Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Hey #xmpp fans.
I want to write a #bot which passes presence events around.

When I log in, I get presence events for my contacts.

Except when the contacts are offline.

How am I supposed to distinguish between a contact being unavailable and the presence being slow to come? Must I have a timeout?

I tried sending probes, but my version of #ejabberd doesn't respond for offline contacts :/

#jabber #programming #chat

US Customs and Border Protection kidnapped cooperative colleague — news via the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives:

USFWC member co-op in Vermont, New Frameworks Natural Build/Design, worker-owner Jose Ignacio “Nacho” De La Cruz of was violently detained by Border Patrol on June 14.

He was driving with his stepdaughter, Heidi, when agents pulled them over, smashed their car window, and violently detained both community leaders.

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/free-nacho-free-heidy-not-one-more-deportation

#MPs vote to #decriminalise #abortion in step forward for #ReproductiveRights | #Politics | The Guardian

Finally, #England and #Wales may be edging towards moving abortion laws from the 19th century to the 21st. This should have been done decades ago but at least it’s happening. (For those of you wondering why this excludes other parts of the #UK, namely #Scotland and #NorthernIreland, they have their own legislatures to decide these matters.)

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/17/decriminalisation-abortion-vote-mps

Are you a software engineer with management experience and a passion for open-source projects and press freedom?

@freedomofpress is hiring an engineering manager for its @securedrop team.

Learn more and apply here:

https://freedom.press/careers/job/?gh_jid=4571168005

…but happy the shell/console would just be a single touch away and that the system is introspectable without any hackery.

Day out with #phosh and the #OP6

- Woke up with #gnomeClocks ⏰
- Looked up the address of the 🍟 via #Firefox and its mobile config
- picked my way via #puremap's offline map feature
- Send #SMS via #Chatty
- Replied a toot via #tuba
- Listened to 🎵 via #gapless
- Looked up the appointment time on #phosh's lockscreen 📆 plugin backed by #eds
- Checked 💗 pulse via a simple pacer up using #phosh's lancher plugin for the short 🚶

No console needed.

#LinuxMobile

Helpful reminder for existing on the internet: Only a fool argues with fools.

🔴 Brand new Tom the Dancing Bug now up on Boing Boing
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A Calvinesque and Hobbesian look at parades 'n' protests
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https://boingboing.net/2025/06/17/tom-the-dancing-bug-a-calvinesque-and-hobbesian-look-at-political-protests.html

There's a mysterious 'carbon sink' in the hinterlands of the South Island... absorbing more carbon than expected... I'm following this research with interest. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/564407/scientists-may-have-found-a-big-mysterious-carbon-sink-in-the-south-island

The bodies weren't even cold before MAGA spun up a conspiracy theory, deflecting blame for the Minnesota shooting and saying no, it was actually Democrats who did it. To themselves.

It makes no logical sense. But it does encourage more MAGA violence.

https://www.salon.com/2025/06/16/conspiracy-theories-about-minnesota-shooter-arent-just-deflection-theyre/

𝐍𝐨, 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐋𝐌 𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐋𝐌 𝐮𝐬𝐞.

See our paper for more results: "Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task" : www.brainonllm.com

From the U.S. Press Tracker

Los Angeles immigration raids protests began on June 6. The Tracker is investigating:

- 47 assaults on journalists
- 8 detainments/arrests of journalists
- 5 equipment damages
- 2 equipment searches/seizures

View our database:

https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/?date_lower=2025-06-01&tags=immigration&endpage=

News outlets, even propagandist ones, are not legitimate military targets.

Bombing a studio during a live broadcast will not impede Iran’s nuclear program. It’s not the work of the world’s “most moral army” and is not something the U.S. should support.

https://apnews.com/article/iran-israel-irib-state-tv-air-strike-9ab46d05baeb354a6596bd09aa12a2d6

Great to see this on file so quickly. LAPD's assaults on journalists must stop now.

https://firstamendmentcoalition.org/news/post/journalists-sue-los-angeles-police-for-unlawful-use-of-force/

@georgetakei

Reminder that the fascism is funded by the wealthiest people on the planet.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/project-2025-oracle-19654875.php

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/13/larry_ellison_second_richest_person/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2025/06/13/larry-ellison-40-billion-richer---surpassing-bezos-and-zuckerberg---as-oracle-stock-mounts-big-rally/

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/omnipresent-ai-cameras-will-ensure-good-behavior-says-larry-ellison/

The fossil fuel industry funded that abomination Project 2025 for a reason.

https://www.desmog.com/2024/08/14/project-2025-billionaire-donor-heritage-foundation-donald-trump-jd-vance-charles-koch-peter-coors/

https://thebulletin.org/2025/06/trumps-ai-gamble-in-the-gulf-doesnt-put-america-first/

To keep their fossil fuel wealth, the rich are preparing to do much, much worse to humanity & to the planet.

Until the oil wealth is stopped, the billionaires won't stop.

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From the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker:

CNN anchor Erin Burnett was pushed by police on live TV while actively covering an immigration enforcement protest in LA on June 9:

https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/police-push-correspondent-on-live-tv-during-immigration-protest-in-downtown-la/

We'll be tabling at the Positive Force 40th anniversary shows in DC this week. If you're around, come see us and celebrate 40 years of punk & hardcore activism. http://positiveforcedc.org/

Update: I just had to edit the description on YouTube to say that the video was originally released on PeerTube last week... because I was getting inundated with complaints ("why isn't this video on PeerTube?"). Ouf.

You know you need to go offline when you start replying to people all in caps "IT WAS ORIGINALLY RELEASED ON PEERTUBE!" 🫠

Anyway, I'm off to a screening of the film as part of the internship program Sam & Riyen were in. Excited to show it again ✨ 🚀

#TheFutureIsFederated

❝Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance and underscore the need for deeper inquiry into AI's role in learning.❞

Hell of a research abstract there, via @gwagner: https://fediscience.org/@gwagner/114690366530883451