Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I learned a new phrase today: malicious optimism. "AI will cure cancer, just give money to AI, not to actual curing cancer" and stuff.

#AI #noAI #LLM #LLMs

"It’s easy to throw stones if you think about the job displacement and ecological destruction caused by this pointless technology. But such black-and-white, not-wanting-billionaires-to-get-richer thinking is, quite frankly, cruel. You can’t just measure the value of something in terms of “whether or not it makes everything worse for everyone.” The world is much more complicated than that."

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/please-dont-say-mean-things-about-the-ai-that-i-just-invested-a-billion-dollars-in

#AskFedi

I'm writing an article about W Social and I'm mentioning how it's basically a fork of Bluesky / is using its open source code.

Are there any Bluesky / ATProto experts on here willing to help me understand something, in a "explain it like I'm 5" fashion?

Thank you! 🙏

The discussion around AI should really just be ended with stories like today’s - AI driving a tripling of global gas capacity forecast in 2026 and using 450 billion litres of water a year: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/29/gas-power-ai-climate.

We weren’t on track to meet the Paris goals as it was. The last thing anyone with the faintest grasp of science and carbon emissions should be doing is adopting and promoting LLMs.

All the other arguments seem a distraction from the fact these are planet killing tools and businesses.

#India’s electric bus push has a deadly blind spot - https://restofworld.org/2026/india-electric-bus-accidents/ "Insufficient driver training, not faulty technology, is the leading cause, according to municipal corporations and civil advocates. " #ev

Wikipedia at 25 grapples with new challenges arising from #generative #AI - https://walledculture.org/wikipedia-at-25-grapples-with-new-challenges-arising-from-generative-ai/ we need #wikipedia more than ever, just as it is most a risk

Dear Fedi friends,

A quick update about the exposé I'm writing about that "European social media platform" that had a hurried announcement last week.

The piece is coming and it is JUICY.

But I'm postponing it till after FOSDEM because I got a couple of big scoops last night that I need to develop. Every day I receive new jaw-dropping revelations.

I'm currently channeling my inner Molly White and I'll take advantage of FOSDEM to get more expert opinions. Thanks for all the tips you sent in!

#Forgejo 14.0.2 was just released!

We recommend that all installations are upgraded to the latest version.

Check out the release notes and download it at https://forgejo.org/releases/. If you experience any issues with this release, please report to https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues.

#forgejorelease

I know this wouldn't even be helpful - I've witnessed them ask the same question at the slo{t,p} machine over and over again.

And I'm neither going to abdicate my professional standards nor drink this poison.

Let the fucking bubble burst and the perpetrators of this mess stand trial 😡

Getting waken up by the German federal police for an illegal border check. Good morning.

#Schengen #SchengenUltras #CrossBorderRail #FOSSRailPrelude #FOSSRail

And I'll be honest - I know some very fine folks who (for reasons I cannot fathom) consider themselves followers of Christ, but I'd say most of the atheists I know are far better at being Christians (blind faith notwithstanding) than most of the self-identifying 'devout' Christians out there.

Way to go, Philadelphia! The city has introduced new legislation putting real limits on ICE activity. Federal agents will no longer be allowed to operate anonymously no masks, visible identification required, and arrests must be backed by warrants signed by a federal judge.
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Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner:
“This is a small bunch of wannabe Nazis in a country of 350 million. We outnumber them. If we have to hunt you down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will. We will find you. We will achieve justice.”💪 #press

Yet another Republican-appointed federal judge blasts Trump regime for lying and ignoring court orders -- and, as usual, does absolutely nothing about it.

Bottom line: Trump is winning his war on the judicial system.

https://archive.ph/JhZ5j

Almost everything about Trump's "Board of Peace" smells of corruption, and Dave Troy's discovery of extremely weird trademarking of the name adds to the reek.

https://america2.news/board-of-peace-trademark-filings-reveal-its-murky-legal-status/?ref=america-2-0-newsletter

Wow, what do you know? https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/585322/900-000-tonne-miscalculation-makes-carbon-target-even-tougher In the past, I've been asked to consult on Aotearoa institutions tracking our carbon sequestration. My findings: the scientists gathering the data are dedicated & working impeccably. The people *managing the digital data and models* have no idea what they're doing. The whole digital system is dubious. Imagine that fossil fuel use is being undercounted. This Gov't is, of course, only making things much much worse.

We got a town/county hearing for an AI data center that wants to get built around here

What should I ask them

"Paywalls don’t just limit the reach of news; they create a void often filled by lies and deceit," writes FPF board member John Cusack.

"Whatever business model journalism settles on is sure to depend on public trust. Paywalls undermine that trust."

https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2026/01/28/ice-raids-government-crackdowns-news-paywall-free-immigrants-low-income-first-amendment-john-cusack

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@SecurityWriter/115969540425890734

To build on what was said below, your whole online existence is essentially three things combined:

1 - Your email account or mail server where you can get password resets.
2 - DNS that protects the mail server from being impersonated.
3 - Your domain WWW server that can publish records that your DNS registrar trusts when issuing certificates.

If you lose control of your email or web server, people can password reset their way into all of your account unless you have some strong second factor as a security key. If you have a secondary email recovery account that would be vulnerable. It could possibly be used to bypass your second factor.

If you lose control of your DNS server or your registrar account, then people can impersonate your services such as your web server or mail server for account recovery. A DNS attack could completely remove your existing servers and point traffic to malicious ones as well.

Finally if you lose control of you web server then it could be used to publish .well-known files used for identity verification with certificate authorities, spread malicious files, your imagination is the limit.

As you can see DNS and email are critical. Today everybody outsources their DNS and email. Choose how you manage these as if your identity, finances, and company depend on them.

Basically no one controls their own identities. By running your own email for DNS servers the third-party doctrine would not apply to you, and you would get notice that something was going on with law enforcement.