Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

It's shameful that six weeks after Ozturk was abducted we're fighting about jurisdiction.

It should take any judge anywhere in the United States seconds to rule that people can't be imprisoned for writing op-eds.

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/07/g-s1-64726/federal-court-rules-student-rumeysa-ozturk-detention-vermont-challenge

Free in ~13 hours? Swing by "Co-op Kite-flying", an informal drop-in to talk about Co-op Cloud (that's us!)

☁️ Ask your questions about the project
☁️ Get help with anything you're stuck on
☁️ Share your ideas for new apps or new features

Same links as usual:

Agenda: https://pad.autonomic.zone/VtyrLUl9RWaJGgEDrncQUw?edit

Call: https://vc.autistici.org/CoopCloudKiteFlying

Docs: https://docs.coopcloud.tech/federation/organisers/

#KiteFlyingHours #CoopCloud

– 3wordchant

Seven states have right-to-repair laws to date. If you’re in Washington, urge Gov. Ferguson to sign HB 1483 and SB 5680 and make your state the eighth to join this elite club! https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/washingtons-right-repair-bill-heads-governor

A major FOIA win by FPF debunks the Trump administration's excuse for deporting Venezuelans and rolling back DOJ’s rules protecting journalists and sources.

The now-public memo it called a “threat” just contradicted its narrative.

Watch Lauren Harper explain.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3CTuVtJRecQ

"Congress mandated VOA to report reliable and authoritative news, not outsource its journalism to outlets aligned with the president's agenda," VOA White House bureau chief Patsy Widakuswara and press freedom editor Jessica Jerreat said in a joint statement.

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/07/nx-s1-5389453/kari-lake-says-oans-far-right-coverage-will-fuel-voice-of-america

Trump administration plans to shutter money-saving Energy Star program - https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/07/trump-administration-plans-to-shutter-money-saving-energy-star-program/ of course; after all, who wants to save money?

“We’ve crushed fascism before and we’ll crush it again.” A 98-year-old WWII veteran demolishes a Tesla with a Sherman tank. (Love the replays from several camera angles.) https://kottke.org/25/05/wwii-vet-crushes-a-tesla-with-a-sherman-tank

Excited to announce my next farm video, Ten Crops You Can Plant & Harvest Faster Than NC Judge Jefferson Griffin Can Lose An Election

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/republican-jefferson-griffin-concedes-nc-supreme-court-race-rcna205358

The next time you come across body-worn cameras or another piece of tech on your city council’s agenda or police department’s budget, take a closer look to see what other strings and surveillance tools might be attached.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/beware-bundle-companies-are-banking-becoming-your-police-departments-favorite

⚫️😷⚫️ NEW LEE REED LYRIC VIDEO!

#BlackMask is from Lee's new LP #PitchforksAndTorches - available everywhere you 🎧🎶 this Friday May 9, or right now at StrangeFamousRecords.Bandcamp.com!

🎞️: subMedia

#StrangeFamous!

https://kolektiva.media/w/hxdXuu6J7gEs1FvSSLQ4tv

Hi!
We're #newhere and exited to talk to you about #FLOSS, working in #techcooperatives, our #software project LAUTI - Open Source Community Calendar and much more.
We're based in Stuttgart, Germany and already run a community calendar there called EINTOPF.

Hi!
Wir sind neu hier und freuen uns mit euch über #FLOSS, IT #Kollektivbetriebe, unser Software Projekt LAUTI - Open Source Community Kalender und vieles mehr auszutauschen.
Wir sind aus Stuttgart und betreiben dort den Kalender EINTOPF.

#Trump administration to stop US research on space pollution, in boon to Elon #Musk - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/07/space-pollution-elon-musk "#SpaceX and #Starlink owner may benefit from Trump cuts to projects that could have led to regulations and costs" amazing coincidence....

Trump plans to announce US will call #Persian Gulf ‘#Arabian Gulf’, officials say - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/07/trump-rename-persian-arabian-gulf #trump is like a child with a pencil, crossing things out....

Setting a crucial precedent, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that consumers can sue national or multinational companies in the consumers’ home courts if those companies violate state data privacy laws. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/ninth-circuit-hands-users-big-win-californians-can-sue-out-state-corporations

Cool. Now, cosponsor the PRESS Act.

https://swalwell.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/swalwell-blumenthal-reintroduce-journalist-protection-act-defend-free

if we were not idiots, gen AI would be driving us to turn colleges into Socratic spaces. everything would be in-person, synchronous, analog. writing would be blue book. we’d discuss (rather than rate) one another’s work. any “homework” would be productive projects, for which use of any tool is fine.

🔴 Brand new comic now up on Boing Boing
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Donald Trump Dress-Up Dolls for your MAGA fantasies
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https://boingboing.net/2025/05/07/tom-the-dancing-bug-donald-trump-dress-up-dolls-for-your-maga-fantasies.html

Is #AI a good thing? - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3F7vY5teik

#TheExplodingHeads #Humour

Tesla truck review, third paragraph:

"...the author has maintained a long position in Tesla and Rivian stock with no plans to sell in the near future."

Needless to say, that's where I stopped reading.

@ludicity @toolsontech @toast Lack of git use is not uncommon among subject-matter-expert programmers; it's possibly the norm.

I started out in engineering safety analysis, took a 13 year diversion into webdev and sysadminnery, and went back to safety analysis in 2008. The firm I interned with in 1990 was still developing code like it was 1990 - no automatic version control, OpenVMS as reference platform (the 11/780 had been replaced by reconditioned Alphas; not even Itanium). It was like coming home after 20 years to find Mom kept your room exactly as it was the day you left.

I spent 8 years desperately trying everything short of bribery, sabotage, and violence to interest them in SVN, git, hg - anything - to keep their code secure and manageable. Less than zero interest until their main client basically demanded they start using git. Long sad frustrating story.

And it's not that the developers were incompetent or stupid - they considered themselves (nuclear, chemical, mechanical, electrical) engineers first, software developers about third, if that. Subject matter experts who wrote code. Very good in their niche but they don't identify as part of mainstream or general computing so the past decade+ trend toward DVCS was invisible to them.

I know this isn't the audience you're describing (i.e. general programmers with no other subject matter skill) but there are otherwise competent niche developers out there to whom git, unit testing, auto-documentation, CI, containers, etc. are alien concepts because they don't otherwise engage with non-subject-matter (generic code-skill-only) developers. Brick-and-mortar engineers can be an incurious and insular lot but at least they don't engage in ritual hazing during the hiring process. No whiteboarding, no grilling over textbook problems, no Mensa brainteasers. Filtering out incompetents and fakes isn't a huge issue because of self-selection - nobody tries weaseling into a job in safety analysis solely because it's lucrative and air conditioned field. Having to answer to federal regulators might also have something to do with it...