Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Do you like bumping your music a little loud? Cops are searching Flock Safety ALPR data to investigate noise complaints. The creeping use cases keep getting more absurd. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/more-license-plate-reader-mission-creep-school-residency-verification-background

🦩 #StateoftheMapUS2026 is only a few weeks away!

There's still time to meet us in Madison: https://openstreetmap.us/events/state-of-the-map-us/2026/

#OpenStreetMap #OSM #CityofMadison #MadisonLocal #MadisonWI #MadisonWisconsin #VisitMadison #MadisonLife #opendata #maps #cartography #GIS

The below was shared on Threads by someone I know talking to an engineering leader friend.

AI-driven layoffs in tech are now a fad similar to jumping on blockchain or NFTs. The rationale is if the big tech companies with smart CEOs are doing it then why aren't you doing layoffs because of AI?

@arstechnica y'all spelled "oligarchy" wrong.

Nobody's angry at the tech itself, we're angry at the power and opportunity that our overlords are stealing from us with their tech.

It's not about the tech, much of which we fucking built, it's about the power and opportunity loss.

You know, if the feds are worried about this they actually could do something to address the blow-back:

- They could improve workers' rights, and staff the NLRB with individuals who will protect worker rights
- They could end their push to prohibit state regulation of AI tech
- They could regulate digital surveillance companies so Flock employees stop watching little girls practice gymnastics without their knowledge and consent
- They could implement a wealth tax, and use that to offset the economic losses of folks displaced by AI

But no, they're just going to spread FUD and create the pretext to suppress dissent.

🔴 Brand new comic now up on Boing Boing
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🧠 Dementia Donnie settles with himself and grabs all the Teddy Grahams!
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https://boingboing.net/2026/05/27/tom-the-dancing-bug-dementia-donnie-settles-with-himself-and-grabs-all-the-teddy-grahams.html

if you are a parent in the US, do you have a plan for how your kid goes to college without taking on a lot of debt, do you believe he or she has a high probability of an economically secure future if the child does go to college, are you confident housing and health care will be affordable?

“Direct action gets the goods.” From hotel workers to machinists to postal workers, sabotage has long been part of labor history—often funny, disruptive and rooted in workers knowing the job better than the boss.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/when-sabotage-carried-the-union-label

Privacy and freedom are non‑negotiable. As governments and Big Tech fuse power, we build devices and free software that put control back where it belongs: with you.

https://puri.sm/posts/purisms-product-philosophy-in-an-age-of-government-big-tech-convergence/

#privacy #DigitalFreedom #OpenSource #security #FOSS #PureOS

STAT is seeking an ambitious and intellectually curious reporter to cover one of the defining issues in medicine, science, and public health today: declining trust in science. https://www.statnews.com/careers/stat-reporter-trust-in-science/

Bad news: Performance on Codeberg is still slow. We're seeing a lot of abusive cloning and crawling and have limited the ability to clone for several minutes to investigate the situation.

We're still investigating the situation and taking respective countermeasures. We try to keep the impact on legitimate usage as small as possible.

Good news: We have addressed recent SSH performance degradation by replacing linear parsing of the authorized_keys file with a custom AuthorizedKeys command.

This is what GitHub and GitLab have been doing for years, and we have grown to a size where this has become necessary for us as well.

The cause for the degradation was still abusive patterns, as connections without valid key take more resources (scanning the file to the end) than legitimate users (scanning is stopped after match).

Senate elections are a spectator sport for like 75% of the country, unless you're rich, then you can participate in all of them.

California may let Linux bypass age check - https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/05/26/california-may-let-linux-bypass-age-check/5246575 "Exemption in amendment offers relief to open source software makers"

Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for #Wikipedia - https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943 this is crazy

🚨 New post alert 📝

A deep dive into #WSocial with some fascinating findings: candid statements about their motives, a Greta Thunberg connection, potential AI plans (!!!)

Why write about it again? I still had so many questions after publishing my first article.

I spent 3 weeks watching every interview I could find and connecting the dots.

I hope you'll enjoy this piece:

🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-untold-story-about-w-social-unconventional-beginnings-strategic-pitches-conflicting-signals/

#blog #longread #privacy #DataMining #Europe

Last year, I shared an article from a friend about "Artificial Innovation", where they wrote about an extremely embarrassing AI startup pitch competition, where most of the products were transparently fake to the professional eye: https://4u.lol/writing/artificial-innovation

They're running the same event this year, and it's being livestreamed in 15 minutes, and if it's like last year you can blast panelists with awkward questions if you catch them lying:

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/2026-ai-for-good-innovation-factory-australia-tickets-1988481328181

Godspeed, friends.

"Dear passengers, the German border police are now starting passport checks"

I'm being prevented, from sleeping in a night train within the fucking Schengen Zone, at a border which had the sloppiest of border checks even back in the 198P's before Austria even joined the EC.

What the fuck is this security theater supposed to achieve? Do they notice just how hard they are giving the finger to one of the EU's biggest achievements?

if you had the power to ban children under 16 from one thing and one thing only what are you going for?

#UKPol #Poll #BoostsWelcome

You might have noticed that SSH connections are no longer being served at the moment.

As part of our investigation into the most recent slowness of Codeberg (which usually results in 504s being given), we have temporarily stopped those. This confirms a suspicion of ours that SSH connections have become, for whatever reason, heavy on the CPU.

We will resume serving SSH connections with a smaller queue to preserve the availability of Codeberg.

Identifying People Using Wi-Fi Routers - https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/05/identifying-people-using-wi-fi-routers.html "Not identifying people based on their use of Wi-Fi routers, but identifying people using Wi-Fi signals." #privacy #surveillance