Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

See you there!
upstateanarchistbookfair.com

take that should be ice cold: if you're against proprietary software, you really also should be against genai

Hey, everyone, #GEO is running a #poetry slam as a fundraiser on May the fourth. It's really about the #solidarityeconomy, but if you just can't resist making a Star Wars (or Dave Brubeck) reference, we'll let it slide.

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/grassroots-poetry-slam-tickets-1984979006643

More about GEO: geo.coop

RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116397605266279416

It's a bit of a trope to say "this is an important talk" when somebody tackles an sombre topic, but this is in genuinely an important talk on the acceleration of dehumanisation enabled by "AI" and how we can resist it, all wrapped in a decent overview of the discourse so far, from a leading expert in the field

the solution to having created a world you think is too toxic for children is not to ban children from the world

"As governments around the world strain to make the internet safer for children, one idea has been gaining traction: Instead of forcing websites to keep out children, why not have their device do it instead?

In the United Kingdom, Apple has already begun requiring some iPhone users to verify their age at the operating system level to access certain features.

This is a major shift in how identity works online..."

https://proton.me/blog/age-verification-operating-system

Interested in joining the #Punk #Webring? Check out the rules page to find out how you can join:

https://p-u-n-k.nekoweb.org/rules.html

There's a scammer on the move, see the quoted post for details. Genuine admins will NEVER demand that you verify your identity.

I've done a guide to scams and how to recognise them at:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-to-avoid-scammers-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse

https://digipres.club/@timixretroplays/116400799417215833

I understand but lament the choice so many thoughtful people have made to publish their newsletters on the odious Substack. Surely they recognize that they are, at least indirectly, helping some of the worst people in the world spread and monetize malignant views.

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vaba7tf7ylt2kaavf4t2kotp/post/3mjfo4h6u7s2f

Join us at 9:30pm central on YouTube for the release of the full day 3 Daunte Wright protest coverage from 5 years ago tonight, on April 13, 2021.

Despite a curfew, protests continued two days after Wright was killed by police. Following a march across Brooklyn Center, masses protested outside the police station amid a large intra-agency police force bent on suppressing protests and clearing the streets.

This video has unreleased footage & live streamed footage in HD.

https://youtu.be/zvnNHgYDan4

They Weren’t Joking: Gentoo WAS ported to GNU Hurd

https://hackaday.com/2026/04/13/they-werent-joking-gentoo-was-ported-to-gnu-hurd/

To other Mastodon Admins - I just got a couple posts telling me that my instance is the source of dodgy content from a couple identical looking but differently named accounts on mastodon.cloud. I believe it's a phishing scam targeting Mastodon admins... be careful out there.

Compared to other 3D printer laws proposed this year, California’s is the most troubling. It criminalizes open source, reduces consumer choice, and creates a new bureaucratic burden. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/dangers-californias-legislation-censor-3d-printing #opensource #3dprinting #AB2047

When oil gets expensive, cities get better... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXNLaHsKMz8 Yup.

Alternatively, is anyone else in this position? Maybe if we pooled our resources and did this as a co-op with a handful of other small #FLOSS projects we could amortize the cost of doing taxes and maintaining a bank account and business entity and all that across all our projects and make it worth it?

Does anyone know of any non-profits (and preferably co-ops) acting as fiscal hosts for small open source projects? Most of them will only take large, established projects with lots of contributors, but I've got a small project with just a couple of regular contributors that recently lost its only way of taking donations via Open Collective. I can set something up with my personal account, but that feels bad given that others are working on it too. I know small projects with a few donations a year or a huge overhead and burden for fiscal hosts though. We're not on #GitHub (we use #Codeberg) which also seems to be a problem for some of the hosts.

#FLOSS

You'd think that, with that $400k per farmer windfall... that they could afford to pay for their carbon pollution like other industries.

@ashley

💭 The alternative status quo I dream about 💭

Join our matrix/rocket chat/nextcloud talk space by filling out our heyform interest form. Check out our mobilizon/lauti community shared calendar to find events. Our static website and wiki is here...

⤴️ All of these non extractive/exploitive tools are managed by our local tech co-op for XX/mo. They contribute a percentage of that back to upstream developers.

@coopcloud