Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

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does anyone need a sysadmin, SRE, or cybersecurity person with experience with cell and radio networks? i'm looking for a job to end my five month streak of unemployment

i have a BSc and MSc in Computing Security and 4 years job experience (resume upon request)

i can work in the Boston area or remote in the US

#getfedihired #fedihire

Respirator masks like N95s will prevent hantavirus infection.

Clean air will drastically reduce hantavirus spread.

We already have the tools, people just need to use them.

Public health requires everyone’s participation.

“You do you” gets people killed

#hantavirus #publichealth #wearamask #n95 #ableism #eugenics #chronicillness

Listening to Anthony Healy (?) head of APRA holding forth on RNZ. I'm reminded of how badly broken the concept of Copyright is. Their whole model is driven by corporate 'rights holders' who want to extract maximum $ from the market, and not the interests of individual creators who desperately need the income. The model rewards those who're already successful. New & small creators get nuthin', especially if they haven't sold out to the big evil streaming providers.

🔴 Brand new Tom the Dancing Bug now up on Boing Boing
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DEMENTIA DONNIE, in "ATROPHY CASE"
Dare you peer into the skull of Dementia Donnie...?
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https://boingboing.net/2026/05/06/tom-the-dancing-bug-a-peek-into-the-skull-of-dementia-donnie.html

Congress is long overdue to enact a strong comprehensive consumer data privacy law. But the SECURE Data Act is not it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/secure-data-act-not-serious-piece-privacy-legislation

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Our @fediforum@mastodon.social demo is up! 🔥

We showed off Bonfire Mosaic and our ongoing work on federated groups and new publisher tools we’ve been co-designing with jacobin.de, including federated discussion threads that can be embedded on their existing website.

Built on our modular framework for community-governed digital spaces.

Watch 👉 spectra.video/w/hV9wzGzsXvNj...

When all of this is over, I want all the companies that allowed (or, worse yet, pushed) slop liquidated, and all their property given to the people, not the state, the people! We can do this! We can fucking do this!

Do not let them continue operating like Siemens, Dr. Oetker, Bayer... were allowed to continue operating! Liquidate them!

#AI #noAI #LLM #LLMs #technofascism #bigtech

@drmorrisj @hannorein @daisy in my experience in teaching in higher education, it makes a big difference how easy cheating is. LLMs made cheating easy enough that it went from maybe 20% of participants in a first semester lecture to something like 50%. Those additional 30% of students would have learned something before, but are near guaranteed not to learn anything now.

Genuinely one of the worst things for me about the vibe coding apocalypse is that it is steadily eroding my patience in code review.

It used to be that if you identified issues with someone’s code, you could explain why, and help your coworker learn and grow as a professional. And sometimes they’d respond by explaining why they did it that way, and then you get to learn and grow as well.

Now a lot of the time when I do code review, I feel like I’m not actually investing my time in learning, just giving them something to copy paste into an AI chatbot without engaging with either the code or the feedback.

"India orders infosec red alert in case Mythos sparks crime spree"

One thing I find annoying by this hype is the presumption that the current state is that IT infrastructure is generally secure, which is just not true

Most companies/governments don't want to spend money on it, and often very little consequences for failing

Its mostly just a way to grift money by gifting these contracts thru nepotism to complete rudimentary checklists and don't have any consequences for failure either

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116528112554618172

VACCINATE YOUR KIDS! FFS

Can you tell the time on an analogue clock?

Boost for my sanity

Opus 4.7 fails to produce a usable anagram about 20% of the time it seems. Yeah; this will produce safe production-ready code. Ship it!

Investment in low-carbon tech to diversify, global study finds - https://www.pinsentmasons.com/Out-Law/News/Low-carbon-investment-diversify

How rooftop solar and home batteries became “kryptonite” to big coal and the fossil fuel industry https://reneweconomy.com.au/how-rooftop-solar-and-home-batteries-became-kryptonite-to-big-coal-and-the-fossil-fuel-industry/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-rooftop-solar-and-home-batteries-became-kryptonite-to-big-coal-and-the-fossil-fuel-industry

Hello, people who do #SysAdmin 👋🏼
I want to get better at this, and more confident at hosting my own services on my own servers (homelab or VPS). Can you point me to any good resources to learn? I feel like I have a decent handle on the basics, but don't know what I don't know.

Here's where I'm currently at:
I self-host (via Docker on Linux) Nextcloud, Immich, Vaultwarden, Home Assistant, Anubis, Forgejo, Readeck, a couple containers for personal “APIs”, and a few static sites. (mostly on the same server)

I can configure UFW, set SSH to be no password/key only, have Fail2Ban kicking IPs off, and have BorgBackup doing offsite rolling backups. Uptime Kuma monitors the high level services, but I don't have other monitoring.

What don't I know here, or should I dig into more than the basics?

Feel free to boost, my circles may not reach far enough.

#Linux #InfoSec

It has been an honor and delight getting to know @Tzipporah and @Yehuda over the past few months.

If you haven’t met them, they’re the grandfather & grandkid duo that co-admin #TurtleIsland, a server focused on building community with Native/Indigenous people, other BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) people, and allies. To me, their story perfectly encapsulates the best thing about the fediverse and Mastodon: People coming together to build a place for themselves.

Read their beautiful story: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/05/community-spotlight-tzipporah-and-yehuda-of-turtle-island-social/

#Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialWeb