Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Signs you have carpenter ants

1. keep finding tiny tools
2. city sends a very tiny permit to affix to baseboard
3. try to move a book and are told “keep this entrance clear, ma’am” because of the “cement delivery coming later”
4. Your dish rack is dismantled “because it’ll be cheaper to rebuild from scratch”
5. no room on the dresser due to like 85 tiny pickups illegally parked there
6. husband keeps hearing high pitched wolf whistles when exiting shower

(my new drawing for this PSA)

Hey everybody! It's time for manchicken's quest.

**Today's quest**: Find a question or code contribution on your favorite open source project. Do a little research and answer the question, or review the code contribution. Just one, it doesn't have to be more (but bonus points will absolutely be awarded).

**Why this quest?**: Right now open source maintainers are catching a lot of shit. Either it's slop-mongers throwing bogus bugs their way, or it's dipshits trying to breach their projects to steal money from others. It's hard enough to be a maintainer even without this shit. This quest will make you help someone who could really benefit from just a little bit more community participation.

Just one. Report back to collect your points.

If you are annoyed by people bragging about the number of lines of code their favorite LLM can spit out per day, you might enjoy this story about Bill Atkinson, who once when asked how many lines of code he had written that week responded with -2000.

https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html

#Programming #SoftwareEngineering #LLM #GenAI

Dr Margaret Connolly, part of the Irish delegation onboard the flotilla and sister of Irish President Catherine Connolly, speaks about her experience of abduction and illegal imprisonment by the zionist regime.

#SaoirseDonPhalaistin #FreePalestine #Flotilla

It looks a lot like Trump’s #SlushFund is actually an attempt to raise a private presidential militia of jackbooted thugs. Considering our #democracy is at stake, at risk of a fascist takeover, we cannot let this happen.

I finally started reading The AI Con by @emilymbender and @alex and I already laughed out loud in the first few pages. "Racist pile of linear algebra" is my new favourite term for genAI.

Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!

Special Guest: @evan@cosocial.ca

He/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca. Research Director, Social Web Foundation. Author of 'ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web' from O'Reilly Media. Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai. Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social. Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus. Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech. Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montréalais.

So don't miss it!

It will happen on 05/27/26 at 14:00 US Eastern Time ( UTC-4 )

🔥 FIRESIDE FEDI — FOLLOW ALL THREE! 🔥

📺 Live: @ozoned@stream.firesidefedi.live (#livestream)

🎬 VOD: @ozoned@tubefree.org (#Peertube #VOD)

🔔 Alerts: @when@freestreamers.btfree.org (new shows!)

Don't miss out — follow all three! #firesidefedi #fediverse #fedi #interview #freesoftware #opensource #userfreedom #freedom #resistance

Would you look at that! Samsung is now publicly acknowledging that they abuse their market power as a supplier of electronics to surveil user behavior, including content viewed regardless of whether or not one of their services delivered the content.

They’re using automated content recognition to detect what you watch on your own tv, and they exfiltrate your personal data to sell.

That’s some real threat actor behavior right there.

All corruption, all the time in Trump world, Exhibit 67,895: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/us/how-prediction-markets-and-crypto-firms-steamrolled-a-watchdog-agency.html

The crypto and gambling bros own the "regulators."

Huh. This is interesting (shows where the IRD (our tax department) hosts our data): https://hosting-checker.net/websites/ird.govt.nz how's that data sovereignty working out for us, Aotearoa NZ?

📢 There is only a week left to submit your talk for #SeaGL2026 !!!

Don't delay: http://seagl.org/cfp

We are the free/libre/open source grassroots conference in Seattle. A counter weight to technological dystopia.

#cfp #linux #opensource #FLOSS #FOSS #OSS #oshw

Age verification mandates are reshaping the internet in ways that are invasive, dangerous, and unnecessary. But users aren't powerless! Our resource hub is here to help you challenge these laws, protect our digital rights, and build a safer digital world for all—no matter your age. https://www.eff.org/age

RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/116630681087209164

This kind of bullshit is just ONE reason why I staunchly oppose this technology and any others used to create widespread surveillance dragnets.

It’s long past time to deflock our communities.

If you are considering the Kagi search engine, there are aspects you should be aware of from an ethics perspective.

https://khevans.com/2025/08/21/kagi-ethics.html

”A portion of your fee goes towards Yandex, indirectly funding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Vlad, the CEO, has stated that 2% of their total costs in 2024 goes towards Yandex. He has also stated that there is no intent of changing this.”

”At least other search engines like DuckDuckGo have halted their partnerships with Yandex. Kagi’s refusal to do so and Vlad’s firm support of Yandex is quite telling. If others have ceased partnering with Yandex, why can’t Vlad?”

”It’s worth mentioning that Kagi previously listed the sources they used in their search. It seems that they’ve now hidden that information on that page, seemingly contradictory to their “commitment to transparency.”

”A portion of your fee goes towards Elon Musk’s xAI, of X/Twitter, to support Grok in their AI assistant. Indeed, you can simply not use this assistant, however all paying users are effectively subsidizing the cost of the Grok API calls. There is no way to opt-out of this.”

there are no good search engines left and paying for kagi makes that situation worse

go use one of the small ones that sucks at search and help make it better. don’t come on here and roleplay like you’re doing us a fucking favor by paying kagi’s token bill

"It is sweeter for us to wander with the wretched and the outcasts than to sit, crowned with roses, at the banquets of the rich."

- Elisée Reclus

Can someone update me on the state / existence of #ActivityPub platforms with end-to-end encryption?

Does such platforms exist? If so, what are they, and do any of them natively use e2ee by default

#e2e #e2ee #socialmedia

https://judyandthejerks.com/

I made a website for my band! Infinite shout outs to @The_Counterforce and the various "how-to" guides. Having fun on the internet and learning new skills is cool and possible.

‘There is profound disappointment in him’: mood in Russia turns against Putin - https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2026/may/24/there-is-profound-disappointment-in-him-mood-in-russia-turns-against-putin "there is a growing realisation that utterly senseless, self-destructive decisions keep being made. People who once defended Putin no longer do. Any sense of a future has disappeared.” poor little putin

Rancid monopolist Meta wars on competition. https://www.404media.co/meta-is-blocking-links-to-decentralized-instagram-competitor-pixelfed/