Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Question for those of you who are #selfhosting your #fediverse/ #activitypub instance with a very small number of users (max 5, let’s say): how many other instances are you federated with?

No reason, I’m just curious.

FYI my little #gotosocial instance that hosts @logistics
(with ~150 followers at present) is federated to ~6,500 other instances.

Please boost for visibility.

Automatically save every document to Microsoft’s cloud. (Yes, this is the same Microsoft that’s helping Israel carry out the genocide of the Palestinian people.)

There is ZERO reason to use a Microsoft product today unless you are forced to by work.

#BDS #Microsoft #surverillance #BigTech #technofascism https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/115132426182084126

What #OpenSource and #SelfHost can do. Had an idea, discussed it here. Seemed to rhyme with people. Booked two domains. Created a landing page with #Jekyll and CI/CD from a #git repo on my #Forgejo instance. Created logo with Inkscape. Added letsencrypt certificate. Put it on my VPS (Virtual Private Server) running Red Hat Enterprise Linux, (#RHEL) where it is now served with #Nginx. Git repo mirrored to #Codeberg so all can join. In under 8h.

https://devbnb.eu

https://codeberg.org/jwildeboer/devbnb

Any lead/principle-ish level engineers looking for work in Melbourne? I know someone that's looking for someone with experience in data warehousing.

(You'd be working with me too until February-ish 2026.)

Coming soon: Microsoft calls it auto-save to the cloud, which might sound convenient for Word users. Just be aware of what's in it for them -- feeding their "AI" database, among other things -- and think about potential consequences. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft365insiderblog/save-new-files-automatically-to-the-cloud-in-word-for-windows/4445216

If you weren't already aware that Politico serves frequently as a booster of right-wing beliefs, take a look at this piece, which bemoans worthy efforts to use tech to identify Trump's masked street thugs.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/29/ai-unmasking-ice-officers-00519478

In today's post, I urge readers and writers to stop supporting #Substack, a platform that knowingly promotes white nationalist content with literal #Nazi symbols.

https://funcrunch.org/blog/2025/09/01/support-for-substack-is-normalizing-the-nazi-bar/

#WhiteSupremacy #racism

The scary headlines about "Chorus, a sEcReT dArK mOnEy gRoUp" have been absolutely wild to watch.

Because I'm in Chorus, & it's been a godsend.

Without it, I wouldn't be able to cover the US's massive modern-day farm slavery problem- at all.

https://youtu.be/f5UwwtrGdak

A Clean Hell: Anarchy and Abolition in America’s Most Notorious Dungeon by Eric King is a searing firsthand account from inside the most repressive prison in the United States—a place built not for rehabilitation, but for disappearance.

Learn about the book, contributors, praise, and more: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ww3/acleanhell

Dear fediverse,

I just had a video call over Signal with @joynewacc – – from Gaza.

Farah, or Joy, as she prefers to be called, is a 22-year-old Palestinian author and poet studying English Literature at the Islamic University of Gaza, which has been bombed by Israel.

She lives with her mother and four siblings in a shelter, trying to survive the genocide being committed by Israel.

Please help her and her family afford food during the famine that Gaza is experiencing. Please donate if you can and/or share this so that it might reach others who might be able to:

https://www.chuffed.org/project/evacuate-joy

Joy used to have an account on BlueSky but they closed it. Please give her a warm welcome to the fediverse and let her know she is welcome here.

If you’d like to read her writings, you can find them at:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1XMS1kW6EYGnb_DF2P4BbRDDMClX9Sahx

#fediverse #Gaza #Palestine #solidarity #FreePalestine

Version 2.8.0 of Geoclue, the freedesktop.org location service was just released! The release highlights are #beacondb support and a separate GeoIP source with new backends. Coming to a #linux computer near you.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/geoclue/geoclue/-/releases/2.8.0

#geoclue #freedesktop #geolocation

If you want to lose to a mostly dead guy, these folks will lead the way. https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2025/09/01

"...scientists at the University of Illinois who discovered that when children with ADHD spent time in green outdoor settings, they showed fewer attention-related symptoms afterward compared to others who spent time in human-made spaces. In one study, children with ADHD showed attention performance improvements after a walk in a park that were comparable to the effects from a dose of Ritalin."

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/09/book-review-this-is-your-brain-on-nature.html

I spent this afternoon touring the "Red Zone" of Ōtautahi-Christchurch city, NZ, with two friends. One of them works for Corrections and with his "clients" they've so far planted more than 90,000(!) native trees in this area of the city. Many more are to come. They're still baby trees now but a whole forest is on it's way!

For non-locals, the Red Zone was created after the disastrous Christchurch earthquakes of 2010 and 2011 wrecked the housing in this eastern area of the city. Most of it was reclaimed wetland and the ground didn't hold up to a serious quake. The city decided not to re-house it.

The houses have since been removed although many of the home garden trees were retained. The area is now being re-landscaped for nature, recreation, and floodwater retention.

#Christchurch #Ōtautahi #NZ #restoration #nature

3/3

…“But they did so with fierce gladness in their hearts, because what their chosen one had done was open Pandora’s box. Yes, the old one, filled with the ancient calamities of race hatred and rage and cruelty and bloodlust and infinite greed, and tell them that these things were the remedy for all their grievances. That all their anger was justified.

And most important of all, none of what ailed them was their their own fault or ever had been.”

Don't use ChatGPT, if for no other reason than because ChatGPT will literally kill you.

https://njms.ca/wiki/chatgpt-will-literally-kill-you.html

69% of you are slacking off.

[31% of employees ‘sabotaging’ corporate AI strategy]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abx6iekuN18

As far as I can find, only one major journalism organization -- the Guardian -- published an accurate and contextual headline describing Trump's illegal executive order on voting.

What made the difference? The Guardian added the word "unconstitutional".

Come on, journos, do your damn jobs.

New releases of my Grav CMS #Markdown projects Open Course Hub and its 'evil' twin Open MultiCourse Hub are almost ready, just in time for the new school term 🎉

Included refreshed theme includes:
✅ Better typography with refined heading hierarchy and 18px body font
✅ Cleaner aesthetics with rounded corners and shadows
✅ Optional dark mode support with system preference detection

These will be available at:
https://getgrav.org/downloads/skeletons

Oh, and here is a Open Course Hub demo! https://demo.hibbittsdesign.org/grav-open-matter-course-hub/

What's a good term for the concept of "friends of friends" but broader, including casual acquaintances?

Thinking about how to describe this set of people in a social media context. "Friend" is a convenient lie, but "acquaintance" and "contact" are sterile. "Show this post to: Contacts of contacts" is just 🤮.

Or maybe there are other ways to describe the local part of someone's social graph?

#SocialMediaDesign