Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

The government is putting ORMs in the code so that people don't learn how to write SQL, WAKE UP SHEEPLE

@lightweight @RichardJMurphy

Official transcript for those who prefer to just read / or are somewhere where they can't watch with sound right now (I.e. me right now)

The point that really drove it home was: "They don't want to actually *cure* the disease"

Yep... actually solving problems - comprehensively solving them - is apparently not something the world at large seems to support a lot of the time...

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/07/28/what-if-economic-scarcity-is-a-lie/

Meta pirated and seeded porn for years to train AI, lawsuit says

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/meta-pirated-and-seeded-porn-for-years-to-train-ai-lawsuit-says/

Meta may have seeded porn to minors while hiding piracy for AI training.

Wow 🍿

The Guardian is hiringa senior science investigative reporter based in DC

https://workforus.theguardian.com/jobs/795/

#Journalism #Jobs #GetFediHired #TheGuardian #Newspapers

If you thought going to a Pride event or drag show was just another night out, think again. If you were in Florida, it might land your name in a government database. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/you-went-drag-show-now-state-florida-wants-your-name

That doesn't sound right?

The paper describes the campsite as being surrounded by hazelnut forest. Hazelnuts are 50% fat. Melting down bones was NOT "the only way to get enough fat to live."

The campfires had hazelnut (oily) & acorn (carbs) shells in them. Lots of high-carb cattails & wild grains too.

Heck they were actively & successfully managing the landscape for food. Including carbs & fats to balance out game.

https://press.uni-mainz.de/neanderthals-changed-ecosystems-125000-years-ago/

Fish & meat? Gotta smoke 'em.

Acorns? Pound them into powder, put them in a bag, & leach in a river for weeks or months so they're edible.

Maple sap? Boil it down into shelf-stable sugar cakes.

Rendering fat from bones is 100% in line with this.

Bill C-2 lets Canadian cops demand users' info without a warrant—and it paves the way for that info to go to U.S. government agencies. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/canadas-bill-c-2-opens-floodgates-us-surveillance

NEW: Today, FPF, represented by American Oversight, sued DOJ for withholding legal memo on Trump Administration’s acceptance of $400 million Qatari jet.

https://freedom.press/issues/fpf-sues-doj-for-trump-memo-on-qatari-jet/

Flipping.rocks is a Hometown Mastodon server for people who appreciate arthropods, amphibians, reptiles, fungi, etc. If you want a general Fediverse home, that’s okay too.

This server has a post size of up to 5000 characters, and has been operating since 2022.

https://flipping.rocks

You can find out more at https://flipping.rocks/about or contact the admin @a

#FeaturedServer #Arthropods #Amphibians #Reptiles #Fungi #Hometown #Mastodon #HometownMastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

#Infosec question:

When receiving an incoming link with a referral header from a Mastodon instance with 470 users, how easy is it to determine exactly which individual clicked on the link?

What additional information is needed? How hard is it to get that additional information?

More things should be opt-in.

Does anyone know if it's possible to plug a mini-PC into a laptop and use the laptop's keyboard/monitor?

If FIFA (soccer international body) and the International Olympic Committee weren't so Trump-level corrupt, they'd move the 2026 World Cup and 2028 Olympics out of the United States. The U.S. barring of a Venezuelan Little League (!!!) baseball team shows you why.

https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-little-league-denied-visas-d296bcf7296e849e27de1b1f8cd30edb

After a long and desperate struggle I have a working Open5GS 4G core tested with a couple of LTE small cells. Verified that Gemtek WLTGFC-105, Sercomm SCE4255W, Baicells Nova 430i, and Nova 227 all work for me. Yay?

Hardest parts were packaging Open5GS and figuring out that Osmocom's pySim wouldn't program my SIM cards but some random Windows utility can.

Benefit from my pain at https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/dcbwilliams/cell-net-infra/

Exasperated and disturbed the new IP license in the Mastodon TOS has no termination clause.

https://mastodon.social/terms-of-service/2025-07-01

Facebook and YouTube have terms saying that you can intentionally remove your IP grant by deleting the content. Twitter lets you remove your IP grant by deleting your *accounts*, which is punitive, but possible to exercise (I did). It's good very Mastodon's grant is Tumblr-style limited, but Tumblr eventually abused its. I want Mastodon to be as pro-user as *Facebook and Google*.

Microsoft, AWS, and even France-based OVHCloud say that they can't keep the US Government's hands off your data, if requested under the CLOUD Act.

👉 You can't guarantee data sovereignty using a provider that is subject to US law, even if your data is housed outside the US.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/microsoft_admits_it_cannot_guarantee/

Ten lessons from Katharine Graham's time at the Washington Post.

https://fs.blog/knowledge-project-podcast/outliers-katharine-graham/

'When Nixon came after the Post with the full force of the executive branch (challenging TV licenses, crashing their stock, and threatening prison), Katharine never wavered. She’d told her reporters to keep digging, and she meant it. When prosecutors demanded their notes, she took them home herself. If anyone went to jail, it would be her. Not them. For nine months, while other papers stayed silent and friends begged her to stop, she kept her word. The President of the United States couldn’t make her break it. Most leaders fold under pressure. She knew something they didn’t: your word is all you have. Once broken, it’s worthless forever.'

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"Driverless" taxis that require two drivers 🤦‍♂️

"The Tesla robotaxis rely on remote supervision by employees in a customer service center, and a human safety supervisor in the front passenger seat, ready to intervene if needed."
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/26/tesla-investors-grow-wary-of-elon-musk-robotaxi-promises.html