Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

i dont understand how the artists, the digital painters, the musicians, the voice actresses, and everyone else on the planet realizes genAI is just plagiarizing. but software developers are like "ah this is brand new code that no one ever had before" ITS LITERALLY JUST TUXRACER

“Show your hands honor for the strange power they bring you – Aresluna”

https://aresluna.org/show-your-hands-honor/

> I feel he’d also appreciate the swipe up gesture on the iPhone, which is a masterclass in how to design an interaction

This is my one constant quibble with pretty much every otherwise wonderful and thoughtful design essay that I've read. Have you ever tried to help somebody with even minor motor control issues navigate the gesture-laden interface of an iPhone?

I should add: There's nothing wrong with shipping something in tiny bits in proportion to what your client needs. But uh, you've gonna bring something better than this to the party if you're going to lecture people on not using AI enough.

Saw a guy telling everyone about his all-agent workflow on HN. Credit to the guy, he didn't publish anonymously.

Less credit to the guy, all his scoping and consulting links have no availability ever, there doesn't appear to be a launched product, and the privacy policy hasn't had the [YOUR COMPANY NAME] slots filled in.

This has happened every single time someone that swears by "no human in the loop" programming has shown me an artefact.

https://www.approviq.com/privacy

"Remigration" is literally just ethnic cleansing rebranded and the British press is just going along with that?

🔥 The Bonfire Social 1.0.5 release candidate is out!

This one brings archipelago mode (opt-in, allow-list federation for tightly-knit communities and networks), a more lightweight search backend (see changelog for migration steps), broadcasting announcements, another embeddable widget, PGP-encrypted emails, and many UX improvements and fixes.

If you're running an instance and want to give it a go, please let us know if you run into any issues.

Full changelog: docs.bonfirenetworks.org/cha...

This moron is going to start filing bills terminating funding for transportation, movies about Transylvanian vampires and trans-Atlantic relations long before she ever bothers to learn what a transgenic mouse is.

AP's piece on Reflecting Pool algae is a perfect of example of how Big Journalism allows itself to be a conduit for Trump world's lies. The phrase "without offering substantiation" -- better than nothing -- doesn't make up for being a stenographer for deceit.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-reflecting-pool-paint-algae-6b7b499ada2701a34bc6bc380013ad04

After months of "not making videos due to being excessively On The Farm," I'm rolling one out tomorrow!

About how Jane Austen explains a lot about "industrial" agriculture! (Bc she wrote about rural life & how economics/politics out there actually work)

Behold, a Rejected Thumbnail

Goes up at 10am ET tomorrow morning! (Sun 6/21)

youtu.be/rbcVCDr6PZI

Congress should say NO to the NO FAKES Act. Read more about why: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/no-fakes-act-could-silence-satire-commentary-and-news

Government coercion of online platforms can threaten free expression. But not every communication between government and platforms is unconstitutional. Getting the line right matters. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/new-bill-takes-aim-government-pressure-silence-lawful-online-speech

The doors are open to use https://probes.dev so you can use it to monitor your personal site, your customers' sites, APIs, or any other HTTP-based service.

Try it free for 14 days with no credit card required.

Read about why we built it. https://limeleaf.coop/blog/probes-is-released/

#HTTP #Monitoring #WebDev #API #UptimeMonitoring

Gajim 2.4.7 has been released! 🎉

This release brings support for modern OpenPGP encryption #openpgp 🔒️ and comes with many small improvements and bugfixes.

Thank you for all your contributions ❤️ Let us know what you think!

Support Gajim's development: https://liberapay.com/Gajim

#gajim #xmpp #chat

https://gajim.org/posts/2026-06-18-gajim-2.4.7-released/

Organizing a new union of 2500+ workers is an incredible achievement. Congratulations USC United Facultry! I encourage USC to respect faculty’s resounding vote and begin bargaining toward a fair contract.

http://unitedfaculty-uaw.org

Something for the econ nerds.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/06/michael-hudson-and-radhika-desai-iran-defeated-the-us-empire-what-happens-next.html

Anybody know a good phone option with these requirements:
1. I can buy it right now
2. It only does calling and texting, maybe calendar and maps
3. _NO_ web browser or app store
4. Works on T-Mobile (VoLTE)

I've been looking and I can't find a fuckin' thing.

Reminder: You're being surveilled when you use corpo tech.

A better world is possible.

The one bright spot of LLMs is that we've learned exactly how morally and creatively bankrupt this industry is, and how fast people are willing to throw away everything they said they cared about for decades - craft, understanding, efficiency, detail, all of it - just to cosplay competence and bandwagon their way to groupthink targets they don't even realize were made up to manipulate them.

Christ it's embarassing.

The fact that we're willing to rely on LLMs to generate code knowing that it only mostly works because that code has been generated before thousands of times is not an indication that stochastic models are good, it's a massive, punishing indictment of computing as a field.

Using an insanely huge expensive model to quasi-reproduce work that's been created thousands of times already isn't productive or efficient. It's a symptom of profound failures of language, practice, process and imagination.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@darkuncle/116778528340746246

“When writing is hard, it’s often not just because we are tired, underfed, or inefficient but because our mind is trying to tell us crucial things. How many draft texts to colleagues or family members have we all stared at in frustration, wondering why they don’t feel quite right—until we finally realize that they need to be rethought completely, or not sent at all? When a book I was writing became an almost hopeless grind, I tore up 90 percent of the manuscript; it became a far more honest work for having been halted at a conceptual dead end, forcing me to turn back.

AI can’t make that kind of judgment.”

Holds equally for code.

#AI #writing #code #LLMs