Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Hey. If you vibe-coded something, can you please tag your post about it appropriately so we can mute the post please? kthx

I can attest with the utmost confidence that every developer or manager or whoever that claims "all code written by AI is reviewed by a human" is a boldfaced lie.

AT BEST they have quickly skimmed it, but more likely they've not looked at it at all.

Actually reading code THAT YOU DID NOT WRITE YOURSELF takes quite a bit of time, and the one thing that people who use AI tooling care most about is just how fast it makes things.

They will not spend the time needed to actually read it.

‘But the AI is super good at updating code!’ — well, no, it isn’t

‘management started quietly asking us to write more of it ourselves again’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JA8i0Cks6Y&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20261111-but-the-ai-is-super-good-at-updating-code-well-no-it-isnt - podcast

time: 6 min 03 sec

I don’t think the AI bubble will pop any time soon, but if it starts with an exec being unable to keep his dick in his pants it will say it all really. https://www.wsj.com/business/nvidia-is-preparing-to-oust-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-30f421ad

🔵 This week’s comic now up on Boing Boing:
SUPER-FUN-PAK COMIX, feat. Doug, Public Domain Mickey Mouse, Nathan Fielder, AND MORE!
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https://boingboing.net/2026/11/11/tom-the-dancing-bug-super-fun-pak-comix-feat-doug-mickey-mouse-nathan-fielder-and-more.html

https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/reflect-orbital-giant-mirror-in-space

Overall good article about all the terrible things that are going to happen if Reflect Orbital actually launches mirrors into orbit. Among other things, "people should not have to be afraid to look at the stars through a telescope because of the actions of a single private enterprise."

But boy I'm really tired of journalists giving Reflect Orbital the last word. I hate this company with ever fibre of my being.

@fast_code_r_us Physical SIMs are an international physical standard. Any company can physically build infrastructure and physically manufacture SIMs to the standard. It separates interests cleanly.

eSims are database entries and I don't trust the independence of owners/operators of that database. Look at the recent kerfuffle over the .org gTLD and how US interests were able to get in and exert force. I think physical boundaries are valuable. They're clean. They allow more robust competition between participants because nobody has to collaborate on a global database in the sky.

@north

mobile-broadband-provider-info 202611 is out 🎉️: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mobile-broadband-provider-info/-/releases/20261111

I guess the growing number of contributors and changes from release to release means we're onto something with Linux based ☎️.

#LinuxMobile #linux #mobile #phosh #ModemManager #NetworkManager

Holy moly. New study shows that data centres extending the lifespan of coal plants could add nearly 2 gigatonnes of CO2-e into the future.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-026-02794-8

And, let me show you something else @grimalkina introduced me to, a genuinely terrifying thing called Simpson's Paradox.

If you're measuring individual performance and then aggregating that data into a single number, without understanding scope and context - and making decisions based on that number - this is the name of the gun you've pointed at the foot of your company.

"Give me one number" is the tell. That is always the tell.

https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2025/10/09/measuring-up/

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00513/full

Reading that a German city is removing more public toilets, the general rule is:

If your city has no free, public toilets, the city is the public toilet.

(Usually you will not want this.)

#Via Matthew Sheffield
@mattsheffield
1:03 PM · Nov 11, 2026

"Counting is still going, but in the Alaska Senate race, Mary Peltola now has more votes than both Dan Sullivans combined, meaning that the entire controversy (including getting him to run in the first place) was a waste of time."

My former boss was fired in August after evidence of abusive behavior toward her staff. We are still looking for a long term hire to replace her, but I have been elevated to an administrator position in the meantime.

Seriously, she was so soul sucking, I have PTSD nightmares. She did damage to my mental and digestive health. It is one of the reasons I’m in therapy.

Anyway, when I moved into my new office, I noticed a shoebox. Last spring, she had ordered herself a $350 pair of custom Nikes with the corporate colors. These were the shoes. They fit. My temporary boss said I could have them. I wore them home and then to therapy, which turned into a lovely walk along the river.

Not only am I literally filling my former boss’s shoes, I LITERALLY walked a mile in them.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/117100404790375036

on this #VeteransDay #ArmisticeDay i share with you my baby brother’s last dying wish:

❝ DON'T LET OUR KIDS JOIN ❞

and by join, he meant the US military.

he wasn't even in combat. he was part of the munitions and cleanup crews, exposed to deadly toxins AFTER the war. he died of what his oncologists called OPERATION DESERT STORM CANCERS. not one, not two but different systemic cancers that are still, slowly killing those veterans.

Frank was my Puerto Rican twin.

may he rest in power.

quiet now, Anthropic, the adults are talking.

https://www.vulncheck.com/blog/anthropic-glasswing-november-update

In the 70’s and 80’s the bosses fought to avoid paying tech workers overtime. Don’t forget that: tech work has always been the factory floor.

Register Here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/events/840-art-is-a-weapon-ian-mackaye-and-mark-andersen-on-punk-rock-politics-activism-and-aging

#getfedihired #remote

Yeah the place I work for is going out of business in a couple weeks.

I have 5+ years experience in IT support at an MSP. Most experience is in 365/Azure troubleshooting and administration, MFA, account recovery, tracking down intrusions, etc. Some experience with networking, but more Unifi than Cisco if you get my drift. I can do a little Powershell/Bash/Python scripting. Some experience with Hyper-v type virtualization. Can handle high volume and HIPAA compliance, but I would prefer to actually solve problems than follow a script.

I'm in US Central time (utc-6). Prefer remote, but I can move if you give me some time to save money to get to your I'm assuming higher cost of living city.