Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

We are a little bit late to the party, but on the 1. May we celebrated #lauti's first anniversary 🥳.
This year was crazy, we got in touch with so many amazing people a long the way. We did our first talk at the #39c3 self organized session of @techfrombelow@chaos.social.
We visited #fosdem with our friends from @Bonfire where they announced our collaboration working on #events in the #fediverse.
We are just getting started, SSO is around the corner and we are working on #activitypub at the moment.
For more updates take a look at our last blog post
lauti.org/blog/lauti-updates...

Without fail, every time an age verification law goes into effect, VPN usage surges. Instead of realizing that mass surveillance and age gates aren't exactly crowd favorites, Utah lawmakers have decided VPNs themselves are the real issue. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/utahs-new-law-regulating-vpns-goes-effect-next-week

#Codeberg may not be perfect, but it's better than the big players and it hosts my stuff.

So I donated to it.

https://donate.codeberg.org/

#coding #opensource #hosting

When I read a story about AI predicting horse races (in this case incorrectly), my thoughts immediately go to the Big Store confidence game "The Wire" and how a con man could probably update that con with AI.

Instead of an insider who gets the race results ahead of time and sends them to the mark before wiring them to the store, they would have access to a magical AI that they claim can predict races correctly, a few minutes ahead of time.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/horseracing/2026/05/01/kentucky-derby-predictions-ai-picks-2026-winner-results/89887043007/

On Press Freedom Day, let's remind everyone that journalists need protection, also online. 📰 🌐

Share this & Spread the word!

#PressFreedomDay26

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116510569333559021

No one.

But that's not the point now, is it? The point is to further undermine the bargaining position of actual musicians.

That's the point. That's always been the point, that's always been the goal.

It's not that AI-generated "music" is good, or that people want it, or that it's even music. The point has been to use AI, however bad or broken it is, as an excuse to undermine the financial position of artists.

As is typical for actually existing AI, its purpose is to undermine labor.

The class solidarity argument has been a part of “AI” discourse in many fields for a while now. It doesn’t settle the debate but it’s a rationale many will acknowledge even if they disagree

Except in coding. Mention it to software devs and most will look at you as if you just spoke in tongues

Everybody in a UBI study could spend it all on drugs & I would still support UBI.

Stop asking virtue of the poor which you don’t of the rich.

How tolerant are we?

Roskilde city council member for The Social Liberals Jeppe Trolle decided to test the tolerance by wearing a dress to a city council meeting.

Predictable like a clock, Conservative member of the council Rasmus Jarlov immediately responded by sharing a photo of him on Facebook, and stating that Trolle appears “unserious”.

The good news: At that meeting, the left wing majority adopted a new #LGBT strategy which ensures all restrooms in Roskilde will now be gender neutral.

@anon_opin

He used to just be a bad software engineer. Then he started using LLMs and his productivity really took off.

No, you *used* to be a software engineer. Now you're just a prompter. The funny thing is, the longer you slop prompt, the less likely you could go back to being an engineer even if you wanted to. Deskilling yourself is not something you all should be bragging about.

@janneke This is a difficult question to answer. First of all, I only really know the #Librem5. Furthermore, you can be tracked via the browser, via connection to telephone antenna's, Wifi and Bluetooth and probably more.

The Librem 5 has kill switches to physically switch of wifi, gsm, camera, and microphone.

https://puri.sm/learn/hardware-kill-switches/

My employer, like so many others, has been forcing the use of hallucination machines. During a meeting recently we were talking about using it, and I referred to it as "it".

Obviously, it is proper English to do so. But, one coworker was shocked by this and asked me why I used that word. I calmly explained that it is a large very flawed statistical model and nothing more, so "it" is the appropriate word.

I think that blew their mind. Their reaction was just silence.

I miss actual intelligence

US troops are not in Germany to protect Germany. They’re there because the US needs bases to conduct operations beyond the North American continent. If Trump withdraws them, he will harm the United States, not Germany.

It’s absurd how many Americans fail to grasp this.

@maxleibman I love the shit going down in New York. "Oh no don't tax us for owning empty property, we will just leave." Like yeah, no shit Sherlock, that's the point.

Chinese Exports of Green Technologies Surged to Record Levels After Iran War Began - https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/05/03/0112257/chinese-exports-of-green-technologies-surged-to-record-levels-after-iran-war-began "China exported 68 gigawatts of solar technology in March, surpassing the previous record set in August by 50%. Fifty countries set new records for Chinese solar imports, with the most significant growth coming from emerging markets in Asia and Africa hit hardest by the energy crisis,"

@Sempf

My wife and I were staying at a hotel in downtown Austin when a mass shooting occurred on the street below us. The whole block was cordoned off and there were police cars everywhere.

We were told to check Twitter for updates. I don’t have an account on Twitter and I shouldn’t have to have one to interact with my city’s emergency services.

@Sempf Definitely wrong and definitely worth fighting for freedom of information. As a taxpayer, you have already paid for the information of your local government, which they now paywall from you when they force you to use an adtech surveillance capitalism engine.

There is not a single substantial reason for the local government to mandatorily involve a commercial, third party evil actor in your just receiving and reading your local government information.

I even doubt they earn anything from it, then it's just into Zuck's pockets. Sucks.

As we mark World Press Freedom Day, we must face a sobering reality: press freedom is weakening across Europe.
We have the tools to protect the bedrock of our democracies and ensure journalists can work freely and safely; we now need the political will.

#SafetyOfJournalists #PressFreedom #WorldPressFreedomDay

Is the Bluesky kind of federation an example for the future of the Fediverse?

Read here what I think about this:
https://blog.gelbphoenix.de/the-glass-floor-of-digital-sovereignty/

#Fediverse #Bluesky #Blog #ActivityPub #OpenSocialWeb #DigitalSovereignty #ATProto