Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

“If people are afraid to talk to reporters, we are poorer as a society for it.”

Hope Davis reports on a Chicago landlord’s attempt to silence tenants after a rent strike—and why press freedom experts say the case could have a chilling effect.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/landlord-chicago-tenants-silence-rent-strike

You might've heard it by now: the Linux kernel is so insecure that AI can find many LPEs for them, so we'll be taking this evening to migrate to *BSD.

In all seriousness, although we've mitigated the currently known LPEs via blocking modules, seccomp and sysctl, we still want to run with a kernel that has patched it. We will be doing that this evening. That means that each server will be taken down to boot into the new kernel, and services will be temporarily inaccessible.

#KDE bags €1.3M as Europe realizes it might need an OS of its own - https://www.theregister.com/oses/2026/05/14/kde-bags-13m-as-europe-realizes-it-might-need-an-os-of-its-own/5240562 "Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund backs the desktop project while public sector interest in homegrown alternatives grows"

Trump’s $10 Billion IRS Lawsuit May Become a $1.7 Billion Slush Fund for MAGA’s Self-Proclaimed Victims - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/15/trumps-10-billion-irs-lawsuit-may-become-a-1-7-billion-slush-fund-for-magas-self-proclaimed-victims/

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I'm disappointed. It's past 5pm already, and there's still no fresh #kernel zero-day today.

I always find it funny when someone emails security@ after having performed some deep research against the site and discovered a critical vulnerability... and then asks what our disclosure and reward policy is.

Which is linked from the footer of the main page.

@jonny there is nothing more exhausting than trying to explain to a group of AI-loving supposed leftists that there’s no such thing as an open source LLM and that their beloved local models still have a massive unacknowledged dependency on one or more unethical billion-dollar corporations

I recover a bit of my strength when they run head-on into the local models being torturous garbage to use and end up getting caught trying to pass a cloud LLM’s output off as coming from a local LLM though

K$H Patel has been partying with the Fluke Man, who released more UFO files. https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2026/05/18

All of these large businesses shutting down radio infrastructure... we putting way too many of our eggs in the basket of the internet.

Anybody who has ever lived through a natural disaster can assure you that the internet is _not_ reliable for rescue in an emergency like a fucking radio station is.

Welcome to the post-truth society. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AIslop #truth

@acb my argument against automated checkout is that it isn't automated. It's that it's removing a paid employee and replacing them with me. On top of that, they're now filming my purchases, selling the data, and using a fraction of the profit to pay armed security to check my receipt at the door to make sure I'm doing a good job of filling in for their employees.

@webhat

Be the grumpy asshole the world needs! Traffic in spite! Let the hate flow through you! Especially now that they're laying off developers in favor of their Plastic Pals Who's Fun to Code With. We're about to enter a new age of computer frustration, and they should be nailed to the wall for EVERY BUG.

I think I’m officially giving up and admitting defeat with my moldy clothes. I’m losing my baseline so fast because my caregivers are spending all their time trying to salvage items that probably can’t be salvaged.

It’s almost my entire wardrobe.

The stress of thinking about how to replace it is also tough on my baseline… but I’ve got to tell myself mold is simply not worth the risk. Especially with severe MCAS.

This is another great example of the “crip tax”. If it weren’t for my disability, I wouldn’t need specific types of clothes. I would be able to soak and salvage them myself. I wouldn’t be restricted to only online shopping. I wouldn’t be on a fixed income.

This feels like a disaster, but it’s better than making myself sicker.

Let me know your best suggestions for affordable all cotton clothing (tshirts, zip up sweaters, sweat pants, socks)

#clothing #mold #mcas #disability #chronicillness #ableism #criptax

I wouldn't leap to the conclusion the wait staff *didn't know how* to communicate.

Having worked menial shitty jobs, of which “waitstaff in a typical restaurant” is certainly a prime example: I would find it entirely likely the staff recognised a plausible way to spend a few paid hours *not* under pressure, until either the system was restored or they were told to go home.

The manager might give a shit about losing an evening of business. The wait staff almost certainly don't see that as a downside, certainly not one that counters the upside of a couple hours of peace.

@ColesStreetPothole

😂 So, we just went into a small restaurant that only has about eight tables. Something seemed a bit off. The host came up to us and said they had a momentary power outage, and even though the power had come back on, the Wifi didn't, which means their ordering/payment system was off line, so they couldn't seat anyone.

I said, "What if I paid in cash?"

"We can't open the cash drawer."

"What if I paid the exact amount?"

"We still can't place orders. We can't communicate with the kitchen."

1/2

No you cannot use LLMs to optimize your meetings without alienating the people actually doing work in your group. No you cannot use LLMs to guide your vanguardist international strategy. No you cannot use LLMs for keeping abreast of what your local fascist paramilitary is up to. No you cannot use LLMs to unionize your colleagues. No you cannot use an LLM to promote or coordinate a general strike. No you cannot use LLMs to generate a vague kind of labor currency. Yes using LLMs isolates you from people around you, yes LLMs are antithetical to solidarity with people around you, yes using LLMs corrodes the basis of social cohesion needed for local organizing, etc.

@Tatjna I think the most chilling stuff is later in the piece. "30 per cent of the world’s helium supply: gone. 30 to 50 per cent of fertiliser: gone. Half the planet’s industrial sulphuric acid: gone. Not “supply disrupted.” Not “temporarily off market.” Gone. Blown to fuck by Israeli and American strikes on Iranian processing infrastructure that the Pentagon either didn’t know existed or didn’t care about."

I expected bad, this is worse.

Calling your labor "unskilled" is just a way to justify paying poverty level wages.