Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Must see from @euronews:

"Fact check: Is the EU launching a social media platform called 'W'?"

🔗 : https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/01/29/fact-check-is-the-eu-launching-a-social-media-platform-called-w

"A spokesperson for the European Commission told The Cube, Euronews' fact-checking team, that the EU is not launching or funding any social media platform, and that there is currently no EU-backed project called "W".

[...] W is a privately owned social media start-up incorporated in Sweden, backed by private investors mainly from the Nordic region."

Please share widely

Packing for #FOSDEM 🥳

I have so many items of clothing promoting the Fediverse that I could change outfits multiple times a day 😂

If anyone is interested in a forest green sweatshirt that says "the future is federated" (size small, unisex) let me know. I had it remade (comped) because v1 came out differently than my mockup.

I'll have it with me tomorrow, just ask.

See you around! I'm sooo exciteeeeeed

Department of the Unlikely:

If anyone wants to sell a couple of tickets to the World Baseball Classic game on 8 March in Tokyo, I'm interested. DM please.

American jews apply for German passports to escape the Trump regime.

Let that sink in.

https://youtu.be/XEkE4BZyu4Y?si=kqd7LvO9eE01gISR

‘You can't make the word-guessing program into a "superintelligence" by shoveling more words into it. That's like betting that if you keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will eventually give birth to a locomotive.’
-Cory Doctorow

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/29/post-american-canada/#ottawa

Does anyone know a way to donate (online) to a Democratic candidate without going through Act Blue? I don't trust it anymore.

Please don't tell me why I should trust Act Blue. For me, that ship has sailed.

This is about alternatives.

Americans have a First Amendment right to record law enforcement while they're doing their jobs publicly, so long as they don't interfere. "The right is pretty unequivocal at this point," EFF’s Sophia Cope told USA Today. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/01/29/immigration-enforcement-social-media-battle/88361181007/

Enough is enough. A national general strike is happening tomorrow, Jan 30th. No work. No school. No Shopping. Stop Funding ICE.
Select merch is discounted until ICE is out of Minnesota. Coupon Code: STRIKE
https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_list&c=263&sortby=num_sold:desc

OMG @braillerap just gifted us an English and a German #Braille version of "Ada & #Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards and Raspberry Ice Cream". 🤗

It is the first complete book printed this way with #FreeSoftware (#OpenSource) and #Openhardware 🥰

We will have a copy at the @fsfe booth during #Fosdem and @nicorikken will cover the story in our talk on Sunday at 14 https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/R9Q9ZP-ada-zangemann-bestseller-automation/ Big thank you!! 👏

We've just merged some code to automatically scale up the on screen keyboard in landscape on larger screens like tablets also allowing it to use more horizontal space.

While at that we also added the necessary bits to scale up font and icons on the keyboard's keys accordingly which also helps on phones when going to higher resolutions.

There's still some low hanging improvements like scaling down in landscape on phones or improving the touch area for the shortcuts and completion bars. Let us know if you want to help with that!

#Phosh #LinuxMobile #OSK #stevia

Followup on yesterday- Does anyone know how much $$ data centers tend to make?

Any metrics are useful- per square meter, per unit computing capacity, whatever.

Well, whattyaknow: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72183413/1/dawson-v-meta-platforms-inc/ looks like my past speculations about Meta & WhatsApp's security - though vociferously challenged by many committed WhatsApp users - might well be gratified. At the very least, folks in the US thought there's enough evidence to level a class action suit.

We can grow something better! #Fediverse Punk Month 🖤

"We invest too much of our culture in centralized, for-profit, corporate social media platforms. These platforms enrich billionaires, expand surveillance, and fund the cult of capitalist war, all while trapping us with addictive algorithms that feed us mindless content. It feels necessary to be on these platforms to "stay connected", yet paradoxically they increase our isolation. Their purpose is to extract profit, not to help us connect.

Instead of jumping between online capitalist corporate platforms, we propose a radical alternative that's actually aligned with punk values: the Fediverse, a network for open, autonomous, decentralized, not-for-profit, and DIY social media.

The Fediverse is an interconnected network of social media platforms..."

More about: @The_Counterforce
https://fedi.the-counterforce.org/

#Punk #DIY #SocialMedia #Fedi #FediHelp #NeuHier #NewHere #Punkrock #DID #DIDIt

@autonomysolidarity @The_Counterforce every month is a fediverse punk month if you're a punk enough!

Today, we’re launching Encrypt It Already, a new website pushing tech companies to deliver stronger privacy protections to their users by enabling and expanding the use of end-to-end encryption across their products or services. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/introducing-encrypt-it-already

Update: Radio France removed the last paragraph in the piece that claimed " @Gargron had quit his own social network [Mastodon] because he was fed up the behavior of certain users."

But this preposterous lie is still in their radio broadcast. The clip has been up for 10 HOURS now.

Maybe @Mastodon could use this as leverage to set the record straight and get some exposure with French listeners.

I'm this close to getting my LinkedIn account out of hibernation to write to Radio France about it

If the actual, real bottleneck in your development pipeline is "I can't type the code fast enough and typing the code faster makes a difference" then I will posit that the *problem* in your development pipeline isn't that you can't type code fast enough.

"A common fallacy is to assume authors of incomprehensible code will somehow be able to express themselves lucidly and clearly in comments."
– @kevlin

"... or prompts." I would like to add.

I don't even post much on here and doubt this will reach many, but whatever: I lost my job recently and am looking for new work, would appreciate any leads. I'm a certified digital accessibility specialist with lived experience as a disabled trans person, and I also have extensive web developer experience.

Please get in touch if you know of any appropriate openings ❤️

https://software.opensuse.org/ is 503ing me @opensuse