Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Cyberdecks seem to be having a resurgence, and the designs are changing for the better. How our current age mirrors the history of medieval guilds, the Luddites, and the Arts and Crafts movement. And #solarpunk is getting brought up more often!

https://blog.hydroponictrash.solar/cyberdecks-going-analoge-and-convivial-technology/

“The media betray their duty by not loudly declaring that the president of the United States is out of his mind.” - Mark Jacob, author/historian & former editor at Chicago Tribune/Chicago Sun-Times.

“If I were in Trump's Cabinet, I would spend Easter calling constitutional lawyers about the 25th Amendment. This is completely, utterly unhinged. …” - Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), ranking member, Europe & Regional Security Cooperation Subcommittee

New legislation could spell the end for the creative open-source community that has grown around 3D printing. From medical equipment to cat toys, we can't let innovation be stifled by state mandated censorware. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/print-blocking-anti-consumer-permission-print-part-1

Nina of @abcdd speaks about the implications of the Foreign Terrorist Organization status by the US State Dept on the members of the Antifa Ost case in Germany, the deBanking of anti-repression and prisoner support groups, and the political landscape in Germany

https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2026/04/05/abc-dresden-on-debanking-and-us-anti-antifascist-pressure/

https://bmi.usercontent.opencode.de/eudi-wallet/wallet-development-documentation-public/latest/architecture-concept/06-mobile-devices/02-mdvm/

So, it turns out the German implementation of eIDAS (electronic ID wallet for e.g. age attestation) will require an Apple/Google account to function

Absolutely pathetic

"The Earth is not dying
IT IS BEING KILLED.
And the people killing OUR EARTH
have names and addresses."

-- Utah Phillips

#ClimateCrisis #BiodiversityLoss #WarOnWildlife #Ecocide

"New UNSW research shows social media platforms do not need to addict users to keep them – they just need to make leaving worse than staying."

https://www.technology.org/2026/04/04/how-do-social-media-platforms-trap-users-in-networks-they-would-rather-leave/

Rough day for Jake Tapper to announce his new book: "Trump's Brain is Totally Normal and He Smells Good Too!"

@davidgerard @cwebber @mttaggart
After days of trying to ignore this, I finally read the post.

I fail to see anything new in there. It's unethical for several reasons. It doesn't really help. If you babysit it like you would a junior, you just might get it to produce code that sort of works. Unprovoked terrible plug for years another imperative, almost memory safe language (except when it really matters). Don't use LLMs. [...] Most obvious reasons mentioned: Needs loads.of babysitting, mediocre results, less code ownership, dubious copyright situation, causes brain rot, no original creativity and will spoil the pool, destroys our planet. Not mentioned: it's being sold waaay below cost and once you're hooked,.prices will go up.(Rivermind Lux).

Possibly try AI, [as] if that ever comes available to you.

Inspired by Germany's #DiDay ("digital independence day") and the Danish #DanmarkSkifter, the Netherlands now has #DoeiDag ("bye day"), every first Sunday of the month. 🔥🇳🇱

DoeiDag is a montly day to say goodbye to big tech and to try open alternatives. It's organized by the good folks of @doeidag

More info: https://doeidag.nl

#TheNetherlands #opensource #foss

The Forgejo v15 branch has been cut and the release is scheduled for April 16. You can help us by testing it in advance of the release.

You can try it out on a test instance, or upgrade to a pre-release build early (please, keep a backup).
It can be tried on https://v15.next.forgejo.org/, and pre-release binaries (https://codeberg.org/forgejo-experimental/forgejo/releases/tag/v15.0-test) and OCI images (https://codeberg.org/forgejo-experimental/-/packages/container/forgejo/versions?q=15.0) are available.

@lwriemen Very fair! There are other ways to contribute, eg.: https://codeberg.org/fediverse

Four solid months into my Linux journey, and I had a realization:

I will never need Microsoft Windows again, for anything. I really cannot express how liberating this feels.

It feels like escaping the matrix.

#linux #foss

@tinker I actually tried an… experiment last year.

I sent two copies of my resume in for a bunch of jobs. Lots of different jobs, but a new account for each resume for all ten. Marked myself as male for the demographics for the male resume, “prefer not to answer” for the femme version.

One had my name and my dates and so on so forth. Full first name to signal “male”.

Other had shortened first name (is genderless, if more commonly male). No dates. Same “things” there, but just less info that made me seem “male”. Less detail about some of the work I’ve done, more high-level. Literally, I applied my (admittedly dated) linguistics skills to it, to the point that I asked my dad to review “a resume” for me and he said “wow this chick sounds a lot like you”.

Male-coded resume got a callback from every job.

Femme-coded? One call out of ten applications.

And it was not a bad resume, it read to my dad as “pretty much exactly you, wow, you guys should hire her”.

I only interviewed with the one who responded to the femme-coded resume. I did not, unfortunately, get the job, though I _did_ get a short “oh I thought you were a chick” look from the hiring manager when we zoomed, which I will forever be proud of.

This is a very accurate graph of anything in my lifetime in the US.

Once fuel shortages hit lawnmowers, HOAs are going to be pissed.

The enthusiasm for Artemis II should inspire a revival in people trying to beat famous 1970s Guinness Records. Who wants to eat burgers and ride tiny motorcycles with me?

Our dumbest war yet will require our dumbest exit. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2026/4/3/2376106/-Exit-strategies