Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

#Africa has seen oil shocks before. Why 2026 could be the turning point for clean energy - https://techcabal.com/2026/05/15/africa-has-seen-oil-shocks-before-2026-could-be-the-turning-point-for-clean-energy-in-africa/ "A finance minister who deprioritises a solar project in favour of fuel subsidies today is not making a financially conservative decision. They are making an expensive one, and the fiscal arithmetic now makes that visible."

🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug!!
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Your typical Iranian family, in "Chagrin Falls: Iran"
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Brought to you by the proud and mighty Inner Hive, including long-time member David Trent and new member Olivia B.
You're invited to join us! patreon.com/rubenbolling/membersip
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READ IT RIGHT HERE👇

Now is probably a good time to delete stuff from cloud services that you don't want becoming public.

Software is going to be *less secure* over the coming year, for a variety of reasons: Supply chain attacks; vibe coding; LLMs making vulnerabilities easier to find. (Some of this will resolve with time, but not all of it.)

That means your posts are gonna leak. Google Cloud, dating sites, any messaging service that isn't end-to-end encrypted. If there's anything at all possibly sensitive: Archive it locally and delete it from the server.

@dogzilla
This burn is beautiful. Here with added #alttext

#Hate is on the rise in Britain. We want to tell a different - https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026-05-15/hate-is-on-the-rise-in-britain.-we-want-to-tell-a-different-story "Migrants are under attack by our country’s press, politicians and public. But we’re working to expose the hate economy – and we need your help"

#Israel's response to #rape allegations: threaten the newspaper - https://boingboing.net/2026/05/14/israels-response-to-rape-allegations-threaten-the-newspaper.html "Israel's response appears to be skipping past the whole "investigate the accusations" phase and going directly to threatening the newspaper. Very normal, very confidence-in-the-facts behavior."

@iris_meredith sold out and wrote a marketing quiz that tells you your engineering class, but it has succesfully nerd sniped me: https://deadsimpletech.com/quizzes/whats-your-technical-character-class

And like, that's pretty accurate!

Some people call us “too sensitive.”

But if the lights harm us, they harm us.

Why moralise it?

If the noise overwhelms us. it overwhelms us.

If surprise plans dysregulate us, they dysregulate us.

Expressing needs isn’t a problem.

The problem is being expected to pretend what harms us doesn’t.

I bought a bunch of junk and analyzed the hell of it.
Not computers. #Bike parts.

On my #blog I reveal deepest secrets of Grip Shift:

https://dorotac.eu/posts/grip%20shift

(And now that it's done, what do I do with all that junk?)

#bicycle #mechanics #cycling #reverseengineering #biketooter #fedibikes

Earlier this week, we had the opportunity to get our (nearly 10yo) hound's teeth cleaned. It involves full anaesthetic... Wow. The unexpected side effect: dog breath is *gone*. Her teeth are stunningly white and clean. She seems pretty chuffed about it, too.

Successful move of blogdown/hugo website from GitLab to Codeberg Pages 🎉
https://stragu.codeberg.page/
After much pain figuring out that static files are stored in the "public" directory (which means the Forgejo webhook thingy doesn't work), and then playing with submodules to end up with one main sources repo, and a "pages" submodule that contains the files in that "public" directory.
Not sure the submodule management pain is worth it, maybe I should have done this: https://docs.codeberg.org/codeberg-pages/pushing-output/#manual-pushing

I just emailed a strongly worded letter
to my government representative to oppose Bill C-22.

If you are Canadian, you should too: https://action.openmedia.org/page/188754/action/1

#BillC22 #Privacy #HumanRights #Canada #CanPoli #CndPoli

Big Journalism never fails to demonstrate its fecklessness. As the Democrats (finally!) fight back against the Republicans' attacks on voting, journalists are trotting out their SOP "both sides" framing.

Top-down journalistic reform is impossible. It'll have to be from neighborhoods out.

Trump's campaign to wreck the United States, Exhibit 39,445: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-cost-of-the-gops-medicaid-cuts-er-bills-for-states-and-a-spiraling-oral-health-crisis

The Department of Homeland Security intends to continue its work with Cellebrite, a provider of digital forensics hardware and software tools. “I don’t think people realize just how invasive these mobile forensic tools are,” EFF’s @cooperq told @fedscoop. https://fedscoop.com/dhs-cellebrite-privacy-drones-data-mobile-devices-ice/

Reminder to software developers: You can just *not* use AI.

Yes, even if your company tells you to. There will probably be zero consequences.

(Want to argue with me based on your employer's behavior? That's fine, but I'm talking about the general case. My hunch is that almost all execs will flinch first. Hiring is *hard and expensive*.)

Need to fill out a performance review item? Repeat after me: "I used AI to the fullest extent possible in every task where it seemed likely to be beneficial."

Ok, we've gone even further! Encroaching tech authoritarianism is such a good monitvator 💻 🌱

We've added LaSuite Meet: https://meet.cooperative.computer

And LaSuite Files: https://drive.cooperative.computer/

All accessible through the Co-op Comp Single Sign On: https://cooperative.computer/

All hosted with @coopcloud a commons focussed app hosting ecosystem of high repute ☁️ 🌈

New website coming soon also! Hopefully based on Lichen-markdown: https://git.coopcloud.tech/coop-cloud/lichen.page

For clarity, we explicitly opted out of any sort of arrangement involving 'cuts'/donations, as it would've been too complicated on our side to deal with. If you ask me, we'd probably end up "losing" money in overhead costs from that.

Merch was heavily requested as it is, so we hope this makes it more accessible for you. And hey, you can still donate separately if you want. :) ~n

On May Day, the Trump admin fired a mine safety commissioner & closed the Pittsburgh office of the agency that handles mine safety disputes.

Kim Kelly reports on what that could mean for coal miners already facing black lung, silica dust & dangerous work.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/trump-coal-miners-doge-fmshrc

New stuff on the site!

The crossword is back: https://the-counterforce.org/the-counterforce-crossword-2/

Plus numerous new reviews:
https://the-counterforce.org/tag/reviews/

GLASS DOLLS, LUCKLESS, MASS HALLUCINATION, CELL DETH, POISON RUIN, DEMONSTRATE