Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

look guys I finally made a nice video about nice things

(Costco is legitimately great! It also does a lot of the heavy lifting to keep the US food system safe & sanitary, filling holes in state & federal food safety enforcement.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNO8TBZn0rs

So Israel just gets away with this then?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/02/gaza-humanitarian-aid-ship-bombed-drones-waters-off-malta

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #WarCrimes #Malta

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Today's Help Desk: "We Hope It's Not A Wake-Up Call"

https://www.eviscerati.org/comics/hd/2025/05/we-hope-its-not-a-wake-up-call/

You’re not “vibe coding” or “using AI”, you’re being lazy, producing shitty code, stealing people’s work, destroying the environment, and empowering the broligarchy.

The block list grows.

Contest to be the absolute worst is heating up...

Mayday! #YunoHost needs your support!

YunoHost is free, but we do have expenses. According to our projections, our budget will be half covered by the end of the year.

Your generosity is already enabling us to maintain the project, but we'd like to do better: https://yunohost.org/donate.html

Whether it's giving your time, making a donation or spreading kind words, your contributions are always greatly appreciated! Thank you!

#YNH #selfhosting #donate #gratitude

So I have this #USB #SATA controller from #asmedia . I want to flip some bits in the #firmware for great good. But when I do, the flashing utility fails.

Does anyone have a clue how they might checksum their firmware?

It uses the ASM1053E chip.

#ReverseEngineering

Looks like Corporate #infosec has made it's choice.

#RSAC is filled with talks embracing AI and making it "secure".

And they invited and encouraged the Trump regime to spread its disinformation - fully sanctioned and encouraged by the conference leadership(and by conference attendees who laughed at the regime's jokes and lies and issued no challenges or stands during the talk).

With the ostracization of #ChrisKrebs by industry and the full embrace of Kristi Noem as a speaker, this was the moment that infosec made its bed.

Y'all lie in it now.

seems a good day to express gratitude for @mayfirst - for their tech services, having actual humans doing support, living their values as a co-op, design and usability improvements, and protecting members’ freedom of speech

This is the way: “Mastodon has taken the strategic decision not to accept venture capital investments for growth, but rather restructure to a European non-profit organisation. This means that we’re reliant on your support to build a team to work full-time on new product features, maintain mastodon.social and mastodon.online, and represent Mastodon and the broader Fediverse to policy makers and to media organisations. The elements of our mission related to an open internet, privacy, and data ownership are more important than ever.”

#shutUpAndTakeMyMoney

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/05/evolving-the-team/

As of *right now* developers can start to build third-party payments into their apps and Apple *cannot* block them. It's the end of the app tax, a source of about $100b/year for Apple:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/01/apple_epic_lies_possible_crime/

The world is on fire and everything is terrible, but we are also living through the most consequential season in the history of the war on corporate tech power.

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That's the kind of thing that is apt to make a federal judge angry - and, as noted, angry federal judges can make life very hard for tech monopolists, a lesson Google learned when it destroyed key evidence in its Epic case. But Apple didn't just flout the court order - they *lied about it* to cover it up, and Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers is *furious*.

10/

Patreon performers recently raised a stink when the company announced that it would be clawing back 30% of the money pledged by their supporters - that 30% surcharge is passed straight through to Apple/Google:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/12/24218629/patreon-membership-ios-30-percent-apple-tax

From independent news outlets to crafters selling their work out of small storefronts, all the way up to massive entertainment services like Disney Plus and Fortnite, the mobile cartel takes 30% out of every dollar.

3/

Epic's own digital practices are hardly spotless: just this year, the company was caught cheating players - many of them children - with deceptive practices and had to refund over $72m:

https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/refunds/fortnite-refunds

But in this fight, Epic is on the side of the angels. The 30% that Apple/Google sucks out of the mobile economy is a brutal tax, and not just on app makers.

2/

🚩 Erster Mai - Straße frei! 🏴
Dieser Spruch hallt heute von vielen Lautis durch die Städte. Deshalb feiern wir auch den Release 1.0 von LAUTI am 1.Mai.

📣 LAUTI - Open Source Community Kalender

LAUTI ist eine unabhängige Kalender-Software für Städte oder Regionen. Kommt mit auf die Straße und verbindet eure Gruppen und Orte mit unserer unkommerziellen Open Source Organizing-Plattform.

✊ Auf einen kämpferischen 1. Mai.

Klasse & Methode - IT Kollektiv Stuttgart

👉 https://lauti.org

Huh - what do you know? https://redis.io/blog/agplv3/ - turns out that when a software category is dominated by a libre option (e.g. mobile operating systems, blog engines, and now value stores/caching systems), nothing else can compete. As it should be.

Check out the new documentary series from @subMedia that just dropped its first episode on the massive uprising in #Chile in 2019.

Watch it here and set up a film showing in your area!

https://itsgoingdown.org/submedia-presents-interrebellium-the-estallido-social/