Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Nope. The Big Four are looking at global revenue streams. Their biggest customers are probably gov'ts... but their biggest sources of business are, in the IT space, Big Tech. So it's in their interest to always 'put their finger on the scale' to ensure Big Tech wins any procurement process... because it brings them the most new business. It's a mutual back slapping exercise. It's pretty much out in the open, but relies on 'low level' lack of ethics across lots of corporations. 🤔 Plausible?
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Tell Senate Commerce to reject Danielle Thumann Severs as FCC commissioner.

As staffer for Trump censorship czar Brendan Carr, she’s done nothing to rein in his abuses.

https://freedom.press/action/write-a-letter-opposing-danielle-thumann-severs-confirmation-as-fcc-commissioner/

We're hosting a Mainline Linux on Mobile devroom at FOSDEM 2027! If you have anything interesting to talk about (hardware enablement, Linux distributions, apps, UI's, firmware, etc) feel free to submit a talk!

More details at https://lists.fosdem.org/hyperkitty/list/fosdem@lists.fosdem.org/thread/JQKHIWO4JF5GCQVXCV26YODSILVIDSWN/

#fosdem #fosdem2027 #linuxmobile #mainline #linux

This is a self-own, isn’t it

#google #ai #beEvil

“Google is entirely disabling Search in schools that don’t want AI”

https://www.theverge.com/tech/1025411/google-turn-off-search-ai-features

RE: https://federate.social/@mattblaze/117485422099789189

🗣 LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK ⚟

i campaigned in the aughts for the system we have in place in #NewYork:

- hand-marked paper ballots
- optical scanning devices

i miss the sound of the old hand-cranked voting machines, but am proud to have been part of the group of #tech activists who educated #NYS citizens and politicians into choosing the best of both analog and digital technologies for our current voting infrastructure.

there is no #blackboxvoting in #NYS thanks to our efforts

After the reporting on Proton CEO Andy Yen pushing AI on workers and broader issues at the company last week, Proton employees are pushing for their colleagues to unionize and make sure Yen is held to account.

More info here: https://molecule.build

RE: https://masto.ai/@transworld/117549325566668608

To nobody's surprise, the racist pile of linear algebra is also transphobic.

#AI #noAI #LLM #LLMs #technofascism #racism #transphobia

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Someone is having a very bad day 😁

#AI #SysAdmin #Linux

"But it's still better than the alternative!"

If they behave like mere human placeholders between GOP right wing/fascist regimes, as they have done for most of my adult life, the next GOP regime will be even more destructive.

And it *will* come. It will.

I have no confidence in these people. None.

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As a citizen of the Fascist States of America, I already did my electoral duty earlier. I'm not going to pretend voting doesn't matter, because it does, it's just not the end of politics that too many seem to think it is.

I had choices with differences. One choice was between a fascist claiming to stand up to fascism when it's convenient, and an authoritarian bully. Another was between a pretty basic liberal and a fascist. About twenty options were folks running unopposed for local positions. Taking into account only my possible choices, best case is status quo. I really, really hate that this is the system we're stuck with, the greatest democracy on the planet, if you're to believe this country's patriotic morons.

Fuck that. I vote because it's literally the least I can do. And without massive changes, and waking Americans the fuck up, that's all it will ever be, and we'll continue this cycle until we've cooked the planet, kicked off a final world war, or whatever manages to end humanity.

I'm not optimistic.

#uspol

Author: In my book, I described the Feature Factory as a cautionary tale

Tech CEO: At long last we have created the Feature Factory from classic product management guidebook Don't Create The Feature Factory

#tech #software #programming

The Peter Principle posits that people are promoted until they reach their level of incompetence. What happens *after* that point? https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/petered

Cuadron and Gupta 2026: "Built on Broken Assumptions (BOBA): Why Coding Agents Cannot Be Left Alone" https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.02207 "On average [agents] complete 95% of requests taken one at a time, but when requests are chained together they complete 51%…The cause is the mistakes agents miss. Coding agents declare a request done once their own tests pass even when those tests miss a mistake. The next request then builds on broken code and fails about twice as often. The mistake is rarely found later."

Patel et al 2026: "Do Coding Agents Catch Their Own Bugs? (They Don't.)" https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.01181 "We evaluate eleven large language models and find that FRR ranges from only 6.13% to 24.53%, indicating that models largely fail to address problems introduced by the first PR change."

@frontenddogma odd thing is i didn't write any of the current articles attributed to me
https://html5doctor.com/author/stevef/

Well now I need to move off of Tuta too. Between their mealy-mouthed PR on genAI shit and the fact that their client is absolute dogshit, it's not a great experience.

Posteo doesn't do custom domains so that's out, unless I want to go through every damn service I use and change emails. Mailbox.org seems fine, I got a nice explainer from them on their genAI position and it's not as hardlined as I prefer though. Migadu maybe?

#tuta #posteo #mailboxorg #migadu

No matter how the elections turn out in the US today, at least I won't have to suffer through more inane political ads for a while now.

I'm pretty careful about curating media around me to filter out capitalist bullshit, but I've been avoiding watching anything on my free sub to Peacock particularly because of political ads. The non-political ones are bad enough, I can only watch short bursts of that service as it is. Luckily there's only a few things I actually want to see there.

Kind of annoying to have multiple things to be stressed about at once. Worrying about one thing at a time is more than enough work.