Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

So it begins.

Danish pension fund to dump US treasuries "The US is basically not a good credit and long-term the US government finances are not sustainable," says chief investment officer.

Europe holds $8 trillion in USA bonds and equities. This is just the beginning.

https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/danish-pension-fund-akademikerpension-to-exit-us-treasuries-93CH-4455284

#USA #Dump

#Oxfam regularly publishes #inequality reports highlighting how global wealth is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a small group of billionaires and how oligarchy is re-emerging. These are important and useful reports. What I find hard to reconcile, however, are the hefty salaries and perks Oxfam pays its own staff and executive directors worldwide. Some of them are based in the Global South, yet their incomes place them squarely within the global south's 1%.

And this often touches a raw nerve. The usual refrain is that their CEOs and Executive Directors earn far less than corporate CEOs. Of course they do. But why compare yourselves with the top 1 per cent? Why should the Executive Director of a non-profit earn several hundred times more than a daily-wage worker in that same country? What moral standing do you have to speak about #inequality at all?

"Trump🚨has made it so that half of American citizens who marry ppl from other Cs are now💔barred from bringing their husband & wives to live here.

Americans are the victims here, as well as their IMM spouses.
-A R-Melnick

"Starting Wed,💔 HALF OF ALL LEGAL #immigrants, incl half of all spouses & minor children of US citizens, will be barred from obtaining IMM visas to come to the US legally.🚨A cruel & foolish policy that'll harm Americans."
-D Bier
#Sadism #Immigrants #Visa #DHS #DOJ #DOS #USPol

In New York, USA. 🇺🇸

By AI boom, Satya means the booming bank balance of tech execs built on a foundation of largely no value.

An ambitious experiment to give young people money and trust them to spend it well shows promising early signs, participants say.

https://www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/20/cash-for-care-covenant-house-city-council-homeless-youth-income-experiment/

Hi everyone! We’re excited to share some updates:

Bonfire 1.0.1 is out! 🎉
This release is all about making your social web experience livelier, more connected, and truly yours. It brings features like following hashtags, scheduled posts, dashboard widgets, and more. This is the very first delivery from the maintenance work funded by your incredible support. Thank you for helping us reach this milestone and keep Bonfire thriving!

For details about the release see our latest blog post: Bonfire 1.0.1: Building Momentum

What’s next for crowdfunding?

If you're an existing backer, the pledge manager is now open. Please keep an eye out for updates there so we can start preparing rewards for you.

The campaign is open again for the next month. With core maintenance funded, every new pledge (or increased pledge from existing backers) now goes directly toward our first stretch goal: federated groups. Support or share our extended campaign to help fund community-owned, cross-instance spaces for real collaboration and self-governance.

Bonus good news: Thanks to a new grant, end-to-end encrypted messaging in Bonfire is now funded and in development!

Thank you once again for being part of the Bonfire movement! Your feedback, support, and community spirit make all of this possible. If you have questions or want to get involved, reach out or come say hello at FOSDEM if you’re in Brussels at the end of January!

With gratitude,
The Bonfire Team

A port on #localhost open only to one process. Can #linux #network namespaces help me?

Let's find out.

The idea is to MitM between my IMAP server and Claws Mail. The proxy would ignore the password and instead use #TLS with a client #certificate to authenticate me (mTLS style).

This way, there's one less #password to store in RAM and accidentally exfiltrate.

As much as I like the Claws UI, it's crashy and I don't trust its #security a lot. #RiiR anyone :P?

#email #networking #dovecot

Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots

How I managed to give an exam while giving the students the choice to use a chatbot or not.

And what I learned in the process.

https://ploum.net/2026-01-19-exam-with-chatbots.html

Israeli crews begin bulldozing headquarters of UN agency for Palestinian refugees in east Jerusalem - https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-east-jerusalem-unrwa-cc9c5b2cac2332f0207d485f381be53d more outrageous bullying and wilful destruction - it is all #israel's gov has got #unrwa #gazagenocide

Why the heck do I have blocked people on my account? I'm pretty sure I never blocked anyone.

#Mastodon can be really paternalistic sometimes. I don't want to be protected according to someone else's preferences.

/me unblocks and unmutes 145 people

Honestly, how the hell am I supposed to know which ones are the 20 I muted for good reason?

#socialmedia

We have published a new zine (De-monopoly DiscoTech 101) with a Japanese version (requested by comrades in Japan who were interested in running their own DiscoTech events)

Shout out to RTM members who made reading a zine on our website easy and fun!

https://resisttechmonopolies.online/projects/zines/

~ ammar

Oh look: #discord outsourced their age verification to some vendor. You know, the #ageverification that countries like the UK want to make mandatory for basically every online service. And the vendor had a data breach exposing photos of government IDs for 70,000 people.

Do you feel safer? How many children did we protect by exposing the IDs of these 70,000 (presumably) adults? Thanks for taking one for the team, you 70,000 canaries in the #privacy coal mine.

https://discord.com/press-releases/update-on-security-incident-involving-third-party-customer-service

But my main question is still mostly this: Am I primarily going to cause headaches for devs and users, or is this really a thing with pretty widespread and stable support?

(I'd like to do some experiments of my own, but I can only test so many servers and so many libraries in various languages!)

6/6

"#ICE🚨deported a 5-yr-old US citizen from Texas to Honduras. Reports say no alternative placement was offered, CPS was not notified, & relatives were not contacted.

Not to be confused with a sep case last year where a fam was given the option to let a US citizen child stay with relatives, this deportation occurred on Jan 11, 2026.

Nat media hasn’t picked it up.🚨Many cases like this stay confined to local reporting."
-WarMonitor
#Deportations #Sadism #Protest #DHS #USPol
https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/austin/article/ice-deports-austin-girl-honduras-21298653.php

@tante glad you brought that up. The increasing complexity is an issue for self hosting or community hosting.
One mitigation approach is @coopcloud. we create configuration commons together for easy deployment and are currently ramping up dedicated maintainers for popular software. everyone interested check it out and join us in creating configuration commons for open source software with democratic decision making.

Bill Gates charity trust’s holdings in fossil fuel firms rise despite divestment claims - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/19/bill-gates-charity-trusts-holdings-in-fossil-fuel-firms-rise-despite-divestment-claims gates was never one of the good ones, no matter what he wanted us to believe... #windows #microsoft

January is FEDIVERSE PUNK MONTH! We took steps to get off the meta platforms, created our new account here and are currenty working on a newsletter. Exciting things are in the works!

We also took some time to do an interview with COUNTERFORCE about all of it. You can read it here: https://the-counterforce.org/k-town-hardcore-fest/

... please sign up for the newsletter - we promise it's one that you'll be looking forward to opening every time! https://ktownhardcorefest.org/newsletter/

@pluralistic "Corporate Social Media" is just "Corporate Media" nothing else. As you said the social component is not wanted as it doesn't generate dollars.

With the rise of AI even the last human element - the content creators - have been replaced.

I strongly believe that social media/web/connections can only truly exist when people - not corporations - with the interest in it own and host it. Like the discussion boards of the past or the fediverse of now. .