Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

#Microsoft faces potential vote: Shareholders curious about its plans to tackle emissions - https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/10/28/microsoft-faces-potential-vote-shareholders-curious-about-its-plans-to-tackle-emissions/5305953 " #Greenhouse gas output has risen dramatically since the company promised to become carbon-negative by 2030 " aren't we all?

“Signal your virtues | Go Make Things”

https://gomakethings.com/articles/signal-your-virtues/

Wow. Zencastr's built-in transcription is quite possibly the worst I've tested. Filled with fabrications in a 10m test recording.

It would have helped if there was an obvious way to:

1. Set the language.
2. Turn off automatic translation.

But I get the feeling the implementation is so vibed they might not be aware of what it's doing at all

‘All these claims of math proofs clearly and in fascinating clarity explain just how little the people behind these products understand anything.

_A proof is simply the residual artifact of a process, an inquiry into a problem. It often distills years, if not decades, of hard won knowledge into a mechanism to “check” that this knowledge is likely correct._

LLM proofs are a tabula rasa. A hollow meaningless performance devoid of any substance.’

https://hachyderm.io/@petrillic/117514796449359458

Still remembering when the CEO of #Substack called me a loser blogger in a forum for keeping this list. https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/substack/

when a standard is basically finished, its standards org remains.

it then gets infested by weirdos, careerist parasites and weirdo careerist parasites.

this is how JPEG put forward a blockchain standard in 2018, and how w3c (logo: dick and balls) has now done this:

https://w3c.social/@w3cdevs/117518275358627164

Ottawa is investing $1.5 billion in new co-op housing. That federal funding should strengthen member communication, board training, oversight and accessible dispute resolution.

New housing co-ops need stronger democratic safeguards: https://policyoptions.irpp.org/2026/10/co-ops-governance-safeguards/

Social.‌coop meetings: https://link.social.coop/calendar
Organizing Circle
Thursday, Nov. 5, 2026
7:00 AM PT | 10:00 AM ET | 15:00 UTC

Social.coop members are welcome to observe this and all upcoming meetings.

More excellent news from The Juice Media:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_Lua2Xzg5s

:D

@rhelune I suspect a big part of it is sunk cost fallacy. "Waaaa! Nooooo! You have to use this because we've spent so much money on it! If you say it isn't helping then that means I'm not a big-brain money guy! Waaaaaa!"

Why are so many workplaces trying to force employees to use generative "AI" (chatbots, coding agents), even by threatening their livelihoods?

#AI #noAI #LLM #LLMs #vibeCoding #technofascism #workersRights

I don’t intend to call out anyone on here with this, but it’s important to reflect:

- I was told that both the slop PHP patch and the slop kernel patchset were high quality code with very few telltale signs of slop
- both of them had a bunch of telltale signs of slop (and again I’m really not trying to call anyone out for this, please consider this a postmortem)
- both were rushed through with very little to no understanding of the problem they were solving
- both were highly publicized but solved little to nothing: the linux patchset was flawed and decreased performance outside of microbenchmarks, and the php patch fixed an issue that was hard-to-impossible to exploit in practice with a gigantic number of slop-looking changes when another fix (abort on OOM now and gradually patch exploitable cases) was available, but nobody considered it because nobody considered anything

just some things to consider going forward. you absolutely don’t gotta hand it to any of these people.

@davidgerard LLM generated tests - they pass, so they must be good

@davidgerard i love qualitq

slop tests always work so amazing every time, like when torvalds slopped out a performance regression and the tests went “looks good boss”

PHP generate their fucking *tests* with a chatbot

that's how you know the software will be quality with a q

@rhelune I've been quite happy with IVPN since ditching Proton. Off the top of my head I think it matches what you're after, but I haven't double-checked.

@marcusxms I was born in Yugoslavia where workers' self-management was the norm. Factories to the workers!

"Employees navigating similar pressures at other companies should be watching closely, because whatever Proton works out here is almost certainly coming to their performance review next."

https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/ai-unemployment-proton-interviewing-employees-145827415.html

In December my 2-year VPN subscription is running out. I had planned to switch to 22Mullvad, but Mullvad has come out as 50% nazi since.

Which VPN should I use, that works on Linux, Android, and GrapheneOS? I use VPN for everything I do online, except a few things that do not work with it, and German state services. I do not trust German ISPs and I do not want them to know what I do. Therefore the VPN has to be reasonably fast, private (no logging, independently audited), non-fascist (of course), no DNS leaks.

#AI #noAI #proton #VPN #technofascism #privacy #security

@Niklas @jlink @argv_minus_one I actually have a problem with the effective part the way they present it. Someone calculated that mosquito nets save the maximum number of lives per dollar donated, and most EA started donating for mosquito nets, before they switched to "AGI" of course. But that would result in an excess of mosquito nets while people in other parts of the world die of other causes. So what would be the most effective way to donate? Mathematically, calculate what is needed where, for example x USD for mosquito nets, x/2 USD for a certain vaccine, 3x USD for famine relief, and then, roll a dice, literally let a random number generator decide where your money is going to go based on those weights.

I boosted your toot in case anyone knows of such an organization. I myself am a very ineffective donator by their standards, I am more of a mutual aid person and support my Fedi comrades who need help (I do donate to NGOs, but mostly local ones, "think globally, act locally").

However, because there is enough money/resources in the world for everyone to have a good life, they are just being hoarded by the few, I am in favour of Piñata Economics: piñata the billionaires until their wealth trickles down.

Out of the ‘AI’ Crisis – Premium Newsletter launch and Halloween Sale

I'm trying a new thing and launching a premium newsletter in addition to the regular one.

I'm hoping this will help pay for the work that goes into the newsletter, videos, and podcasts, and times are genuinely a bit rough these days, so I'd very much appreciate it if people could spread the word 🙂

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/out-of-the-ai-crisis-halloween-sale-and-launch/