Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

#EVs outsold petrol and diesel in Germany for the first time. The birthplace of the car just changed its fuel. - https://thenextweb.com/news/evs-outsold-gas-diesel-germany-first-time but too late to save the industry...

Tom Homan Again Promises That ICE Will Keep Murdering People Until Democrats Stop Calling Them Murderers - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/21/tom-homan-again-promises-that-ice-will-keep-murdering-people-until-democrats-stop-calling-them-murderers/ great headline

Argentina Joins Global Treaty to Fight Illegal Fishing - https://www.pew.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2026/07/17/argentina-joins-global-treaty-to-fight-illegal-fishing well done, #argentina

Iranian women being shut out of engineering fields, official warns - https://www.iranintl.com/en/202607209913 well, that's stupid... #iran

#Australia’s Next Target In The War On Kids Online: Your #VPN - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/20/australias-next-target-in-the-war-on-kids-online-your-vpn/ go home, australia, you're drunk...

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux/116958382115564493

Mozilla also used to run a fedi instance, they killed it about 2 years ago:
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/17/mozilla-exits-the-fediverse-and-will-shutter-its-mastodon-server-in-december/

Way to go leading the open web. 🤡

I do not wish to chat with my expense software, I do not wish to gossip with my 401k portfolio, I do not wish to go to the ball game with my home equity loan.

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This is kind of an incredible website:

Why your stuff stopped lasting, who profited, and what's still built right.

https://www.worseonpurpose.com

AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop
https://www.404media.co/ai-companies-are-buying-tons-of-old-books-because-theyre-free-of-ai-slop/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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What we allow to happen to others eventually comes home to us...and part of me thinks we deserve it.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/07/palestine-laboratory-greg-stoker-politicide-loewenstein-ice-ukraine.html

We have restored the primary Forgejo instance, which handles authenticated traffic from codeberg.org, to the rebooted server. This deployment also resolves the issue where editing the wiki resulted in a JavaScript error, and where self-hosted Forgejo runners were displayed as offline when they were not.

We're still tracking and investigating the poor performance of codeberg.org

RE: https://scicomm.xyz/@dantheclamman/116954518144682511

Again, this is just a specific example of the general genAI problem: It makes shit up & most of it will seem OK because you don't know enough about the subject matter to see the harm it does.

Until now we've been able to assume that even lies & misinformation took at least some effort & someone would need a reason for it - but now they just happen, with zero effort or reason.

We also thought the utility of asbestos & leaded gasoline outweighed the harms. We were wrong then, too.

#AI

It's a fun contrast to see how AI apologists say that criticism of data center water use is overblown, while the actual water utility companies loudly point out that data centers plans are a problem to the water supply.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/21/not-enough-water-for-uks-datacentre-plans-trade-body-says

Overheard two tourists at the local bakery:

"Now we know that we can't trust AI for the bus schedule".

#AI #search

#Forgejo 16.0.1 was just released!

We recommend that all installations are upgraded to the latest version.

Check out the release notes and download it at https://forgejo.org/releases/. If you experience any issues with this release, please report to https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues.

#forgejorelease

Ok, as someone who's never used/paid for either, I'm interested to know what folks, either on a biz/org capacity, or personal/family level are paying Microsoft or Google for MSO 365 or Google Workspace these days, and what you get for it. Please clarify the currency you're using. Feel free to DM if you prefer results not to be public. My discretion is assured.

A Nikkei investigation showed that Tech giants Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, & Oracle hide $1.65 trillion in off balance sheet debt from GPU contracts, data center leases, & joint ventures. That’s even more than their $1.35 trillion in official debt! Because accounting rules don't count these obligations until facilities go live, investors are getting a skewed picture: hidden debt that inflates current profit figure & yes it is all legal 🤣 https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/five-us-tech-giants-hidden-debts-soar-to-1.65tn-on-opaque-ai-funding ( https://archive.ph/lOlv5 )

I’m a firm believer that nonprofits, especially, should be incorporating Fediverse technologies as part of their social media strategy. I understand that they still need the major social networks for reach, but in my experience, Fediverse users volunteer and donate more often.

I know I do, and I know a bunch of my friends on the Fediverse do as well. We’re a generous bunch, and we often show up.