Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Ooc: I grew up in a union household. I owe my life to organized labor. At some point during my life, dems stopped doing fuck all for labor and became a party that modeled itself around the motherfucking Cheneys. These people basically agree with the right wing in substance but not style. I can't work with this half-hearted performative nonsense. This is a serious time that deserves a serious response, not unserious morons fiddling while the republic burns.

Do your bit to help advance the AI revolution by sitting in the dark, drinking less water, and showering less. - Save the AI https://savethe.ai/

Huh, could it be possible that Microsoft, in addition to being almost entirely unable to write software, has expanded their incompetence diversity to include quantum computing as well? https://yewtu.be/watch?v=bJTsFZtD7xE or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJTsFZtD7xE

Right, just upgraded 4 Mastodon instances from 4.3.0 -> 4.3.4 (due to a critical security issue) in about an hour. Fairly well scripted. This stuff isn't that hard (if I can do it 🤪 )...

Meanwhile in NYC...

https://www.work-bites.com/view-all/nomore24busts

Huh, imagine, gov't IT systems vastly over priced: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/543767/acc-s-botched-it-project-needed-overseas-expertise-to-help and imagine - the soluion: "buy more off-the-shelf". 🤦 How about pay local providers to build #libre / #FOSS solutions that can be used across gov'ts around the world! We're not competing with other gov'ts! What if they did the same & most of our gov't IT systems came from other countries' libre efforts, supported by our *local* industry, not Trump's BigTech puppetmasters (or minions, depending on your POV).

“Your driving data goes to a half a dozen companies you’ve never even heard of for reasons you’d perhaps never agree to if asked directly,” EFF’s @Thorin told @ConsumerReports. https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics/personal-information/how-to-stop-your-car-from-collecting-sharing-driving-data-a1233378612/

Investigating journalists for accurately reporting comments critical of the Dear Leader is something we used to expect from North Korea, Iran, and Russia, not the United States.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/business/media/voice-of-america-trump.html

Secret police, secret arrests, secret jails, and secret courts.

If that sounds un-American to you, that's because it is.

https://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/2025/03/secret-arrests-hidden-jail-rosters-shrouded-records-immigration-court-lacks-the-transparency-of-other-courts-experts-say.html

I don't really know how to shout this from the rooftops any louder: If this actually happens, it would spell the end of U.S. numerical weather prediction--the scientific models, run on supercomputers, used to create virtually all weather forecasts. https://www.axios.com/2025/03/03/doge-noaa-weather-building-leases-trump

All corruption, all the time in Trump world... https://gizmodo.com/sec-drops-charges-against-chinese-billionaire-after-he-pumps-30-million-into-trumps-crypto-scheme-2000569966

Google: We’ll reach Artificial General Intelligence if you slackers just show face in the office 60 hours a week

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/03/google-well-reach-artificial-general-intelligence-if-you-slackers-just-show-face-in-the-office-60-hours-a-week/

Hearing someone unironically refer to the US and Western Europe as "The Free World" is just hilarious.

I keep reading that #China (murderous dictatorship) is the world's biggest carbon emitter per nation. This is true but irrelevant. The number we should look at is carbon emissions *per capita*. Here are the top ten in 2023:

* Palau
* Qatar
* Kuwait
* Brunei
* New Caledonia
* Bahrain
* United Arab Emirates
* Trinidad and Tobago
* Gibraltar
* Saudi Arabia

It's the Arabian peninsula, people. China is doing better than Canada, Russia, Australia and the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions_per_capita

#co2 #climate

Ah, Trump just paused all military aid to Ukraine, lifted sanctions on Russia, cancelled all cyber operations (offensive and defensive) against Russia, and fired a bunch of the Cyber team too. Oh and he took whatever classified documents he had back to Mar-A-Largo as well.

And we still aren't openly saying he's a Russian asset yet?

#Trump #Russia #Spy #AgentOrange #TrumpIsARussianAsset #USA #Politics #Ukraine #CyberSecurity

I've seen AppArmor used primarily to *harden* the security of an existing program. Is it also reasonable to use it to *sandbox* known-malicious code? Or are other methods required?

Incredible statement from the American Meteorological Organization. It takes a lot for a scientific organization to issue a statement like this:

"U.S. leadership in scientific innovation is at risk due to the recent and ongoing reductions in U.S. federal science capabilities. The consequences to the American people will be large and wide-ranging, including increased vulnerability to hazardous weather...Recent terminations within the government workforce for science are likely to cause irreparable harm and have far-reaching consequences for public safety, economic well-being, and the United States’ global leadership."

Full statement here: https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-ams/ams-statements/statements-of-the-ams-in-force/the-u-s-weather-enterprise-a-national-treasure-at-risk/?_zs=m2nfc1&_zl=iOL6A

The "Resistance Toolkit" -- https://resistance-toolkit.com/

Over my career I've been involved in hundreds of contract negotiations, many of them including stuff like software licensing. I've done this work for governments, and corporations, for myself, and for non-profits.

Which is to say, I know what words mean. I know what the legal norms are in multiple jurisdictions, and I know when someone is trying to bullshit me.

I have no doubt that Mozilla think they need this license and privacy policy. I'm concerened enough by the "why" to ditch firefox.