Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Hey friends. If you know someone who is looking for a software and cybersecurity worker with 20+ years experience, please let me know. Many thanks.

A rare #Android encounter: I spent two days unlocking and #rooting a donated phone with the help of Russian forums, just to find out that it doesn't support USB host mode in the end. No free microscope display for me today.

On a side note, Android is crazy snappy compared to any computer I used after 2000. There's no delay between touching the screen and the sound feedback. This should never get forgotten in #linuxmobile

Meta axes third-party fact-checkers in time for second Trump term - Ars Technica

Meta will also "work with President Trump to push back on governments around the world that are going after American companies and pushing to censor more,"

A global war of American billionaires, backed by the US government, against the rest of the world, propaganda division.

#democracy #propaganda

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/meta-axes-third-party-fact-checkers-in-time-for-second-trump-term/

All the time I spend worrying about Trump destroying the US is really cutting into the time I should be spending worrying about climate change destroying the world.

Really like how #libvirt's

virsh migrate --copy-storage-all myvm qemu+ssh://user@whatever.new.host/system is simpler than scp/rsyncing things over.

The #Forgejo monthly update was published ✨ It is a high level overview of the project activities.

All the best for the new year from Forgejo. We are in the preparations for the upcoming v10 release, have improved testing and automation. A a big thanks to everyone who makes Forgejo a success, including upstream projects and libraries Forgejo depends on.

https://forgejo.org/2024-12-monthly-update/

TBH I struggle with the indignant toots in the fedi about Zucks latest kowtowing. Like, when has that dude ever been anything but an opportunistic douche canoe? Why is anyone surprised? This rant is from 2011 y'all: https://www.laurahilliger.com/techie/fuck-you-facebook/

Butlerian Jihad when?

https://www.reddit.com/r/ABoringDystopia/comments/1ht7fft/used_meta_ai_to_edit_a_selfie_now_instagram_is/#lightbox

Reducing financial assets in the economy is good for you if you make your bones by renting out scarce financial resources to the needy masses. If you're one of those needy masses, not so much. Which is why both the Dems and Repubs have been in lock-step claiming that the Federal gov't running a deficit (i.e. putting more money into the economy than taking out) is a bad thing, and somehow "indebting future generations." Their shared rhetoric has set the stage for this DOGE nonsense.

For everyone freaking out about DOGE and gov't budget cuts that are (probably) coming, I would just like to take this opportunity to point out that the narrative -- spread as much by Dems as by Repubs -- that the federal budget deficit is too big and somehow problematic is what allows these kinds of policies to flourish. This is why I've been explaining MMT and national accounting to people for the last decade.

Revolution when?

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/01/health-insurers-limit-coverage-of-prosthetic-limbs-questioning-their-medical-necessity.html

Mourning Steve Langasek

https://lwn.net/Articles/1004297/ #LWN

I have encountered more image descriptions on Mastodon in 24 hours than I have in Twitter in a couple of years. Seriously. I'm not exaggerating.
As a blind person, this means a lot to me. If you read this and you describe your images, thank you so, so, so much on behalf of all of us. If you don't, now you know you'll be helping random Internet strangers make sense of your posts by typing in a few more words than usual.

If you have an Meta/Instagram account, you apparently have given the company permission to abuse it in the following way:

https://www.404media.co/instagram-begins-randomly-showing-users-ai-generated-images-of-themselves/

Today, @ddosecrets published 212GB of chat logs and recordings from paramilitary/militia groups, including Three Percent and Oath Keepers, available for everyone to download https://ddosecrets.com/article/paramilitary-leaks

More about the leak from @ProPublica: https://www.propublica.org/article/ap3-oath-keepers-militia-mole

Hiring: We are looking for a Linux Support Specialist to join our growing team support team. This position will focus on Linux support efforts across all relevant social surfaces where Framework has a presence. https://jobs.lever.co/framework/1e7b0169-520e-4207-bafc-b454cec10809

Batteries are a clearly more economic option, and we're going to have to learn to work with China, because they've monstered the market thanks to their (despite many other faults!) very strategically savvy gov't.

Of course, famously, funding the commons is extremely difficult. Despite how much "easier" short term it would be to take large amounts of VC cash, we are here for the long term vision.

Did we mention we are running a public fundraising campaign? We could use your help! https://spritely.institute/donate/

For AI agents to be powerful and personal, they will need significant data access. “When we’re talking about an app that might be able to look at your entire computer, that is really disturbing,” EFF’s @cmcsherr told @washingtonpost. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/01/05/agents-ai-chatbots-google-mariner/