Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116735947449480607

A warning from Elena on W Social & @EUCommission.

Why would an institute like the European Commission ever want to 'rent' a social media account instead of owning their own server is beyond me.
If you're not the owner you do not control your messaging. We cannot verify the validity & authenticity of your message, which is quite important for political institutions I'd say. It can be done correctly, e.g. the Dutch government's social.overheid.nl server.

#Politics #EU #WSocial #SocialMedia

Dear Fedi friends,

Apologies for another toot about #WSocial but I am genuinely shaking right now.

The @EUCommission and its president Ursula von der Leyen have recently migrated their ATproto (Bluesky) accounts to W Social.

I cannot fathom why they would pick a private enterprise whose leaders didn't even have ATproto accounts 3 months ago... and who are so open to having their users' data mined to train European AI models.

My articles on them:

🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/tag/w-social/

Wow. Just wow.

Have you read my friend Rania’s book? It’s really great and I think you’ll enjoy it.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-jinn-daughter-rania-hanna/395cbda157dbdcae

Dogs are a constant reminder that it's possible for one to be noble without being dignified.

The House just passed a bill that would make the Register of Copyrights a presidential appointee. That’s a recipe for making the Copyright Office ultra-political. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/congress-just-rushed-through-disastrous-copyright-office-overhaul

They'd get better ratings than Tony Dookiepill. https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

I wrote on Boing Boing about advances in decoding whale language, and what that might mean about their legal rights.
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https://boingboing.net/2026/06/11/decoding-whale-language-could-unlock-new-legal-rights-for-them.html

Today is the International Day of Solidarity with Long-Term Anarchist Prisoners. For every act of resistance that put them there, we owe them camaraderie. Support them. Write to them. Say their names. Refuse to forget them. Solidarity without end.

This is fine.

https://apnews.com/article/visa-chatgpt-openai-shopping-mastercard-d769dec86344cb4977c98789e8ec492f

🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug
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THEY WALK AMONG US
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patreon.com/rubenbolling/membership
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Why does Amazon, a company valued at two and a half trillion dollars, need to borrow 17.5b from banks for Ai? I saw a quote yesterday - "The entire US economy right now is just 7 companies sending a trillion fake dollars back and forth to each other."

Fresh off bond sale, Amazon borrows $17.5B from banks as Ai spending continues

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/10/fresh-off-bond-sale-amazon-borrows-17-5-billion-from-banks-as-ai-spending-continues/

Leave it to a security state Dem to veto bipartisan pro-labor legislation. This is why we need to get rid of politicians wholesale and replace them with actual representatives, legally obligated to enact the wishes of their constituents (as expressed through some kind of Loomio-type system).

So long as we keep up the dumbass strategy of "elect a Dem and hope they don't stab us in the back," we will keep having outcomes like this. We need a real, small-d democratic alternative to the "vote and pray" model we've grown so accustomed to.

https://paydayreport.com/why-va-labor-movement-missed-the-warning-signs-on-governor-spanberger/

Tried to film a parody vid about "World Cup Tourists Discover American Culture!" content about our camps, but the ICE agents broke my funny bone.

At least 106 data centers are being proposed on or near Native land, according to Honor the Earth.

Indigenous organizers are resisting an AI buildout that threatens water, land, wildlife and sovereignty.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/data-centers-resistance-labor-trump

What has been the result of the attrition against unions in the last half century?

Well, one clear answer seems to be that wages have declined as a share of GDP, which is the background to the ongoing cost-of-living crisis across many countries' workforce(s).

Some might argue the decline of unionisation is a correlation, not a cause, but if so they need to identify other major structural shifts to explain the reduction.

#workers #unions #economics

h/t Ian Hutcheon/LinkedIn (for chart)

“Everywhere Foist Upon Us - The Darth Mall”

https://darthmall.net/2026/everywhere-foist-upon-us/

> Ubiquity and familiarity do not equate to inevitability. The industry is unsustainable both financially and computationally.

This rsync thing has me thinking about the difference between the "free as in beer" model of free software and the "free as in freedom" model the FSF originally put forward. There are important differences, and it's meaningful when a project changes from one model to the other, which is one way to narrativize what's happened to rsync.

I think "free as in beer" software is more appropriately called "Libertarian and Open Source Software", or LOSS. Among other things it involves no obligations on other people, and expects no obligations in return (*). But this means it's an everyone for themselves, anti-communitarian endeavor. We should be honest about this. We should also be honest when a project changes state from FOSS to LOSS, because that's a meaningful change, and actually is a loss in my view.

I continue to believe that enthusiastic embrace of AI/LLM coding tools is a leading indicator of an impending FOSS→LOSS transition.

It seems to me at least one driver of the uproar over rsync is that a bunch of people thought it was a FOSS project but it had, in a short period of time, converted into a LOSS project and the shock was jolting (understandably). As a FOSS project, rsync served a community function, leading people to depend on it, make assumptions about its longer-term stability, and so on. Those are reasonable expectations of a communitarian project. As a LOSS project, rsync is under no obligations to anyone and the maintainer(s) can change the software at any time, for any reason, at their discretion alone. It seems rsync is a LOSS.

#tech #dev #software #SoftwareDevelopment #FOSS #freedom #rsync #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs

(*) Putting aside whether this principle is consistently applied or hypocritical.

I sincerely hope this is not a real proposal and that Hille Melbye Arkitekter have just smoked a little too much crack.

Put a national football stadium right in the city centre of Oslo? No thank you. This is the worst idea I've heard all year.

https://www.aftenposten.no/oslo/i/16V6AW/vil-ha-nasjonalarena-over-oslo-s

#Aftenposten #Oslo #UrbanLiving #Architects #architecture #Football

New blog post: Fixing the R/B swap the right way 🔴🔵

Vivante GPUs always write pixels in BGRA byte order. etnaviv had been fixing that in the fragment shader - until it crashed on scalar outputs. The proprietary blob had a simpler answer all along: just tell the sampler the format is swapped and let the hardware cancel it out.

It deleted more code than it added AND gained 4.7% in glmark2. Then dmabuf broke the closed loop.

https://christian-gmeiner.info/2026-06-10-fixing-the-rb-swap-the-right-way/

#etnaviv #mesa #igalia

I swear I've seen developers with 30 years of experience go from "I can debug a kernel panic blindfolded" to " oh wait, let me ask the AI how to write a for loop" in about 12 months.