Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out, Zuck

VOTE YES ON PROP 40

VOTE NO ON PROP 41 and 42 (poison pills on 40).

https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-mark-zuckerberg-weighed-leaving-california-over-billionaire-tax-2026-10

“Mark Zuckerberg considered leaving California over the billionaire tax”

#threateningMeWithAGoodTime #FuckZuck #California #YesOnProp40 #NoOnProp41 #NoOnProp42

Data centers could erase decades of air quality gains https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1015958/data-center-pollution-rising-report

eMudhra's press release tries to insinuate that AI is somehow partly to blame for their CA fuckup:

« Last weekend, an independent researcher found that the weak keys could be reverse-engineered possibly with AI-assisted techniques. »

In fact, the researcher just ran all the CA certs through an existing key linter: https://github.com/google/paranoid_crypto (not actually expecting to find anything!)

https://emudhra.com/en/press-release/emudhra-statement-distrust-global-tls-intermediate-root-ca

"The video shows a plainclothes agent wearing a red flannel shirt pursuing the man with a handgun, followed by two masked agents in tactical gear. I’m a U.S. citizen the man tells the agents as they surround him. When asked why he was running, he responds, “Because I don’t know who you guys are.” https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/ice-gun-sf-citizen-22486051.php

Print this on an index card, stick it in your pocket, and take it to the polls with you when you vote.

18 US Code §592: Troops at Polls, prohibited by law.

[You can copy the text in the Alt-txt box directly.]

I am reminded again how in 1935, the US Congress passed a tax law that created a new top tax bracket of nearly 80%.

That tax bracket contained exactly one person, John D. Rockefeller, and was designed to stop him from causing so much trouble.

In case anyone needs the precedent.

Elderly protestor beaten up the police outside #Elbit Systems in Germany

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DewF1yTAIFJ/?psln=MWlndmhobHoweXM1Zg==

@ketan Morally this is somewhere in the ballpark of the car company promising to set "nature lovers free" when they buy the big-ass SUV and have a blast running it roughshod all over the woodland and prairie. At some point the driver stops, gets out and pets a small plant, then gets back in the SUV and floors it. This was from ~20ya.

@ketan I think it overstates the quality of AI, it's not going to rise above the level of the mediocre white guy, merely equal what's expected of someone of his ability. His co-worker presumably will have done an incredible amount of work just to get what he got given racial underestimations and all and without AI or stealing someone else's glory out of pure envy and inferiority.

@ketan It’s so revealing that every office-work AI ad seems to endorse the worst asshole behavior in people. Utter neglect, then taking credit for someone else’s work, then bullshitting your way through, all while not caring about the work product, all for the grand goal of making an extra dollar or winning corporate praise…just the worst aspects of humanity.

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot

A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead:

https://www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/microsoft-copilot-competitive

internet taken offline by huge pulse of smugness from static site operators

Seems like a good day to remind people that blaming tools that have been maintained by volunteers with little to no support for decades, or blaming those volunteers, without assigning any responsibility or culpability at all to the companies that have made millions or billions or hundreds of billions of dollars from that volunteer work is picking a side.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/117480397353297571

Nothing like working in an attrition-layoff environment. Oh, we're not letting you go, nononono. We're just changing your terms of employment every few months and if some of you fall through the cracks, too bad so sad

Yesterday we got informed that the #DEIB devroom at #fosdem which we pitched with @Gina @_elena got rejected.

The flood of positive messages we've received on mastodon over the past 24h gives me hope for an even more inclusive & diverse future of FOSS projects. FOSDEM is not mirroring the entire FOSS scene. I'm very grateful for all the support many of you are expressing. 🧡

@dentangle summarized it in a perfect way! The devroom *is* happening here because of YOU.

https://chaos.social/@dentangle/117479063016684874

longjmp() Considered Harmful @hikari https://social.noyu.me/@hikari/statuses/01M5FKSAZR531Y1PG1HHBCJ4YJ

PHP is a million or so lines of C code that pervasively used alloc functions that longjmp() on failure, so OOM bailout creates corrupted state. the fix uses fallible allocs and a global please-return-early OOM flag but requires touching Everything. completeness is impossible 😰😰😰

the PHP security bug patch is a nightmare, our server is patched but this thing looks more like a desperate attempt to patch hundreds of different leaks than a straightforward single bugfix, I do not trust that this is over…

🔴 Brand new comic now up on Boing Boing
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A Simpsonian look at Putin, Trump, Musk and the Ukraine War!
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https://boingboing.net/2026/10/21/tom-the-dancing-bug-a-simpsonian-look-at-trump-putin-and-musk.html

Every year the Values of #FOSDEM are put on display. The resistance to having a CoC. The complete lack of health policy or health precautions. The overcrowding and lack of disabled accommodations. The choice of corporate sponsors. The lack of financial transparency. The decision to platform Jack Dorsey etc.

It's not a safe space, and likely never will be for a whole bunch of reasons.

Yeah, it took me a while to see it too. Do you see it yet?