Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

No, you *used* to be a software engineer. Now you're just a prompter. The funny thing is, the longer you slop prompt, the less likely you could go back to being an engineer even if you wanted to. Deskilling yourself is not something you all should be bragging about.

@janneke This is a difficult question to answer. First of all, I only really know the #Librem5. Furthermore, you can be tracked via the browser, via connection to telephone antenna's, Wifi and Bluetooth and probably more.

The Librem 5 has kill switches to physically switch of wifi, gsm, camera, and microphone.

https://puri.sm/learn/hardware-kill-switches/

My employer, like so many others, has been forcing the use of hallucination machines. During a meeting recently we were talking about using it, and I referred to it as "it".

Obviously, it is proper English to do so. But, one coworker was shocked by this and asked me why I used that word. I calmly explained that it is a large very flawed statistical model and nothing more, so "it" is the appropriate word.

I think that blew their mind. Their reaction was just silence.

I miss actual intelligence

US troops are not in Germany to protect Germany. They’re there because the US needs bases to conduct operations beyond the North American continent. If Trump withdraws them, he will harm the United States, not Germany.

It’s absurd how many Americans fail to grasp this.

@maxleibman I love the shit going down in New York. "Oh no don't tax us for owning empty property, we will just leave." Like yeah, no shit Sherlock, that's the point.

Chinese Exports of Green Technologies Surged to Record Levels After Iran War Began - https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/05/03/0112257/chinese-exports-of-green-technologies-surged-to-record-levels-after-iran-war-began "China exported 68 gigawatts of solar technology in March, surpassing the previous record set in August by 50%. Fifty countries set new records for Chinese solar imports, with the most significant growth coming from emerging markets in Asia and Africa hit hardest by the energy crisis,"

@Sempf

My wife and I were staying at a hotel in downtown Austin when a mass shooting occurred on the street below us. The whole block was cordoned off and there were police cars everywhere.

We were told to check Twitter for updates. I don’t have an account on Twitter and I shouldn’t have to have one to interact with my city’s emergency services.

@Sempf Definitely wrong and definitely worth fighting for freedom of information. As a taxpayer, you have already paid for the information of your local government, which they now paywall from you when they force you to use an adtech surveillance capitalism engine.

There is not a single substantial reason for the local government to mandatorily involve a commercial, third party evil actor in your just receiving and reading your local government information.

I even doubt they earn anything from it, then it's just into Zuck's pockets. Sucks.

As we mark World Press Freedom Day, we must face a sobering reality: press freedom is weakening across Europe.
We have the tools to protect the bedrock of our democracies and ensure journalists can work freely and safely; we now need the political will.

#SafetyOfJournalists #PressFreedom #WorldPressFreedomDay

Is the Bluesky kind of federation an example for the future of the Fediverse?

Read here what I think about this:
https://blog.gelbphoenix.de/the-glass-floor-of-digital-sovereignty/

#Fediverse #Bluesky #Blog #ActivityPub #OpenSocialWeb #DigitalSovereignty #ATProto

"Whatever we call it—Jim Crow 2.0, the John Roberts Jim Crow Era, or the John Crow Era—no person in America is more responsible for the return to the Jim Crow Era than John Roberts. The resurrection of the post-Civil War Jim Crow brand of racism is the crowning achievement of John Roberts’ life work" (continued in /9)

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #JimCrow #Republicans #Callais
/8

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/the-john-crow-era

Hi social.coop / fediverse!

We are https://wiki.cafe, a coöperative to provide hosting, training and support for Federated Wiki.

Our configs and (very small amount of) code are published here: https://git.coopcloud.tech/wiki-cafe/

If you'd like to chat about having a Federated Wiki of your own, or learn more about the platform, get in touch!

We're on Matrix here: https://matrix.to/#/#wikicafe-general:autonomic.zone

Or you can email us on mail@wiki.cafe

–3wc

#introductions

What gets mandated in NY gets sold everywhere. A surveillance requirement for 3D printers, buried in NY's budget bill, will be detrimental to innovation everywhere. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/stop-new-yorks-attack-3d-printing

😂 https://xcancel.com/FFmpeg/status/2050279582037614638

I really think codeberg should bite the bullet now and put out a "no ai projects allowed" policy. I'm seeing some AI projects show up, and they're going to:

attract a bunch of AI bros that try to turn this into github
burn through the CI compute available so they can train things and scrape things they shouldn't using codeberg's servers
advertise their AI nonsense on codeberg

@Codeberg please do the right thing sooner rather than later on this. You already have AI projects popping up and it's not looking good :(

#codeberg #noai

Assembling a team of ding-a-lings is something anyone can do. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/5/1/800030815/cartoon/doofus-group/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116503650485303910

Dear @_elena,

We are soooo super happy to have you as our opening keynote speaker on Monday!

For those of you, who want to join online, here is our website: https://2mr.social/en/home-english/

Expect lots of good examples of people, institutions, companies, foundations, universities, governments and public services that use und push democracy-strenghening #SocialMedia!

#Democracy #Media #communication

@rysiek @paco in Brasil we would quip: "How come he doesn't have a single friend to tell him to stop!"

Wow. Richard Dawkins off the deep end.
‘So my own position is: “If these machines are not conscious, what more could it possibly take to convince you that they are?”’

First he goes on and on about the Turing test like it is some kind of law handed down. Like, the fact that sequences of output tokens so closely resemble speech they might pass Turing’s test. He views a moving of the goalpost (Turing’s test apparently isn’t enough to distinguish consciousness) as unreasonable. Like Turing got it right and it’s wrong to say otherwise.

And then he has these risible conversations: ‘I then asked her whether, when she read my novel, she read the first word before the last word. No, she read the whole book simultaneously.’ Let’s not ignore the ‘she’. The thing has a name. ‘Claude.’ It implies a gender. But Richard Dawkins genders it and genders it female. I don’t think that’s a random thing.

We know how computers work. It absolutely does read the book byte-by-byte, in a sequential series of input tokens. It does not matter that the thing output some words that said otherwise. It is wrong. Why doesn’t it matter that the output is plainly incorrect? Where does the disconnection between the reality and the words come into the picture?

This is just drivel.

https://archive.is/6RdK9

“AI is taking your job” is exactly as untrue as “offshore workers are taking your job,” “immigrants are taking your job,” or “brown people are taking your job.”

Management! Management took your job! And blamed someone else, because they’re cowardly by nature.