Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

My comrade Hardworking Netizen is a retail worker who also does web development. They are also an anti Gen AI political activist, and trying to labor union organize their workplace. They are also #Covid safe.

Their message:

"hi all - I just worked a shift with major overtime and severe understaffing, and got a single 15 minute break in all of it - I only have $2 in my bank account, $20 would help me get something to eat. Thank you;

https://ko-fi.com/hardworkingnet
"
Share! 🎉🎉 #NoAI #MutualAid

"Higher velocity = more good" is a misunderstanding premised on the idea that every piece of work on your Jira board is there because it adds value in some way.

Once you understand that the majority of developer tickets are actually negative-value, you will become enlightened.

#tech #software #softwareDevelopment #productmanagement

A Paramount-appointed editorial independence board for CNN and CBS is worthless.

The fish rots from the head, and this particular fish is headed by a compromised oligarch with a history of throwing under the bus to advance his business interests.

Our statement:

https://freedom.press/issues/fpf-statement-on-editorial-independence-board-for-cbs-and-cnn/

WebKitGTK 2.54 has been finally released, and with it (among lots of other great things!) my patches adding support for fractional TouchPoint coordinates, PointerEvent capture/release through the DOM API, and fixing pinch-to-zoom handling and V4L2 video acceleration. It's been a while but it's out now:)

https://webkitgtk.org/2026/09/16/webkitgtk-2.54-highlights.html

#librem5 #mobilelinux #linuxmobile #linuxphone #linuxphones #gnu #linux #epiphany #webkit #webkitgtk #wpewebkit #purism #gnome

@phosh If you want to help us test this on @mobian please pull phoc (0.58~alpha1-1) and gtk4 from unstable. (4.24.0+ds-2).

Twenty-five years ago ten people set out to find whether a company owned by its workers could do serious engineering entirely in the open. We think the answer is in the commit logs.

All of it is upstream, where anyone can use it. Here is to the next twenty-five.

I am so burnt out, from work, from slop, from technofascism, from the minefield using tech has become, and now even my cakes are falling apart 😩

I predict this thing never actually comes online. It sounds like an engineering disaster waiting to happen.

https://montanafreepress.org/2026/09/18/broadview-area-data-center-sees-first-phase-of-construction-with-roads-well-work/

@baldur
The models have eaten tons of "enterprise best practices" that of course were meant for a different enterprise and never actually used but made up by some dude trying to score on StackOverflow. So the answer to your question is: Yes, but worse.

I have to work with slop-coders for a project and I have to ask: is it an “agent” tick to rewrite node projects to run all tests in docker? So instead of running the project in the node everybody has set up, it rewrites it to run in node wrapped up in a docker image with tons of weird and unnecessary cruft.

Trying not to be annoyed at the unnecessary complexity and absolute garbage docs they keep adding (the project is already fully documented)

On September 21, 1979, The Clash tore through the Palladium in New York City. It was a night that would become rock history.
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Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they cover ‘social topics’ - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/21/meta-ban-virginia-woolf-a-room-of-ones-own-barcelona-teatre-raval "Facebook and Instagram ads mentioning ‘civil rights or feminism’ are filtered out" #meta's #infantilising #censorship

A new team gets started with 'AI native'. They are given 'agents and prompts', and spend most of their 1st hackathon day struggling with one skill that depends on jira access and debugging it. Then they copy the jira ticket to a file, generating a plan. The plan is bad so they generate a plan they like by writing what they really want down.

There is so much theater around AI adoption.

That's what I loved about the forums and blogs of the old web. Things were spread out and separate. Every forum wasn't connected to every other forum, sharing a single pool of users and posts. So you could post about one topic in one forum with one group of friends, and then go post about other things in another forum with a different group of friends, and those two groups would never interact.

8/12

The Internet was supposed to connect people from all over the world, and maybe it still does for those who are willing to compromise their beliefs and give up their privacy and other rights, but for people like me, who at least try to be true to what we believe is right, the Internet is increasingly being closed off. We are being isolated and pushed to the fringe even more than we already were as the weird penguin-platypuses of the world. And I worry that it's very much on purpose.

12/12

“There's nothing stopping libraries from not accepting [the Big Five’s] terms right now."

The Big 5 have shown their cards, threatening to pull out of the library ebook market completely rather than pull up to the negotiating table in good faith.

I think it's time to call their bluff.

https://www.wordsandmoney.com/in-the-library-ebook-market-can-librarians-learn-to-just-say-no/

If you are now, or have ever been, an employee of the State of California, you should be paying attention to this:

"CalPERS has continued in its shameful tradition of grossly overpaying Marcie Frost via unwarranted annual compensation increases. And by “unwarranted,” we mean not just the total amount but also the fact that the lofty bonus amount is not justified under her existing compensation structure.

"Her total 2026 award was a $1.149,836 bonus. that plus her salary of $601,398 results in total pay of $1,751,234. That brings you to a record of 18.33% in publicly disclosed pay increases over her nine-year tenure at CalPERS.

"And those figures are not the sum total. Frost also received a non-disclosed long-term compensation award.

"Frost’s new salary for 2026/2027 is $641,250. Pray tell, since when are public officials entitled to salary increases that meaningfully exceed the rate of inflation?"

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/09/calpers-awards-marcie-frost-nearly-1-8-million-total-compensation-for-18-33-cagr-in-increases-since-hiring-in-violation-of-her-pay-parameters-board-dissenters-punished.html

Does anyone else work a software job where you have to pretend that LLM code generation tools are better than they are if you want to get paid?

Have been instructed to hammer them so that the person who bought them into the company will like our department more.