The company seems snazzy, well-compensated, and they've got some of my readers working there (which probably says a lot).

If you're keen or know someone who is, shoot me a DM. I have, importantly, gotten permission to bypass the CV/application/online screening nonsense.

Services are operational again and performance has recovered.

We conclude that the problem originated from three factors: We deleted a lot of large abusive content recently. Automated snapshot trimming started today and deleted more data than usual. This in turn resulted in a high I/O load on our last remaining HDD that consequently brought down a host and some Ceph services (MDS), bringing performance to a near-halt for a while.

The problem with watermarking images as AI generated (whether visually or via metadata) is not all images will be watermarked given old phones, homebrew AI models, screenshots, edits, etc.

This fosters a risky expectation that unlabeled content is authentic. It’s safer to assume unmarked images are AI than to trust that the absence of a watermark proves reality.

https://www.engadget.com/social-media/instagram-chief-ai-is-so-ubiquitous-it-will-be-more-practical-to-fingerprint-real-media-than-fake-media-202620080.html

RE: https://newsie.social/@TheViking/115838428002454366

“Trump said it was up to others to decide what U.S.-military action in Venezuela means for Greenland. “They are going to have to view it themselves. I really don’t know. He was very generous to me, Marco, yesterday,” Trump said. “You know, I wasn’t referring to Greenland at that time. But we do need Greenland, absolutely. We need it for defense.””

Trump is attacking #NATO. No one should have any misconceptions that he will stop at Latin America.

#Greenland #Canada #Denmark #Venezuela

so it's now legal for, say, the EU or Vietnam to kidnap the US president? Have I got this right?

Welcome to 2026. If you're a #USA citizen, starting today you can you request your ballot for all the upcoming elections this year (the big one in November, but also primaries leading up to it).

The best way: use https://votefromabroad.org to fill out the form electronically and have it sent to your elections clerk in the place where you're registered (or want to register, if you need to do that).

I just did it - took < 5 minutes.

The service is paid for by @democratsabroad (the party who WANTS you to vote), but it's open to ANY US citizen abroad.

Please boost and pass the word to any USA people you know outside the USA!

Given everything happening right now, I updated this article with options for weather apps, web forms, and translation services — along with some tweaks to existing categories.

I hope it helps your transition off US tech!

https://disconnect.blog/getting-off-us-tech-a-guide/

A request from somebody in the USA: if you live in another country, please start pressuring your government to institute sanctions against US.

Diplomatic sanctions, economic sanctions, whatever is possible.

I do not expect this to happen quickly. Start laying the political groundwork now so that it can happen at all, ever, while it still matters.

Thanks to some generous translators, the Fediverse Punk Month website is now available in Spanish:

https://fedi.the-counterforce.org/es
(including the digital/printable flyers!)

and Danish:

https://fedi.the-counterforce.org/da

#FPM

New MRR Radio episode for a new year, by yours truly: https://www.maximumrocknroll.com/radio_show/mrr-radio-1970/

Intro
CHANCE OPERATION – Din

Can’t Have a Life
?FOG – 5 Heads of State
SHAKTI शक्ति – Maut मौत (Death)
BAAT-BAAL – Taboo Death
REAL IMITATORS – Make Up Your Mind

An Indication of My State of Mind
PARISIAN ORGY – Come Pretty Pump Sleep
THE URINALS – Scholastic Aptitude
RHYTHM OF LIFE – Portrait of Heart
KABUKI – My Hair

Quality Time is Flashing By
ART REMAINS TANGIBLE – TV Nut
PERSONNEL – Close Quarters
HÉLÈNE BARBIER – A House
STOLEN POWER – Family Snapshots

Fantasy or Ecstasy
LA STRADA – On
OUR HEROES – Fantasenile
NEONBABIES – Die Krönung
BEAUTY PAGEANT – Lashes
THE NIXE – Commercial

Outro
PERFECT END – Puppets

#MaximumRockNRoll #MRR #Punk #PostPunk #NoWave #ArtPunk #Radio

It's so fascinating to see the changes in one company's logo over the years.

Today is Digital Independence Day, a German initiative to move more and more away from Big Tech in 2026. Let's reclaim our independence!

https://di.day/

Slopagandists also get blocked and also on Github (would GTFO but work dictates it): https://hachyderm.io/@mitsuhiko/115803499180761742

People Who Drink Bottled Water on a Daily Basis Ingest 90,000 More Microplastic Particles Each Year - https://www.wired.com/story/people-who-drink-bottled-water-on-a-daily-basis-ingest-90000-more-microplastics-per-year/ "New research finds that people who drink water from them on a daily basis ingest far more microplastics than those who don’t."

Someone posting AI generated images followed me. They do disclose that the images are AI generated. I blocked them. I didn't just mute, this is not just about attention hygiene anymore! I am ostracising those who post slop! #AI #noAI #LLM #LLMs #genAI

“US Justice Department”

(That’s it, that’s the whole joke.)

Principal engineer at Big Tech paid to promote LLMs: "You know, I too was skeptical of the coding agents, but then I gave [our coding agent] the task to generate [our open source software whose entire codebase is on GitHub] and it spit out the code, which took human developers a year to produce, in one hour! If you do not learn how to [prompt LLMs to spit out what is in their training set] you are going to fall behind [and I won't be promoted]!"

#AI #noAI #LLM #LLMs #genAI