Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I just made a new minor release of GeoClue, the freedesktop D-bus location server. Highlights of the release are fixes to NMEA parsing and Wifi device selection.

Thanks to all the contributors!

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/geoclue/geoclue/-/releases/2.8.1

#geoclue #location #GPS

I'm as fascinated by the Artemis II mission as many other people, but as scientist I'm frustrated that experts interviewed about it in the media are rarely asked to justify the truly astronomical cost. So far the program is reported to have cost $93Bn, with the direct costs of this mission alone amounting to more than $4Bn. I'm perhaps particularly sensitive to this because I'm frequently asked to justify funding three orders of magnitude smaller that we have used to improve knowledge of how the Antarctic ice sheet will respond to climate change and contribute to future sea-level rise.

Patreon post is UP at long last and I am going to BED, high-fives everybody & good night ( :

https://www.patreon.com/posts/botanical-sexism-155399638

@kestral Adobe is why we can’t have nice, or saucy, things! GIMP forever!!

Holy shit, it's really true.

Yes pollen allergies are getting worse!

No it's not because of sexism!

It's because of climate change!

It would be cool if we could focus on fixing THAT, instead of chasing our tails with botanical sexism!

We spent years teaching people not to paste secrets into Slack. Turns out we should've been watching the AI they're pasting them into instead.

https://api.cyfluencer.com/s/camoleak-how-github-copilot-became-an-exfiltration-channel-26630

Amazon just pulled Kindle Store access from every Kindle released before 2013. The hardware still works. Your books still work. Side-loading EPUBs over USB still works.

The fix is the same one that's worked since 2007 — and here's exactly how to do it, step by step:

https://lk0.eu/bks901m

#Bookstodon #ebooks #kindle #FediReads #OpenAccess

“Discord is in the business of making money by selling their users’ personal data,” EFF's Samantha Baldwin told @arstechnica. “They are implementing ‘age verification’ to meet regulatory compliance and to collect more data about their customers, not protect children.” https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/dad-stuck-in-support-nightmare-after-teen-lied-about-age-on-discord/

It's hard not to do a puff piece about JD Vance. That's a very puffy man.

#JoyScrolling #ArtemisII #HiddenFigures #CelebrateScience #CelebrateWomenScientists #KatherineJohnson

Oh no, the AI rollout would have totally worked so well if it wasn't for those Damn Kids sabotaging it. They do it out of fear, you see, because the AI companies' random text generators are so good at, like, jobs and such.

Process without verification.

True story: 100% *successful* autonomous completion of non-trivial coding tasks by "AI agents" isn't a thing. It doesn't exist. It's not even close to existing.

Treat any such claims like you would treat claims of people teleporting to the office.

New comic: Name that Bellicose Babbler

#war #language #cartoon #uspol #quotes

RE: https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/116383246419414734

He’s taking the parks, too. This guy just sucks in every imaginable way.

Reddit has been ordered to appear before a grand jury as the Trump administration tries to unmask anonymous online critics. “We should be very, very, very concerned that they’ve now taken one of these to a grand jury,” EFF’s @davidgreene told @theintercept. https://theintercept.com/2026/04/10/reddit-ice-protest-grand-jury/

Positive News: France has announced its plan to ditch Windows & switch to Linux for government desktops. 🥳 🇫🇷

Not only that, but they have also moved 80, 000 National Health Insurance Fund Employees to open source alternatives replacing U.S owned Big Tech platforms like Microsoft Teams & Zoom.

It’s amazing to see the country take action, push for real digital sovereignty, & opt for open source solutions! 👏

More here: https://www.numerique.gouv.fr/sinformer/espace-presse/souverainete-numerique-reduction-dependances-extra-europeennes/

"sharp rise in narratives framing #London as a "fallen city" where crime goes unpunished and "basic decency has all but disappeared"." - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3l4kwer5ko pathetic lies from right-wing nutters: I've lived in the city all my life, and it's going through a golden period now, full of life, excitement and joy

This just in: Target uses ALPR tools to keep track of who drives to or near their stores. Don’t shop at Target. Screenshot from their privacy policy attached.

Don’t shop at union-busting, police-state funding, privacy-violating, creepy-ass Target.