Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

@MaddieM4 @ramblingsteve for what it's worth, in community management I've found its corollary "where you see mass abusive behaviour, it's always only a tiny subset of people actually driving it, and when you remove them the problem just disappears" to be basically universally true

Say it with me: dismantle coercive power structures.

Love this take, this inversion. A challenge to the intrinsic arrogance of colonialism.

It is not indigenous peoples that need to be saved, but the west.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/oct/28/i-am-mother-leader-warrior-of-the-amazon-nemonte-nenquimo-on-why-the-west-needs-to-be-rescued

Nice interview with Kathryn Ryan just now @billbennett - I think you should point out the irony of Big Tech - always so keen to enforce their 'IP' (another horrible term like 'AI'), having thrown it under the bus with their rush to scrape humanity's corpus of knowledge to train their bots... are now having it used against the 'IP' they hold dearest, via humans reverse engineering their flagship products. It's just desserts for those mega corps who want to have their cake and eat it too.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@realTuckFrumper/117520438263252342

First of all, this is some mafia shit.

Second, 1M barrels is approximately 0.95% of global crude demand. Since crude oil is completely fungible, that’s about the effect it has on oil prices.

"I don't understand why some of you bother blocking quote posts because I'm just going to copy the link and it will look exactly the same"

We're not blocking anything, we chose not to enable quote posts, many of us because we disagree with them on principle.
"Why have rules against AI commits in your open source project, people are just going to do it anyway."
As I demonstrated yesterday, pasting the link absolutely does not "look exactly the same" for the vast majority of fediversans.

Fun story coming:

#libsodium has a #NoAI policy: https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/blob/master/AI-POLICY.md

The author made a commit using Claude: https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/commit/4f44abfed4c5ee7e1667e3fdf46d9253342cca69

Someone pointed it out in a discussion. The commit got force-pushed over, and the discussion was deleted: https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/discussions/1564.

Funny enough, GitHub still flags the repo.

I suppose at this point libsodium should be assumed to be #slop, with author sweeping the fact under the carpet.

By the way, does anyone have any clue why there's no "archive the page" button when I paste the commit URL to Internet Archive?

Do I know people in Lisbon that would be interested in arranging an event around "Digital Solidarity" (the book, @alineblankertz and I published early September 👉 https://www.structural-integrity.eu/our-book-is-out-digital-solidarity-on-overcoming-capitalist-technology/)?

I will probably be there in November or December and would love to engage with groups and people about post-capitalist tech!

Rise of Palestinian parties in Knesset will redraw Israel’s political landscape - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/27/palestinian-parties-knesset-election-exit-polls-redraw-israel-political-landscape glimmer of hope

#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