Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I see some musicians going all "Metallica vs. Napster" about the Anna's Archive thing, and I feel the need to remind folks that corporations and the music industry have done more to ruin things for us than piracy ever could.

What's the difference between the kbd project data and xkbcommon key mappings?

$ rpm -qf /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/xkb/de-us.map.gz
kbd-misc-2.6.4

$ rpm -qf /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/eu
xkeyboard-config-2.42

If I want to make a custom #keyboard layout, do I have to edit both?

#linux

My newest opinion piece just published.

"Trump is manipulating national security to stop energy projects he doesn’t like"

https://thebulletin.org/2025/12/trump-is-manipulating-national-security-to-stop-energy-projects-he-doesnt-like

"Ultra-processed food" is a term invented by meat companies to scaremonger about vegan diets! Processing is everything done to food, and there is no unambiguous definition of "ultra-processed". Pasteurised milk is less harmful than unpasteurised. Sure, many misinformed (to not use a harsher word) advocate for unpasteurised milk, but ask them if they would rather eat fugu with tetrodotoxin containing organs removed or unprocessed fugu.

Nixtamalized maize is healthier than unprocessed maize (milling is also processing, so flour is processed grains). Salt with iodine and fluoride added make up for dietary deficiencies in the general population (those are not added for vegans only). Everyone over the age of 50, regardless of their diet, should take a B12 supplement, therefore food with added B12 is better than the same food without added B12. Food with extra apple (or whichever) fibre added is better than without (unless you have a sensitivity or intolerance). Check the nutrient table, not only the ingredient list.

Long or unpronounceable names don't mean something is dangerous. We are full of 1,2,3-propanetriol. We are 100% chemicals.

So called "organic" agriculture does allow pesticides, but only inorganic pesticides, and of the organic ones only toxins.

#food #vegan

Watching a video in Swedish about how unhealthy red meat is while playing 2048. 4 minutes and 45 seconds in I hear the word "mye" instead of "mycket" and realise it's been in Norwegian all along.

Anyway, Norwegians have a saying: "There is only 1 Scandinavian language, but Swedes do not know how to write it, and Danes do not know how to speak it" 😅

#Norwegian

We have a massive customer service and hospitality problem in the US. As the hospitality industry has consolidated and enshittified, inclusive of transportation and vehicle rentals and all, the customer experience has really suffered.

We can only solve this by hiring people and paying them fair wages. AI can’t fix this, more computers won’t make it better, only people are capable of making people feel welcome, especially as prices are higher than ever before.

I posted on Boing Boing about Stephen Colbert's special cartoon, "Colbert's Canceled Christmas"
https://boingboing.net/2025/12/22/cartoon-colberts-canceled-christmas.html

Don't get your last-minute grifts from these bozos. https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2025/12/22

If I wanted to be on a "better" Twitter after the Musk takeover, I would open a BlueSky account. It delivers the same centralised, algorithm driven experience that divides in overhyped influencers and mere click fodder users, just the way all centralised "social" networks are designed to be.

And that's why I am NOT on BlueSky but here on the Fediverse. The Fediverse isn't a better X, Facebook, Instagram. It's the Fediverse. People to people. Embrace the principle and you will be happy here!

@ShaulaEvans @AndrewRadev @ericgoldman i feel like this comparison does asbestos a disservice

asbestos is _really_ good at the thing it does (being fibery and fire-resistant). it's a genuinely useful thing that, were it not for the downsides, would benefit our civilization greatly

GenAI isn't particularly good or useful for much of anything

RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115762325563043978

Oh we have the same wish!

I think it would be a powerful move if you would delete your X account (a platform that has become a vector of misinformation and a cesspool of hate).

By the way, your homepage states: "Follow us on" followed by the icons of Facebook, X and LinkedIn. I always found it odd, since those are algorithm-based U.S. companies and you are the EUROPEAN Commission. How about putting your Mastodon icon on your homepage?

Thank you for your consideration

#LeaveX #SaveSocial

We have removed all AI-generated nonsense issue spam and deployed a hot patch, issue creation is enabled again.

We'll monitor the situation throughout the night.

We investigated performance issues on our systems. The cause was identified to be huge inrush in AI-generated nonsense spam creation that slows the notification system.

We have temporarily disabled the creation of new issues while we clean up the noise. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Censor, a new document redaction tool, is there!

It allows to draw black rectangles on PDF documents and to permanently remove the text and images below. Find it on @Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/censor/Censor, get it from @flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/page.codeberg.censor.Censor, or translate it on Codeberg Translate: https://translate.codeberg.org/engage/censor!

It is a free and open-source graphical user interface (GUI) for #Linux and the #GNOME desktop, and uses the #MuPDF library with its #python bindings from the #PyMuPDF module.

#censorship #redaction #PDF #Codeberg #Flatpak #Flathub

Latest comic: Mr. and Mrs. Perkins' Holiday Stroll

#holidays #authoritarianism #cartoon #comic #privacy #surveillance

@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.