Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

RE: https://floss.social/@josch/117507580019985725

Consequences for the recent LLM vote seem to have arrived for Debian... automated slop reviews: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2026/10/msg00263.html

And we see here that at least one Debian developer, @josch, has been lost due to this change.

This is INCREDIBLY sad IMO. If you're an MNT Reform family computer user, @josch is basically a folk hero for making those machines *work*.

I am still feeling vindicated in my Vibe Bobsled blogpost, having seen both what's happening to the Linux Kernel and now to Debian, where we see the dismantling not only of individuals coding, but also communities, as everyone rides the icy chute down the hill https://dustycloud.org/blog/faulty-towers-vibe-sickness-and-the-vibe-bobsled/

"I'm the most productive man on earth!" I yell, waving and pointing to my tamagotchi powered by 72 GPUs.

Microsoft are offering 25% of their employees redundancy https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-is-offering-buyouts-around-60000-employees-business-insider-reports-2026-10-26/

RE: https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/117508777933827733

criminal

A high performer at Microsoft (200/200 means they got 200% of target bonus and stock compensation) was advised by their manager to take the voluntary retirement program.

Assuming the previous 30% acceptance rate, Microsoft needs 18,000 people to leave the company. There will be layoffs otherwise.

"Why work hard when you're going to be laid off anyway?" is an increasingly popular mantra in big tech.

@BlackAzizAnansi no, because we also got what they voted for

@_elena Rich executives love AI because it supports their lifestyle of never actually talking to their kids https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/chatgpt-parenting-advice-22372408.php

#Forgejo 17.0.1, 15.0.11 and 16.0.7 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

Hey, I just got an email from Amazon saying they're auto-enrolling anything that does Kindle Unlimited into an AI garbage thing that creates an audiobook read by AI slop machines. I'd already unenrolled, but the auto-renew runs out early next month.

If you see an audiobook of NAMELESS, tell me.

If they try and do that shit to me, I will be immediately delisting the NAMELESS ebook from Amazon. Nothing I see now indicates that there's one that has appeared yet, but if one does I'll act immediately.

Fucking Amazon and their bullshit AI garbage, motherfucker....

GitHub’s former CEO launched a competing platform for AI agents.

Thomas Dohmke has officially launched "Entire"
after teasing the decentralized coding platform in July.

Similar to GitHub, developers can use the platform to host and review code,
but it’s designed specifically to work with AI agents,
replacing pull requests with a “Trails” feature that offers
“customizable evals that are scored by agents on every code push"
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1018817/githubs-former-ceo-launched-a-competing-platform-for-ai-agents

"Garrett Langley, the CEO of automatic license plate reader company Flock, told an audience of police chiefs at a private police conference Sunday that anti-Flock protests around the country are not real…and claimed without evidence that the social media opposition to Flock is driven mostly by Russian bots."

https://www.404media.co/in-leaked-audio-flock-ceo-tells-cops-backlash-to-the-company-isnt-real/

@drahardja and China is sliding, according to this: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-ai-bubble-has-already-burst-2026-10-26/

RE: https://werd.social/@ben/117508703588325577

Whoa - that's a big call by Microsoft... but despite their 'success', they've never been all that smart. Here's hoping it seal them into the ignominious fate they so richly deserve.

The real lessons of PHP2Shell week.

https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/php2shell

#PHP #PHP2Shell #Security #Programming

Octavia Butler, mid-1990s:

"Imagine a future where food prices are high because of climate change and war, while grocery store shoppers are subjected to invasive surveillance."

Me, shopping in the mid-2020s and being told I have to wait for someone to unlock the toothpaste:

"Wait a minute."

Paper is still punk.
Now thru 11/15, get 40% off select zines, pamphlets, and Comics here: https://www.pmpress.org/category/zine-sale

RE: https://wandering.shop/@aesthr/117507186194815039

I didn't expect so many answers to literally sound like people trying to talk away an addiction problem. This is grim.

Often when I am talking with a tech worker, they will say something like, well, look, no one will die from my work. But was that ever true? Is it true now? https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/we-cannot-under-any-circumstances (My doctor clients know better.)

The elections ads are not reminding people quite enough that Donald J. Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts of business fraud, and his sentence was literally *nothing*. And that ICE is arresting people off the streets, often injuring or killing them, whose crimes are literally *nothing*, yet are kept imprisoned anyway.

#USPol

“Can the president then offer on eBay to sell them, all of our national security secrets to the highest bidder?”

This question was posed during our Presidential Records Act appeal hearing. DOJ's answer? Yes.

More in the Classifieds.

https://freedom.press/the-classifieds/doj-says-presidents-should-be-able-to-sell-secrets-on-ebay/