Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

“zzt how dare you accuse Mozilla employees of suffering from incredibly obvious LLM psychosis”

please “enjoy” the State of Mozilla, one of the least hinged things I’ve seen released with apparent pride by an established corporation: https://stateof.mozilla.org/

note the 2001-style not-Flash intro. the fake captcha. the timecube-esque prattle about AI threatening humanity. “DO NOT ACCEPT DEFAULT SETTINGS”. the ASCII art cop finger in the footer of the main page. all of it. what in fuck is this.

When companies do mass-layoffs and adopt "AI" one quarter and report a productivity increase the next, that's not because of the "AI" but because their productivity is an aggregate measure divided by headcount. They reduced the headcount while customer lock-in keeps the aggregate measure up 4/

This morning, ICE was staking out an elementary school bus stop here in Minneapolis. A crowd with whistles chased them off.

Just in case you somehow thought they were leaving Minnesota.

Just in case Senators somehow thought maybe it’s OK to give them a military-sized budget after all just because they demoted that one guy.

Trump Does a Soft TACO as Republicans, NRA and Law Enforcement Officers Oppose ICE Thuggery. A Gambit or a Real Climbdown?

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/01/trump-does-a-soft-taco-as-republicans-nra-and-law-enforcement-officers-oppose-ice-thuggery-a-gambit-or-a-real-climbdown.html

Calls for #WorldCup #boycott grow over #Trump policies - https://boingboing.net/2026/01/27/calls-for-world-cup-boycott-grow-over-trump-policies.html spread the word #greenland

Note that I am NOT saying that attracting VC is a good thing. I personally think that US style startup culture has had its peak and that transplanting it from the US to the EU would be very bad for our people. I'd much prefer a shift towards cooperatives, based on democratic principles that forego the "lonesome hero" myth. That kind of investment would be far more EU style :)

Many TikTok users recently reported problems uploading videos, sudden drops to zero views, or posts getting stuck “under review.” Almost all of those complaints involved videos criticizing ICE or discussing the murder of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
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@strypey there is always a lot we sysadmins don't know we don't know!
A mantra of the terrain really. Adversaries, including automated, make a game of this.

I myself am studying every day, in some shape or form. The learning never stops, and this is especially the case as regards server hardening/security.

Several of my own students over the years have been senior sysadmins (20+ yrs exp) and said they've grown much through the training.

There's always something!

You'd think that every news report of Trump's dispatch of Tom Homan to Minnesota would prominently remind people that Homan was caught on video taking $50,000 in cash, plainly an intended bribe.

Sadly, you would be wrong. I'm still looking for any mention of it.

Reminder: https://newrepublic.com/post/200788/tom-homan-50k-cash-bribe

"Neil Young Trashes Amazon, Gives His Complete Musical Catalog to Greenland for Free
"Amazon is owned by Jeff Bezos, a billionaire backer of the president," Young writes to fans. "My music will never be available on Amazon, as long as it is owned by Bezos""

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/neil-young-trashes-amazon-greenland-free-music-1235505119/

This blogpost makes an astoundingly good case about LLMs I hadn't considered before. The collapse of public forums (like Stack Overflow) for programming answers coincides directly with the rise of programmers asking for answers from chatbots *directly*. Those debugging sessions become part of a training set that now *only private LLM corporations have access to*. This is something that "open models" seemingly can't easily fight. https://michiel.buddingh.eu/enclosure-feedback-loop

@lightweight wow, what a list!
That is a great manifest. I am impressed. I have a bunch of half finished projects or half started things, but that is great!
I am just purchased politicians.social in order to host my first mastodon instance for politicians to get off x - it will be au.politicians.social for Federal pollies here - then vic.au.politicans.social for Victorian (where I am I am) and others...
I would love to see nz.politicians.social for your ppl in NZ? Hosted in NZ...
@andreasio

I'm not saying the Trump administration is turning the US into a dystopian hellscape, but when the local newspaper needs to help you identify what toxic gas Federal agents are unleashing on citizens, I think it speaks for itself.

Okay, after joking around (five reboot is not good for one's hearth after midnight) that it might just be a bad kernel version (We use Debian which is known to be stable), we found a reference to https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1125405 and this was exactly the kernel we booted into. We're now running a non-faulty kernel version and codeberg.org is up and running again.

We're still unsure about the cause of the first time the server crashed, all subsequent ones can be traced to this ceph regression.

> and an enterprise version of Firefox that treats the browser as critical infrastructure for modern work, not a data collection surface.

this implies the regular version *is* a data collection surface

AI is mentioned only in passing

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla-new-products/how-mozilla-builds-now/

One of our servers (the one that hosts Forgejo) (kernel) crashed and upon rebooting got into a similar state where we saw a lot of kernel panics. We're hoping that this is a temporary environmental issue; we are prepared to move the service to another server, the stored data is is still available for our two other servers via Ceph.

@manchicken exactly

Recursive pollution leads to model collapse. A majority of these "tech puff pieces" ignore both problems

https://berryvilleiml.com/2026/01/10/recursive-pollution-and-model-collapse-are-not-the-same/

Wondering how many people use an 'IP Geolocation' extension in their browser to tell them *where* websites they visit are actually hosted... I use "Country Flag & IP Whois" for (Fire|Water)Fox which, for example, shows me which Aotearoa NZ civil society organisations, gov't agencies, & political parties host their websites onshore... It's quite telling.

We knew this was coming, but now the clock is running. From Privacy International:

"Yesterday the Trump Administration announced a proposed change in policy for travellers to the U.S. It applies to the powers of data collection by the Customs and Border Police (CBP)."

"If the proposed changes are adopted after the 60-day consultation, then millions of travellers to the U.S. will be forced to use a U.S. government mobile phone app, submit their social media from the last five years and email addresses used in the last ten years, including of family members. They’re also proposing the collection of DNA."

PI linked to and summarized a Federal Register entry describing the proposed requirements:

-All visitors must submit ‘their social media from the last 5 years’

-ESTA (Electronic System for Travel Authorization) applications will include ‘high value data fields’, ‘when feasible’
‘telephone numbers used in the last five years’
-‘email addresses used in the last ten years’
-‘family number telephone numbers (sic) used in the last five years’
-biometrics – face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris
-business telephone numbers used in the last five years
-business email addresses used in the last ten years.

https://www.privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/5713/trump-administration-wants-your-dna-and-social-media

The Federal Register entry says comments are encouraged and
must be submitted (no later than
February 9, 2026) to be assured of
consideration

Federal Register entry: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-12-10/pdf/2025-22461.pdf

𝐁𝐞𝐥𝐤î 𝐒𝐢𝐛ê - A Journey Through The Syrian War and Rojava Revolution already has subtitles in many languages.

-Human made/edited: English, Kurdish, Spanish, Greek, Slovakian and Polish.

-AI: Brazilian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finish, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian and Swedish.

Someone is already editing the Turkish subs and I'm trying to figure out Arabic.
Any volunteers who might be interested in helping out in editing those files please contact me on any social media platform.

Please share for more reach.

The YT link to watch the film is in the comments 👇
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=haMGrjjOuFM&pp=0gcJCTMBo7VqN5tD&fbclid=IwVERTSAPksm1leHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR64hM3fJ6taNVnvPndpoC1YjIJ_e8_18wIAKOI4dxyPn6iq0gX_w1-CRWz_7w_aem_RnlRqW9xoLZG7K099RACXA