Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

A few simple steps can drastically decrease the amount of personal information that’s available about you online. https://ssd.eff.org/module/how-to-manage-your-digital-footprint

I am seriously going to start a "sloperator list of shame" of employers requesting "AI" knowledge or interest in job postings! For posterity! (Those who do legitimate ML should know better than to call it "AI!)"

#noAI #AI #LLM #LLMs #vibeCoding

Since farming in the US is kind of an upper-class pursuit at this point, you'd be amazed how many farmers.......don't really understand working in the heat that well.

Which makes it hard to supervise a crew responsibly! 🙃

Which makes worker protection laws REAL IMPORTANT!

Europe’s economic crisis and the war in Ukraine are not separate stories.

Richard D. Wolff and Glenn Diesen examine how lost empires, industrial decline and dependence on the United States have pushed the continent toward deeper militarization. https://inthesetimes.com/article/europe-economic-collapse-ukraine-war

I just learned necrocracy is a real word.

In other political figures meeting their end, Dick Cheney spent years denying the torture carried out under the Bush administration. In Matt Bors’ comic, he reaches hell and discovers that history has kept the receipts. https://inthesetimes.com/article/mamdani-election-cheney-comics-zohran-ice

"What if hunger isn't a failure of the economy, but one of the ways the economy works? From work requirements and SNAP to food banks and political battles over who deserves to eat, we ask whether hunger is simply a social problem or an economic tool. We’ll explore this with co-host Pascal Robert and guests Tanya Denise Fields and Bertrand Cooper."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msOszxf9rEo

What I've been seeing in my timeline over the last few is just ridiculous. Post after post saying you should absolutely NOT support Bandcamp anymore under ANY circumstances, that "everything there is shit anyway," that all the artists still on there are either lazy, ignorant, or sellouts. I'm reading this from people who have never released a single record or song in their lives, pointing fingers at us and telling us how to manage our livelihood.

And here comes the big, fat point everyone's forgetting:
With this blind activism, you're not punishing Bandcamp. Bandcamp already cashed the check and is sitting in their warm office. You're fucking us over. The artists. The ones who built their entire artistic existence there.

Let me break this down a bit more because I have a feeling many of you don't understand what it means to be an independent artist caught between the front lines right now.

From the ACLU: #Flock lies to city managers about what they do.

“Flock’s chief information security officer, who was in attendance, told the council that Flock’s system did not “create a pattern or heat map of an individual’s movement” through the tracking of their vehicles. At the end of that meeting, the Oshkosh City Council approved a contract with Flock. The very next morning, the city learned that Flock had lied.”

#deFlock #fuckFlock

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/tracking-alpr-cameras/flock-safety-credibility-lost-as-it-repeatedly-lies-to-city-councils-police-departments-and-public-across-the-country

If you are looking for a low-traffic way to stay up to date about changes to our services: We created https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/changelog/ to document significant changes to our services in one place. You can "watch" issues that are important to you, to get targeted notifications.

We also use our second account https://social.anoxinon.de/@codebergstatus to keep you up to date about downtime and incidents.

The opposite of cloud computing is LEAF computing:

Local application logic and data
End-to-end encrypted data
Autonomous operation without non-optional dependencies
Federated capability between devices and connectivity with trusted parties

https://leafcomputing.net/?ref=activitypub

#DWebCamp #LEAFComputing #LocalFirst #OfflineFirst

Sometimes when people run a forum or even on social media the long time participants will notice that they answer the same questions over and over and over... this may lead to forum rules that ban posts that are repeats of old questions.

I think this is almost always a mistake if you are trying to build a community. It's helpful and good to link to similar older posts, but nothing makes a community feel insular than being told none of your questions are new and RTFM.

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I don't usually do obituary cartoons, and since these are technically prebituary cartoons, I still haven't. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/7/10/800067741/cartoon/emergency-obituary-cartoons/

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If anyone is wondering how well ‘AI’ in hiring is going:

My partner just tried putting her CV through some ATS checkers that use LLMs. Her name can be turned into a male name by deleting one letter. Doing so caused her score to jump 10 points.

Anyone using these tools for hiring is going to have some massive discrimination lawsuits in their future.

Rapid #PCB #manufacturing . Turnaround time: about 3h. Yield: 67%. Minimum resolved spacing: 0.1mm, thinnest trace: 0.2mm. Minimum not resolved spacing: 0.25mm :S.

Not pictured: days spent learning the craft, the simpler board with 7 failed attempts, the 3 or 4 really simple designs in between, the first attempt ever that worked flawlessly, pants stained with lye.

#DIY #electronics #chemistry

Thinking about this post today #letterboxd

As a GP in Germany, I struggle with the claim that “people don’t want to work.” In daily practice, I see the opposite: many patients push themselves to keep working, even when they should rest. They worry about burdening colleagues, unfinished tasks, or upcoming deadlines.

If we want to understand rising sick leave, we need to look at real factors: increasing workload, constant pressure, lack of recovery time, social isolation, and overall exhaustion. Reducing this to a question of “motivation” ignores both evidence and lived experience.

In my experience, people who genuinely try to avoid work are a tiny minority. Framing the issue this way feels similar to old narratives about unemployment—oversimplified, misleading, and disconnected from reality.

#MedMastodon #GeneralPractice #PrimaryCare #WorkStress #MentalHealth #SickLeave #HealthPolicy #Germany #Arbeitswelt #Burnout #PublicHealth #Reform #AU #Arbeitsunfähigkeit #Gesundheitsreform #gesundheitspolitik #gesundheitssystem

@glyph @matt

The people that are going to get crushed the most by the societal harms of LLMs and the bubble collapse are the same people society neglects already - minorities, including blind people. This is just one part of a much larger conflict.

We need to do more to facilitate low vision and blind accessibility, but LLMs pushed by trillion $ monopolists cannot be part of that solution. Using alleged benefits to minorities as a shield to defend this technology harms those we want to help.

Google is building a new data center in Kronstorf, Upper Austria.

The Austrian power grid provider estimates that at full capacity, the data center will consume as much energy as 900.000 private households.

There are around 676.000 private households in Upper Austria.

The data center will also drain local ground water reserves. Google got permission to discharge 99 liters of water per second into the river Enns, indicating that the actual consumption will be much higher.

This is madness!