Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

We have migrated the primary Forgejo instance from "Kampenwand" to "Achtermann" now and everything is expected to run stable. Let us know if you face any issues.

For some minutes, the page showed a banner with " WARNING: THIS IS A TEST INSTANCE. DATA CAN VANISH AT ANY TIME.". No data was at danger, or lust but we simply forgot to remove the warning before doing the actual switch.

Teachers Beware of Climate Denial

I wrote this peer-reviewed review article especially for science teachers to inform them of the insidious nature of the threat of climate denial in the classroom.

https://gc.copernicus.org/articles/8/81/2025/gc-8-81-2025.html

#SlotMachine firms target #UK’s #poorest areas and channel funds to #billionaires | #Gambling | The Guardian

An insidious way of effectively draining poor people of money, the ones who can least afford it, of course.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/may/18/slot-machine-firms-uk-poorest-areas-andy-burnham

phosh 0.47.0 is out 🚀📱:

This release is a bit smaller than the previous two as we spent more time on other parts of the #LinuxMobile stack but there's still some 🐛 fixes and improvements, check out the full release
notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.47.0/ for details or see 👇 for a short 🧵

🙏 to everyone who contributed to this release.

#phosh #Librem5 #PinePhone #gtk #wlroots #gnome #linux #mobile

We. Are. LIVE!

https://apply.coop

There might only be a handful of co-ops and positions, but its up to all of you to help spread the word to co-ops/non-profits to list their job openings. We will do our part as well!

#applycoop #Coops #JobBoard #GetFediHired #Hiring

The UK prime minister warns that immigration could turn Britain into an ‘island of strangers’. Author and poet Michael Rosen responds...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/17/my-island-of-strangers-poem-michael-rosen

#Doonesbury by #GarryTrudeau on GoComics

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2025/05/18

#Humour #Cartoon

Sigh. It's possible to remotely, physically locate any O2 mobile customer at any time over the internet with a trivial method using their mobile phone number, due to O2's poor implementation of 4G Calling which, by design, gives away the Cell ID.

https://mastdatabase.co.uk/blog/2025/05/o2-expose-customer-location-call-4g/

Oklahoma public schools are ordered to teach lies to students. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/17/oklahoma-high-schools-election-conspiracy-theories

#Israel accused of #EthnicCleansing after more than 140 killed in #Gaza in 24 hours | Israel | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/17/israel-gaza-ethnic-cleansing-palestinian-death-toll

#Palestine

#UK #government dropped #health push after #lobbying by #Ultra-processed #Food firms | #Ultra-ProcessedFoods | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2025/may/17/uk-government-drops-healthy-eating-push-after-lobbying-by-ultra-processed-food-firms

#Politics

May Day reminds us: the working class has always fought back. In a time of rising repression, worker solidarity isn’t nostalgia—it’s survival. Now through 6/1, get a free e-book copy of The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day with code MAYDAY here: https://www.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=808

Thanks for nothing.

Latest comic: Beware of Glernog

#cartoon #comic #oligarchy #aliens #climatechange

Hello Fedi friends!

I'm preparing a presentation for a conference. The title: "The Rebellion will be self-hosted: Resisting the Digital Coup with #YunoHost"

I'm trying to describe how @yunohost has had a positive impact on my life. It's so hard to do so in 10 minutes or less 😅

A routine reminder that #YunoHost has a fundraising drive for the year so if you self-host through them and can afford to donate, any euro / dollar / yen counts: https://yunohost.org/donate.en.html Their volunteers are amazing ❤️

@tante related: the late Neil Postman's 6 questions about new technology are BRILLIANT and totally withstood the test of time: https://gavincastleton.tumblr.com/post/19024953313/neil-postman-6-questions-we-should-ask-before His book #Technopoly is a must read

#NeilPostman

Terrible books for terrible times. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/5/16/2322643/-Cartoon-Spring-reads

@maxleibman I 100% agree. Here’s a blog post I wrote on the subject a while back: https://mattjhayes.com/2024/01/21/when-computers-hallucinate/

Widely covered MIT paper saying AI boosts worker productivity is, in fact, complete bullshit it turns out.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mit-says-it-no-longer-stands-behind-students-ai-research-paper-11434092?st=sF3Wvo&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

@thisismissem @kissane I haven't deployed Loomio, but my advice for deploying things in general is to use @coopcloud which makes things much easier thanks to some nice tooling + a recipe commons, and there's a Loomio recipe: https://recipes.coopcloud.tech/loomio

Another advantage is once you have the tooling set up, it's a breeze to deploy more FOSS apps to the same server :)