Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

The amazing folks at @yunohost are running a fundraising campaign to cover their operating costs for 2026.

I personally make a monthly recurring donation to them but wish I could give more 🥲

If you use their services and you can afford it, please consider donating to their project. Every Euro / Dollar / Yen counts:

🔗 : https://yunohost.org/donate.en.html

#NotAllHeroesWearCapes #SelfHosting #empowerment #resist #YunoHost

When people ask me what the phrase "artificial intelligence" means, my short answer is, it means "venture capitalists, give me some money".

But OUP asked me for a longer answer, given here and summarized in the section headings:

https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197852712.003.0067

Smart glasses with cameras and microphones built-in and facial recognition to come are the latest fad in surveillance tech.

For my blog & newsletter ~ this week in security ~ I wrote about why the backlash against smart glasses — aka "pervert glasses" — is justified from a security and privacy perspective. Please read and share!

More: https://this.weekinsecurity.com/reframing-smart-glasses-as-pervert-glasses/

Sign up/RSS for my weekly newsletter: https://this.weekinsecurity.com

Librarians removing AI from phones and teaching people they have a choice. Not political. Just information literacy, same as fighting book bans. The real work was always about helping people think critically.

https://www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/midcoast/midcoast-culture/maine-librarians-are-helping-patrons-resist-ai-joam40zk0w/

Are you a Wet Bulb or a Dim Bulb? https://www.patreon.com/BrianMcFadden/posts/climate-or-162637186

https://www.firefund.net/espacioflora

Flora is an anarchist social centre in Valparaiso, in the territories dominated by the Chilean state. Comrades there are raising funds to keep the project going. If you've got a few bucks to throw in, please show them some love!

Five reading lists, 50 titles each, tracing what the last two and a half centuries actually built.
Sale runs all thru 8/1. Get 40% off all titles included in the reading lists with code 250 at checkout.
Shop here: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_list&c=277

I just submitted my formal comment on the disastrous proposal to transform essentially all U.S. federal grantmaking--affecting every sector of American science, technology, education, & health--into an overtly partisan political process. Full text here: https://weatherwest.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Daniel-Swain-comments-on-OMB-proposed-rule-changes-July-2026.pdf

WEEKLY PLAYLIST UPDATE💥💥💥
( July 8th 2026 )

Yeah, I’m not great with timing lately, but you know how summer goes... even if the sun forgot this place exists. Anyway, these are the records that have been on heavy rotation these past few weeks. Best way to dig them? Listen to the whole damn release✌️

⛓️Find links here: https://linktr.ee/itsallaboutpunkshow

Gather round for the story of the Very Hungry Data Centre...

🧵(1/4)

#datacentre #ai

“The kids (with phones) are alright – Hi, I'm Heather Burns”

https://heatherburns.tech/2026/07/08/the-kids-with-phones-are-alright/

> the raft of legislation aiming to control what young adults can do with their phones, essentially punishing them for the sins of Big Tech, can put their immediate personal safety at risk from dangers far more violent than algorithms.

Here's an unexpected bit of news... https://linuxiac.com/windows-drops-under-60-in-global-desktop-os-share-for-the-first-time-in-years/ (Windows has fallen below 60% desktop market share, with Linux on the rise)!

The International Olympic Committee has been in a perpetual contest with FIFA, the football governing body, for Most Corrupt status. The IOC is making a bid to outpace FIFA here.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/jul/07/ioc-lifts-suspension-russia-compete-la-2028-olympics

New Jersey judge needs remedial education to understand the First Amendment. He should be removed from the bench for this total abuse of power.

https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/new-jersey-newspaper-ordered-to-unpublish-video-put-under-gag-order/

For those who don't like Amazon, there are other options available: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Mr-Lovenstein-2027-Day-to-Day-Calendar/J-L-Westover/9798881609313

Give yourself a mid-year gift with new EFF swag! Support for as little as $10/month to receive our new Claw Back t-shirt 😼 https://eff.org/summer

It's been about a month and a half since the layoffs, so it's probably time to start trying to #GetFediHired (ideally in a #consulting capacity):

I'm a staff-level software engineer with ~18 years of experience working with teams of all sizes. #PHP is my go-to, but I'm comfortable across the typical web stacks (and a quick learner).

My specialty is automated testing & code quality, and I've given > 100 talks since 2014.

I'm anti-AI, but good at setting up guardrails to protect against slop.

First they destroyed Google Search, now Google Translate.

@Vivaldi has their own, completely Gen AI-free, translation app! A good reason to install Vivaldi!

@davidgerard

https://youtu.be/CvhA4GXQfrA

I just published the first Faircamp 2.0 BETA builds! (ﾉ´ヮ`)ﾉ*: ･ﾟ

Packages for Debian (/Ubuntu/etc.) and Arch (/Manjaro/etc.) are now available.

Download: https://faircamp.org/download.html#beta

Documentation: https://faircamp.org/docs/2.0.0/

Very early release notes: https://faircamp.org/changes/2.0.0/

I will continually extend documentation around the changes in 2.0 over the coming weeks, so for now expect that some things might simply not be explained anywhere yet. You are very welcome to reach out to me and ask about things, this will in fact help me to figure out what people need to know the most! Thank you already!

Although things are fairly stable already, please make backups if you're using this on production data and/or in production environments.

And with that said, enjoy and let me know how it goes! :)

#faircamp