Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/115422407120803629

Good morning Fedi friends!

The results of yesterday's poll are in: 53% of you voted for #NextCloud – as in: the software I should showcase in my #YunoHost / #selfhosting for newbies step-by-step guide.

I've been self-hosting NextCloud for 4 months now and it has become absolutely essential to me, replacing Dropbox, Google Docs, Google Drive and WeTransfer. But it has so many more capabilities too!

I'm excited to do a show & tell.

Yay for #DigitalSovereignty and independence from #BigTech ✊

We’re better than fear.

We’re braver than billionaires.

We’re bigger than ever.

And we’re gonna win. #NoKings

I stopped shopping online at Target when it stopped being supportive of the LGBTQ+ community. So when Target announced layoffs today, I looked to see if the press mentioned this.

AP: Nothing
https://apnews.com/article/target-corporate-layoffs-minneapolis-india-f4d8100fa2bf4af67e4fb4e388cedf50

Reuters, 2nd paragraph: "The move, unveiled by incoming CEO Michael Fiddelke in memo to employees on Thursday, comes at a time its share price has lagged rivals and the company has faced backlash for pulling back from its diversity, equity, and inclusion policies."
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/target-plans-lay-off-1800-employees-wsj-reports-2025-10-23/

CNN, 3rd & 4th paragraphs: The layoffs, which come ahead of the critical holiday shopping season, are the latest sign of struggles at the Minneapolis-based company. It has been been reeling from slumping sales and fierce blowback to its retreat on DEI programs.
Its decision to end some of those initiatives angered supporters of diversity and inclusion policies, who felt blindsided. Target had staked out a reputation as a strong corporate supporter of DEI.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/business/target-layoffs

#Target #LGBTQ #journalism

Amid yesterday's #ExtremeWeather 💨, @bernardchickey.bsky.social was blown away by #NZmedia's reticence to use the C-word:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ2OmZprpKo

If the driver of these hot & windy conditions is unusual Sudden Stratospheric Warming over Antarctica:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/576739/antarctica-s-september-weather-driving-current-hot-windy-conditions
then #SeaIce loss over the Amundsen & Ross Seas may provide the link to #ClimateChange:
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2025GL115257

I wrote on Boing Boing about a new book by Bill "Zippy the Pinhead" Griffith: a graphic biography of his great-grandfather William Henry Jackson, Old West photographer and artist, whose photos of Yellowstone were instrumental in the creation of the first national park.

https://boingboing.net/2025/10/23/legendary-cartoonist-bill-griffiths-new-graphic-biography-of-his-great-grandfather-william-henry-jackson.html

A bit concerning that the second largest TV station operator in the country thinks an FCC license requires Sinclair to "not bring any biases with us."

No, the FCC is legally prohibited from meddling in content and from being the arbiter of "bias."

https://deadline.com/2025/10/jimmy-kimmel-first-amendment-sinclair-abc-fcc-1236594347/

Unwary users might be risking their privacy by using OpenAI’s new web browser, ChatGPT Atlas, EFF’s Victoria Noble told ABC News Live. https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/privacy-concerns-new-open-ai-web-browser-126779458

This week's comic now up on Boing Boing
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The Smythe family of Chagrin Falls, USA, gets the trump dumped on them
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https://boingboing.net/2025/10/23/tom-the-dancing-bug-the-president-trumps-all-over-chagrin-falls-usa.html

https://kolektiva.media/w/2dt53X5esM6CrBor6vKUbu

This Day in Anarchist History, October 23rd 1956 we remember the Hungarian Revolution when student protesters and the broader Hungarian working classes took on the Secret Police and the Red Army.

After days of striking and rioting that boiled into a firefight, protesters were able to defeat the country’s Secret Police and even negotiated the withdrawal of the Red Army from Hungary… for a time, that is.

Impromptu proletarian militias wasted no time looting factories to arm themselves. Unfortunately time was in too short supply as the Red Army tanks were sent back just days later, this time with orders to brutally crush the revolt. 3,000 Hungarians were killed, about 20,000 were imprisoned and hundreds of thousands more fled. There was very little dissent from Hungary for the rest of the USSR’s existence.

Zuckerberg keeps trying to "innovate" some garbage thing no one wants when he should stick to buying things people are addicted to instead. Zuckohol, Zuckbets, Zuckanyl, etc.

Excessive government secrecy literally makes you sick.

Great FOIA reporting from ProPublica.

https://www.propublica.org/article/fda-hides-drug-names-contaminated-factories

If you are in #SantaClaraCounty #sfba #California, you can report ICE activity to Amigos de Guadalupe Center for Justice & Empowerment, by calling 408-290-1144.

More of these zines can be downloaded from https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1R3l0A9ZHspfPH1OoLi6VjQB1dg1e1mw7 courtesy of Megan
Piontkowski.

#ICE

Wish there was a way for leafblowers to explode so that they only injure the person who hired them.

This week's comic now up on Daily Kos
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The president trumps all over the Smythe family of Chagrin Falls, USA. 👑💩
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/10/23/2349852/-Cartoon-Tom-the-Dancing-Bug-s-Smythe-family-of-Chagrin-Falls-USA-get-Trumped-on-by-the-president

Matthias has been hard at work implementing a way to render SVG icons with animations in GTK4: https://blogs.gnome.org/gtk/2025/10/23/svg-in-gtk/

#svg #gtk #gtk4

The #Chromebook model is google-damu (google-kukui), with the MT8183 #Mediatek SoC.

The speed is actually kind of embarassing, look at that user time. 33min vs 99min! But what else to expect from in-order cores?

Hey you, reader! Do you have an #ARM Chromebook? Could you benchmark it, too?

git clone https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/
cd bevy
git checkout 3dd5d7037
cargo fetch
time cargo build --example bevymark

If you send me the results, I'll publish them on my blog!

#benchmarking #linux #mainline

Does anyone know why my #RAM is running at half speed?

# inxi -m
Memory:
System RAM: total: 16 GiB available: 14.56 GiB used: 1.55 GiB (10.6%)
Array-1: capacity: 32 GiB slots: 2 modules: 2 EC: None
Device-1: Channel-A DIMM 0 type: DDR4 size: 8 GiB speed: spec: 2666 MT/s
actual: 1333 MT/s
Device-2: Channel-B DIMM 0 type: DDR4 size: 8 GiB speed: spec: 2666 MT/s
actual: 1333 MT/s

The system is a #Ryzen 2400GE.

#amd #hardware #x86 #computers

Good news everyone! I have risen from the dead to continue spouting my brand of foul blasphemies!

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-am-out-of-data-hell/