Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Our government won't fund anything except new boats for the worst people in the country. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/5/22/800042759/cartoon/slush-fund-sweepstakes/

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#Mentorship #Cybersecurity #CareerGrowth #Community #BlacksInCybersecurity

Revealed: #Palantir’s #NHS tech is ten times slower than current system - https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-palantirs-nhs-tech-is-ten-times-slower-than-nhs-thiel-trump "NHS leaders privately told that “clunky” £330m platform built by Trump donor Peter Thiel’s firm is “slow” and has “poor user experience”, new documents show" it's rubbish

#SpaceX’s IPO Filing Shows Elon’s #Twitter ‘Business Genius’ Was A Fantasy - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/22/spacexs-ipo-filing-shows-elons-twitter-business-genius-was-a-fantasy/

Testing request for Qualcomm devices on Mobian:

We’d appreciate more testing of Linux 6.18 on Qualcomm devices before considering it as the default kernel for testing users.

Relevant packages:

linux-image-6.18-sdm845
linux-image-6.18-sdm670

If you’re running an SDM845 or SDM670 device, please test and report:

boot success/failures
suspend/resume
modem/Wi-Fi/audio/camera status
regressions vs current kernel
stability and battery life

Feedback and test reports are very welcome.

#github #microslop #enshittification #meme

Today, @DAIR is releasing the Luddite Lab Resource Hub. The hub hosts case studies, resources, and political education for unions, labor organizations, and workers who want to fight “AI” and automation at work.

https://labor.dair-institute.org

@GossiTheDog Keep working on sharpening your skills, and pivot to consulting, specializing in fixing AI bullshit.

Here's an example.

A client came to me and said "We need some help debugging some code, we've had a team of four developers working on it for two weeks, and we can't make any progress."

I took a look at it, and while a quick glance seemed to be fairly straightforward, a closer look showed they were sending malformed SQL into one tool, whose output would be a CSV file, and trying to push it into another tool that only accepted XML as input... And some of the command line options they were using for these tools was complete nonsense.

"Where did you get this code?" I asked the project manager...

"Oh, it came from <insert name of LLM here>, and it looked fine!"

I started from scratch, and wrote what they needed in about 6 hours... But they burned 300+ hours on trying to make sense of garbage output, while THEIR customers were stuck waiting for data.

@merospit the bubble can stay unpopped longer than I could stay solvent, at any rate. So now I drive a delivery truck.

People people people! Aren't you already using an "AI" overview blocking browser add-on?

#noAI #AI #LLM #LLMs #enshittification #google

We're hiring at my workplace.

If you are interested in working
- in a science-adjacent nonprofit
- in #python
- doing web backend and data engineering stuff
- *not using generative AI*
- remote work friendly

Please drop me a line! Your application won't skip the queue but I can give you a boost.

I rarely get a chance, since we're so small, but would love to help someone on here #GetFediHired !

https://uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job/Chicago-IL/Senior-Software-Engineer--Backend-Services_JR33639

Please feel free to boost for reach, or forward to your friends!

Trump’s Personal Attorney Todd Blanche Attempts to Pardon His Boss - https://emptywheel.net/2026/05/20/trumps-personal-attorney-todd-blanche-attempts-to-pardon-his-boss/

In NYC, home care workers have been protesting to end mandatory 24 hour shifts for decades. Leave it to the non-profit industrial complex to fight to maintain them. 😡

https://www.work-bites.com/view-all/nomore24counterprotests

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Companies that build mass surveillance tools—like Amazon and Google with the Nimbus technologies they have sold to Israel—risk complicity in human rights abuses, and the public is watching. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/microsoft-took-step-toward-human-rights-accountability-google-and-amazon-and

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#FuckAppleMaps

Yesterday we had Kollicloud in our community call. The @LIT_Local_IT team showed how they are able to run cooperative clouds with accessible tooling for communities and organisations. They're building on top of the @coopcloud configuration commons, and added some wonderful magic to that.

Running your own cloud and practise #DigitalAutonomy has never been more affordable.

But what is it?
KolliCloud is a ready-to-use integrated hosting toolkit for clubs, NGOs, and collectives. In practical terms it is a curated bundle of approximately fifteen free-software applications — Nextcloud, Authentik, Element/Matrix, Wekan, OnlyOffice, Vikunja, Vaultwarden, and others — deployed as a single integrated platform with single sign-on (SSO), automated backups, and monitoring included from the first minute.

Find our report here:
https://freeknowledge.eu/cooperative-clouds-in-practice-kollicloud-shows-how-affordable-sovereign-infra-is-already-here

Well, it appears I will no longer be using Apple products. Their bait-and-switch on ad tech embedded into their products is unacceptable. #AppleMaps will now be surveilling you as you walk, drive, or use public transport.

I've looked the other way on Apple's corporate behavior too long, and I just can't hold my nose anymore.