Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I went to my first Dropkick Murphys show in 20 years. Lotsa great energy at today's #NoKings rally. Especially the dude who was accurately heckling Gov. Healey.

@davidgerard

As I understand it, the state of copyright for LLM-generated output is:

The person who promoted the LLM cannot assert copyright on the output (US copyright office ruling, confirmed in court).
People whose copyrighted materials were used as the training data may be able to assert copyright on the output as a derived work (inconclusive case law).

So accepting LLM-generated code seems very high risk. Especially for something like ext4, where it’s likely that there is exactly one implementation in the training set.

it's honestly fun to wear my red fedora everywhere. i'm starting to lean into it.

red hat has made a shrewd marketing move giving all associates a nice hat.

many people stop me to compliment the hat, then we start talking about open source software.

i'm not happy about being a corporate stooge, but i will take every opportunity to espouse the benefits of open source philosophy.

How new fishing tech can reduce #bycatch of turtles and other creatures - https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/how-new-fishing-tech-can-reduce-bycatch-of-turtles-and-other-creatures/ " Specially equipped nets can help save some species, while allowing fisherman to still catch others. "

Just as I predicted, the aunt with the most inflated ego is smitten with "AI" calling her by her name and wishing her good morning. Not that I talk to her. My mother informed me.

#AI #noAI #LLM #LLMs

My Feb 2026 Katz Lecture for UW's Simpson Center for the Humanities is now available on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7Lc6QNxolQ

Unfortunately, the recording doesn't include the Q&A. Two things I remember from that:

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If you bring Rayhunter to a protest this weekend (or ever), please send us the results, even if you didn’t find anything! Negative results can still help us better understand how and when CSS are being used. https://efforg.github.io/rayhunter/support-feedback-community.html

Did you know your distro carries a computer #art gallery?
It's called Xscreensaver. 30 years old and still getting updates.

A nerdy mix of simulations, interactivity and scene demos. All brilliant art.

Thank you @jwz for delighting this hacker again!

I came for the galaxy simulator, and stayed for Substrate. As always, for my 2 decades of Linux. I'll have to turn Substrate into a poster.

#demoscene #generativeart #algorithmicart

Help us pay off our warehouse, and get some merch! Every item sold gets us closer to our goal of securing the building for the future of lefty publishing.
https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_list&c=255

Trump should try declaring war bankruptcy to get out of this jam.

The complicity of universities cannot be understated...

The few of us fighting back aren't enough.

Read and sign if you can: https://openletter.earth/open-letter-stop-the-uncritical-adoption-of-ai-technologies-in-academia-b65bba1e?limit=0

Not to be doomer... We're definitely going to win, but also please join us

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@Em0nM4stodon @GhostOnTheHalfShell And while we’re at it, isn’t prudish about processing payments for adult-oriented businesses.

We need a solution to process international payments that isn't an American fintech company or cryptocurrency and is privacy-respectful like yesterday.

Please 🙏

if you're using AI regularly to generate text/presentations that you intend to use persuasively i don't think i can trust a single thing you say. Where does the AI end and the human begin?

I think this is why im so against AI generated commit messages especially if the code was written by a human, you wrote the code so you should be able to demonstrate that you understand what the change does and why.

If you're deferring that to an AI and you made a subtle logic error that it decides to justify for you suddenly we have obfuscated our own fucking zero days. Good luck finding the bug if the commit message describes the error as if it was intentional.

For general text, if you start with the conclusion and let the AI write the justification then there is no justification!!! Details matter, having a paper trail for decision making matters.

I wonder how many executives will escape the consequences of their white collar crimes by blaming AI.

AI zombification is coming and it's going to create a distinct difference in communication styles between those who do and don't use it, honestly that point is already here.

And we're gonna find out yet again that marx was right when it becomes clear that AI usage correlates with class lines.

how to make programming terrible for everyone

https://jneen.ca/posts/2026-03-27-how-to-make-programming-terrible-for-everyone/

I am thankful that I do not need to say „thankyou“ to #Bluesky, the company and its investors for the verification of accounts or to ask them for changes in their configuration so that my social media platform is working.

It shows how dependent #Eurosky and #ATProto still is on Bluesky. They are at the mercy of them. And I do not trust Eurosky to be ever free and fully independent, even if I really want to believe in it.

Please change my mind, but for now I keep on building on ActivityPub.

Yael's post demonstrates something about digital privacy/security that I think a lot of people miss: there is no right answer, just a series of trade-offs. And every person has to make their own decisions avout which trade-offs are worthwhile. https://blog.yaelwrites.com/options-for-phones-at-protests/

Now available in tactical black! 😎

The Missouri v. Biden ‘Settlement’ Is A Fake Victory For A Case They Lost - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/27/the-missouri-v-biden-settlement-is-a-fake-victory-for-a-case-they-lost/ "the Supreme Court looked at the actual record, found a pile of conspiratorial nonsense, and told the lower courts they got played. This was a loss. A clear, unambiguous loss."

You can also watch this video from EFF’s Dave Maass on How to Observe Police Surveillance at Protests: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGscYgR7bXc. Let us know what you see out there by emailing info@eff.org with Protest Surveillance in the subject! (4/7)