Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

📣 Deadline-Alert! The registration for ossym2026 ends on September 22, 2026. Register now and book your seats for this years Open Search Symposium in Berlin at CODE University of Applied Sciences. Discuss the future of open web search and open web data as the foundation for AI applications, as well as many related topics.

👉 All information and the registration link (via Indico) can be found on our website:

https://opensearchfoundation.org/ossym2026

Oof, just deleting all of that data with seemingly no way for some of the affected orgs to get their data back is just horrible.

Microsoft made a quiet change to a popular software grant. Small nonprofits lost everything.
https://slate.com/technology/2026/08/microsoft-software-nonprofit-data-delete.html

"Executives working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have been saying all along: Large language models are predatory pieces of technology that have been built on what a Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said generative AI products have created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.”"

(Article title: ‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft)

https://www.404media.co/doom-loop-openai-and-microsoft-admits-llms-are-destroying-the-web-and-built-on-theft/

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/117291064056626215

Everyone at those companies knows what they are doing. They are destroying our information infrastructure for their own gains and profit. We must not forgive them.

All of this coverage of AI Doomerism making you anxious? It's nonsense and you can go back to your more pressing concerns. If you want to learn more:

https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/what-to-read-to-stay-grounded-amidst-ai-doomerism/

I'm currently OBSESSED with @Ultramorbidi's song "No Bro" - I must have already listened to it on loop 10x this morning 😂 🙌

🔗 : https://ultramorbidi.net/0010/1/

The lyrics are pure fire. Aside from "say no to the tech bro" there is also:

"feminism stands for repair
break the blockchain, breathe the air
they invest but we don't stress
running on our own hardware

con fuerza, resistencia!

the revolution will be decentralized
dancing in the ruins of big tech..."

#FediMusic

RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/117285530445300899

II created a new list based on @wikidata Information with all Museums in Europe that have a Mastodon Account. In total, there are 59 accounts, with a total of 25,880 toots and a total of 178,903 followers. 🥳🥳🥳

The biggest 5 Accounts are: @auschwitzmuseum, @vagina_museum, @obsoletemediauk, @deutschestechnikmuseum, @muzej

And the newest one is: @MuseeOrsay

You can find the full list here: https://mastodon-listen.playground.54gradsoftware.de/museum-EUROPA

On this, you can also many other lists. They get refreshed every morning.

Also, thanks to @neuSoM for asking directly for this list. This makes it always so much easier to create them. If you have any suggestions, please let me know.

Another fraud-slop empire thrives -- in part because Google lets it thrive (and profits in the meantime): https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/brown-brothers-media-ai-slop-empire

The AI panic looks like an orchestrated con: The bosses of these rapacious, sleazy, and infinitely sloppy companies are angling for government permission to be a cartel. This would be followed, as certain as day follows night, by the bailout they all know they'll need when their bubble deflates.

Worms, parasites, and other bugs are just extra protein. Eat them up, yum! https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

New blog post:  MCF20: Flatpak support, sorta, kinda

https://linmob.net/mcf20-flatpak-support-sorta-kinda/

#mobileConfigFirefox #Firefox #flatpak #Nova #LinuxMobile #mobileLinux

RE: https://social.coop/@coopcloud/117129278045995157

And, announcing some other upcoming themed kite-flyings! (All in this 19 UTC slot)

Thursday October 1st: What is Co-op Cloud? — a general introduction

Thursday October 29th: How to run a workshop about Co-op Cloud

Thurs November 26th: Trying out some "competitors" to Co-op Cloud

#Cooperatives #OpenSource #LibreSoftware

“Offensively cheap”: #Solar power is looking up - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/offensively-cheap-solar-power-is-looking-up/ " Chinese-made panels on rooftops across the world are changing the facts of life for big utilities. " reasons to be cheerful

25 Years of Mass #Surveillance Is Enough - https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/09/25-years-of-mass-surveillance-is-enough.html "as it becomes increasingly evident that the Trump administration is using mass surveillance to keep itself in power, stifle dissent, and undermine political opponents, these questions are now more urgent than ever."

#Forgejo 16.0.5 and 15.0.9 were just released! They are security releases.

We recommend that all installations are upgraded to the latest version as soon as possible.

Check out the release notes and download it at https://forgejo.org/releases/. If you experience any issues with this release, please report to https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues.

#forgejorelease

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