Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

It drives me crazy that technology seemed to peak about ten or fifteen years ago in terms of what we do with it, but somehow everything just gets bigger and bigger without any gains and computers get more and more powerful without any gains. I am doing nothing I wasn’t doing ten years ago, but somehow everything has bloated in that time to need more and more and more

Expert systems are inevitable

Don’t get left behind, Flash is the future

Java Applets will replace all other software

Cryptocurrency will obsolete fiat currency

Better claim your stake in the Metaverse

By 2015, we will all have self-driving cars

Pen computing is going to end keyboards on laptops

You’ll look so stupid if you miss out on NFTs

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115855329589975860

we need more of this!

AT THE SAME TIME I was getting frustrated with KDE Neon's problems with WINE (I use crossover for a few things and when it tries to download deb packages it frequently comes up with conflicts, because it focuses on the latest KDE/Plasma releases pretty much to the exclusion of all else). So I started looking for another distro, and a lot of searching came up with Fedora, of all things, having a real good KDE version...

So for the last month and a half I have been using my Linux partition exclusively, even to play games! Steam and Proton are that reliable for me. Yesterday, after jumping over to the W11 partition and marveling at how much it didn't work, I decided it was FINALLY TIME TO LEAVE WINDOWS BEHIND so I now have no windows OS on any of my personal machines.

You can't abolish the President's army of Kyle Rittenhouses occupying cities and terrorizing citizens! They'll start crying, and pissing, and shidding.

For distros using recent #pipewire and #wireplumber: We've released #phosh 0.52.1 to fix a crash in gvc when switching to #bluetooth output: https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.52.1/

#LinuxMobile #linux #mobile

Most left organizations founded over the last half century no longer exist. Unlike the well-funded right, the left lacks enduring institutions to foster and disseminate ideas. Those that have survived tend to have one thing in common: they own their building outright, giving them financial stability and protection from the caprices of the market and/or government.

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WikiFlix is a streaming site for movies in the public domain, including Metropolis, It’s a Wonderful Life, All Quiet on the Western Front, and Charade. https://wikiflix.toolforge.org/

“WAGMI” — we're all gonna make it — was crypto's 2021 rallying cry. But those with wealth and power knew it was a lie, and that “all” just meant them. My latest traces the last five years from hype to technoligarchy — and why they're not all gonna make it either.

https://www.citationneeded.news/the-year-of-technoligarchy/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics

ICE agents just murdered an observer in Minneapolis in cold blood as she was trying to drive away, and are now shamelessly claiming self-defence.

An Act of Resistance

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

If your community uses Flock surveillance cameras, you are supporting increasingly obnoxious abuses of privacy and human rights. https://rangemedia.co/spokane-county-flock-cameras-immigration/

@nuintari @firefoxwebdevs @angelfeast @heptapodEnthusiast Also, the destiny of all software kill switches against a marketing-driven feature is to be removed a year later. Out dude seems to think Mastodon users have no experience of the computer industry.

🔴 This week’s comic is now up on Boing Boing
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A Calvinesque and Hobbesian look at invading Venezuela
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https://boingboing.net/2026/01/07/tom-the-dancing-bug-a-calvinesque-and-hobbesian-look-at-invading-venezuela.html

Chuck Schumer has issued a sternly heavy sigh.

White House says using US military is ‘always an option’ for acquiring #Greenland - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/06/trump-greenland-control-us-military #europe should threaten to boycott US #worldcup - trump's weakest point is his vanity, this would humiliate him

Anthropomorphizing language can be cute when applied to your favorite car, but it helps to muddy the discourse when applied to tech sold as "AI", especially given all the boosters and AGI-cult members peddling their nonsense about imminent artificial minds. New from me & Nanna Inie on Tech Policy Press -- how to spot & revise away from anthropomorphizing language applied to "AI":

https://www.techpolicy.press/we-need-to-talk-about-how-we-talk-about-ai/

I've been reading about what really helped people who had problems with "AI Psychosis" and one tip jumped out at me:

Open a second window and tell it exactly the opposite of each thing you say.

This helps to expose the sycophancy and shatters the illusion of sincerity and humanity.

Thought it was worth sharing. And frankly, it's exactly such an exercise that made me disgusted with the tech. "It just says ANYTHING is wonderful and genius. I'm not special."

This is the document, Trump does not want you to see.

In 1916, under President Woodrow Wilson, the United States signed the purchase of the Virgin Islands from Denmark, in a convention in which the United States recognised Denmark's right to the whole of Greenland.

Danish MP's of The Defence Committee will convene in the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility at 18:00 to discuss the defence of Greenland.

Full text: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-39/pdf/STATUTE-39-Pg1706.pdf#page=1