Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Meta has been blocking human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia and the UAE. EFF joined ALQST and 10 other organizations in calling on Meta to restore access to accounts and provide more transparency about their practices https://www.alqst.org/en/post/meta-blocks-human-rights-accounts-from-reaching-audiences-in-saudi-arabia-and-the-uae

Happy birthday to Louise Michel, born on this day in 1830. She was a teacher, poet, and revolutionary who fought on the barricades of the Paris Commune in 1871 and was exiled to New Caledonia. The "Red Virgin of Montmartre" never stopped.

In response to *gestures wildly*, I've written about LLMs and why tech communities (in particular) should take an ethical stance against their use.

https://linguacelta.com/blog/2026/05/LLMs.html

It took me a bit to realize that the person laid off by Wikipedia is our own @brooke. Now I'm even more motivated to support the #WWU than I was already!

An injury to one is an injury to all!

Flathub moves to ban nearly all apps and submissions made with generative AI https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/flathub-moves-to-ban-nearly-all-apps-and-submissions-made-with-generative-ai/

#Linux #OpenSource #Flathub #AI #GenAI

More than 300 federal agents descended on a Chicago apartment building. Black Hawk helicopters. Doors kicked in. Residents zip-tied and detained.

Rebecca Burns reports on why tenants now suspect the raid may have served as an eviction by ICE.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/eviction-by-ice-on-chicago-tenants-landlord-renters-immigrants

In order to make it look like at least one company isn't totally losing their shirt by using "AI," the Financial Times (an outlet that absolutely knows better) was forced to remove expenses from their analysis. Think about that one for a moment: the numbers were so bad that they felt the need to add an asinine assumption, just to avoid coming to the obviously true conclusion: everyone is losing massive amounts of money on this. Yes, even Amazon.

https://xcancel.com/askyoshik/status/2059849267725152285

"According to a report from Axios, an AI consultant revealed that one of their enterprise clients accidentally racked up a staggering $500 million bill in a single month on Anthropic’s Claude after failing to implement spending caps or usage controls for employees. Yes, half a billion dollars. In 30 days. On AI usage."

I'm sure they got some killer code out of it though, right? A new must-have app, or something, right? Right?!?

https://techstartups.com/2026/05/28/company-accidentally-spent-500-million-on-claude-ai-in-one-month-after-forgetting-usage-limits/

Okay, so, I went to lobbying day today at the state house and I lobbied Pat Jehlen and Erika Uyterhoeven on housing and climate stuff. A side conversation got me curious, though, and idk how to figure out a "correct" answer to this:

Can we repurpose old natural gas pipes to be grey water pipes, so that we could use rainwater for things like irrigation and other non-potable-water needs? Thereby also diverting some of the extra storm water from being a CSO issue?
#water #urbanplanning

@cap_ybarra @JeremiahFieldhaven on rsync, this is scary. It's getting to a point where just stopping updates for a while on crucial systems seems safer than applying them.

So my systems recently updated to rsync 3.4.3, and as soon as that happened my backup system - which does incremental backups using multiple --compare-dest= arguments - started to fail on anything but a full backup.

Revert to 3.4.1 and it works.

So I go look at the source in GitHub to see what might have changed, because there doesn't seem to be anything relevant in the changelog.

Since 3.4.1, 36 commits by "tridge and claude"

Oh for fuck's sakes.

Thanks to hard work by @flyingpimonster Maps now supports downloading map areas for offline use!

This has been a long-awaited feature and will finally be available in GNOME 51.

#gnomemaps #gnome #mapstodon #openstreetmap #offlinemaps

@BleepingComputer Can you please stop carrying water for them and using their marketing language in your articles? JFC it's disgusting.

They didn't delay the rollout to the public for any other reason than marketing, which you are doing for them right this very moment.

Repeating their bullshit "for the safety of the public" fuck right off.

#Netanyahu orders Israeli army to seize ‘70% of Gaza Strip’, violating ceasefire deal - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/28/netanyahu-orders-israeli-army-seize-70-gaza-strip-violating-ceasefire-deal he'll take all of it - what did people think he'd do? that's the point of the #gazagenocide

Now they'll never ask me to do a Google doodle (except maybe vicariously through an A.I. model that was fed my dumb cartoons).

"U.S. says troops were targeted with location data, as senator warns ad industry is a ‘national security threat’"

"One leading privacy lawmaker said it was time to "start treating the adtech industry as a national security threat.""

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/28/u-s-says-troops-were-targeted-with-location-data-as-senator-warns-ad-industry-is-a-national-security-threat/

#Privacy

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A security vulnerability labelled CVE-2026-27771 affecting Forgejo and Gitea is being widely reported recently.

Packages in Forgejo are visible to unauthenticated users if they are published under a public owner, as designed. It is not a security vulnerability, but a misunderstanding about the permissions and a good opportunity for users to review that they are not in a misconfigured state.

Please see the statement issued by the security team here for more details: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/website/issues/839#issuecomment-15980039

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@masek/116651124103630936

This does not just affect gaming, but all general purpose compute.

Supply chains and value chains are breaking and will not come back. AI is cornering any kind of non-cloud-computing.

And cloud computing will come with plenty of "security", that is, an AI layer that judges your code, presumed intent and purpose for espionage ("market analysis"), content and mass control. If it does not please, it will be turned off and your account will be banned.

Running local hardware will then become an act of resistance, aka terrorism, and is suspect, because it escapes the "security network".