Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

ICCL secures permission to take Ireland’s first ever class action - https://www.iccl.ie/digital-data/iccl-secures-permission-to-take-irelands-first-ever-class-action/ " hopes to force Microsoft to bring its systems into compliance with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (#GDPR)." #big #privacy

Saudi Arabia’s secretive rehabilitation ‘prisons’ for disobedient women - https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/may/28/saudi-arabia-women-girls-rehabilitation-prisons-dar-al-reaya “If you are sexually abused or get pregnant by your brother or father you are the one sent to Dar al-Reaya to protect the family’s reputation” #barbaric #saudiarabia

"Europe has devolved into a hotbed of digital #censorship, mass migration, restrictions on religious freedom, and numerous other assaults on democratic self-governance." - https://statedept.substack.com/p/the-need-for-civilizational-allies-in-europe says, the US, where scientists are forbidden from talking about #climatecrisis or even #gender... #hypocrisy much?

First case on #AI and #copyright referred to the #CJEU - https://www.technollama.co.uk/first-case-on-ai-and-copyright-referred-to-the-cjeu "we really have to discuss the fact that a case involving a summary listicle from what appears to be a Facebook clickbait farm is going to be the first case that will decide the future of copyright and AI in the EU." good analysis

#NPR sues #Trump over blocked funding, says it may have to shutter newsrooms - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/npr-sues-trump-over-blocked-funding-says-it-may-have-to-shutter-newsrooms/ " Trump move "is textbook retaliation and viewpoint-based discrimination," NPR says."

My business model of selling tours of people's homes doesn't work if I have to get their consent.

Organizing friends, neighbors, allies, classmates, or colleagues to defend digital rights in your community? We can help. https://efa.eff.org/pages/faq

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#FTC Opens Up Bullshit Investigation Into Media Matters For Highlighting Ads Next To Nazi Content On ExTwitter - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/05/23/ftc-opens-up-bullshit-investigation-into-media-matters-for-highlighting-ads-next-to-nazi-content-on-extwitter/ #twitter

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Some signs of #AI model collapse begin to reveal themselves - https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/27/opinion_column_ai_model_collapse/ "Prediction: General-purpose AI could start getting worse" indeed

By the way, someone here – and please do speak up, if it should happen to have been you, so I can thank you! – made a throwaway comment I haven’t been able to forget, about designing a card game about Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers, where the players have to cooperate to prevent the enclosure of their commons. I’m now hellbent on actually designing this game, as an act of living resistance with woodcut-style illustrations. Call it The World Turned Upside Down!

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#Tourists from countries badly hit by #Trump #tariffs are staying away from US - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/may/27/tourists-from-countries-badly-hit-by-trump-tariffs-are-staying-away-from-us " also suggest that UK and US travellers are increasingly choosing domestic holidays amid concerns over an uncertain economy."

OMG. #Microsoft #Copilot bypasses #Sharepoint #security so you don’t have to!

“CoPilot gets privileged access to SharePoint so it can index documents, but unlike the regular search feature, it doesn’t know about or respect any of the access controls you might have set up. You can get CoPilot to just dump out the contents of sensitive documents that it can see, with the bonus feature* that your access won’t show up in audit logs.”

The S in CoPilot stands for Security!

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"Windows Was The Problem All Along" - Review of Lenovo Legion Go S by Dave2D, comparing the same hardware with Windows and SteamOS. https://youtu.be/CJXp3UYj50Q?feature=shared #linux #gamingonlinux

@creativecommons I can't help but note the irony of an organisation like CC rating the 'openness' of climate data and presenting the results in a Google Doc.

@timbray

So they use #Gitea under the hood and don't reference it once?

That's a very questionable business model, especially if the underlying tool is #FOSS.

Btw, there are more open/transparent other Forgejo/Gitea-based instances like #codeberg (https://codeberg.org) or #codefloe (https://coefloe.com)