Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

The United States is committing national suicide. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01396-2

Depraved indifference may be the best way to describe this: https://www.apskilledmymom.com/resources/myers

Thanks to @micahflee we can all examine the source code of that weird #Signal app variant from Telemessage that is used by Tim Waltz and possibly more Trump admin members.

iOS: https://github.com/micahflee/TM-SGNL-iOS
Android: https://github.com/micahflee/TM-SGNL-Android

(it's GPLv3 licensed, so Telemessage should be fine with this ;)

The democracies of the world that still use the old first-past-the-post voting system need to adopt a form of preferential voting (or single transferable vote or ranked choice)... This video shows how the UK's local politics are being hobbled by its decrepit voting system: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=9mEZofx3Na4 of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mEZofx3Na4

Windows 10 support ends soon. Millions of perfectly working computers may be scrapped just because they can’t run Win11. It’s absurd. https://endof10.org encourages people to switch to Linux - and offers volunteers' help. I moved from Windows to Linux in recent years and couldn’t be happier. My favourite old laptop, an affordable model which carried me through years of PhD, now runs like new. If you’re curious to try but nervous, I’m happy to help!

#Linux #FOSS #RightToRepair #EndOf10

It must be cold comfort to the US that it's new main purpose in the world order is to act as a warning to others. Good on you Canada and Oz for running the right wing asshats out on a rail. Now all you need to do is elect actual progressives instead of 'shit-lite'.

This week's comic: A "manly" economy

#economy #oligarchy #gender #authoritarianism #labor #jobs #inequality #work

@existentialcomics @tdp_org yeah, capitalism gave us CompuServe and AOL. The government gave us the Internet.

Come with me, on an NYT Idiot Safari ... https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/5/2/2319992/-Cartoon-Unfocused-groups

well, looks like i'm getting kicked out of my home soon /srs


i would appreciate help in this regard, my german skills aren't that great so contacting authorities to help isn't too easy for me. i currently live near darmstadt/mannheim for reference.

boosts appreciated. #mutualaid

BUFFALO, NY: We are mobilizing to protest the arrest and detention of a group of UFW farm worker leaders we believe are being held at the Batavia ICE detention center.

We believe targeting known union supporters in the name of immigration “enforcement” is an outrage. These workers must be released.

Also, if (as Satya Nadela claims in public) 30% of Microsoft's software is LLM-generated, then we can expect the next couple of generations of Windows and Microsoft Office to be unelievably bad. Not just enshittified for advertising and profit: but full of really idiotic security holes and bugs inserted by LLMs that were trained on their own toxic efflux by "developers" too de-skilled to understand what they were doing.

I’m often reminded about the cartoon where someone asks, “what if we made the air cleaner and our cities liveable for nothing?”

There are lots of places where you can find something in common:

You don’t like traffic, I don’t like traffic. You know what fixes that? Buses!

You don’t like potholes, I don’t like potholes. You know what fixes that? Trains!

High power prices: solar & batteries.

Huge jumps in petrol prices: EVs

It helps to have them all ready.

@lightweight @heyrochelle

Packaged the open-source community calendar #Lauti for #NixOS, now in version 1.0 https://lauti.org ➡️ https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/403263

I know I have had the privilege for far more education than my neighbour, but it's hard to understand how some people can be so prone to intellectual dishonesty when it becomes clear that the way we've lived for the past couple generations has caused the problems we're facing as a global society & biosphere. Seems changes in social expectations they thought they understood undermines their pride in what they've accomplished in their lives & careers or things they hold dear, e.g. petrol cars.

PSA from John Cusack: Democracy is under attack — and paywalls shouldn’t stand in the way of accessing vital public records.

News outlets, it’s time to drop the paywalls for FOIA-based reporting.

Wired did it. @404mediaco did it.

Now, it’s your turn.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WZf1L5hH8JA

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#AI models routinely lie when honesty conflicts with their goals - https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/01/ai_models_lie_research/ "Keep plugging those #LLMs into your apps, folks. This neural network told me it'll be fine"

Standards are anti-capitalism.

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-anti-capitalist-case-for-standards/

"... one of the most pragmatic anti-capitalist things that one can do is to ... participate in the standards development process. Encouraging organizations within a capitalist system to participate in a process that rests on openness, consensus, and lack of dominance erodes the power of that very system. It ensures that information — which, as we know, is power — is a public good."

The administration claims leaks to reporters damage U.S. policy interests.

But the examples it cites are damaging only to their reputations.

https://freedom.press/issues/new-doj-policy-on-journalists-and-sources-fuels-trumps-lies/