Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Sometimes it feels like eSIMs are a scam to cause more customer service interactions where my mobile carrier can try to upsell me.

Someone told me to use Kada.ai for data governance. I go to look. There's no price listed, which usually means "Go away if you don't have enterprise money".

I try to look up "Kada.ai pricing" on a whim, and to my surprise there are two pricing pages. They're both filled with lorem ipsum text.

One of my colleagues says it must be AI-generated. Even I'm like "No, people make mistakes"

Turns out to be from something called Webflow, 100% AI generated, this is how AI nerds engineer I guess

EU Commission internal draft would wreck core principles of the #GDPR - https://noyb.eu/en/eu-commission-about-wreck-core-principles-gdpr "remote access to personal data on PCs or smart phones without consent of the user would be enabled." #EU wrecking its greatest legislative achievement

It’s been well over a decade since subMedia crossed the Atlantic. A lot has changed since then. There’s been some rather enormous political developments. Not to mention a veritable glut of riots, uprisings and other moments of insurrectionary rupture. And we’ve been busy distilling this high-octane footage into a refined, uncut, revolutionary analysis, ideal for projecting on the walls of finer squats and social spaces. So we’re thrilled to announce that this November and December, as civilization continues to explode in a fiery spectacular shitstorm, the subMedia crew will be once again returning to the European subcontinent – to connect with rad people and organizations; learn about rad spaces and projects; host rad screenings and workshops; and burn that circle-A shit into our host’s eye-holes. We’ll be coming equipped with some classics from the vault, and reels from our newest documentary series InterRebellium. And to make things even sweeter, we’ll be joined on the first leg of the tour by one of our favourite anarchist rappers, Lee Reed. We don’t get over to Europe often. And fuck knows what things will look like in another 10-15 years. So please spread word. Restock the popcorn. We hope to see you there!

More posts to come with event details OR find them at https://sub.media/transatlantic-tour/

Government and law enforcement have demonstrated that they are willing to use every tool available to spy on protesters, people seeking abortions, immigrants, and many others. That’s why we need to fight surveillance where it matters most: our local communities. https://takebackctrl.org/stop-surveillance

Self-hosting is a fun way to cut big tech platforms out of your life, but if the cops come knocking you need to know how to defend the privacy of you and your users. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/how-cops-can-get-your-private-online-data

I suppose GUI apps are more susceptible to churn, but I think this take on the keepassxc/llm debacle sounds about right. Software projects that are "finished" and require reduced maintenance should be the goal. Do password managers really need new features delivered in rapid succession? Why?

https://lobste.rs/s/53xbdq/about_keepassxc_s_code_quality_control#c_shvzkt

Tonight Democrats proved that old quip.

If a genie gave Democrats 3 wishes, they'd negotiate it down to 1, and then wish for something they think Republicans will like.

We need a true opposition party now more than ever. Because this aint it.

The key weakness in AI agents is that they're a lie. They don't work. They just don't fuckin' work. You can't set a hallucination engine to work doing tasks. It's pants on head stupid. The hype pretends this isn't the case and hypothesises a fabulous future where they work *at all*. This is a lie.

A useful model for "AI agents" is that they're the current excuse meme for AI. They're not a thing that works at all, now or in the fabulous future. But they're *such* good material for hypecrafting. No sausage at all, but *my god* that sizzle.

@millerebonds @postmarketOS@treehouse.systems @postmarketos@lemmy.ml @linmob We should all appreciate the fact that @agx / Purism developed Phosh not only for their products, but for the whole ecosystem. I feel and appreciate the effort to make it working fine on other phones than the Librem 😍

Good morning Fedi friends!

I have a special request for people near Milan, Italy:

I've been on a mission to help @LisaBanana find a green plushie for her child from the #BalloonMuseum temporary exhibit. Original story here: https://eldritch.cafe/@LisaBanana/115382900374466722

They had plushies when I went but in the wrong color 😭

Do you know anyone who could help find it?

Technically one could go straight to the gift shop (without attending the exhibit) but it's a lot of fun - for kids and adults alike

#FindingBubulle

2 weeks, 6 repos touched.

If this goes through, #mobile #Linux on-screen keyboards get some nice features on #Wayland:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/433#note_3184487

Reference implementations available. Looking for more implementors so we can make this catch on. Anyone?

Thanks @nlnet for the motivation!

#opensource #freesoftware #linuxmobile

I don't know what the Senate is going to do. But if they do in fact fold in exchange for nothing, they will be living up to past performance. To expect the Senate to carry out the will of the American people is to misunderstand why it was created in the first place.

