Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

🦀 New project: Breakmancer

🔬 Drop a remote breakpoint into any shell script you're debugging, no matter where it's running.

Breakmancer opens a secure channel back to your laptop and drops you into a simple command shell where you can issue bash commands and view streaming output. Perfect for debugging CI/CD stuff.

You don't even need to set up port forwarding—it can use Magic Wormhole to wire the two computers together!

https://codeberg.org/timmc/breakmancer

#RustLang

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/why-our-biggest-power-companies-should-be-broken-up-and-why-they-shouldnt-power-to-the-people-part-4/DGINVE5UVVG7LDR2G25ZYPRZEE/

Electricity is a natural monopoly and the idiots in power think they can solve it with "competition" and "markets" (change the record, it's stuck).

We need nationalisation (without compensation) NOW, followed by a massive build out of renewables (specifically solar and wind). The end result should be too-cheap-to-meter green energy.

This is an entirely achievable goal for #NewZealand and not even particularly ambitious.

#NZPol #nz #electricity

#askfedi (where our tax consultant followers at?)

We are looking for a German tax consultant (Steuerberater) that is able to provide a one-off consultation related to how to invoice correctly and deal with taxes for some small amount of one-off money (<1000€) related to our legal status (fiscal host for an unincorporated group of individuals or "nicht eingetragener Verein"). We are very happy to pay for this work, but despite repeated attempts, we have not been able to find anybody willing to help us with something this specific as a one-off. If anybody in the fediverse happens to have some contact that might be able to, that would be extremely helpful.

Today's example: Trump apparatchik Bessent's bragging about privatizing social security -- a gift to the corrupt financial industry and disaster for seniors -- followed by disingenuous backtracking that is a blatant lie.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-child-savings-bessent-privatizing-social-security-97607050cfed0c423833ee7da88b4830

Codeberg now has an experimental way to report abuse to admins. It's WIP in #Forgejo and is going to be released in version 13 in some months. However, we deployed it on Codeberg to get some insights on how it works. Looking forward to your feedback!

The work was sponsored by @nlnet. Thank you very much!

The constitutional right to record law enforcement applies equally to immigration officers, and this story shows why.

These cops should be fired for a lot of reasons but their disregard for the First Amendment is one of them.

https://reason.com/2025/07/29/this-u-s-citizen-recorded-an-immigration-arrest-officers-told-him-to-delete-it-or-face-charges/

Guards regularly beat and abused inmates, including these individuals trafficked to El Salvador by the US government.

The US government, of course, was aware of this and wanted it to happen.

Trump is not an aberration; from Guantanamo to the CIA's extraordinary rendition program, extrajudicial violence against enemies of the American king has been going on for decades. And don't forget that Obama ordered a targeted assassination of a US citizen.

https://www.propublica.org/article/venezuelan-men-cecot-interviews-trump

Today, @freedomofpress uncovers a Google vulnerability that was exploited to de-index legitimate news stories from search results.

Read our article: Censorship Whac-A-Mole: Google search exploited to scrub articles on San Francisco tech exec

https://freedom.press/issues/censorship-whac-a-mole-google-search-exploited-to-scrub-articles-on-san-francisco-tech-exec/

Remember when “social media” was “social networking”?

What changed? That second word: media. It’s all about capturing your attention and selling you stuff.

Humans are social and want to connect with one another. That’s what makes the #fediverse special to me - authentic connection. We haven’t forgotten the social part.

🔴 Brand new comic now up on Boing Boing
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CBS's NEW SATURDAY MORNING CARTOON LINE-UP!
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https://boingboing.net/2025/07/30/tom-the-dancing-bug-cbss-new-trump-friendly-saturday-morning-line-up.html

UK users of Reddit, X, Insta, FB, Bluesky, TikTok, and many other popular platforms are now facing problems. They are being forced to verify their age using government issued IDs and a selfie. All of these for-profit corporations may use this information further for profit or may not even store user information securely. This is a nightmare scenario for many, and I wouldn't be surprised if other governments adopt similar laws.

#OpenPrinting is a fantastic project that has genuinely made the experience of printing on Linux easier; we published a blog post last month about how now it "just works": https://securedrop.org/news/implementing-just-works-printing-in-securedrop-workstation/

Unfortunately, its leader @till was recently laid off and is now looking for other funding.

Please support him and the OpenPrinting project if you're able:

https://ubuntu.social/@till/114932477260801209

I've been assuming this was the case ever since reading about Per Bak et al and their sand piles some 25 years ago.

[Abrupt collapse of Arctic sea ice may come with little warning]
https://www.earth.com/news/abrupt-collapse-of-arctic-sea-ice-may-come-with-little-warning/

https://thehonestscientist.com/per-bak/

Age verification is creating an information desert.

The Online Safety Act sets every UK user to child as default.

Teenagers? Blocked. Adults? Content denied unless we do age checks with unregulated companies.

It's not just porn! News on Gaza and Ukraine is being scrubbed from view ⛔

https://www.404media.co/uk-users-need-to-post-selfie-or-photo-id-to-view-reddits-r-israelcrimes-r-ukrainewarfootage/

#OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #OSA #palestine #gaza #ukraine #reddit #ageverification #ageassurance #privacy #censorship #ukpolitics #ukpol

So who sent out the memo to all the Western leadership that now's the time to start getting their alibis in order re the genocide? Everybody flips on a dime, all at once, like a flock of starlings...interesting, no?

This is certainly a naïve question on my part but, when I see all the talk about "vibe coding" and "AI agents" and whatnot I find myself asking: How much new code gets written in a day? How much new code do we actually need? Like, is that actually where the most work is?

I guess I don't really know what software engineers (is that what they're called?) actually do with their time. But, I would have (again, perhaps naïvely) thought debugging, refinement, responding to clients, planning/conceptualizing and such things were a bigger part of the job than just new code. I guess I don't really know what tech people are out there doing with themselves all day.

A very long overdue network for me to leave. It's been owned by Microsoft for a long time. It's corporate culture filled to the brim with AI slop is repellent.

But their bending of the knee to allow hate speech against transgender folks finally did it for me.

I've given the one month warning to folks who know me on LinkedIn.

If you're still on #LinkedIn perhaps consider leaving as well?

https://www.onepict.com/20250730-linkedin.html

Good morning Fedi friends!

My video "Introducing the #Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media" now features subtitles in Hungarian... bringing the total number of subs to 18!

Special thanks to Benedek @whitecold for the new translation! 🙏

🔗 : https://news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/

#TheFutureIsFederated

This piece gets at something I've been trying to gesture toward:
#^https://www.the-reframe.com/total-eclipses/

"And while it's true that many people who act in opposition to rising fascism often behave in performative and self-interested ways that betray a shallow understanding and suggest a lack of moral clarity or endurance or reliability, it's also true that we desperately need opposition to fascism ... and there is awareness happening here, however fleeting or ephemeral, a reaction against something unacceptable."

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