Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

OH: “This tool is great at enabling spammers and scammers, ruined web search, raised my power bills, and convinced people to kill themselves, while it's being forced on people by CEOs who are confident they can use it to put a lot of us out of work.

But! if you're really careful with it, it can be as helpful as an enthusiastic intern with no life experience and the short term memory of a goldfish. Why are you so down on it?”

...and a lot of folks do, smdh.

"It’s almost as if every talking point in the generative AI industry is the executives in question saying stuff in the hopes that people will just blindly repeat it!"

https://www.wheresyoured.at/why-are-we-still-doing-this/

Linux users:

How often do you run your system's update procedure (like an `apt upgrade`, etc)?

(boosts welcome)

#EU #allies #war #Nato #Canada #Maga #Hormuz

How #ignorance, misunderstanding and obfuscation ended #Iran nuclear talks | Iran nuclear deal | The Guardian

This is a direct result of sending incompetent people to negotiate, ones who have no experience in international affairs and diplomatic negotiations and are basically estate agents.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/18/ignorance-misunderstanding-obfuscation-iran-nuclear-talks-trump

#US #Politics

#Instagram to remove end-to-end #encryption for private messages in May - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/18/instagram-to-remove-end-to-end-encryption-for-private-messages-in-may "Very few people were opting in to end-to-end encrypted messaging in DMs" so all those claims about how it was a problem for police were hogwash...

Only three groups of people have been as annoying as those who are trying to get me on board with LLM coding agents:
3. "Long time no hear. I have a great opportunity for you. Have you heard of Amway?"
2. "If you don't accept Jesus Christ as your lord and saviour you are going to burn in hell!!!"
1. "I only need you to invest 3 hours to read this article about how unsafe Malmö is. If we let them come here they are going to rape OUR women!!! No, I will not pay for you to visit Malmö and check for yourself! Jordan Peterson said..."

May they all drown in slop!

#AI #noAI #LLM #enshittification #LLMs #codingagents

The worst thing about progressives ignoring problems with Big Tech, not even trying alternatives, is that eventually, when the fascists have ripped the last of our freedoms from us and we're left with no rights at all, those scabs still won't see that they could have made a difference.

Members of the heroic Inner Hive got TOMORROW'S Tom the Dancing Bug comic TODAY, and so already read a touching war story from the trenches of Iran.
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YOU CAN TOO! And you can help save Democracy while you're at it. E-Z and phun👇
https://tomthedancingbug.com/2026/03/10/the-march-2026-inner-hive-drive-sign-up-get-some-comics-save-democracy/

Why so glum? Ass and grass are still pretty affordable. https://www.patreon.com/posts/stickers-shock-152899029

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A dangerous precedent for sure, but anarchist in the US must remain steadfast in their convictions. Giving into fear or despair is exactly what the Trump administration wants.

A smidgen of Elia Ayoub's insights from our March 15th interview on the state of the global order and the spreading war and disruption in west Asia. Check out more at https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2026/03/15/the-us-israeli-war-with-iran-spreads-nuclear-weapons-lebanon-anti-imperial-solidarity-with-elia-ayoub/

National Academies of Sciences says no to demands it remove climate info - https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/national-academies-of-sciences-resisting-pressure-to-pull-climate-info/ "State attorneys general won’t get climate chapter removed from a legal manual." damn right #climatecrisis

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Happy Evacuation Day, when Washington prevented the construction of housing and forced to British to flee Boston's unaffordable rents, a tradition that continues to this day.

Privacy hot take: It should be illegal to harvest location data for any purpose other than ones where the data subject themselves directly benefits, and is aware of and desires the benefit.

Revealed: the world’s worst mega-leaks of methane driving global heating - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/17/revealed-world-worst-methane-leaks-global-heating "Fixing a leak can be simple and equivalent to closing a coal power station, making lack of action maddening, say analysts" such a simple fix

I hope you will enjoy the orange stickers I have brought to #FOSSBack sticker exchange.

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