Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

"Investigative journalist Nicky Hager has launched a new election-season book alleging the Taxpayers’ Union and an interconnected group of right-wing campaigners have helped shift New Zealand politics to the right."

#GlennMcConnell, #EmmaRicketts, 2026

https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361036953/dirty-work-what-nicky-hager-says-and-how-his-latest-book-captivated-capital

That's not what he's alleging. To anyone who's been paying attention, that's self-evident. What's he is alleging, is that they've done it on utterly scurrilous ways, lying through their teeth to the public throughout.

I thought it would be simple to test the new USB-based SD card reader I bought, but it ended up being a multifactorial nightmare.

So far I've learned:

- My Thinkpad T520 has flaky USB ports.
- A bunch of my old SD and MicroSD cards are corrupted.
- I have exactly one MicroSD card that works at all in both the new and old readers.

And then some mysteries:

- Using the new reader, after unmounting the card, it remounts spontaneously. I have to just yank it.
- Using an SD adapter, the working MicroSD card mounts read-only in the old reader, and isn't recognized at all in the new reader.

So, does the new reader work? Who fucking knows!

I was hoping he'd be in the Captain Pike Beep Chair. https://newrepublic.com/post/215759/mitch-mcconnell-nonverbal-freeze-up-new-video

@pinchartl@floss.social Since learning that the kernel is adopting AI, I am planning to switch to one of the BSDs that has adopted a strong anti-AI stance.

I'm just a linux user and developer of a project that fits LPC decently well, but is squarely in userspace, but yeah, not really interested in that anymore

@pinchartl I'm not a kernel developer, only a userspace developer. But if there's one thing I've learned over the past decades, it's that no FOSS project, no matter how big or important it seems, is eternal, and the only thing that ensures its existence is its community. Not its devs, not its users, but its community.

A move such as forcibly embracing AI despite the opinion of the community is the worst thing a project can make. People will not accept this. As far as Linux goes, they are already looking for alternative solutions.

Linux will lose significant support over this. It probably will not feel it harshly yet, but it will be weakened, its community fractured, less vibrant, and, face it, less competent. When, one day in the future, Linux dies, historians will point to this decision as the start of the decline.

I am sad.

I'm calling for community for help. If you would like your voice heard at the Maintainer Summit, please contact me by e-mail (laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com) to share your opinions on AI usage in the Linux kernel. Unless you explicitly request to be named, I will strictly respect your privacy and anonymize all the feedback I receive before sharing it with kernel maintainers. Please don't wait until the last minute as the week leading to the summit will be very busy. (5/5)

Despite having a thick skin, the whole experience felt very lonely. I received less support than I would have hoped for. What surprised me the most, though, was something else. Multiple people contacted me privately. They didn't just express their support, but also told they didn't dare speaking out in public. This included at least one kernel maintainer. I can't help feeling this is a sign that something is going wrong in the kernel community or the industry at large. Or probably both. (2/5)

also for many velocity problems exhibited by software projects, churning out code faster and doing more things at once makes the problem *worse*. do none of you know anyone that's read even half of a management book

We recently released CAD models for the Librem 16, just as we did for the Librem 5! This is one aspect of our ongoing commitment to empower users to truly own their hardware.

https://puri.sm/posts/a-step-ahead-for-customization-with-the-librem-16/

#gnu #linux #librem16 #foss #oshw

“The AGI Inquisition | Computational Impacts”

https://monroelab.com/2026/09/09/the-agi-inquisition/

> Scientists and researchers such as Olivia Guest, Timnit Gebru, Emily Bender and Iris van Rooij have been contending with an increase in online attacks on their work and characters (you can visit their Bluesky accounts to see examples of misogyny and stupidity directed against them) from an army of sock puppets; partly organically grown, as all boosterism is, but also partly, surely orchestrated by corporates.

Trump has threatened tariffs on countries that supply Cuba with oil. Alberto Toscano examines how the U.S. uses its power beyond its own borders to block relief to the island.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/cuba-under-siege-blockade-trump-sanctions-marco-rubio

🔴 Brand new comic now up on Boing Boing!
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🤖 ELON MUSK AND HIS DOGE PALS VS. GIANT A.I. ROBOTS!!
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https://boingboing.net/2026/09/23/tom-the-dancing-bug-elon-musk-and-his-doge-pals-vs-giant-a-i-robots.html

History books (that aren't destroyed, banned, or blacklisted) are written to upset the smallest number of powerful people humanly possible.

If you don't try very hard to be informed, you don't know anything billionaires don't want you to know.

Working-class voters and liberal college graduates both rank affordability first. Beyond that, their priorities diverge.

“it’s time for us to have a reckoning around class,” writes Mindy Isser.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/working-class-politics-left-election-midterms-college

@MikeElgan

Tomorrow #Berlin so : 🧙

The cat's out of the bag: what I discovered is that #Radicle has a major security vulnerability.

That's a first of that magnitude and a learning experience for me. I hate everything about it, but shit happens. Better now than later.

I wrote the whole story at 👇
https://maninak.com/blog/radicle-cleartext-transport-vulnerability

By me and @emilymbender.

"According to the AI industry, we should be more worried about a fictional machine god than about the climate catastrophe these data centers exacerbate, the asthma suffered by those living near them, the rising electricity bills of the public subsidizing them, or the water...[for] cooling them."

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1144867/dont-be-fooled-summer-ai-hype/

The Pentagon Papers case rejected a prior restraint aimed at specific documents claimed to pose national security risks.

Anyone who argues "national security" are magic words justifying banning three news outlets should be laughed out of court and sanctioned.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/09/23/trump-tells-judge-media-ban-is-necessary-protect-national-security/