Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Back in the day at a previous gig I tried and largely failed to convince anyone that sudden upswings in people sharing detailed instructions about screwing around in the guts of the product should be treated the same way sudden upswings in crash rates: a capital-I Incident that deserves near term attention and careful retrospective investigation.

What is this, if not a user expectation going so badly unmet that people are willing to risk bricking their box to fix it?

https://wandering.shop/@susankayequinn/115576953025427384

RE: https://mastodon.social/@UnicornRiot/115545930246209254

“The history of Black people is as much the history of America as it is white people. There is no white America. That’s an ideological lie. There couldn’t be because there were already people of color here.”

Dr. Mahmoud El-Kati

He’s comparing healthcare to home insurance.

Saying the “healthy” should be rewarded.

This is eugenics. They’re going to price disabled people out of the market.

Disability can happen to anyone.

You know how a hurricane can destroy your home no matter how many “safeguards” you had?

That’s chronic illness.

It’s the hurricane. $2k won’t cut it.

#uspol #fascism #eugenics #disability #aca #obamacare #ableism

A comparison of #LineageOS, #eOS, and #GrapheneOS by someone who's used all three.

https://kevinboone.me/lineage-eos-graphene.html

'Using any replacement firmware will be inconvenient if you’re tied to Google’s services, as many of us are. You can try to continue to use those services, but in a less privacy-crushing way, and Graphene and ∕e∕OS purport to offer some help with that. However, I think you’d need to be both knowledgeable and careful to use Google Services, even in these restrictive environments, without inadvertently sacrificing privacy. To my mind, if you want to de-Google, you have to find replacements for Google, not ways to appease Google.'

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Footnote: During a tech bubble you don't need to make sure that whatever you're selling "is working", you just need a minimum viable demo and a herd of panicking investors afraid of losing out.

It was like this in 1998/99.

Hey Fediverse. If you're hiring for a senior-level software or cybersecurity role, please hit me up. I know folks looking for a place to land and it'd be lovely to have some leads.

Insurance premiums through the roof? Don't worry, the shutdown didn't fix it, but it's all part of Chuck Schumer's master plan. https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

🔴 Brand new comic now up on Boing Boing!
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THE FIVE STAGES OF MAGA SCANDAL GRIEF
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https://boingboing.net/2025/11/19/tom-the-dancing-bug-the-five-stages-of-maga-scandal-grief.html

I've finished my report on burnout in OSS and how to reduce it! Read more (and find the link to the full report) on the Open Source Pledge blog!

https://opensourcepledge.com/blog/burnout-in-open-source-a-structural-problem-we-can-fix-together/

Huge thanks to all the OSS devs who shared their perspectives 💜 Let's keep shining a light on this under-recognised issue!

Not to be missed if you're on the OG colonizer continent of Europe. The Anarchist Bookfair Amsterdam afterparty with the one and only @leereed

Keeping promises on #renewables, energy efficiency and #methane ‘would avoid nearly 1C of global heating’ - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/19/keeping-promises-on-renewables-energy-efficiency-and-methane-would-avoid-nearly-1c-of-global-heating come on, we've almost got this... #cop30

In a world of MAGA decay, dishonesty, and deceit, just doing the right thing is an act of resistance.

Maybe the reason Trump is now agreeing to open up the Epstein files is that his apparatchiks at the "Justice" Dept have had enough time to complete their destruction of documents etc that would nail him, and/or forgery of ones implicating his enemies.

Cloudflare just put up a blog post on today's incident.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/

GOP overhaul of broadband permit laws: Cities hate it, cable companies love it
L: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/gop-overhaul-of-broadband-permit-laws-cities-hate-it-cable-companies-love-it/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45974710
posted on 2025.11.18 at 20:22:10 (c=0, p=4)

Google demonstrates its increasingly evil nature, again. https://www.theverge.com/news/820600/google-nest-learning-thermostat-downgraded-data-collection

“Open source has proven itself to be a winning strategy — not recently, but for decades.” — Adriana Groh, Sovereign Tech Agency CEO.

#EUSummit #DigitalSovereignty,

Every journalist hit with a stinger grenade or pepper ball by law enforcement while covering a protest is a message from the government: Stop showing the truth.

Journalists must speak out.

https://freedom.press/issues/journalists-cameras-become-targets-at-oregon-protests/