Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Tell USPTO: keep patent challenges fair and open. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/patent-office-about-make-bad-patents-untouchable

The myth that a bunch of young hackers can solve any problem was debunked by DOGE. But the larger moral stain is that this was a heist.

Cost saving was a cover story to shutdown investigations into Elon’s companies, steal government data and engage in genocide by proxy via killing USAID.

Greetings Mastodon friends

My team has started "managed data services" for non-technical companies. I.e, we deploy our Very Nerdy People to protect people from vendors and set up a sane, affordable data practice

If anyone knows a non-technical person that is running a company that might want this, I would very much appreciate being put in touch

We spread the holy word of open source and have managed to get costs below $10K per month for Real Engineering

Sorry for talking about b2b sales 💀

Thanks to all the scientists, archivists, and data hoarders mobilizing to defend against the censure of life saving medical research for using accurate descriptions of sex and gender. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/ddosed-policy-website-takedowns-and-keeping-information-alive

Chat Control is back, but slightly changed:

❌ No backdoor of encryption
❌ No forced scanning
🚨 But: Age verification (no anonymity)

The update just quietly passed in the EU Council & now needs to be discussed with the EU Parliament.

👁️Big Techs like #Gmail and #WhatsApp will continue to scan your data.

Will you keep fighting against #ChatControl?

Every statement that begins, "I asked ChatGPT and it said..." should be preceded with, "I was too fucking lazy to look this up and use my own brain, so..."

@historyofpunkrock while there were a fair few the art and music of "Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death" by the DKs was a stands out

Thanks to all of you, we have over 1,000 stars 🌠 on @Codeberg, a mostly volunteer-driven code forge that shares our commitment to community & Free/Libre/Open Source Software. Their efforts make the way we develop CoMaps possible.

Did you know: Codeberg is run by a non-profit association that sustains itself via memberships & donations. If that sounds as cool to you as it does to us: Consider donating or becoming a member! https://join.codeberg.org/

Affordable meals for unaffordable times. https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

Happy Thanksgiving Eve to all who celebrate, please enjoy some messed-up lore about the US's farm & food history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hByb9Ued74A

Hey you! Yes, you, the one reading this post! You can defend democracy and rights for everyone by supporting EFF's work today: https://supporters.eff.org/donate/tbc

Here are some more in depth articles:

https://www.pcmag.com/news/this-is-insanity-ddr-ram-prices-soar-due-to-ai-demand

https://www.gadgets360.com/ai/features/why-ram-prices-are-skyrocketing-shortage-global-price-hike-volatility-ai-data-centres-9704004

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/dram-prices-are-about-to-skyrocket-ddr4-and-gddr6-among-formats-that-could-increase-in-price-by-up-to-45-percent

🔴 Brand new comic now up on Boing Boing
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Billionaire Hollingsworth Hound explains who's to blame for the housing crisis.
It's... PATO AFORTUNADO!
"The poor migratory duck who's rich in luck"
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https://boingboing.net/2025/11/26/tom-the-dancing-bug-hollingsworth-hound-presents-the-real-reason-for-the-housing-crisis.html