Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

FOIA reporting made headlines this week. WIRED and 404 Media made those articles free.

We learned that CBP is collecting the DNA of minors and that ICE has a backdoor into surveillance cameras.

Read more in our secrecy newsletter, The Classifieds.

https://freedom.press/the-classifieds/foia-reporting-makes-headlines-wired-and-404-media-make-the-articles-free/

Big Tech exploits a legal loophole:

Apps bypass privacy laws by forcing users to accept invasive terms or lose access.

GDPR & CCPA can't stop it—Surveillance Capitalism is baked into app design.

The solution?

Private and secure tech by Purism: https://puri.sm/products/liberty-phone

New video on farmers & money!

(Spoiler: we worked so hard to "save family farmers" that the folks who still farm............aren't working class anymore. This explains a lot.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlCUdb2onx0

Natalie Rak, also known as Rak, is a Poland based street artist #WomensArt

#StreetArt

I just remembered that at my last job, someone mislabeled an S3 bucket as "acquision" instead of "acquisiTion", then they hardcoded hundreds of things on top of that so it's fully locked for the rest of eternity.

Thank god I am out of data hell.

I was digging through some old files this morning and found these icons with the cooperative principles on them. I made them for stickers or buttons originally, but never did anything with them, so I dedicated them to the public domain and threw them up here if anyone wants to use them for anything (I can send an SVG too but you'll need all the fonts):

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cooperative_Principles.png

The co-op principles: https://ica.coop/en/cooperatives/cooperative-identity

A Texas sheriff used 83,000+ license plate reader cameras to track a woman “suspected of having an abortion.” The reason listed in the record: “had an abortion, search for female.” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/she-got-abortion-so-texas-cop-used-83000-cameras-track-her-down

#Exercise ‘better than drugs’ to stop #cancer returning after treatment, trial finds - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/01/exercise-better-than-drugs-after-cancer-treatment-international-trial-finds "First clear evidence that structured exercise regime reduces risk of dying by a third, can stop tumours coming back or a new cancer developing" amazing

The #Forgejo monthly update was published ✨

Ongoing issues with the Matrix chat room were addressed by recreating the room. Users are encouraged to join the new room, as the old room is deprecated. Security updates have been released for versions v11 and v7. Progress continues on the moderation feature funded by @nlnet. Work on federated user activity continues, including the ability to follow Forgejo users from GoToSocial.

https://forgejo.org/2025-05-monthly-update/

Next time you hear someone say, "We have a shortage of ____" (teachers, nurses, a particular STEM role, whatever), think about the first time you heard someone say that about that role.

If it was longer ago than the time it takes to train a new entrant, get a certification, or complete a relevant degree, then there is no shortage of personnel; there's a shortage of willingness to pay people what their work is worth.

I can't believe we decided "databases, but make them worse" was a bad technological underpinning for our industry. I'm five years, hopefully I'll be equally surprised that "what if we wrote a bunch of code without caring if any of it was correct or secure or good or useful" isn't a core skill.

#Doonesbury by #GarryTrudeau on GoComics

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2025/06/01

#Humour #Cartoon

The vibe-coding trend is going to end up being one of the biggest national security risks we've seen in the software industry

https://flipboard.com/@semafor/semafor-qhf227ugz/-/a-Rkaq4LdoR7y9sCQ38tqofQ%3Aa%3A3943444710-%2F0

I just discovered the superb https://powrss.com by @enocc - a site that aims to "make it easier to discover independent sites."

And thanks to it, I found this inspiring blog post by @sylvia: "Do Nothing" https://sylvia.studio/do-nothing/

Aw the magic of the internet (as it was originally intended) ✨

Wishing everyone a lovely Sunday! And fascinating, serendipitous discoveries on https://powrss.com 😊

Do not use hCaptcha on your website. It's viciously ableist

https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/hellcaptcha-accessibility-theater-at-its-worst/

I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.

What in the cinnamon toast fuck?!

From a friend on Facebook:

Civics is now considered a sensitive subject

Civics

Treat #SocialHousing as #CriticalInfrastructure to unlock billions, says Peabody boss | Social housing | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/may/31/treat-social-housing-as-critical-infrastructure-to-unlock-billions-says-peabody-boss

#UK #Politics #Housing #Infrastructure

Now with alt text added:

Latest comic: What lives matter?

#cartoon #comic