Trump has sold thousands of pardons, each worth up to two million dollars. Trevor Milton, a fraudster who deceived numerous investors, will not be required to repay them because he purchased a pardon from Trump. If Epstein was alive Trump would sell him a pardon. https://medium.com/@carmitage/the-pardon-for-pay-president-2c1d01767923 #uspol #trump

The right wing's bad faith brigades saw a photo that they wanted to believe mocked Charlie Kirk's murder. It didn't, but they didn't care, and they've done enormous damage to countless people who have no recourse. Pure scumbaggery, and standard operating procedure.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/one-photo-deluge-threats-arizona-high-school-turned-upside-right-wing-rcna241672

Tomorrow (Tues, 11 Nov 2025) from 20:00 NZDT we're having a #Libre / #FOSS catch up at https://meeting.iridescent.nz We'll talk about lots of stuff, like maybe Iocaine Powder (to block 'AI' bots driving up your hosting bills) & Umami (web analytics). Whoever comes along determines what we talk about! From the 'open-curious' to veterans - all welcome - there're no bad questions! Our goal is that everyone leaves knowing more than when they arrived! Dip in & out at your leisure. Hope to see you there! 👋

They had me at the headline: AI isn’t replacing jobs. AI spending is

"From Amazon to General Motors to Booz Allen Hamilton, layoffs are being announced and blamed on AI. Amazon said it would cut 14,000 corporate jobs. United Parcel Service (UPS) said it had reduced its management workforce by about 14,000 positions over the past 22 months. And Target said it would cut 1,800 corporate roles. Some academic economists have also chimed in: The St. Louis Federal Reserve found a (weak) correlation between theoretical AI exposure and actual AI adoption in 12 occupational categories."

"Yet we remain skeptical of the claim that AI is responsible for these layoffs. A recent MIT Media Lab study found that 95% of generative AI pilot business projects were failing. Another survey by Atlassian concluded that 96% of businesses “have not seen dramatic improvements in organizational efficiency, innovation, or work quality.” Still another study found that 40% of the business people surveyed have received “AI slop” at work in the last month and that it takes nearly two hours, on average, to fix each instance of slop. In addition, they “no longer trust their AI-enabled peers, find them less creative, and find them less intelligent or capable.”

https://www.fastcompany.com/91435192/chatgpt-llm-openai-jobs-amazon

Well @chrysn@chaos.social, I really appreciate your good intentions and will to fight for users' #privacy.
But I was not talking about you or the few independent developers who still volunteer at #IETF these days.
I was talking about IETF effects on the Internet standards as a whole.
I'm afraid the impact of a few independent engineers is not going to balance the power of organized and well funded #BigTech lobbyists.

As an example, let's stay on topic and look at RFC 9001, "Using #TLS to Secure #QUIC".
All that is said about the impoved ability of the server to identify (and thus track) the user are in two lines about session resumption (emphasys mine):

Session resumption allows servers to link activity on the original connection with the resumed connection, which might be a privacy issue for clients. Clients can choose not to enable resumption to avoid creating this correlation.

Now please notice the #hypocrisy: the wording is set up as if clients should opt-in, but it's pretty unlikely that users will be given a choice between a personal data leak at protocol level and an imperceptible increase in connection time, in particular with 0-RTT where " Endpoints cannot selectively disregard information that might alter the sending or processing of 0-RTT".

So while I'm pretty curious about @bagder@mastodon.social's perspective, I see that #Google managed to get a protocol designed to thwart user privacy and reduce its own server costs (even just the energy consumed during TLS hadshakes, amount to thousands dollars each day).

This way, if EU would decide to forbid tracking cookies at all, Google would get a competitive advantage over all other #AdsTech companies.

Now a properly working IETF would have rejected such shit, knowing that it would have been leveraged against people (and democracies) though #Chrome browsers and #Android defaults.

CC: @daniel@gultsch.social @lorenzo@snac.bobadin.icu

I started going to IETF meetings. Those events take place 3 times a year, with ~1000 people attending in person and another ~1000 remotely. A good chunk of those are paid to be there and some are employed by big companies like Apple and Google. This is the place where the fundamental fabric of the internet is constantly being improved. TLS 1.3, HTTP/3, MLS to name a few.

With this in mind I have no fucking clue what Moxie was on about when he said interoperable protocols are stuck in the 1990s.

Some people like to play up deer meat as being "organic, GMO free, etc.", but I assure yous that the deer in this midwestern farmageddon are eating a fuck load of cash crop corn and soy out of those fields.

They do have it as a smaller proportion of their diets than livestock do, since they forage broadly. And they get to live free in the woods and the fields. That's all really great. But trying to apply the lens of purity and cleanliness to it is very misplaced.