Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Jailed UK climate protesters facing conditions reserved for extremists on release - https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov/08/jailed-uk-climate-protesters-facing-conditions-reserved-for-extremists-on-release #starmer's outrageous war on protest and climate action

Last youth centre in one of England’s most deprived coastal areas faces closure - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/09/last-youth-centre-in-one-of-englands-most-deprived-coastal-areas-faces-closure this is what is driving youth despair and disaffection, not social media or video games

Should I attempt to try out Bonfire?
https://bonfirenetworks.org/

I'm going to try migrating from KeePassXC to PasswordSafe. It's a little funny, in that PasswordSafe was the first such tool I used, years ago, but it looks like it's still being maintained.

KeePassXC starting to use LLM code provokes a lot of anxiety for me. That's a critical tool I use dozens of times a day. I'd expect the developers to be extraordinarily cautious. But they're clearly not.

I'm already worried about Red Hat using LLM code. We're going to lose the fucking Linux kernel.

#Doonesbury by #GarryTrudeau on GoComics

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2025/11/09

#Humour #Cartoon

#Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/09/drax-still-burning-250-year-old-trees-sourced-from-forests-in-canada-experts-say stop these obscene subsidies

📢📢📢 abra v0.12 has arrived 📢📢📢

TLDR; `abra upgrade` 👍

Upgrade docs:
https://docs.coopcloud.tech/abra/upgrade/

Changelog:
https://git.coopcloud.tech/toolshed/abra/releases/tag/0.12.0-beta

0.11.x-beta 👉 0.12.x-beta migration guide:
https://docs.coopcloud.tech/abra/upgrade/#011x-beta-012x-beta

A huge thanks to everyone who helped get this release done ❤️‍🔥

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Happy Hacking 🫂

-- d1

AI has really fucking ruined the internet. I was just checking on safe meat hanging temperatures, and one AI generated site told me to make sure to keep it above 32F because otherwise the deer won't be able to keep its core temperatures up and might not survive.

My guy. I appreciate your concern, but I think we might be past that.

Anyways, I'm glad I have paper books from the before time. Gonna start hitting thrift stores for old textbooks and how-to manuals.

please for the love of fuck don’t have a parasocial relationship with a password manager, an encrypted mail provider, or any other security or privacy software vendor

you absolutely don’t need to defend the honor of a project you like. you especially don’t need to defend a project that’s provably doing something dangerous

when I call out keepassxc or proton or whatever in the strongest terms possible, I do it because it’s important. I do it to create awareness, not fear.

How many stupid LLM tricks must we read about. Neither the “researchers” (quotation marks definitely required) nor the “tech journalist” author realise that robot planning is like a 50-year old field with people earning PhDs and spending entire careers on it. The Mars fucking Rover does not have an LLM in it.

So Mr Amateur Hour Jones, who has fuck all experience in the field, shoves an LLM into a robot vacuum. They discusses none of the prior research in robot navigation and planning, makes up a stupidly simple task that the LLM fails to do. The headline is not “LLMs fail again to do something incredibly simple that robots could do 30 years ago without LLMs”. The headline is about the science fiction crap it spewed as it failed.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/llm-robot-vacuum-existential-crisis

Friends, please stop linking to Spotify like it’s ok.

The company steadily siphoned money from independent artists, then spent millions to host Joe Rogan, then littered their library with AI music, and now the CEO is investing in AI weapons.

There are plenty of less damaging ways to listen to music and podcasts.

The Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a court order requiring the Trump administration to fun SNAP so that millions of children, seniors, and people with disabilities could eat food. The Republican party is trying to blame Democrats, but there isn’t a single Democrat who has sought to block food or healthcare assistance to those in need.

The American government is not broken and dysfunctional, it’s callous and malevolent.

Boring Company fined nearly $500K after it dumped drilling fluids into manholes
L: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/elon-musk-boring-company-fined-150000426.html
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45862674
posted on 2025.11.08 at 22:32:46 (c=1, p=6)

SPACE DATA CENTERS!
PARTICLE ACCELERATOR CHIP LITHOGRAPHY!
100 NUCLEAR GENERATORS!
SEX BOTS! (Ok, maybe that's just Elmo McFuckup)
SUPERINTELLIGENCE!

It would be more amusing (and yet still deeply pathetic), if people didn't actually take these fools seriously.

It just illuminates the deep intellectual bankruptcy of the industry, and especially venture capital.

This Veteran’s day, don’t thank me for anything I did in the military. There’s no honor in it.

My service to humanity began when I requested a hardship discharge, joined Iraq Veterans Against the War and Veterans for Peace, and started resisting militarism.

Reclaim Armistice Day. Peace through resistance.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/06/job-cuts-accelerate-october-layoffs-trump/

🚨 Jobs Shock:
Layoffs surged in October — 2025 job cuts have now hit recession-level highs, according to new data from Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
The warning signs are flashing red for the economy.

#jobs #Economy #Layoffs #Recession #washingtonpost

Next time Trump needs a mysterious MRI, they should put him in a Gravitron and tell him it's a medbed prototype.

Coop-Cloud: Democrtically built and governed cloud going on now related to this morning's first keynote, The Seattle Community Network Stack

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/BXX88L/

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/NZUCYJ/

Join the conference freely and anonymously - https://seagl.org/attend

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #CommunityInfrastructure

Facebook enables gender discrimination in job ads, European human rights rules
L: https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/tech/facebook-gender-discrimination-europe-ruling-asequals-intl
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45859160
posted on 2025.11.08 at 14:18:18 (c=0, p=5)

I am sorry, I made a thing again: https://manchicken.com/2025/11/08/fun-with-nfc/