Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

✨ We have a new and improved guide for self-hosting Karrot! 🥕

It now has 3 approaches documented:
- Co-op Cloud - @coopcloud / https://coopcloud.tech
- Docker Compose
- Without docker

(And a description of how we host https://karrot.world - none of the above!)

https://docs.karrot.world/self-host/getting-started

From October 3 to 5, we host our first #hackathon.

It will be a weekend full of fun, mate, and wild coding. We want to focus on the following topics, but we are also open to other ideas:
#Coopcloud: https://coopcloud.tech
#LAUTI: https://lauti.org

Participation is #free! Vegan food and drinks will be provided, but everyone is asked to help out in the kitchen.

📍 #Stuttgart, Germany
Fr: 4–11pm
Sa: 10am–11pm
Su: 10am–4pm

Registration: https://cloud.klasse-methode.it/apps/forms/s/LsJNcoGmiq8pomZcBE4bZ3TA

On Aug 25, 1921, 10,000 miners rose in the Battle of Blair Mountain—the largest labor uprising in US history. Wearing red bandanas, they fought for dignity, union rights, and each other. Get 40% off titles with code BANDANA 8/25–8/29: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_list&c=251

Postal services in Europe suspend parcel shipments to US amid uncertainty over #tariffs - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/aug/25/postal-services-in-europe-suspend-parcel-shipments-to-us-amid-uncertainty-over-tariffs " 1.36bn packages were sent last year under the so-called “de minimis” exemption, containing goods worth $64.6bn, according to US Customs, but such parcels will now face a 15% tariff"

This company is just begging for a defamation lawsuit against it: https://www.404media.co/citizen-is-using-ai-to-generate-crime-alerts-with-no-human-review-its-making-a-lot-of-mistakes

Public school's getting overhauled to make future generations as dumb as our government. https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden

Hello Fedi friends,

I hope you had a lovely weekend.

I just published a new post as part of the #NOWpage movement, sharing what I've been up to this month (writing, reading & learning):

🔗 : https://news.elenarossini.com/what-im-up-to-august-2025-edition/

If you want to check out the occasional train wreck that is my #selfhosting experimentations, I have a custom RSS feed for #MySoCalledSudoLife posts.

I still know very little, but I know more than yesterday 😆

Special shoutout to @rwg and his superb book on the Fediverse.

#blog

[Full-time] Senior Software Engineer (all genders) - Wikibase Suite at Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. https://www.fossjobs.net/job/11561/senior-software-engineer-all-genders-wikibase-suite-at-wikimedia-deutschland-ev/ #GetFediHired #fossjobs

Latest comic: It's hard to imagine another country doing more damage to the US than what is being done from within

#uspol #cartoon #comic #science #oligarchy #authoritarianism

(comic) Temporary fixes, permanent consequences. https://workchronicles.substack.com/p/comic-temporary-fixes-permanent-consequences

At the risk of restating the obvious: the AI companies are spending $100 billion in a single quarter on data centres because they plan to use them at capacity to maximise profits. Therefore the actual energy and water cost of an individual query is irrelevant: the purpose of installing >10 GW of new data centre capacity per year globally is to use it fully. Ditto for the generation capacity needed to power them: it will be used, if not for data centres, then for something else.

#FrugalComputing

What's all this now?
https://newpublic.substack.com/p/how-blacksky-grew-to-millions-of

I don't actually understand the article after a quick skim, but I'm guessing from Christine LemmerWebber's analysis of how Bluesky really isn't decentralized that Blacksky isn't either?

If anyone knows more, I'd be curious to hear.

#blacksky #bluesky #fediverse #decentralization #socialmedia

A moment of gratitude for the amazing @vkc - whose video tutorials are simply illuminating.

As a clueless self-hosting newbie I often ask for advice here on the Fediverse… and get really helpful feedback but most of the time it reads like a foreign language to me (a non-dev).

Well, Veronica has perfected a way to talk to newbies.

Thank you Veronica for making me understand OpenSSH - at long last 🙌

I highly recommend her #PeerTube channel: https://tinkerbetter.tube/c/veronicaexplains/videos ❤️✨

I've had an above average level of education and I like school so it's worse for most people.

Mention a name? Who is that? Mention a state or organization? Who are they?

Adding more background to your posts can really expand the number of people who can engage with the topic.

Of course it's also good if you are simply helpful when asked dead simple questions. Eg. "Who is Maxwell?" or "What is a primary?"

But most of the time people WILL NOT ask.

"Page 9 has a diagram of how AI investment is distributed across a business. Most of it goes to sales and marketing. And they spend the money on … spam." @davidgerard

As a personal benchmark, I've seen an annoying spike in spam emails and phone calls over the past year. The former are mostly templated pitches with a dash of personalization, while the latter are just irrelevant spam on steroids.

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/21/mit-on-enterprise-ai-95-failure-5-spam/

FERC: Solar + wind made up 91% of new US power generating capacity to end of May 2025 - https://electrek.co/2025/08/21/ferc-solar-wind-made-up-91-of-new-us-power-generating-capacity-to-end-of-may-2025/ (v slashdot) #renewables

Is sales tax really what's keeping Danes from reading more? Seems unlikely...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/20/denmark-to-abolish-vat-on-books-in-effort-to-get-more-people-reading

Last night I fell asleep listening to the latest episode of the Vergecast, which covered the #GooglePixel 10 phone & how it’s « AI stuffed ».

What did I dream about?

That I was browsing AI-generated photos on my phone. They seemed pointless and absurd (like: a mini car sitting on a car seat).

Then a white overlay appeared on screen, showing the energy consumption it took to generate the photos.

I remember screaming when I read « 100 liters » (22 gallons)… and then I woke up 😐

#NoAI

What the heck happened to 9-axis inertial sensors?

I can find only 1 at digikey and it's
1. on its way out
2. pricey

#electronics

This #BlackAugust we're reading the zine Freeing Assata from Philly Anticap.

In it they discuss the history of the Shakur family, Assata Shakur's daring escape from prison, Russell Maroon Shoatz, the Black Liberation Army, and anti-prison struggles.

https://phlanticap.noblogs.org/zine-freeing-assata/

.pdf available here:

https://phlanticap.noblogs.org/files/2025/04/freeingassatascreen.pdf