Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Hello #GetFediHired - I'm back again.

My current contract is coming to an end at the close of June.

I don't suppose anyone knows of any orgs looking for someone with my spikey experience across business operations, cybersecurity and compliance?

I managed to get a software company that had no hope of getting through CE+ previously, through CE+ at the start of the year. And I'm trained as an ISO 27001:2022 internal auditor.

Open to roles in #Cornwall, or remote in the UK.

Thanks for sharing.

The contrast between the number of media requests I got when rich people on a cruise were facing a deadly, but contained outbreak versus now that some of the poorest people in the world are facing a deadly and devastating epidemic is just so so stark and it just really annoys the hell out of me.

The business model of Tinder etc. isn't to find you the love of your life, it's to keep you on their site, making you pay for as long as possible.

The business model of Big AI isn't to solve your problems with the least amount of tokens. It is to keep you close enough to *think* you might soon have the solution while you keep on spending more and more tokens.

Both (and many other services) make their money based on hope, not on results. That's my opinion.

Do you use #Wikipedia, #Wiktionary, #WikimediaCommons, #Wikidata, or other #Wikimedia resources? The #WikimediaFoundation has just disbanded an entire team of staff who work closely with volunteer contributors, coincidentally while some of those same staff have been working to form a union. Volunteers from various projects are planning collective action in solidarity with the workers. On the English-language Wikipedia, this action might include an editorial strike (no new content) or making the wiki read-only. #union #solidarity

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Workers_United

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@jaythvv/116622235875062745

batshit AI crazy Microsoft says AI more expensive than human worker 😂

As this Dutch experience teaches, Aotearoa New Zealand is vulnerable to Big Tech spying on behalf of the USA government.

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2026/05/us-tech-firms-share-dutch-regulator-officials-names-with-senate/

'Companies such as Microsoft and Meta have shared the names of civil servants and academics working on European tech regulation with a senate committee investigating “tech censorship” or “jawboning”, news magazine Vrij Nederland reported on Friday.

The cabinet has described the news as “extremely worrying”, given that the named officials could now face travel bans or even sanctions, Vrij Nederland said.'

Comic inspired by this article: https://www.propublica.org/article/michigan-solar-farms-health-concerns-st-clair-county

This week's comic: The dangers of solar panels

#solar #energy #SolarPower

(Similarly, I might well be criticized for discussing things in relatively idealistic terms, and ignoring how one might be *coerced* into using or promoting AI. I will defend my discussion on idealistic terms, as "AI is bad, don't use it because of this list of reasons" is already a nuanced and complex statement about what one should ideally do. Adding the other layer of constrained choices under capitalistic coercion is another necessary complexity, but a separate and complementary discussion.)

To wit, AI products such as LLMs:

• Are primarily developed under eugenicist philosophies, and primarily financially benefit fascists.
• Are trained on uncompensated and nonconsentual labor.
• Require unconscionable and unsustainable levels of energy and water waste.
• Are used to undermine labor rights, such as the power of artists to say "no" to unconscionable demands.
• Necessarily consolidate and centralize power.
• Present unacceptable risks due to disinformation and other errors.

Our government won't fund anything except new boats for the worst people in the country. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/5/22/800042759/cartoon/slush-fund-sweepstakes/

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#Mentorship #Cybersecurity #CareerGrowth #Community #BlacksInCybersecurity

Revealed: #Palantir’s #NHS tech is ten times slower than current system - https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-palantirs-nhs-tech-is-ten-times-slower-than-nhs-thiel-trump "NHS leaders privately told that “clunky” £330m platform built by Trump donor Peter Thiel’s firm is “slow” and has “poor user experience”, new documents show" it's rubbish

#SpaceX’s IPO Filing Shows Elon’s #Twitter ‘Business Genius’ Was A Fantasy - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/22/spacexs-ipo-filing-shows-elons-twitter-business-genius-was-a-fantasy/

Testing request for Qualcomm devices on Mobian:

We’d appreciate more testing of Linux 6.18 on Qualcomm devices before considering it as the default kernel for testing users.

Relevant packages:

linux-image-6.18-sdm845
linux-image-6.18-sdm670

If you’re running an SDM845 or SDM670 device, please test and report:

boot success/failures
suspend/resume
modem/Wi-Fi/audio/camera status
regressions vs current kernel
stability and battery life

Feedback and test reports are very welcome.

#github #microslop #enshittification #meme

Today, @DAIR is releasing the Luddite Lab Resource Hub. The hub hosts case studies, resources, and political education for unions, labor organizations, and workers who want to fight “AI” and automation at work.

https://labor.dair-institute.org

@GossiTheDog Keep working on sharpening your skills, and pivot to consulting, specializing in fixing AI bullshit.

Here's an example.

A client came to me and said "We need some help debugging some code, we've had a team of four developers working on it for two weeks, and we can't make any progress."

I took a look at it, and while a quick glance seemed to be fairly straightforward, a closer look showed they were sending malformed SQL into one tool, whose output would be a CSV file, and trying to push it into another tool that only accepted XML as input... And some of the command line options they were using for these tools was complete nonsense.

"Where did you get this code?" I asked the project manager...

"Oh, it came from <insert name of LLM here>, and it looked fine!"

I started from scratch, and wrote what they needed in about 6 hours... But they burned 300+ hours on trying to make sense of garbage output, while THEIR customers were stuck waiting for data.

@merospit the bubble can stay unpopped longer than I could stay solvent, at any rate. So now I drive a delivery truck.