Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Our babies were taken after 'biased' parenting test
L: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1wlw2qj113o
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46016074
posted on 2025.11.22 at 11:49:15 (c=1, p=7)

#Transistors. How do they work?

I need to make a switch which has LOTS of resistance when off, but *little* when on. How can I thread that needle?

MOSFETs have great on resistance, but they leak a bit much current. I need <1µA.

Bipolars don't leak a lot, but they also don't conduct enough.

Both parameters eat into the same property of my circuit from different directions.

HELP!

#electronics #askfedi #mosfet

I blogged about the fediverse. A short (hopefully non-technical) overview to send to my non-fedi friends and colleagues:

https://blog.sturmsucht.de/fediverse-a-new-open-and-social-web/

A resident of Washington State has died from H5N5, a variant of bird flu never before seen in humans.

First known case, first death.

Wear a mask, ideally a well fitted respirator like an N95.

RFK Jr has gutted the CDC.

There’s no plan to deal with another pandemic.

No one is coming to save you.

Masking is an act of resistance and radical community care.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/21/health/washington-bird-flu-death

#birdflu #h5n5 #publichealth #rfkjr #wearamask #uspol #disabilty #chronicillness

Another immigrant has gone missing from ICE custody after suffering a medical emergency and losing consciousness.

ICE enforcement is a mass disabling event

If you have a medical emergency in ICE custody, there’s a chance you will simply “disappear”

Or you could end up like Randall Alberto Gamboa Esquivel who was deported to Costa Rica in a persistent vegetative state.

He died soon after

#ice #abolishice #disabilty #ableism #immigration #uspol

Post: Still We Rise @_stillwerise

AOC: “MTG is carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office. She is saying a lot but her ACTIONS have
not backed up the rhetoric. For all her talk, she's STILL voting with them to gut healthcare and advance self-dealing corruption schemes.”

#MarjorieTaylorGreene

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Everyone gets to pay for AI even if they don't want to, Coercive Capitalism on steroids.

https://www.techpolicy.press/how-your-utility-bills-are-subsidizing-power-hungry-ai/

https://www.businessinsider.com/data-centers-driving-up-electricity-demand-and-blackout-risks-report-2025-11

https://www.commondreams.org/news/utility-bills-data-centers

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-21/meta-enters-power-trading-to-support-ai-data-centers

https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-boom-bubble-power-utilities-forecasting-demand-2025-11

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/opinion/letters/2025/11/21/ai-data-centers-should-pay-their-own-way-letters/87394652007/

https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/opinion/columns/pro-con-dont-let-data-centers-stick-us-with-expensive-bills

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/report-growing-public-resistance-data-centers-ai-power-bills-water-land-use/

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/ai-data-centers-threaten-global-water-security

Pro tip: on Black Friday, all of your favorite Linux distributions will be FREE to download.

I made a tally of the total planned AI data centre capacity in Scotland and I am a bit shocked: it amounts to 7.3 GW, which is as much as the entire energy consumption of Scotland, electricity + gas in 2023.

To spend as much energy on "AI" as the entire need of a country is madness. And I have no doubt that this picture would scale if I did it for the entire UK etc.

#FrugalComputing #AI

If any San Francisco Bay Area folks in my feed find themselves in the North Bay this weekend, on Saturday I’m going to be giving a live, hands-on, interactive weaving demonstration at Fiber Circle Studio in Petaluma. Drop by and I’ll show you how to make fabric by hand! #weaving

Yup, cats, and their wandering predatory ways, are a huge problem, and getting much bigger: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/579669/why-are-there-so-few-rules-for-the-millions-of-cats-that-damage-our-biodiversity they need to be desexed, restricted to the owners property, and kept inside at night.

All books on our website are half-off with code "GIFT" .

https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_list&c=187

VICTORY! EFF’s clients just ended a dragnet government surveillance program that spied on Sacramento residents’ electricity data. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/victory-court-end-dragnet-electricity-surveillance-program-sacramento

🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug comic!
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"The Five Stages of MAGA Grief"
Brought to you by the Inner Hive, including long-time member Drawn Doug and new member Kyle Memoir.
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I am writing a book

The USA shows it's true colors,
"Exclusive: US threatens to cut intel, weapons to press Ukraine into peace deal, sources say"
The US is clearly not an ally/friend of Europe.
#usa #ukraine #extortion #eu #russia #geopolitics
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-threatens-cut-intel-weapons-press-ukraine-into-peace-deal-sources-2025-11-21/

An employee well being survey indicates rollback of pandemic era flexible working conditions (RTO) and increased productivity demands have driven well being scores of workers down while managers report higher well being. Technology, healthcare and education show these trends the most.

I bet 2025 employee well-being scores will make 2024 look like a vacation in comparison given how much layoffs and AI replacement talk has ramped up.

https://phys.org/news/2025-11-employee-survey-reveals.html

Trump administration eliminates protections for endangered species
L: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-endangered-species-act-rollback/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46003906
posted on 2025.11.21 at 07:31:31 (c=0, p=9)

#Forgejo 13.0.3 and 11.0.8 were just released! They are security releases.

We recommend that all installations are upgraded to the latest version as soon as possible.

Check out the release notes and download it at https://forgejo.org/releases/. If you experience any issues with this release, please report to https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues.

#forgejorelease

Considering very seriously (again) to refuse to exchange emails with people who are using #Gmail.

Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/11/gmail-is-reading-your-emails-and-attachments-to-train-its-ai-unless-you-turn-it-off