Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Resesarch shows internet availability results in polarised political views, but the fault isn't with the technology. Platforms like Facebook and Xwitter push right wing talking points and suppress others.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aei2409

'There is now a solid body of evidence showing that internet availability is causing a variety of outcomes that adversely affect democracy ...

During the German federal election in 2025, an algorithmic audit of X, TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube found that around half of all party-related content that was algorithmically recommended to young users across platforms involved an extreme-right party, doubling its audience share relative to the content’s original upload rate on TikTok. Center-left parties, by contrast, were suppressed.'

When you're a trusting person just trying to get along and you suspect no evil, without a mental model of the web app bureaucracy, how are you supposed to get the necessary experience?

Tiny click targets that I can't consistently hit, unclear form flows, slow websites, verification processes that don't work if you forget that you had an account already.

I don't see any of this horror in my Luddite bubble of avoiding mass-appeal services and mainstream phones.

#web #accessibility #normies

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We've release #Livi 0.5.0, our light video player for mobile 📼 . It now shows a proper status page when processing a URL (by @tpikonen ) and can (optionally) avoid display notches in landscape mode when the #Wayland compositor sends the necessary information (e.g. #phoc does). It's already updated in #Debian and on #flathub.

#Phosh #LinuxMobile

Pete #Hegseth’s D-day speech on immigration condemned as ‘grotesque stupidity’ - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/07/pete-hegseth-d-day-speech-immigration-grotesque-stupidity "Historians and campaigners accuse US defence secretary of desecrating memory of soldiers who fell in Normandy"

A take I see often online is that it doesn't matter if code is "clean" - readable, simple, decoupled, easy & fast to test - as long as it works.

They're missing the point. Code that's hard to understand, complex, tightly-coupled and hard/slow to test is very likely to break.

There's no tradeoff.

Glad to share a fun weekend project, a powerful #Meshtastic node in a waterproof & rugged case, for use in comms blackout situations/emergencies. It allows for texting across the mesh with a smartphone.

It also has an offline WiFi network serving both the Collapsible wiki, and simple usage instructions.

The solar panel trickle-charges a roomy LiPo that should give more than a week of cover, with phone charge port behind it. Has spare antenna (orange rope is for lifting the baseplate out)

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Can't remember if I've already posted this, and it's worth posting again: Microsoft admits (in effect) that their only path to viability with 'AI' is to make people entirely dependent on it. https://www.404media.co/microsoft-wants-to-make-people-addicted-to-scout-its-new-ai-assistant-internal-documents-reveal/ As some of us have long surmised.

https://www.portlandmercury.com/news/chaotic-middle-school-assembly-underscores-pps-ai-problem/

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With the exodus from big tech social media, people often wonder where they find events for their city or community. The need for community driven/owned event calendars rises and with it people starting one themselves. Nowadays there are a couple of viable technical solutions, but the real question is: How do you get people to use them. In this blog post we reflect on nearly 5 years of building and operating @eintopf@sueden.social We hope this will help others to make their calendar a success. Comments and additions highly welcome.

lauti.org/blog/how-to-commun...

Instagram fixed a flaw that allowed attackers to hijack accounts by manipulating Meta’s AI support chatbot into adding a new email and resetting passwords. 🤖
Researchers verified the attack flow, which bypassed control of the victim’s original email and affected multiple accounts before Meta deployed a fix. 🔐

🔗 https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/01/hackers-hijacked-instagram-accounts-by-tricking-meta-ai-support-chatbot-into-granting-access/

#TechNews #Instagram #Meta #MetaAI #Cybersecurity #AccountSecurity #AI #Hackers #Privacy #Security #Authentication #SocialMedia #Tech #Cybercrime #Infosec

What better way could there be to resist?

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Thinking of the people who worked for NYT Opinion who aren't the beneficiaries of some oligarchs' propaganda ventures. (Me, thinking about myself.) https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/6/5/800050559/cartoon/bari-minutes-2/

#AI #Worm - https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/06/ai-worm.html "The coolest thing about the prototype is that it carries its own LLM with it, and runs it on computers that have been broken into."

One of the things I've noticed about US liberals, is that they seem to be fine with American Imperialism, just so long as there is a Democrat in the White House. The funny things is that both Dems and Repubs will use almost the same excuses for their depredations, and each side buys those excuses just so long as their preferred party is in power. When it's the other side doing the imperialism though, they can sometimes see through the charade. Thus, the atrocity that is providing moral and material support to a genocide only really registers when it's Trump doing it. But if a Democrat happens to be the one who started some imperial project or another, the US liberals will defend it to the last. Ditto for the Republicans and imperialist actions started under their guys. But the reality is that we have a continuity of imperialist agenda running through all administrations. Part of the two party system is getting everyone to support at least some of that agenda.

Sure glad we don't live in China! I hear they don't have free speech over there. Must be terrifying...

"Members of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) were escorted by police out of the convention center in New Orleans during the organization's annual meeting on Friday as they handed out copies of an editorial criticizing Trump administration changes to U.S. biomedical research."

https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/121619

Huge yikes.

Kagi is now partnering with Brave to power its search results — and they seem to be dismissing their users’ concerns regarding this partnership with a company that’s notorious for being led by a proud anti gay rights supporter.

Just as I’ve consistently advised against using Brave’s products, I now advise against using Kagi as long as it contributes to a homophobic business.

There can be no neutral politics when it comes to people’s rights and lives.

https://mspsocial.net/@vkc/111704531526843982

Finance: J Allen Insights | THE CAPEX TRAP: WHY AI’S REAL RISK IS FINANCIAL, NOT EXISTENTIAL

Maybe you have heard the term AI Cap-Ex Trap. What does it mean and why should you care? This guy spells it out nicely. Will try to summarize some key points in this thread.

Bottom line AI data centers are super capital intensive. This is great for NVidea, but the money has to come from somewhere. Right now it comes from "Hyperscalers".

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https://jalleninsights.substack.com/p/the-capex-trap-why-ais-real-risk

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