Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Just casual weekend sale things...

@jwildeboer You are all like little babies. The first thing I do is go to the last machine and "cat /etc/LOG" and then do all the things I did there. And if anything is different it goes into "cat >> /etc/LOG".

groupadd, useradd, echo 'jwz ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL' >> /etc/sudoers, all that shit is cut and paste now.

Log everything is what I'm saying. If you did it, write it down. In a text file. On slash.

Question for you!

What are the first few commands you immediately do after setting up a new Linux/*BSD machine? I don't care if you do it manually or automated with Ansible. I am just curious about what you deem to be the critical first thing :)

Me:
- feed my ssh keys to /root/.ssh/authorized_keys
- immediately change /etc/ssh/sshd_config to set
* PermitRootLogin Yes,
* PubKeyAuthentication Yes,
* PasswordAuthentication No.
- reboot

Curious what you do first :)

#SelfHost #Admin

At least two major hotel sites -- Marriott and Hilton -- refuse to work (apparently) because I block ads and trackers.

Microsoft betrays the naive developers who trusted its word:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/githubs-fall-microsofts-ai-takeover-developer-betrayal-dion-wiggins-oyetc

Here things get really interesting, slippery.

For some in orgs & movements transitioning to self-hosted infra, the uncertainty & doubt defers to their own crew because the figure of the tech giant, the brand & its culture, is too depersonalised, amorphous - abstract - to ascribe distrust to

So it follows that once again we see tech-literacy being a crucial bridge to positive change. We cannot make healthy platform choices if we cannot read nor understand what, where & *who* a platform is

3/3

What a massively sleazy company Uber is -- see this breakdown of how it profits by systematically screwing drivers and riders.

https://len-sherman.medium.com/how-uber-became-a-cash-generating-machine-ef78e7a97230

Take a taxi, if you can still find one.

Costco announced they will not stock mifepristone in their pharmacies. Contrary to viral social media posts, this IS a big deal and it DOES mean that they caved to pressure from far-right MAGA anti-woman conservatives. Here I go over the evidence and what you can do https://skepchick.org/2025/08/costco-gives-misogynists-a-win-by-not-selling-abortion-medication/

For pete's sake, @mozilla : if you want to measure whether the AI/ML features are worth a damn, put a big green "disable all AI in my browser" button on the version update screen and put some telemetry around how many people instantly click it.

Just about everyone I know who has taken the 142 update is working through about:config menus to toggle off everything under browser.ml.* and grumbling about it, or just straight-up abandoning Firefox in exasperation.

Turn the ship around. *Please*.

#USpol #Texas #Gerrymandering #Redistricting #Disenfranchisement

Ossum speech:

"Texas State Rep. #AnnJohnson clapped back at #GOP members amid Wednesday's redistricting vote.

“If you knew you could win this next election, you wouldn’t be taking this effort to try to steal five seats from elected officials that members of color elected to represent them in Washington D.C.”

https://youtube.com/shorts/GCcddd7Eqow

@democracydocket
@democratsabroad
@indivisibleteam

Another farm worker downed by heat stroke. Marco Antonio Hernández Guevara is 35 years old.

Coalition of Immokalee Workers is raising funds to handle medical care and/or end-of-life care for him & his family.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-support-the-family-of-marco-antonio-hernandez-guevara

Anarchists in Indonesia are raising funds to create a network of safe houses across the archipelago. Support them here:

https://www.firefund.net/indonesiansafehousenetwork

"[P]ermitting the Government to continue an unlawful investigation into an organization engaged in constitutionally protected speech ... would risk undermining the very foundations of our democracy. That is not in the public’s interest."

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70612884/41/media-matters-for-america-v-federal-trade-commission/

🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug
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😱 The Smythes, of Chagrin Falls, USA, get stranded in an "AMERICAN HORROR STORY"
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Brought to you by the Inner Hive, including longtime member A. Cohen and new member Jonelle Patric.
bit.ly/theInnerHive
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READ IT RIGHT HERE!👇

Attention Canadians, French people, and anyone outside the United States: Microsoft says your country's data protection laws are void and null if the US government says so. Microsoft will turn over any and all information about you to the US government at that government's request no matter what your country's laws say. Time to stop using Microsoft if you value your own privacy and your nation's sovereignty.

And hey, fellow Americans: time for you to stop using Microsoft, too, and start putting your data overseas in the servers of non-American countries. The only way any of us are going to protect our privacy is to have as little to do with our own country as is possible, and in the digital realm, there's actually a lot we can do. My Mastodon server is not the US. My personal server and email is not in the US. My company email is not in the US. I don't use Google or Meta at all, and the only thing I "use" Microsoft for is Visual Studio, which I'm even moving away from now that I'm getting out of programming for good.

Take back your privacy by boycotting the companies willing to spy on you, either for their own profit or for the corrupt, fascist American government.

#Microsoft #Canada #France #UnitedStates #USA #privacy #DataPrivacy

https://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-science/microsoft-says-u-s-law-takes-precedence-over-canadian-data-sovereignty/article

Turns out studying philosophy is actually valuable. Philosophy majors don’t just argue well, they actually become better thinkers and do better on tests.

Data from 600k students shows they outscore every other major on reasoning, curiosity and open-mindedness.

https://theconversation.com/new-research-suggests-that-studying-philosophy-makes-people-better-thinkers-262681

@dangillmor if you pay Kagi you are also giving money to OpenAI to serve you their bullshit, though. No paid tier on Kagi currently excludes AI.

@dangillmor the database will be so full of ai slop it won't matter.

Coming soon on your Mastodon server… The long awaited quote posts, with user-control (you can chose if you want to be quoted on a per-post basis, change it later, and retract any quote of your post)

Amazing work by the team 🎉

Expect a blog post with all the details in a few weeks, support in the mobile apps, then we will enable the feature on mastodon.social, then release Mastodon 4.5

#mastodon #quotePosts

May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.