Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Random thought.

If public libraries didn't already exist, capitalism wouldn't let you invent it. Can you imagine how many billions Jeff Bezos would plough into fighting the idea, destroying any politician who dared to back it?

Support your local library.

Cat made the HAIRBALL HORCK sound after we were already up and caffeinated. Another win for Daylight Saving Time.

@ChrisMayLA6 Spain reached a tipping point in decoupling electricity pricing from gas pricing, once you reach renewables and nuclear providing all electricity for enough of the day for enough of the year, the impact of gas prices is significantly reduced https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/decoupled-how-spain-cut-the-link-between-gas-and-power-prices-using-renewables/

Trump ‘Accidentally’ Missing From DOJ Epstein Files—But Key Claims From 13-Year-Old Victim Are Verified
#AureFreePress #News #press #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol

More at @Free_Press
https://share.newsbreak.com/hml9et1c

Richard Medhurst on the continually increasing damage to US bases in the Gulf, the results for Israel's early warning systems, and the Israeli gov't and media's desperate attempts to cover up what's actually happening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0cIOMVBSbU

Wow, the government's draft report on how it is meeting its ICCPR (International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights) obligations is a long dry summary of all the ways it's failing to do so by eroding our rights and liberties.

And that's even with it trying to put the best light on some issues like the terrible Biometric Code!

Read as a whole it's a shocking indictment.

https://consultations.justice.govt.nz/policy/iccpr-draft-report-consultation/

By the way, if someone is serving for the United States military, it is a bit old fashioned to say "thank you for your service", perhaps try instead: "you are a traitor to the human race."

IF I WANTED CLAUDE TO CHANGE MY CODE I WOULD ASK IT MYSELF, I DON'T NEED SOMEONE WHO KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT THE PROJECT TO ASK CLAUDE TO MAKE CHANGES THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND

#Wayland and #input methods?
Yeah, I think I paid back for what I messed up.

I wrote a description of every feature I could remember – implemented or not yet implemented – on my #blog .

With this, I'm moving on and shuffling away from the stage.

https://dorotac.eu/posts/im-finished

Thanks @nlnet for support! Thanks @kde for the meetup!

#linux #CJK #linuxmobile #kde #nlnet #internationalization

The tourism and conference businesses are Trump economic victims, and have options. Data points:

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/03/it-doesnt-feel-safe-many-international-game-developers-plan-to-skip-gdc-in-us/

https://apnews.com/article/ig-nobels-award-prize-comical-science-achievement-where-7413f288bb43b5490611795b876684d2

More reasons to ditch US Big Tech:
This is highly worrying from a cyber point of view: President Trump's Cyber Strategy for America

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/President-Trumps-Cyber-Strategy-for-America.pdf

> This is highly worrying from a cyber point of view: President Trump's Cyber Strategy for America
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/President-Trumps-Cyber-Strategy-for-America.pdf
>
> This document reframes cyberspace as a US-dominated military domain. It calls for offensive operations as a standard policy instrument. It boasts openly about destroying foreign critical infrastructure. Not only that, it also pledges to impose American “norms” on the global internet.
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> It calls for deregulation at the very moment when any serious security expert agrees that regulation is essential for setting a baseline security bar.
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> “Adversary” is not defined in this pamphlet, and any foreign organization may now fall easily inside the definition at any time. (akin to disabling all Microsoft infrastructures for the International Criminal Court, ICC, in 2025, or declaring Anthropic to be a “supply chain risk”).
>
> If the U.S. treats foreign technology as an adversarial risk, how can any government or organization trust U.S. technology any longer?
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> This is the foundational strategic question now: how long are we willing to build our IT infrastructures on systems that another power, governed by executive orders, has declared to be part of their military arsenal?

Source: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7435955619792216066/?originTrackingId=TWIwavEFeQdojh5LYKQLqg%3D%3D

#murica #trump #BigTech #sovereignty #cybersecurity #CloudExit

I have a common problem with several work-related projects. After quite a bit of pondering, I believe I have found the solution in my archives - a bash script linking a few very cool utilities that I wrote 20 years ago in the heady days of Egressive. Probably took weeks to get it right (it automates an important backup process). I'm very chuffed my archives are still with me. This will likely save days of work.

Very sensible cautions and a much needed reality-check on 'AI' adoption: https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2019026272/oxford-professor-s-ai-disaster-warning

6× faster? 🏎 With #NextcloudHub 26 Winter, we’re introducing the biggest architecture upgrade yet with:

• The new ADA engine
• Improved Rust & Go backends for Nextcloud Files & Talk
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The Upstate Anarchist Book Fair is just a couple of months away! We hope to see you there!
Event Info: upstateanarchistbookfair.com
Co-hosted by: PM Press Binghamton and Riot Act Books

The notion “that prosecutors should be the arbiters of journalistic practice and that anyone accused of bias is not entitled to the same level of First Amendment protections is deeply chilling,” Joel Simon writes in CJR.

https://www.cjr.org/analysis/inside-the-legal-defense-of-georgia-fort-and-don-lemon-abbe-lowell-leita-walker.php?mc_cid=2842290bff&mc_eid=b64f4be302

Nicola Griffith’s collection blends essays, poems, and fiction exploring gender bias, disability, and love. It includes intimate poems, visceral short stories, a debut novella, and an interview with Nisi Shawl on power and art.
https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1877

I am confusing Blackstone and Blackrock.

Once upon a time I was confusing Exxon and Enron.

I wrote on Boing Boing about Minnesota cartoonist Steve Sack storming out of retirement to take on ICE... and he had to do it with his left hand
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https://boingboing.net/2026/03/09/minneapolis-cartoonist-storms-out-of-retirement-to-take-on-ice-with-his-left-hand.html

Reflecting on all the times in my career as a software engineer I have been told that, yes, things were a bit unfair to me as a woman, but that I was being a trailblazer, I was the one discovering and establishing the path that would enable others to follow.

But you go back to the 70s and you see the same number of women programmers, being fed that exact same line
And in the 80s
and the 90s
and so on to today. The "trailblazer" narrative is a lie told by managers to make themselves feel better