Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

The UN Cybercrime Treaty is fundamentally flawed and threatens human rights worldwide. UN Member States must not legitimize these dangers by signing when the Convention opens for signatures this weekend. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/joint-statement-un-cybercrime-convention-eff-and-global-partners-urge-governments

What's that asshole building? https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/10/24/2350200/-Cartoon-White-House-renovations

We apologize for the long performance degradation today.
Finally, we identified all of the 'tricks' that AI crawlers found today. They no longer bypass the anubis proof of work challenges.

A novelty for us was that AI crawlers seem to not only crawl URLs that are actually presented to them by our frontend, but they converted the URLs into a format that bypassed our filter rules.

By the way, you can track the changes we have been doing via

https://codeberg.org/Codeberg-Infrastructure/scripted-configuration/compare/51618~1..e4aac

Publishers need to learn that when they don't work with researchers to do the right thing, scholars find their own solutions—legal or otherwise. #OAWeek https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/civil-disobedience-copyright-keeps-science-going

$5 books are back this weekend! Get these titles for just $5 today and tomorrow - no code required - at pmpress.org.

Because it worked so well last time.

A.I. actually stands for "Anti-Intelligence".

Great news everybody, you can't block that new OpenAI Atlas browser because it uses an identical user agent to Chrome.

Sergei Brin and Larry Page couldn't have imagined when they were starting Google that they would be become enablers of fascism, wanton enemies of human rights. But if history is told by honest people, that is how they will be remembered.

(Not so sure about Larry Ellison...)

it's weird that as fuck ugly as the stock Cybertuck is it always looks ten times worse in any kind of wrap, like it must wear its shame or endure the god's scorn

Maybe the demolition will cause Taft's spirit to rise from the ruins of the Taftub and haunt President Fall Risk in the bathroom.

Every Legitimate News Agency Leaves The Pentagon Rather Than Agree To Act As Pete #Hegseth’s Stenographer - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/20/every-legitimate-news-agency-leaves-the-pentagon-rather-than-agree-to-act-as-pete-hegseths-stenographer/ more like this please

RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/115422407120803629

Good morning Fedi friends!

The results of yesterday's poll are in: 53% of you voted for #NextCloud – as in: the software I should showcase in my #YunoHost / #selfhosting for newbies step-by-step guide.

I've been self-hosting NextCloud for 4 months now and it has become absolutely essential to me, replacing Dropbox, Google Docs, Google Drive and WeTransfer. But it has so many more capabilities too!

I'm excited to do a show & tell.

Yay for #DigitalSovereignty and independence from #BigTech ✊

We’re better than fear.

We’re braver than billionaires.

We’re bigger than ever.

And we’re gonna win. #NoKings

I stopped shopping online at Target when it stopped being supportive of the LGBTQ+ community. So when Target announced layoffs today, I looked to see if the press mentioned this.

AP: Nothing
https://apnews.com/article/target-corporate-layoffs-minneapolis-india-f4d8100fa2bf4af67e4fb4e388cedf50

Reuters, 2nd paragraph: "The move, unveiled by incoming CEO Michael Fiddelke in memo to employees on Thursday, comes at a time its share price has lagged rivals and the company has faced backlash for pulling back from its diversity, equity, and inclusion policies."
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/target-plans-lay-off-1800-employees-wsj-reports-2025-10-23/

CNN, 3rd & 4th paragraphs: The layoffs, which come ahead of the critical holiday shopping season, are the latest sign of struggles at the Minneapolis-based company. It has been been reeling from slumping sales and fierce blowback to its retreat on DEI programs.
Its decision to end some of those initiatives angered supporters of diversity and inclusion policies, who felt blindsided. Target had staked out a reputation as a strong corporate supporter of DEI.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/business/target-layoffs

#Target #LGBTQ #journalism

Amid yesterday's #ExtremeWeather 💨, @bernardchickey.bsky.social was blown away by #NZmedia's reticence to use the C-word:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ2OmZprpKo

If the driver of these hot & windy conditions is unusual Sudden Stratospheric Warming over Antarctica:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/576739/antarctica-s-september-weather-driving-current-hot-windy-conditions
then #SeaIce loss over the Amundsen & Ross Seas may provide the link to #ClimateChange:
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2025GL115257

I wrote on Boing Boing about a new book by Bill "Zippy the Pinhead" Griffith: a graphic biography of his great-grandfather William Henry Jackson, Old West photographer and artist, whose photos of Yellowstone were instrumental in the creation of the first national park.

https://boingboing.net/2025/10/23/legendary-cartoonist-bill-griffiths-new-graphic-biography-of-his-great-grandfather-william-henry-jackson.html

A bit concerning that the second largest TV station operator in the country thinks an FCC license requires Sinclair to "not bring any biases with us."

No, the FCC is legally prohibited from meddling in content and from being the arbiter of "bias."

https://deadline.com/2025/10/jimmy-kimmel-first-amendment-sinclair-abc-fcc-1236594347/