Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Hello friends, we lost access to our old Varia fediverse account, but we are now back and ready to federate!

This is our new account, please follow us on here to connect with us again.

For those who don't know us, Varia is a member-based collective that maintains a ground floor space at Gouwstraat 3, Charlois Rotterdam, since 2017. Together we experiment with creating and maintaining physical and digital infrastructures needed for collective, cultural work. More about what we do here: https://varia.zone/en/

#introductions

Mass surveillance and censorship are escalating in many countries right now. There is a global attack on secure encrypted communication. Often, authorities, politicians, and tech companies work together to push for new laws. One example: when Ashton Kutcher (yes, the actor), through his tech company Thorn, tried to introduce total surveillance of all EU citizens through undemocratic and corrupt methods.

If an LLM is used for military purposes, then the datacenters hosting the LLM become legitimate military targets.

#CfP LIMITS 2026! 🌍

LIMITS 2026 solicits submissions that move us closer towards computing that supports ecological and just futures for diverse human and non-human lifeforms and thriving biospheres. LIMITS'26 calls for
(1) papers to be peer-reviewed, presented and published in the proceedings (as usual) and
(2) alternative contributions, stories and other formats!

Abstract submission: March 20th 2026
Paper submission: March 24st
Alternative contributions: May 1st

https://computingwithinlimits.org/2026/

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

June 25, 2025. America spent billions in Donald Epstein's first war in Iran. Assured the nation any nuclear abilities were "OBLITERATED"

president Epstein lied.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/06/irans-nuclear-facilities-have-been-obliterated-and-suggestions-otherwise-are-fake-news/

#news #epstein #epsteinfiles #usa #eu

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.
>
> It calls for deregulation at the very moment when any serious security expert agrees that regulation is essential for setting a baseline security bar.
>
> “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?
>
> 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
• Faster privacy-first AI

Watch on PeerTube: https://peertube.nextcloud.com/w/gGgvRkcAGgyPkNe8x73tDZ

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