Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

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Today I remembered @aphyr's offhand quote about "far too much experience inferring system dynamics from timeseries graphs" and how much that hit home.

A large part of my job as a software dev at a SaaS company is staring at graphs and telling stories about them. But his description sounds better. :-)

(quote is from https://aphyr.com/posts/370-ecobee-settings-for-heat-pumps-with-resistive-aux-heat)

🛠️ 💻 In the spirit of repairability and keeping good equipment alive, I've gathered up a few retired Thinkpads from local surplus auctions. I'm upgrading the RAM and drives and will be making them available in the next few weeks. These will be cozy little Solarpunk machines, older equipment preinstalled with a lightweight linux desktop and all the software you need for browsing, writing, docs, email, managing passwords, and videoconferencing.

I would like to find each one a good home with a nice person who will appreciate and take care of it. If you know of someone in the USA who would be a good fit, please put them in touch. I will be sending these for the cost of shipping (estimating about $40) with a completely optional tip jar to help cover the cost of upgraded parts.

When I have more details together I'll send out a link but for now ping me with any questions. Thanks! 🙏

Think of ICE's masked thugs -- committing murder in public, with impunity -- as members of a revived KKK. Trump's KKK goons carry federal badges.

ICE is a clear, present, and escalating danger to everyone.

GoFundMe Ignores its Own Rules
by Hosting a Legal-Defense Fund for the ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good

https://www.wired.com/story/gofundme-ice-jonathan-ross-renee-good-fundraiser/

Animal rescue stories are popular on YouTube.

A YouTube channel sharing animal rescue stories now has 1.2 million subscribers.

The only problem? The stories are completely made up and the videos are generated using AI.

This content literally outcompetes videos from real animal shelters — for profit — while misinforming our children and anyone who cannot see the difference.

I cannot begin to describe how much that angers me.

https://youtube.com/@ajanimalking

Every terrible thing ICE is doing was pioneered by regular cops and prisons, and by US soldiers abroad, with the unanimous backing and approval of the entire US political system.

Aside from the war crime of attacking survivors of a shipwreck, we must now add the war crime of perfidy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/us/politics/us-boat-attacks-law.html?unlocked_article_code=1.EFA.7xgP.qIPINOLUNg8W [gift link]

Perfidy is a considered serious crime in war because, among other things, using civilian cover for offensive missions casts suspicion on all civilians in the theatre, putting non-combatants at risk.

@dangillmor
Good, but since it's hosted on Github is a little incoherent.

Elizabeth Warren's speech today impugned greedy billionaires & their millionaire minions who control the Dem Party. She voiced obviously true stuff we're told never to say - which is why those millionaire minions in media have logged on to smarmily criticize her. https://www.levernews.com/elizabeth-warrens-third-act/

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"We are far past the stage of permissiveness with white-supremacist violence inside DHS. We are at the stage of active, enthusiastic commission of it."

Big Journalism doesn't get it, because it doesn't want to. So we have to rely on independent reporting that does.

https://www.forever-wars.com/either-ice-is-abolished-or-it-will-kill-many-more-renee-goods/?ref=forever-wars-newsletter

🎉 Join us January 21 for a virtual Public Domain Day celebration! We’re throwing an online party to mark the latest wave of creativity entering the #publicdomain.

Works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 are now free, and we’re celebrating together.

🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/event/the-case-of-the-disappearing-copyright-virtual-public-domain-day-2026/

#PublicDomainDay

RE: https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/115883972029010549

There should be a list documenting which open source projects are making use of "AI" code generation (eg: code stolen from other open source projects without following the licenses), and that list should track the last clean no-"AI" commit for future forks.

This is because I want to not run "AI"-generated code on my computer. If you disagree with this, you're saying I have no right to keep slopware off my computer, and in fact information must be hidden from me to prevent me from avoiding it.

What I do not apologize for: thinking that a list of open-source software encumbered by AI antifeatures should exist. It's a useful resource if you're trying to avoid the proliferation of AI — my mistake and my harm as far as that's concerned was in the how and not the what.

I also do not apologize for believing that AI boosters should be held accountable for their actions. This was the wrong way to do it, but I don't believe my own personal goal was bad, and I do not apologize for holding it.

Yes, with enough massaging, you can get the model to output reasonable code that compiles and does roughly what you wanted it to do. But you could write the same code in less time with less work just by knowing what the fuck you're doing -- and that's what bothers me most: that people who have no idea what the code does will vibe themselves into a corner out of which they lack the skill to debug, thus wasting even more resources.

AI is improving so rapidly, soon creating technical debt will not even require developers anymore.

FCC lets Verizon lock phones for longer, making it harder to switch carriers
FCC waives rule that forced Verizon to unlock phones 60 days after activation.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/fcc-lets-verizon-lock-phones-for-longer-making-it-harder-to-switch-carriers/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Waymo passenger flees after car drives on Phoenix light rail tracks
L: https://www.azfamily.com/2026/01/08/waymo-passenger-flees-after-car-drives-phoenix-light-rail-tracks/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46593168
posted on 2026.01.12 at 14:39:55 (c=2, p=7)