Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

TODAY: Coop Cloud's weekly public call, "Kite-flying". Drop by with your questions, topics, problems, stories - or just chat with some of the folks in the community. We'll be hanging out for an hour with an open agenda.

Find us here: https://jitsi.sutty.nl/CoopCloudKiteFlying

Notes/agenda: https://pad.autonomic.zone/VtyrLUl9RWaJGgEDrncQUw#

Calendar: https://coopcloud.tech/ics/kite-flying.ics

Dramatic Coundown: https://time.is/countdown/1900_in_UTC

See you soon
- 3wordchant

#CoopCloud #Cooperatives #OpenSource #LibreSoftware

"Software is built by people, maintained by people, and hosted on infrastructure funded by people. Much like art, it cannot and does not exist in a vacuum."

(Article title: The Myth of Neutral Code)

https://foss.life/notes/2026/the-myth-of-neutral-code/

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@halle/117599086237235455

If you have *any* Apple platform security needs, getting in Halle to help you out is one if the best things you can do!

Lucy Beaumont is the kind of ally people reporting harassment need.

Listening and believing are nice.

Funding lawyers is the way.

Humble Bundle just completely killed most of their security through vibecoding

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/humble-bundle-just-completely-killed-most-of-their-security-through-vibecoding.1346295/

If the "AI" industry had robust fundamentals, the Democrats winning the midterms wouldn't matter, and a CEO engaging in some infidelity wouldn't matter.

But the whole industry is a con.

These events are just the final straws un something that was oversold from the beginning.

#AIBubble

“For and against | Go Make Things”

https://gomakethings.com/articles/for-and-against/

> I’m writing here a lot less lately because I’ve been finding meaning outside of the web.

What Chris said.

So, work asked for my opinions about AI again.

"I have lost all confidence in senior management since they started evangelising for this obvious scam."

"If any other supplier offered us stolen goods at a price lower than their cost we would not be allowed to buy from them. AI tools should be no different."

"Senior management have clearly missed their calling in timeshare sales and cult recruitment. The pressure to (a) use the tools and (b) provide some evidence, any evidence, that they improve productivity is relentless. It's not my job to destroy my profession, the economy, the climate and poor communities that have AI data centres inflicted on them in order to provide evidence that they may be of marginal utility in my work. If they were worth all the damage they inflict, the
results would be obvious."

I like that having an affair is career ending, but rigging the global tech economy and doing massive environmental damage is not.

Coolcoolcool.

Disability is not a moral failing or a choice.

It’s a natural part of life.

If you live long enough, you will likely experience disability.

We urgently need better access to healthcare, housing, food and social supports.

Worth should never be based on productivity.

The AI companies' control freakery now extends to prohibitions on doing totally useful things to control our own devices. They're pushing us more and more quickly toward local models (running queries on personal devices). Talk about a counterproductive business strategy... https://www.404media.co/reverse-engineer-anything-ai-companies-crack-down-on-the-coolest-thing-people-were-doing-with-ai/

What the videos show is that the police officers themselves needlessly escalated a shoplifting incident into the scenario that they claim put them at risk. https://theintercept.com/2026/10/23/kohen-wiley-body-camera-police-shooting-justification/

I don't think, in general, there *must* be suffering for revolutionary change to occur. But I do think that, in the West, we innovated the idea that the best way for a ruling class to protect itself is to build a moat of suffering between people and a better future.

Our systems cause intense and protracted waves of suffering if they're changed substantially at all. In an ostensible "democracy" this makes change untenable.

This is a strategic choice on the part of Western rulers.

#ActuallyAutistic #Autism #Autistic #Neurodivergent

Oh my god these people found me

In case it’s not clear, my answer is HELL NO

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