Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

"On average, developers anyway create mediocre code" is not an argument justifying generating more of it at, at least, a magnitude higher rate.

"Async PR reviews often end up with just LGTM-stamping anyway" is not an argument justifying doing even less of code reviews by going from at least one person per PR understanding the implementation to zero.

Writing HTML and CSS is not so complicated. What *is* complicated is everything that tries to do it for you.

https://manchicken.com/2026/03/03/refinishing-tumblers/

And if you haven't seen "An expat in Dubai" by Stephen Collins, please drop everything and go read it right now, as it is hilarious:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/picture/2026/mar/03/expat-dubai-startling-revelation-the-stephen-collins-cartoon

Consuming spice and looking past today's snow and I can see the Golden Path to the extended forecast showing temps in the high 60°sF/20°sC.

When someone is in crisis, they don't need a referral to a referral to a referral to a referral to a referral to a referral to a referral (I'm not kidding--this goes 7 layers deep), with each step requiring hours devoted to some combo of emails, texts, phone calls, forms to fill out, and home visits, all transmitting the same info, only to find out that the next step is yet another intake process.

I'm not sure I've got the stamina to jump through enough hoops to find out if services actually exist or if it's just recursive intake forever. I've encountered some kind and empathetic people along the way, but all they've done is add to my workload.

There's gotta be a better way.

I think people who are relying on LLMs etc being erroneous in various ways to save us from takeover by the AI techbros need to read "Worse is Better".

The history of tech is inferior but cheaper or faster solutions beating otherwise superior ones. Yeah it won't do our jobs as well as we can, but the ostensible savings will justify it. Not least because the cost of mistakes won't show up in a way that can be attributed to the clankers.

Perhaps what might save us is when the huge subsidies are removed. But people have been waiting for Uber to fall over from running out of VC cash for a long time too.

We keep hearing that only 'AI', whose profound ability to grasp complex systems, could solve a problem as wicked, entangled and multi-dimensional as global warming.*

This report details not only why that has no basis in reality, but that this fairytale is part of an industry campaign to make BigAI look like it's part of a habitable future, covering the tracks for genAI's massive footprint.

https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/big-tech-greenwashing-report/

* Turns out the trick is not spewing CO2 & CH4 into the air

#ai #climate #genai

@orrickle Meanwhile, writers who take on rural labor usually focus on strikes done by miners & textile mills.

Writers who talk about sharecropping & tenant farming tend to put it as a racial justice problem rather than an economic problem. (It absolutely WAS a racial justice problem. Folks just seem to have trouble understanding that racial justice problems do in fact impact the wider economy & aren't "just a Black folks' problem." Aaaaaaaaa)

Good News! 🚨👀

I am delighted to finally announce today what I've been working on in the past few weeks:

Privacy Guides' new Activism section!
https://privacyguides.org/activism/

The Activism section offers a new way to empower the digital rights community. It will progressively grow with more tools to support the community in its privacy activism effort, both for individuals and organizations 💛

As Privacy Guides' new Activism & Outreach Lead, I will be working hard on developing this section even further in the coming weeks, adding many more tools to support our community.

I hope this can be a helpful resource for anyone who is ready to fight for privacy rights ✊🔒

#PrivacyGuides #Activism #Privacy #DigitalRights #HumanRights

Kash had to get all those party flights in before jet fuel prices went up. https://www.patreon.com/posts/kash-patel-man-151754841

Love a life so virtuous that Trump, Bezos, and Musk demand it be outlawed.

NEW! 🚨✨

Privacy Guides is thrilled to announce today the addition of a new Activism section on our website!

This section will be a new way to support the community in its privacy advocacy and activism effort, both for individuals and organizations 💛

In this age of digital mass surveillance, we must work together to fight for privacy rights collectively ✊🔒

https://privacyguides.org/activism

#PrivacyGuides #Activism #Privacy #DigitalRights

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people don't like slop

I'm moving out!
My WG is looking for a new tenant.

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📅 from April/May on
⌛ potentially up until 12/2026 when there may be renovations
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The distinction between "firmware" and "software" these days is pretty thin. With that in mind, how should you treat non-free firmware blobs on a modern system? @mjg59 has a great post that talks through a lot of the considerations that should go into making the decision for yourself:

https://codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog/p/to-update-blobs-or-not-to-update-blobs/

It's hard to build hardware w/o blobs. If you want details, check out my talk on Purism's attempt to build RYF-compliant hardware:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xbvMtFLOmE

#blobs #ryf #firmware #foss