Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I put in 25+ years of "REPUBLICANS SUCK!," and 10+ of "THIS ONE GUY IN PARTICULAR REALLY SUCKS!," so unless you hear otherwise, assume I disapprove of today's evil shit.

Announcing a Community Call with Kollicloud and CooperativeCloud.tech

While many people think their only option is to depend on BigTech for collaborative workspaces and communication tooling, there are in fact many alternatives.

Apps for filesharing, calendering, contacts and for email. Or apps to work in agile mode, to run your projects with powerful Kanban boards for decentralised teams. Instant messaging and chat that are decentralised, so people can connect with one app to all their diverse organisations and communities they belong to.

Tech based in solidarity, commoning, security and privacy, instead of extractivism, monopolies, distopian futures, injustice and surveillance.

#CooperativeClouds #DigitalCommons #DemocraticTech

@nest If you ask a person what they think AI is good at you will get a very honest listing of everything the person is bad at.

As previously reported, among the candidates for the Swedish elections in September, my party The Left has the largest number of librarians, and the fascists have none.

Today we learn that the Left leads in museum, archive and heritage professionals too. But that the fascists actually have close to the median number of candidates from these professions.

https://magasink.se/2026/05/tre-museichefer-kandiderar-till-valet-i-host/

#svpol #museums #archives #archaeology

Liebe FOSS-Community, die angespannte Lage in der IT-Wirtschaft führt dazu, dass viele unserer Partner dieses Jahr keinen Stand buchen. In Folge fehlt uns Budget für die Konferenz, u.a. für Veranstaltungstechnik, Messewände, Vortragsstreaming, Kinder- und Jugendprogramm, Helfer:innen-Verpflegung, Transportkosten, Versicherungen

Wir suchen insbesondere Konferenzpartner und auch noch einen Kaffeepartner 😭

Hilf uns die FrOSCon am Leben zu erhalten: https://froscon.org/en/cfp/cfpartners/

So I’ve just had a quick play with this and yes, it works. Essentially BitLocker has a backdoor. https://github.com/Nightmare-Eclipse/YellowKey

Mitigation = BitLocker PIN and BIOS password lock.

I wish everyone was as clear-eyed about LLMs and generative AI as this person from the knitting community is: https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2026/04/29/knitting-bullshit/

“The public will be astonished to learn that in the British justice system a protester can now be convicted of criminal damage for disrupting an arms factory and then be sentenced as ‘terrorists’ without having been convicted of terror charges and with this having been kept secret from the jury.”

#UKPol #Protest #PalestineAction

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/12/palestine-action-activists-elbit-protest-terrorist-connection-ruling

Any web #hosting company will rent you space on their servers.

At Henhouse Computing Cooperative, you *own* the server.

You also get a vote in how the service is run and share of any profits.

Now taking beta testers at https://henhouse.coop.

To keep people connected during internet shutdowns & blackouts, communication networks must be operational before and after the disaster or shutdown. To be effective, they must be widespread so that people can get access to them reliably, and they must be usable by a majority of the community. (2/9)

Permission to Pollute - https://corporateeurope.org/en/2026/05/permission-pollute "#EU rips up permit rules and funds dirty infrastructure" shameful stuff

Gitlab about to go to shit

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/

The DOJ's subpoenas of The Wall Street Journal are a direct threat to the public’s right to know, and the Journal is correct to fight them.

Read our statement:

https://freedom.press/issues/national-security-lies-fuel-wall-street-journal-probe/

Hello #Fediverse,

I'm looking for privacy-friendly and secure #job boards in Europe 👀

Alternatives to platforms like #LinkedIn, #Xing, or #StepStone that respect user data and avoid excessive #tracking?

Any recommendations for #GDPR-friendly, EU-hosted services? 🙏

Does anyone have any suggestions or experiences to share?

#privacy #jobs #europe #jobsearch #jobboard #jobboerse #jobsuche #alternative #europeanalternative

Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools
Workers are using an internal AI tool to automate non-essential tasks
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/amazon-employees-are-tokenmaxxing-due-to-pressure-to-use-ai-tools/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

AI: Would you like me to summarize this video on YouTube for you?

Me: Absolutely. I totally go to YouTube to not watch videos!

#Forgejo 15.0.2 and 11.0.14 were just released! They are security releases.

We recommend that all installations are upgraded to the latest version as soon as possible.

Check out the release notes and download it at https://forgejo.org/releases/. If you experience any issues with this release, please report to https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues.

#forgejorelease

Will AI & its associated technologies turn everyone into gig workers, with performance heavily monitored & dynamic pricing imposed on wages tonsure 'efficiency' for their employers? Indeed, perhaps for many this world is already upon us.... If AI doesn't take your job, its going to take your (relative) autonomy!

There is no good news here for most of us, just more control & exploitation of one sort or another...

#AI #technology #workers

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/11/ai-worker-control-surveillance