Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

#Forgejo 12.0.2 and 11.0.4 were just released! They are security releases.

We recommend that all installations are upgraded to the latest version as soon as possible.

Check out the release notes and download it at https://forgejo.org/releases/. If you experience any issues with this release, please report to https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues.

#forgejorelease

And just a reminder that when Robert Reich was Labor Secretary under Clinton, he sided vocally WITH THE BILLIONAIRES and AGAINST THE WORKERS, so pretty rich to see him trying to be a progressive now. Still haven't gotten an apology out of that d-bag, and never will as he's still claiming that it was the Mexicans forcing the billionaire friendly version on them.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-09-01-mn-30114-story.html

https://www.ontheissues.org/House/Bob_Reich_Free_Trade.htm

“We’re activating 10 million workers.”

Okay for what?

“Create multiple pathways to action.”

Okay, like what?

“Guiding them through a ladder of engagement that builds confidence and power.”

A “ladder of engagement”? Leading where?

“Take bold, visible actions at scale.”

Okay, for example?

“Demands for a government that puts workers over billionaires are impossible to dismiss.”

And if those demands are ignored—as they have been for decades?

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/08/nearly-1000-workers-over-billionaires-protests-planned-across-us-for-labor-day.html

@davidgerard

I made the mistake of reading the comments on LinkedIn when the paper that showed LLM-assisted coding made you less productive (but estimate your productivity higher) was published.

One of the justifications from the promptfondlers was to attack the methodology because, although the participants all had experience using LLM coding tools, they didn’t have experience with the precise one that they used in the study.

This suggests that the problem is far worse than the linked post suggests. It isn’t just that these people are useless without their chatbot tools, it’s that their skills with the, are not transferable. We saw this with the GPT-5 release as well: a load of patterns people had developed for working with GPT-4o stopped working and there was uproar.

I think you might have written about this before, but it’s a problem with nondeterministic tools. You don’t learn things that work, you learn things that have a high probability of working, but they are not based on a theory of the underlying system. So any small change to how the system works can make your techniques useless. So time spent learning to prompt an LLM is time spent both having your real skills atrophy and, in exchange, learning a skill that will be obsolete soon. No AI winter required.

Your August edition of the FOSSphones News Roundup is here! It is also available on our #Gemini capsule.

https://fossphones.com/08-31-2025.html

#Doonesbury by #GarryTrudeau on GoComics

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2025/08/31

#Humour #Cartoon

And here’s the same person openly calling for mastodon.social @staff to ban accounts from Palestine like Bluesky is doing.

Translation: “The #Fake Accounts from Gaza, with which anyone collects donations, are becoming more and more dubious. Either "journalists" or young women. Donation account never in Gaza, but always middlemen abroad. After Bluesky consistently blocks the accounts, they now come to #Fediverse. / @staff @diessoli”

Are there fake accounts? Yes. Are they all fake accounts? Not by a long shot.

Some of us are taking the time to help verify the accounts of Palestinians who rely on the fediverse to survive. I’ve personally had video conversations with several people in Gaza on Signal and will be holding more.

Do not listen to these heartless bastards who are trying to cut off what is the last lifeline for Palestinians trying to survive a genocide.

Tell the world that #PalestiniansAreWelcome on the #fediverse.

https://skeptics.social/@Derisor/115121577156334330

Taco Bell rethinks AI order bots — because they don’t work

18,000 waters, please

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSD6-Nf1fg0&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250830-taco-bell-rethinks-ai-order-bots-because-they-dont-work - podcast

text coming shortly!

This week's comic, inspired by a study showing that AI summaries on top of search results are dramatically cutting traffic to websites.

#internet #technology #tech #journalism #disinformation #socialmedia #oligarchy

OpenAI Says It’s Scanning Users’ ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police

https://futurism.com/openai-scanning-conversations-police

Rioting has broken out across Indonesia.

In the midst of economic hardship and historic inflation, lawmakers voted to give themselves a housing allowance 10 times the minimum wage.

By August 28th, protests and riots had spread to Jakarta, Makassar, Bandung, Medan, and Pontianak

Police have arrested over 700

and killed a motorcycle taxi driver, running him over with an armored vehicle.

As the situation continues to escalate, anarchists are raising funds to establish a network of safe houses for protesters and frontline activists at risk.

Funds are being raised through Firefund https://www.firefund.net/indonesiansafehousenetwork

https://kolektiva.media/w/nah2LMZWUVa2XUsJnn6KzG

Vibe-coded build system NX steals vibe-coders’ crypto

a clown car of clown cars that deploys another clown car, that explodes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnFKkBBzpVg&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250829-vibe-coded-build-system-nx-steals-vibe-coders-crypto - podcast

text coming in a bit!

"We have been taught to believe that if we help someone else, we lose something, that putting others first somehow hurts us. In my experience and research, it is the opposite."

I do not want to be like the billionaire who is praised for being “self-made.” I want to be like the people who visited me in the hospital and kept hope up for my parents. I want to be like the man who stops to help you when your tire is flat. I want to be like the woman who notices you are struggling and brings you a hot meal. I want to be like the friend who takes your grandkids out for a special day when you cannot afford it, or the stranger who offers a smile when you are hurting inside.

We need your support to fight against:
Censorship 🗣🚫
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There is an ongoing low-grade crisis of political manipulation on twitch, X, and youTube.

Here are three stories:

Rightwing twitch streamers were "botting"
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2025/08/27/huge-drop-in-twitch-streams-explained-platforms-crackdown-on-viewbotting/

MAGA bot network on X
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/maga-ai-bot-network-divided-trump-epstein-backlash-rcna219167

Secret Payments For Centrist Dems on YouTube (some conditions may apply)
https://www.wired.com/story/dark-money-group-secret-funding-democrat-influencers/

I created a repo @Codeberg for my really simple #XSL-weblog:
https://codeberg.org/harlows/xsl-weblog

It's part of my tiny attempt to preserve #XSLT and very much a work-in-progress. Thus far it's really just a repackaging of Evan Widloski's example:
https://github.com/Evidlo/xsl-website

You can see it evolve here:
https://blog.harlow.net.nz/
or follow the #RSS feed:
https://blog.harlow.net.nz/feed.xml
Transformed by the magic of #XSLT!

@Sarahp

One option for Bluesky users who are concerned that they might be blocked from the Bluesky network is to "Bounce" to Mastodon.

Bounce is a cool tool from the makers of Bridgy Fed that allows you to migrate your Bluesky account to a Mastodon account and retain all your follows and followers.

You will still be able to interact with bridged Bluesky accounts and won't have to worry about geographic blocks.

Check it out: https://techboltx.com/bounce-social-media-migration-tool/

When the Washington Post asked 604 DC residents about Trump’s takeover, Post editors didn’t like what they said, so they took it out of the headline.

https://fair.org/home/wapo-editors-doing-their-best-to-conceal-reporters-vital-work-on-dc-occupation/

@dangillmor #ICE #usPolitics #trump