Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Digital independence will be critical. It was always critical, but dumbasses refused to see it. Now, that democracy is being lost in chunks at the digital front, they might wake the fuck up and see it for what it is.

Countries will either go for digital independence, or forfeit their sovereignty. If a non-US government is still using #MicroSoft for their OS and productivity suite, if they are still using #Amazon or #Google for hosting their services, they are fucked.

#FOSS saves.

FPF and @404mediaco got access through a FOIA lawsuit to the agreement giving ICE access to Medicaid patients’ data.

On Tuesday, ICE will be allowed to continue using Medicaid data in deportation cases.

Read the agreement here:

https://freedom.press/the-classifieds/heres-the-document-giving-ice-80-million-medicaid-patients-data/

We’re hiring for a position in our Binghamton, NY warehouse! Check out the job description and apply here: https://tinyurl.com/pmwarehousejob

Be wary, be wary, on Sixth January,
for nooses, and zip-ties, and rage;
I see no reason why red-hatted treason
should ever be given a stage.

‘A silent majority’: MPs underestimate support for green policies, study reveals - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/05/mps-underestimate-support-green-policies-study "From solar subsidies to meat taxes, minority rightwing voices appear to drown out the consensus" the rest of us must shout more #climatecrisis

The actual reason for kidnapping Maduro:

US refiners mull switch to alternative lighter crudes amid Trump tariff fears

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-refiners-mull-switch-alternative-lighter-crudes-amid-trump-tariff-fears-2025-02-20/

I wish we had spent the last 26 years teaching people that the reason the 2000 bug didn't destroy a significant amount of our infrastructure is because *we caught it* and *spent thousands of hours fixing it* BEFORE the year 2000

Because within that little perplexion - people thinking the problem was a hoax because it was fixed before it destroyed shit - is an encapsulation of the current era of Western politics, including COVID mitigation, lesser evil politics, fascism, and crime rate hyperbole

I NEED TO SAY SOMETHING

Bobby Sands went 66 days before he died

Heba Muraisi is on day 65 without food

(6th Jan)

One of her simple requests is to be returned to HMP Bronzefield, where she can be closer to her family

For no good reason, this has been denied time and again

#HungerStrikers
#PalestineAction
#freepalestine

I know this is pretty small beer in the light of world events, but I was not expecting to have to write “risk of invasion by the USA” into the risk assessment for my fieldwork in Greenland in June.

a note about the nextcloud paper:

some asshole who values fandom over security has tried to tell me I’m spreading misinformation about nextcloud because they claim the vulnerabilities in the Share with Care paper have been acknowledged and fixed by the project.

surprise, that’s misinformation. the lesser vulnerabilities in the paper, the Ghost Key Attack (chapter 5.2) and IV reuse (5.3) have been fixed.

the key insertion attack (5.1) which renders e2e a no-op has not been fixed.

@hipsterelectron again exactly! nextcloud’s marketing around their encryption is extensive, to the point where hosts like hetzner are building hosted nextcloud products around the promise of e2e. but then you dig in and shit like that nothing of a PR and a mess of an end-to-end encryption repo and fixes quietly scattered across repos with no announcements is all you get. and then I get someone in my replies telling me I’m acting in bad faith for thinking all of this is weird and unworkable

I like to use a 'linear calendar' (there must be a more canonical name for this format) to plan out my year on paper. There are a few ready-made PDFs floating around, but I was unsatisfied with them all so I made my own. Customise and print it here: https://elvery.net/linear-calendar-generator/

I recommend printing at A3 if you have the tools.

The woman who showed full on allyship and dropped 3 different white nazi sites as a causal flex at the end of her talk is on Fedi, and you guys aren’t hyping her up enough for me.

From: @back2theRoot
https://chaos.social/@back2theRoot/115843984911958346

The author of a viral Reddit thread alleging fraud at a food delivery company tried to back up his claim by sending me AI-generated documents. Today I'm publishing those documents in the hopes that it helps other reporter see what we're up against in the age of AI https://www.platformer.news/fake-uber-eats-whisleblower-hoax-debunked/

Thanks to @newbyte's efforts and @agx's reviewing, everything relevant from the "postmarketOS tweaks" app has been integrated into Phosh Mobile Settings so that we were able to sunset the legacy app in postmarketOS edge and have one less settings app in total! 🎉

As a bonus, Phosh Mobile Settings now has a generic conf-tweaks interface that can be used to add other custom settings with config files as well!

Details in the edge post:
https://postmarketos.org/edge/2026/01/04/postmarketos-tweaks-replaced/

#postmarketos #linuxmobile

My congressional representative should really take note of how much of his remarks on Maduro are applicable to his party’s president. https://fitzpatrick.house.gov/2026/1/fitzpatrick-statement-on-venezuela

Donald Trump was legitimately elected, but has acted without regard for the law and the constitution since taking office. He has dishonored himself and his office by literally selling pardons and favors. He has used his power to attempt to cover up his own crimes which appear to be those of trafficking and raping young girls.

Brian Fitzpatrick is defending the actions of a criminal, a wannabe despot, and a rapist.

When we design for disabilities, we make things better for everyone. This is called the Curb-Cut Effect. The term was coined by disability students and activists in the 70s, who added curb cuts to the Berkeley sidewalks to make access easier for those in wheelchairs. They discovered those also helped people with strollers, using trolleys for deliveries, etc.

Hi @anothersubculture glad to see you here!

There’s a reason DHS and its counterparts keep getting humiliated in court when they pretend to be victims. They’re losing in front of juries and judges are calling them not credible.

It’s important not to normalize this absurd language from DHS — their “sounds like” doesn’t mask their intent.

https://san.com/cc/filming-ice-agents-is-a-first-amendment-right-so-why-might-it-land-you-in-jail/

In 2026, I want folks to note how often the media just replays opinions of people in power, instead of offering social, economic, and historical context for ANY issue.

Apparently, the role of reporting is the amplification of opinions, to maintain the illusion that everything happens randomly, in environments devoid of history.

I was so naive. I thought the role of reporting was to keep the public informed.

But no, it is to keep the public confused and obsessed with debating opinions.