Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Opus 4.7 fails to produce a usable anagram about 20% of the time it seems. Yeah; this will produce safe production-ready code. Ship it!

Investment in low-carbon tech to diversify, global study finds - https://www.pinsentmasons.com/Out-Law/News/Low-carbon-investment-diversify

How rooftop solar and home batteries became “kryptonite” to big coal and the fossil fuel industry https://reneweconomy.com.au/how-rooftop-solar-and-home-batteries-became-kryptonite-to-big-coal-and-the-fossil-fuel-industry/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-rooftop-solar-and-home-batteries-became-kryptonite-to-big-coal-and-the-fossil-fuel-industry

Hello, people who do #SysAdmin 👋🏼
I want to get better at this, and more confident at hosting my own services on my own servers (homelab or VPS). Can you point me to any good resources to learn? I feel like I have a decent handle on the basics, but don't know what I don't know.

Here's where I'm currently at:
I self-host (via Docker on Linux) Nextcloud, Immich, Vaultwarden, Home Assistant, Anubis, Forgejo, Readeck, a couple containers for personal “APIs”, and a few static sites. (mostly on the same server)

I can configure UFW, set SSH to be no password/key only, have Fail2Ban kicking IPs off, and have BorgBackup doing offsite rolling backups. Uptime Kuma monitors the high level services, but I don't have other monitoring.

What don't I know here, or should I dig into more than the basics?

Feel free to boost, my circles may not reach far enough.

#Linux #InfoSec

It has been an honor and delight getting to know @Tzipporah and @Yehuda over the past few months.

If you haven’t met them, they’re the grandfather & grandkid duo that co-admin #TurtleIsland, a server focused on building community with Native/Indigenous people, other BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) people, and allies. To me, their story perfectly encapsulates the best thing about the fediverse and Mastodon: People coming together to build a place for themselves.

Read their beautiful story: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/05/community-spotlight-tzipporah-and-yehuda-of-turtle-island-social/

#Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialWeb

Marc Andreessen prompts his chatbot by using the pointy end of his head to push the power button.

Fellow Magic the Gathering artists, workers at Wizards' MTG Arena team need our solidarity and support.

Join me in signing this open letter to Wizards to pressure them into making the right decision and recognize the union voluntarily.

Which side are you on?

https://actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcletter

new blog post from me! https://jacqueline.id.au/agentic-ai/

really happy to have discovered something hiding in plain sight for several years: robyn & rand miller's original Myst pitch document from 1991.

it's a succinct work of art in itself. i'm surprised at how much of the world design was already on paper.

as all of the copies found elsewhere online are heavily compressed webp/jpeg, i've uploaded the robyn's original PNGs to IA here:

https://archive.org/details/myst_proposal

originally from robyn's site:

http://www.robynmiller.net/video-games-films

#digiPres #softwarePreservation #archival #gamedev #myst #cyan

It's less that atom/RSS is "dead", and more that its "done".

The protocol is finished. It works well. It's stable and unremarkable as opposed to trendy.

And to capitalists, that's "dead".

Nothing to hype, no wealth to extract.

EFF joins 18 organizations in writing a letter to UK policymakers urging them to address the root causes of online harm—rather than undermining the open web through blunt restrictions https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/eff-and-18-organizations-urge-uk-policymakers-prioritize-addressing-roots-online

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Free_Press/116522211073876311

"project" - what, like a school project?

I find it such a weird meme that RSS/Atom is dead. Literally every blogging platform has RSS/Atom support. Not just the "indie" ones, even the big corporate ones, like Substack and Medium. Every mastodon account has a built-in RSS feed. Every Bluesky account has a built-in RSS feed. Almost every major news site has an RSS or Atom feed. WordPress automatically produces RSS feeds (and WordPress powers almost half the Web).

RSS and Atom are almost certainly even more ubiquitous than they were in the 2000s, if only because the web has gotten so much bigger than it was back then.

There are more podcasts now than there ever have been, and each of these has an RSS feed.

Every fucking YouTube channel has an RSS feed. In 2005 there were probably fewer than 20 million blogs. Right now there are more than a hundred million YouTube channels.

RSS/Atom is bigger than ever.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116521307476692073

this is insane from multiple viewpoints

Good morning Fedi friends.

When I started my laptop this morning, I found this picture... which was the background image for a slide I used at the #2MR conference in Hamburg.

I may turn it into my wallpaper... a powerful reminder to do good work to promote the Fediverse every day, step by step... 🤗

#FediAdvocacy #TheFutureIsFederated

The coreutils Rust rewrite story is pretty funny.

Coreutils are tools like rm, mv, mkdir, etc. Unlike binutils, this isn't a fertile ground for memory safety bugs. But, the rewrite was completed, and in the spirit of progress, Canonical decided to switch.

But do you know what coreutils are a fertile ground for? Race conditions around file creation, deletion, permission setting, and so on. The original code accounted for decades of hard-learned lessons in that space. The Rust rewrite did not:

https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q2/332

PS. I'm not dunking on Rust. It's just that... starting over from scratch has its hidden costs.

#Denmark built Europe’s cleanest grid. #AI data centres are overloading it. - https://thenextweb.com/news/denmark-data-centre-grid-pause-ai-energy

There are a bunch of folks trying to create 'low emission cows/bulls'... but they're missing the point, at least in Aotearoa: lowering greenhouse gas emissions won't fix the problem of the dairy industry ruining our land and water with nitrogen pollution. We need to halve the herd. There are neither shortcuts nor technological solutions. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/country/594290/outcome-of-research-into-low-emitting-bulls-disappointing