Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

DIY Anti-ICE Devices: https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2026/02/02

@glynmoody
Good resource & informative., thanks for sharing.
As an open-source advocate I did find it a bit lacking in recommendations from the Fediverse despite his acknowledgment of having his own Mastodon account & touching on Peertube. There are so many more, such as Lemmy, Owncast, Loops, Pixelfed, Hubzilla, etc, etc.

His Proton-centric recommendations do not mention Protons somewhat refusal to allow paid subscribers to opt-out of ‘automatic renewal’ & they also don’t send reminders

Housing, Healthcare, Education etc....This should not be controversial.

@iwein @imbl You mean, we absolutely, definitely should not generate tons of "AI" pages and slap this identifier on them?
Because it could cause some AIbros to ingest the generated content and train on that?
Oh, that would be sad...

Please do not use background music in your videos. It is often a jump scare. It prevents us from understanding what you are saying. And we cannot stand at least 50% of genres. Please!

"AI" is not actually a technology, in the way people would commonly understand that term.

If you're feeling extremely generous, you could say that AI is a marketing term for a loose and shifting bundle of technologies that have specific useful applications.

I am not feeling so generous.

AI is a technocratic political project for the purpose of industrializing knowledge work. The details of how it works are a distant secondary concern to the effect it has, which is to enclose and capture all knowledge work and make it dependent on capital.

ICE/CBP are criminal agencies, staffed by violent criminals, and gleefully dispatched against Americans by a vicious president and his apparatchiks. It's far worse than most of us understand.

Garrett Graff has done the homework and lays it out here:

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountability-for-ice-and-cbp?utm_source=www.doomsdayscenario.co&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=accountability-for-ice-and-cbp

Read and share it.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@990000/115993630141888644

It's not that computers aren't smart, it's that they aren't even stupid. Computers are operating on an orthogonal axis.

Now people, they can be stupid.

#Doonesbury by #GarryTrudeau on GoComics

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2026/02/01

#Humour #Cartoon

"We discuss the "Original Sin" of the Von Neumann architecture and how modern LLMs have made this problem even worse by completely erasing the distinction between code and data. From leaking private data to facilitating ransomware, we cover what a malicious prompt can force an agent to do and why standard defenses like "prompt classifiers" or "user confirmation pop-ups" are destined to fail."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3okhTwa7w4

Trump has been a deadbeat for decades, so no surprise that his regime is stiffing the UN on legally required dues payments, putting the entire organization into danger of folding.

https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-financial-crisis-trump-dues-77a204381b059685a490f80f73a0ec97

Todd C. Miller has been maintaining the #sudo codebase for over 30 years. This is exactly one of those cases where an entire critical infrastructure is held together by the work of a single volunteer who apparently can’t find anyone willing to sponsor him for some financial support. #opensource #linux #foss #GNU

My #FOSDEM talk recording from today is already public! Check it out in case you missed the talk (or didn't get into the room because it was packed full)

https://video.fosdem.org/2026/ub4132/ZNAAZX-mainline_kernel_for_fairphones_-_2026_update.mp4
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/ZNAAZX-mainline_kernel_for_fairphones_-_2026_update/

#postmarketOS #Fairphone #LinuxMobile #MobileLinux

Dear Fedi friends,

Good morning from #FOSDEM!

Yesterday was pure magic: I loved every single presentation in the Social Web devroom, with devs and Fediverse champions sharing their inspiring work.

I didn’t post anything because I was so absorbed in all the talks (plus @liaizon and @Sascha did a fantastic job chronicling the event).

I can’t stop thinking about one of @benpate’s closing slides:

“Every single thing you do to improve the Fediverse is a win for humanity”

YES! 🙌

@miramarmike in this case it does have to do with the particular person... but beyond that:
- people have always treated machines as a kind of oracle, even before LLMs
- people have always projected agency and intelligence on to computers, see early experiences with ELIZA onwards
- people feel that the computer doesn't judge so the interaction feels lower-risk...
- ... while at the same time people are poor judges of actual risks when it comes to computers
- LLMs have a "voice" that is co-operative, friendly and supportive by default
- LLMs give the impression that they "know" stuff -- they phrase responses as knowledge held by them, rather than (eg) "here is a response generated semi-randomly from your prompt words and a statistical analysis of a training set which may or may not contain relevant data"

A large measure of fault falls on the people designing these things. They needn't be engaging, friendly and reinforcing and promote more and more follow-up interactions, but that would not fit the commercial goals. Another measure of fault sits with people who do not understand how they work and who are insufficiently skeptical about [nearly everything], but who tell everyone else about LLMs (eg news media, influencers, ...).

I see it as a kind of hack of human psychology akin to how gambling works.

The Alex Pretti Memorial Ride in Minneapolis today was massive and so powerful to be a part of. I’ve seen estimates of 3-5 thousand riders, taking up to an hour for the ride to pass through an intersection.

Despite their masks, because they all BYO gear every one of them looks unique. It should be pretty doable to train a ML model to automatically cross-reference all the footage to build a profile on each of them. #ice

"[In a commons] ... there are engagements with the market, they're just not capital-driven, and extractive, and predatory.

...

There can be market activity, but as many Open Source communities know, introducing money and transactionalism to that community can poison relationships. Can start to erode the community. So there's a certain trickiness to dealing with money in a commons."

#DavidBollier, 2025

https://revolution.social/episodes/think-like-a-commoner-author-david-bollier-on-the-/

#podcasts #NosSocial #RevolutionSocial #commons #OpenPlatforms

Java-GI 0.14.0 has been released!

Release notes: https://github.com/jwharm/java-gi/releases/tag/0.14.0

Highlights:
- all bindings updated to #GNOME 49 version
- #JSpecify nullability annotations everywhere

For those who don't know, Java-GI is a #Java language binding for GNOME (and other GObject-Introspection libraries) based on the new FFM API in OpenJDK. It's modern, fast, and very easy to use. Visit https://java-gi.org for more information!