Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

if your proof is that I should trust that the people currently complying will suddenly grow a backbone and it’s actually very punk rock to have a database field with PII in systemd: go fuck yourself

“it’s just a column in a database” said presumably a full grown adult whose ability to live under capitalism is a column in their bank’s database

ICE detention is killing one person every six days. Here's a graph of every custodial death since the start of the year. Remember that research shows that many/most of these deaths are preventable.

Prediction.
A decade from now, low-Earth orbit will be inaccessible after Starlink (now bankrupt) precipitates a massive #Kessler catastrophe. Years/generations will pass before new launches to #space are possible.
No #Moon missions; no #Mars missions.
#Musk's name is cursed (even more...).

After just having responded to the third #curl security report for the evening I noticed a post that cheered me up...

Have a good Friday everyone!

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/moekatib_millions-of-people-look-up-to-steve-jobs-activity-7450947453085749248-K1w-

We need a law that either allows families to opt out of using online services that the school selects, or a law requiring them to meet industry best-practice standards for security. Probably need to require them to stop all the creepy data broker shit, too.

https://manchicken.com/2026/04/15/open-letter-to-fellow-parents/

Yet again the Associated Press normalizes the most corrupt presidency, by far, in American history. This story about Trump's kabuki-theater shakedown of the government he controls barely mentions that until the very end.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-treasury-irs-lawsuit-tax-whistleblower-c710244db618b066f3070a65e75820a5

All corruption in Trump world, all the time.

🧵Trump's war against Pope Leo is about something far larger than his foreign wars, it's actually a struggle for control of American Christianity.

This thread will summarize the main points of my latest essay about how Trumpism is a replacement Christianity. Continue or click through:
https://flux.community/matthew-sheffield/2026/04/trump-hates-pope-leo-because-he-sees-himself-as-the-real-vicar-of-christ/

Don't forget to salute everyone you see in their Boston Athletic Association tracksuits this weekend.

Ok, fellow hackers, I propose a pact: That new EU age verification app thingy ... do NOT help improve it.

Don't publish findings. Don't responsibly disclose insecurities. Don't facilitate them making it bulletproof.

If personal data is directly at risk, by all means, slam their asses into the ground. GDPR them into oblivion.

But on its core functionality this needs to be, to become, and to stay, the most insecure, the most easily circumventable piece of shit code on the planet.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/116415821939972420

The Bluesky mothership failure allowed to get a glimpse of realy how the other skys are independent from it, the black and the euro one.

I was looking for the answer to this question for a long time. This thread has it.

[Spoiler : I will stick to the Fediverse]

NYC Home Care workers declare hunger strike.

"Fifteen home health aides started what they called an indefinite hunger strike on Thursday after the City Council failed to advance a bill banning 24-hour shifts, an issue that has roiled the mostly immigrant women working in the home care industry and the vulnerable patients who rely on their round-the-clock care."

https://www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/16/hunger-strike-home-care-24-hour-menin-council-labor-protections/

📣 IT'S BRAND NEW THE TOM THE DANCING BUG REVIEW!
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💦 Dementia Donnie is back! And he's PISSED!
🐕‍🦺 Otis the Inner Hive Dog
💣 Nerrex, Inc. Joins the Nuclear Club
🦸 Less-Than-Mysterious Man
🐂 Comix for Cro-Magnon
AND MUCH MORE!
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Free for your eyes! 👀
https://tomthedancingbug.substack.com/p/dementia-donnie-is-back-and-hes-pissed

DoorDash Grandma isn't a paid plant. (For that, you need to be paid!) Instead, her story is far worse.

She's a depressing example of how MAGA cultists have internalized the lies that justify their own oppression.

An analysis.

https://www.salon.com/2026/04/17/trumps-doordash-grandma-isnt-a-plant-the-truth-is-much-darker/

I vibe coded a webapp called Teams Roulette where it joins you to random Microsoft Teams meetings, using Teams linked scraped from the internet.

Debating on if I should publish this one 🤣

Extraordinary journalism from Dave McKenna at Defector about a long-ago killing in Virginia, where local authorities refused to follow the obvious evidence, engaged in an ongoing cover-up, and left a victim's family endlessly damaged in the wake of undone justice. https://defector.com/the-killing-that-wont-let-go?utm_source=defector.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=microblogging-services-down-try-big-blogs-instead

"Stop New York's Attack on 3D Printing"

"New York's proposed 2026-2027 budget currently includes provisions that will require all 3D printers sold in the state to run print-blockingcensorware—software that surveils every print for forbidden designs."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/stop-new-yorks-attack-3d-printing

#Privacy

> RTM is part of a larger, international tech federation called Co-op Cloud. It’s a collective of tech-based organizations committed to building and sharing tools based on libre software, which users can use and distribute freely

@rtm gave a shoutout to Co-op Cloud in the Guardian! (US, not the transphobic bin-fire that is Guardian UK) Congrats, and thanks!

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/16/big-tech-breakup-parties