Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Our university published an AI chat bot that gives guidance on how to apply for funding from the Academy of Finland.

When it gives wrong information, it's the responsibility of the applicants who were mislead and whose applications were rejected.

I don't understand how a university would want to sabotage their chances of funding like this.

This is a valuable lesson for any manufacturer: never awaken the nerd sleeping inside your customer, because his wrath shall be terrible.

In this case the warning was quite literal.

The company annoyed a buyer enough to push him into full blown nerd mode. He tore the product apart, reverse engineered every part, and then published a step by step guide showing exactly how to disable "kill switch" that prevented the use of the product without the vendor spying on the user.

What started as a minor grievance became a public, technical exposé that left the maker exposed and embarrassed.

Moral of the story: underestimate your users at your own peril.

The Day My Smart Vacuum Turned Against Me

#Google trips over its own words, when they sell you #Android it's the best computing device in the world that does everything. After you bought it Google doesn't let you do anything *you* want to.

#Sideload is a made-up term. Putting software on your computer is simply called “installing”, regardless of whether that computer is in your pocket or on your desk.

What Do You Talk About When You Talk About Sideloading?

What does Google?

Here's #FDroid: https://f-droid.org/2025/10/28/sideloading.html

“If they want to eat they should get a job!”

“My taxes shouldn’t pay for people who aren’t productive”

“It’s their fault they’re hungry”

My latest is about the ‘useless eater’ rhetoric that has dominated social media ever since news broke that SNAP wouldn’t be funded in November.

People are blaming individuals for what is clearly a society wide failure.

Wealth inequality coupled with rising prices and falling wages mean millions rely on food assistance to survive.

In three days, 42 million Americans will be without food. They will start to starve.

No one deserves this.

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/no-one-deserves-to-starve

#uspol #poverty #foodassistance #snap #usda #fascism #disability #eugenics #ableism

President Trump pardoned Binance founder and former CEO Changpeng Zhao. Despite a damning indictment suggesting CZ played an active role in directing his firm to break the law, the president has portrayed Zhao as a victim of a Biden “war on crypto”.

Trump admits CZ’s pardon followed lobbying efforts by CZ and Binance. He hasn’t addressed that it also followed Binance’s $2 billion stablecoin deal tied to his family’s crypto ventures, which has already produced tens of millions in profits for his USD1 token.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics

For the record, I'm pretty sure that no one should care what Bill Gates thinks. He's missed/misjudged every single technological and social leap in the past 30 years. I'm amazed he's made any money at all, but I guess that's what multi-million $ trust funds and a willingness to ruthlessly exploit ill-gotten monopolies will get you.

Great news: Today, we have managed to distribute our Forgejo instance across two servers. A main instance still handles most traffic, but requests from #CodebergPages are now handled by another server. Going forward, we'll try to route more read-only traffic there to distribute the load.

This is an important milestone, because such a setup was never tested with #Forgejo at this scale.

This should improve availability of both Codeberg.org and Codeberg Pages.

Details: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/discussions/issues/259

"I signed up to defend the American people and protect the Constitution," said one Illinois National Guard member. "When we have somebody in power who's actively dismantling our rights — free speech, due process, freedom of the press — it's really hard to be a soldier right now." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/illinois-national-guard-members-speak-out-i-wont-turn-against-my-neighbors/?linkId=872373960

Rogue Goodreads Librarian Edits Site to Expose 'Censorship in Favor of Trump Fascism’
https://www.404media.co/rogue-goodreads-librarian-edits-site-to-expose-censorship-in-favor-of-trump-fascism/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into 404 Media @404-media-404media

The Republican Plan to Reform the Census Could Put Everyone’s #Privacy at Risk - https://www.wired.com/story/republicans-differential-privacy-census-overhaul/ "A little-known algorithmic process called “differential privacy” helps keep census data anonymous. Conservatives want it gone."

Your vibe coded slop PR is not welcome
L: https://samsaffron.com/archive/2025/10/27/your-vibe-coded-slop-pr-is-not-welcome
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45731321
posted on 2025.10.28 at 07:03:59 (c=0, p=4)

#Trump Says We’re Just Going To Straight Up Murder A Bunch Of People - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/27/trump-says-were-just-going-to-straight-up-murder-a-bunch-of-people/ "Be the #Duterte you want to see in the world, I guess."

"Just go to a food bank, a church or a charity"

For every meal the food bank provides, the SNAP program provides 9.

Even if donations are rapidly scaled up, they won't be able to meet the needs of 42 million Americans who are about to go hungry.

It's not sustainable.

#uspol #snap #fascism #eugenics

A woman from the FDA's Center for Devices & Radiological Health explains how her entire department was gutted

That means there's no staff to alert you if your pacemaker is recalled

If an implantable device in your body is toxic or broken

This could have catastrophic health impacts & cost lives

#uspol #fda #disability #ableism #eugenics

Combat veteran Chris Gentry was protesting lawfully on the side of the road when an ICE agent pointed a gun at him and said “bang bang, you’re dead liberal”

He’s filed a civil rights suit… but this is going on all across the country

These men hide their faces and act outside the law.

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

#snap #fascism #uspol

Your ability to eat should not depend on your productivity

Your ability to get healthcare should not depend on your productivity

Your ability to get housing should not depend on your productivity

Saying “be more productive!” To those who are struggling devalues human life.

It enriches the oligarchy.

It aids fascism.

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New original article out on GEO!

How the Rhizome Therapy Cooperative Counters Burnout
#WorkerCoops #MentalHealth #burnout

https://geo.coop/articles/how-rhizome-therapy-cooperative-counters-burnout

US debt set to soar above Italy and Greece after Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/27/us-debt-set-to-exceed-italy-and-greece well well well