Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Idle thought: I wonder how much salary $ is spent on the role of 'software license compliance' management across the world. Talk about an unsatisfyingly bullshit job contending with arbitrary marketing decisions of colossal tech corporations, wow. Soul destroyer.

Exposing OS-based child safety laws for what they are: Big Tech pulling the ladder up after achieving dominance.

https://agelesslinux.org/

Management teams that would replace workers with AI bots would have replaced those same workers with enslaved people if it were an option.

(Instrumental audio version because I can't find a clean version of "Carry the Weight" online.)

You can't make the US safer by making 10 million+ traumatized young men in poverty and desperation. That has the opposite effect.

If you create a society where the only safety and companionship and brotherhood that people feel is through violent self-preservation groups, then the outcome is inevitable.

#SilentSunday

Ok, so this part is not so silent. While standing at the door of the instructor I waited for him to finish grading my 100 state-required test which I had to take supervised, with a pencil and mark my answers on a form. I am now certified by the State that I am qualified to safely manage my home and basic caregiving.

I’m 74. I’ve been a full time caregiver for my son for many years. I’ve trained likely a couple dozen caregivers in our home since 2009. The State suddenly requires me to be certified before I can continue taking care of him. Do I know how to make a call to 911. Do I know how to wash my hands. Oh, here’s a tough one—how long can I leave food out before some may need to be put back in the refrigerator. Thud. Aaaargh.
#Bodies #Dummies #Training #CPR

There's more work needed to make this usable (we don't have arm64 docker containers of vosk-server and it's not in any distros but most of it is in alpine already). There's also room for improvement regarding the recognition (it likes to guess "the" when there's no input as you can see at the end of the video).

If you want to help out, jump into https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/stevia/-/merge_requests/279 .

Thanks to dogman in the FLX1 channel for mentioning vosk which led me to vosk-server.

"The Cloud is a Factory" Series: lecture "Cloud Capitalism" by Devika Narayan on March 16th & reverse-seminar workshop on the 17th, together with TITiPI members Seda Gürses & Miriyam Aouragh to engage with the concerns on how clouds and mobile devices in our pockets have become the taken-for-granted foundations of contemporary society. What are the consequences of this far-reaching influence of ‘tech’? How did it become embedded in a broader capitalist logic?
+ infos:
https://www.spui25.nl/programma/the-cloud-is-a-factory-cloud-capitalism
https://algosoc.org/events/workshop-cloud-capitalism

literally took a break from hauling manure to make this video about how the fertilizer crisis is

um

not real

This is where fertilizer prices are at. Lower than they were for most of 2025.

oh cool yet another “I’m exhausted by all the anti-AI anger” post got boosted onto my feed

please don’t let anyone gatekeep your own anger away from you, especially when your ability to exist and to make a living are both under active attack. if you’re angry because of LLM-enabled war crimes, the loss of our software commons, or any of the other wrongs the AI industry has started that never stopped, you aren’t wrong. you don’t owe the people enabling and forgiving this stuff your kindness.

Feel free to make me the primary user of your child's computer.

You don't have to tell me the password, just create an account for `varx` who has sudo access and was born in the 1980s.

There, now your kid is no longer a "user" under California AB-1043, which defines that term as "a child that is the primary user of the device".

(OS providers, feel free to autoprovision an account for me on first setup! I'm happy to help.)

Oh no, our competitors are doing stupid things! We must also do stupid things or ne left out!

CEOs everywhere.

Reading through Anthropic's official repo for giving agents various "super skills"[1]... There's an "algorithmic art" skill and the instructions are explicitly encouraging pure deception as one of the key "critical guidelines":

"The philosophy MUST stress multiple times that the final algorithm should appear as though it took countless hours to develop, was refined with care, and comes from someone at the absolute top of their field. This framing is essential - repeat phrases like "meticulously crafted algorithm," "the product of deep computational expertise," "painstaking optimization," "master-level implementation.""

https://github.com/anthropics/skills/blob/main/skills/algorithmic-art/SKILL.md

For someone who's been working in this field for almost 30 years, this "skills.md" file is just the worst... and so far off the mark! 🤮

Touch some effing grass, Anthropic (and all boosters)! How can so many people think this approach is _the_ future? The map is not the terrain...

[1] Alone the premise of this repo is pure comedy gold and pure sadness in equal measures!

#AlgorithmicArt #GenerativeArt #NoAI #Agents #Deception

Two product names for a community events, upcoming, meetup replacement - which one resonates more with you? (Boosts for reach appreciated - and if you hate both, happy to hear why! These are the first two I came up with there the .org was available!)

The headline: Claude Code hacked these websites, we didn't ask it 😱

The article: we made http endpoints that act like something from an SQL injection vulnerability example from 2002. Then Claude used SQL injection techniques from 2002 that it probably got from an article about those.

Might not be Skynet

If someone is calling them "AI" at this point in time, it means they have fallen for them, even if they pretend otherwise. Do not waste your energy.

Doctor, my pump, it's pained. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2026/3/13/2372918/-Cartoon-Stickers-shock

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How come no evil PACs want to give me money to draw some evil shit I don't believe? If you see me do a cartoon that says, "Means Tests are GOOD now," know that I drew that on my brand new boat.

Dear America,

Donald Trump is exactly who you are.

Donald Trump is simply the #noFilter USA the rest of the world was forced to become intimately familiar with long ago; one dropped bomb and one lost family member at a time.

Until you fully grasp that, learn about, start accepting responsibility for, and atoning for how your country came to be and for your crimes throughout history both at home and abroad, this is what you will remain.

“This is not who we are.”

Bullshit.

This is exactly who you are and who you’ve always been.

You want to change?

Start by accepting that.