Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Anarchists in Sudan are fundraising to buy a printing press, to form a commercial co-op and resume the production of anarchist propaganda.

https://chuffed.org/project/printing-press-for-sudanese-anarchists

The EU’s proposed Mini-ID Wallet could change how millions verify their age online-but who gets left out? Marginalized groups risk losing access to crucial services. Privacy and inclusion must be at the center of digital ID debates. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/age-verification-european-union-mini-id-wallet

@jonathanharker yup. Good call. This is how I'm currently running it, with a few tweaks that I need to add to this tutorial as you say: https://tech.oeru.org/install-nextcloud-hub-and-onlyoffice-ubuntu-2404-docker-compose @AngelaScholder @fancypants @cjwr1ght

@lightweight @AngelaScholder @fancypants @cjwr1ght also, it's worth a little time tuning NextCloud, since like WordPress, or indeed most PHP projects, it's dog slow by default. Use FPM and MPM event workers with Apache (mod_php is hilariously bad and deprecated ~20 years ago), use HTTP/2, enable the PHP opcache (it's still disabled by default in Debian!?) and give FPM several workers and plenty of RAM. Cache everything with Redis, even the default install suffices to massively speed it up.

Despite misleading marketing, Israeli company TeleMessage, used by Trump officials, can access plaintext chat logs. My findings are based on TM SGNL's source code, and they are corroborated by hacked data https://micahflee.com/despite-misleading-marketing-israeli-company-telemessage-used-by-trump-officials-can-access-plaintext-chat-logs/

Thanks in part to messages from EFF supporters, the Washington legislature passed a strong consumer electronics right-to-repair legislation through both the House and Senate. If you’re in Washington State, please urge the governor to sign these important bills. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/washingtons-right-repair-bill-heads-governor

"President Trump's vilification of the press should be seen in the context of his larger agenda to discredit any arbiter of fact and fiction that has not kissed the ring," Seth Stern writes in the Daily Beast.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/whats-at-stake-when-alternative-facts-become-the-only-facts/

Check out FPF’s newly launched secrecy news tracker, The Classified Catalog.

Reporters, litigators, and the public can use it to track developments on topics including FOIA news, disappearing messages, removal of information, and more.

https://freedom.press/the-classifieds/the-classified-catalog-launches-to-track-secrecy-news/

Columbia’s Barnard College hits a new moral low by targeting a student journalist for her reporting on a pro-Palestine sit-in before changing course.

Student journalists should be able to report freely on campus without interference or disciplinary action.

https://www.cjr.org/news/student-journalist-columbia-covered-a-pro-palestine-protest-graduation-under-threat.php

Police surveillance companies are jockeying for monopolization of the state surveillance market that they’re helping to build. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/beware-bundle-companies-are-banking-becoming-your-police-departments-favorite

Just put up a video about new farmer problems!

Sometimes folks ask me to help with starting up their own small farm. Adventures ensue. Logistics, siting, deer, & back-of-the-envelope financial math in one tight 7 minute package.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvct04pbKNc

The Trump administration claimed that the leak of this memo was so dangerous that it necessitated opening criminal investigations and creating new, stricter rules around leaks to the media.

We wanted to see if that was true — and it wasn’t.

https://freedom.press/the-classifieds/foia-win-by-fpf-undermines-new-doj-policy-on-journalists-and-sources/

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I've got some good news and some bad news....well, actually it's just bad news. #AI #LLM

A.I. Is Getting More Powerful, but Its Hallucinations Are Getting Worse
https://archive.ph/Jqoqa#selection-471.0-471.71

RT @wmhuo168
Forbes calls China’s AI “cost-effective.” Translation: they’re winning, and the West can’t handle it.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/moinroberts-islam/2025/04/30/the-global-ai-race-chinas-cost-revolution-challenges-us-dominance/

The LLMentalist effect: Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms used by (fake) psychics to gull their victims: https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/

Judge To Trump: No You Can’t Just Kill All The Lawyers You Don’t Like - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/05/05/judge-to-trump-no-you-cant-just-kill-all-the-lawyers-you-dont-like/

Democratic-led states sue Trump for blocking wind energy projects - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/05/state-lawsuit-trump-wind-energy-policy "Lawsuit also filed over administration’s cuts to health and human services that destroy life-saving programs" more, please...

it's so fucking excruciating to watch everyone slowly get lobotomized by a dumb pile of linear algebra that burns forests to lie