Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

@fnat @duncan_bayne As far as I know it is just their hosted offer and you can certainly easily remove it from their pre-packaged Prosody if you want. I also tested it with Ejabberd and it worked fine, but their Prosody addons seem to add a few nice usability improvements.

Welp, the self-hosted, open-core, Mattermost release just introduced a 10k message limit on each channel.

Time to look for alternatives ...

#mattermost #selfhosting #enshittification

“Why don’t you just use AI?”

How dare I try to do finals without AI and try to use my brain. How dare I have a moral backbone and actually try to use the one gift I have… myself.

GUADEC comes back to Coruña next year!

https://discourse.gnome.org/t/guadec-2026-will-be-held-in-a-coruna-spain/33193

The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.

New blog post: OCT – My Framework for Digital Sovereignty, Part 1

https://jan.wildeboer.net/2025/12/OCT-1-My-Framework-For-Digital-Sovereignty/

Replies to this post will show up as comments under the blog post. I am looking forward to a constructive discussion.

#DigitalSovereignty #OCT

In September I virtually disappeared from social media.

I had a flare up so bad I lost the ability to write.

The fear that I would never recover became all consuming.

The “what ifs” were unrelenting.

It’s taken 3 months to be able to write about it.

My latest is about baselines, flares & how to ask for help:

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/what-if-this-flare-never-ends

#chronicillness #disability #ableism #LongCOVID #mecfs #pots #mcas #disabilityjustice

Hate someone? Give them something from the White House Shilling Network. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/12/19/2359074/-Cartoon-Last-minute-grifts

@petrillic

Companies that say this are implicitly admitting that they are terrible at retention. Their senior engineers are not people who used to be their junior engineers, those people leave as soon as they can find another job. They get senior engineers from other companies and probably don’t hold onto them for very long either because their working conditions are so toxic.

It’s very useful for them to be so open about it.

My mum (wearing glasses since a few months) struggles to read the small text on the design of a Christmas card she received from a friend. The large text is readable, but the small text just cannot be read. Maybe it's the bad choice of color contrast and it looked better before print, is her best guess.

Well, turns out the whole image (including the text) is AI generated, and the small font doesn't even spell out correct words, sometimes even not correct letters but mangled together shapes that somehow look like text from far away.

How do people just accept this as "good enough" these days to send to all their loved ones?

Just when I thought I couldn't love the library's Christmas tree even more, I read the sign.

'Come and pluck our book tree! Between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. on the 22nd, you can pick free books from our Christmas tree and give them a new home. Bring a bag - enjoy your new reads!'

#Dokk1 #Aarhus
#Bookstodon #Libraries

@aral I'm Jewish, I have family in Israel and I lived with my partner in Tel Aviv for 3 months, a decade ago. But I'm outraged at the atrocities Israel has been committing and I'm infuriated both by people who conflate opposition to Israel with antisemitism, as well as those who use hatred of Israel as a justification for actual antisemitic acts. Being Jewish and a supporter of Israel are not the same thing. And I see it as the duty of Jewish people everywhere to stand against genocide.

Under the word "naive" the dictionary should list anyone who ever believed Trump's "Justice" Department would release the actual Epstein files, as opposed to the heavily censored -- and possibly altered? -- documents that credulous journalism organizations are pretending is the real thing.

Trump, Musk, Rubio, and their henchmen destroyed USAID -- directly causing hundreds of thousands of deaths, mostly children. The apparatchiks celebrated while bosses lied about what they'd done.

I can't overstate my incandescent rage at these monstrous people.

https://www.propublica.org/article/usaid-cholera-deaths-trump-humanitarian-aid-cuts-south-sudan

#pitchforks

I have a Pentium 3 computer taking up space.

Convince me: should I toss it? Should I keep it?

Is it good enough to be a #retro box? Is it better than running an emulator?

#retrogaming #emulation #win98

Wilderness 4WDing is a 'hobby' no one should be allowed to have. It's simply wasteful and destructive. It's like having the hobby of demolishing other people's buildings. It's just stupid. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/582370/devastating-in-all-ways-sand-dune-ecosystems-on-tokerau-beach-being-destroyed-by-vehicles

More Americans are slowly catching on to the realization that when fascism gets voted into power, or assumes power, you probably just can't simply vote your way out of it in normal free and fair elections as if nothing has fundamentally changed to the system. It may take a little more than that.

Highly amused by the stories of companies using agentic AI chatbots to run their internal company stores, only for their employees to immediately Bugs Bunny the chatbot into giving them free stuff https://www.aiweirdness.com/when-a-chatbot-runs-your-store/

Update: Gandi support says to use the GDPR form for account deletion, and that an ID won't actually be required, even though that's what the form says.

I gave it a shot. It wanted my first and last name (which I just put my username into) and I got a confirmation. Apparently it will take a while to actually take effect...

Fox News debunks #Trump's "600 percent" price cuts - https://boingboing.net/2025/12/18/fox-news-debunks-trumps-600-percent-price-cuts.html when even #fox calls out your mathematical stupidity, you know it's really stupid