Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

"Japan and the United States have been discussing a scenario, in which the U.S. military would use nuclear weapons...As part of the extended deterrence talks in recent years, Tokyo and Washington have held multiple tabletop exercises to strategize a scenario in which a conflict broke out in East Asia and the United States is pressured to use nuclear weapons, according to the sources."

Pressured by who? 🤔

https://english.kyodonews.net/articles/-/58051

Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.

Here’s how to use #RSS.

https://www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-rss/

RSS offers readers and writers a path away from unreliable, manipulative, and hostile platforms and intermediaries.

#RSS

It’s not too late to start masking.

You don’t have to do it alone.

There’s an engaged Covid cautious and disability community who will help you.

There’s local mask blocs who provide respirators to those who can’t afford them.

Covid is still here, and masks work!

Trump: “Drop that Digital Services Tax or we’ll stop negotiating and put more tariffs on you.”

Canada: “Okay, they’re dropped.”

Trump, today: “Cool. We’re gonna stop negotiating and put more tariffs on you anyway.”

CAN WE STOP NEGOTIATING WITH A PATHOLOGICAL LIAR NOW PLEASE?

@openstreetmap I noticed osm.org now uses #WebGL for the slippy map.

Having worked with #GPU drivers I keep that crap off on the web browser (which is as much an an untrusted context as it gets) for paranoia reasons :P

Is there a fallback that folks like me could activate?

#mapping #opengl #security #openstreetmap

Made a dumb little video bc the farm sector's been hopin' and prayin' that Trump "has a plan" to make tariffs go away before harvest so they don't go broke.

Yeah... look at him flailing around on Epstein. This dude doesn't have a plan for himSELF.

https://youtube.com/shorts/-WsDkbuxarw

New blog post: Q2/2025 Progress: Over 30 apps added, JSON API



https://linuxphoneapps.org/blog/additions-of-q2-2025/

Hello here's a writeup of what's really happening with the new secure boot certificates and how your computer is going to carry on working just fine: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/72892.html

The reason Substack pushed a Nazi blog onto people's phones is because—as founder Hamish McKenzie said in his response to Substackers Against Nazis 2 yrs ago—he believes it is valuable and important to platform Nazi voices.

This sort of thing is not a one-off. https://www.the-reframe.com/questions-for-substack/

@kcarruthers Here is the story of how we migrated to WordPress to escape from Substack 18 months ago https://systemsapproach.org/2024/02/19/decentralize-this/

#^https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/we-support-wikimedia-foundations-challenge-uks-online-safety-act
"...because the law requires Category 1 services to allow users to block all unverified users from editing any content they post, the law effectively requires the Foundation to verify the identity of many Wikipedia contributors. However, that compelled verification undermines the privacy that keeps the site’s volunteers safe."

If it ain't clear to you by this point why the Dems are a lost cause, you really have not been paying attention.

We didn't have enough medical privacy to begin with, but now the Trump regime, Big Tech (all of it), and Big Medicine are going to utterly shred the last vestiges of privacy.

Because they can. And because big money will be made by screwing the rest of us.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-ai-rfk-jr-health-tech-fa73703bd1fd557c787ef0b590e151f1

How to Leave Substack. “Unfortunately, Substack willingly platforms, and allows bad actors to monetize, hate speech and misinformation. You should probably leave Substack.” https://leavesubstack.com/

We just added 100 more Texas agencies using Flock Safety automated license plate readers to the Atlas of Surveillance. As police tech spreads, you can count on EFF to track it and fight for your rights.
https://www.atlasofsurveillance.org/

If anyone is up for doing a #security review of Breakmancer's protocol (#cryptography, networking, handshake logic) I'd be *very* appreciative!

These are the most recent protocol docs: https://docs.rs/breakmancer/0.9.0/breakmancer/protocol/index.html

It's nothing super complicated, just an exchange of X-Wing keys and a KDF, with out-of-band key verification—but *anything* can be gotten wrong. :-)

#CodeReview #AppSec #RustLang

I'm currently building it for 64-bit Linux and (I think any model of) Raspberry Pi—those are the only kinds of computers I have available for testing!

If you have a Mac (Apple Silicon or older) and would like to help me test on a new platform, drop me a line. I'd be happy to provide a custom build.