Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

how to make programming terrible for everyone

https://jneen.ca/posts/2026-03-27-how-to-make-programming-terrible-for-everyone/

I am thankful that I do not need to say „thankyou“ to #Bluesky, the company and its investors for the verification of accounts or to ask them for changes in their configuration so that my social media platform is working.

It shows how dependent #Eurosky and #ATProto still is on Bluesky. They are at the mercy of them. And I do not trust Eurosky to be ever free and fully independent, even if I really want to believe in it.

Please change my mind, but for now I keep on building on ActivityPub.

Yael's post demonstrates something about digital privacy/security that I think a lot of people miss: there is no right answer, just a series of trade-offs. And every person has to make their own decisions avout which trade-offs are worthwhile. https://blog.yaelwrites.com/options-for-phones-at-protests/

Now available in tactical black! 😎

The Missouri v. Biden ‘Settlement’ Is A Fake Victory For A Case They Lost - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/27/the-missouri-v-biden-settlement-is-a-fake-victory-for-a-case-they-lost/ "the Supreme Court looked at the actual record, found a pile of conspiratorial nonsense, and told the lower courts they got played. This was a loss. A clear, unambiguous loss."

You can also watch this video from EFF’s Dave Maass on How to Observe Police Surveillance at Protests: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGscYgR7bXc. Let us know what you see out there by emailing info@eff.org with Protest Surveillance in the subject! (4/7)

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Man, LLMs really drive home the lesson that people differ *greatly* in how much the care whether the statements they make are true.

A new bill from Sen. Wyden and Rep. Balint would give real teeth to an important federal law meant to protect journalists from searches and raids.

We’re proud to endorse this update to the Privacy Protection Act.

https://freedom.press/issues/new-bill-would-fix-law-thats-failing-journalists/

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“I’m running for US Senate. If elected, the first bill I introduce will draft Lindsey Graham into any conflict he publicly supports while in office,” Tom Jandron wrote in a post on the social platform X on Wednesday.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5803536-montana-libertarian-candidate-graham-draft/

What if there was an Erasmus programme for people who just entered retirement?
The #EU funds #RailTravel passes for 18 year olds with the #discoverEU programme, what if it did something similar for people entering retirement?
Or, what if there was a pendant to the #EuropeanSolidarityCorps organised by municipalities that brought older people from twin cities together in projects?

Probably my favourite idea that ever came out of one of our workshops 💜

New post:

"A newbie's guide to self-hosting with #YunoHost. Part 5: Upgrades & Maintenance"

Not exactly the most exciting post I have ever written, but system maintenance is so essential.

And spoiler alert: thanks to a botched #PeerTube upgrade I discovered the wonders of #tmux (thank you @teapot_ben and @drfyzziks for recommending it!)

🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost-part-5-upgrades-maintenance/

#SelfHosting #MySoCalledSudoLife #DigitalSovereignty

so just to be totally clear AI is "democratizing" programming by taking something that used to free to do and making it so you pay a subscription fee to an American corporation to do it while being barred from ever actually understanding how it works, am I getting that right?

does anyone know if it's possible to flash an Amazon Kindle with a completely different OS (non-Amazon) so that it will display EPUB format ebooks?

#flash #customOS #kindle #Amazon

Something a bit worrying to note about using Ai in healthcare.

I’ve had two specialist appointments recently, both using ai to transcribe. Both sent report letters with inaccuracies about my diagnoses and past medical history. Even my GP was like, “huh, that directly contradicts what I put in the referrals.”

I have followed up both and requested amendments (which were done) but if I hadn’t, these inaccuracies could have significantly damaged ongoing care, further treatment or insurance claims.

Human error has always been a factor, but both doctors were clearly using the ai software and assuming what it spat out was correct. They made no other notes during the appointments to cross-reference and double check. This is how Very Bad Things can happen.