Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

🔴 This week’s comic now up on Daily Kos
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Those irrepressible MAGAs do their own science research!
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/7/16/800070468/cartoon/tom-the-dancing-bug-maga-does-its-own-scientific-research/

In Maine, ICE turned grocery runs, school drop-offs and ordinary errands into sources of fear.

In this excerpt from "Breaking ICE," Sonali Kolhatkar reports on the neighbors and organizers who built a community defense movement in response.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/the-people-fighting-back-inside-maines-immigrant-defense-movement

We're excited to see @forgejo releasing v16. We already deployed it to our internal staging environment and have not found any regressions.

We plan to deploy it later today in the evening at 21:00 CEST (19:00 UTC) which requires downtime of around 10 minutes. We'll keep you updated in this thread.

The FSFE turned 25 this year!! Hurrah for a quarter century promoting and defending #SoftwareFreedom 🙌
Check out our timeline with our key achievements since 2001: https://fsfe.org/about/timeline/

#FreeSoftware

Die neue PUNX.social website ist online!
https://punx.social

Sie soll als Anlaufpunkt für alle dienen, die sich für das Fediverse interesieren oder aber #neuhier sind.

Bitte verbreitet die frohe Kunde vor allem außerhalb des Fediverse, also auf Facebook, Insta, TikTok, Twitter, Bluesky oder wo immer ihr seid.

#punk @punk #fediverse #punkstodon #punktube #PUNKdotPHOTOS #fediverse101

Working on a brand new post for my series "a newbie's guide to self-hosting with #YunoHost" - showing people how to set up their own #GoToSocial microblogging instance.

Sorry it's been taking a while: I started over when I realized most people use subdomains... and I'm doing a thorough step-by-step explainer that any newbie could follow - I hope 😅

#SelfHosting #MySoCalledSudoLife #blog

On 10 March 2021, I had only just fallen asleep when my phone started buzzing. Then another notification, and another. In a matter of minutes, 142 of my servers went up in the clouds. And not the cloud-computing kind.

Most of them were physically going up in a column of smoke in Strasbourg.

My wife looked at me and asked if I wanted a coffee. I nodded. It was going to be a very long day.

At EuroBSDCon 2026, I won't be giving a theoretical lecture on high availability. Instead, I’m going to tell the raw story of that night: the emergency recovery, the architectural choices that actually saved us, and the ones that crumbled under pressure (because we rarely talk about what fails).

Most of all, I’ll explain why that night changed my perspective, and why I’ve come to see BSD systems not just as operating systems, but as essential, practical tools for building simpler, more resilient infrastructure.

The official schedule is now live. If you want to hear a real-world post-mortem, join me on Saturday, 12 Sept at 11:15 (Room D.0.02).

EuroBSDCon Full schedule: https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/schedule/
See you there! ☕️

#FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonFlyBSD #RunBSD #EuroBSDCon #SysAdmin #SelfHosted #IT #EuroBSDCon2026 #BSDCon

This is fucking masterful and exactly how DHS should be dealt with.

Good on ya, lady.

#USPolitics #FuckICE #KnowYourRights

A Troubling Milestone: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/15/a-troubling-milestone-most-supreme-court-rulings-are-secretive-votes-with-little-justification/ invisible justice is no justice #scotus

"LLMs have democratized software development!"

No, LLMs have democratized dependency.

The frontier labs are using the same playbook as drug dealers. Give everyone cheap access to a replacement brain until individuals, businesses, and entire industries are dependent on it for their very existence, then jack up the prices and watch society burn.

#Forgejo 16.0.0 was just released! This is a security release.

We recommend that all installations are upgraded to the latest version as soon as possible.

Check out the release notes and download it at https://forgejo.org/releases/. If you experience any issues with this release, please report to https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues.

#forgejorelease

Guerrilla London Bus Ads Mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta Glasses Campaign https://hyperallergic.com/guerrilla-london-bus-ads-mock-kylie-jenners-meta-glasses-campaign/

Right-to-repair people are celebrating what they claim is a pathbreaking agreement by John Deere, the rapacious and unethical tractor maker, to stop monopolizing repairs. Matt Stoller says it all may be yet another scam on farmers (and the rest of us): https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/youll-own-nothing-and-be-happy-why

Just a reminder, as smoke from wildfires covers the Northeast US. https://inthesetimes.com/article/santa-marta-colombia-climate-change-fossil-fuels

Just to give an idea how LLM nonsense is affecting #Wikipedia, perhaps a quarter of threads on ANI, the Administrators' Noticeboard for Incidents, involve LLM use—either crap articles generated by LLMs, or people using LLMs to write extremely wordy, unhelpful replies to concerns about their behaviour.

That's a huge externality right there - whatever uses AI tech has, it has enabled a DDoS attack on the hardworking volunteers trying to maintain the commons-based project the damn LLMs trained on.

You know something? The reason so many developers have gotten taken completely in by LLMs is actually the same reason so many CEOs have: LLMs flatter the ever-loving shit out of you, and a lot of software engineers have egos the size of a planet.
That's it. The robotic yes man is a highly addictive drug to people who are wanting to be told they're smart and clever and right about everything.

"In a burning world we need to hold ourselves and each other to a higher standard. “Useful” is far, far from being good enough."

https://tante.cc/2026/07/15/useful-is-not-sufficient/

For context: longships, the famous old Norse ships famous for Viking rowing, were coastal. So, the famous Viking raidres were largely local settlers robbing and murdering their neighbours. The ocean-traversing ships, knarr, primarily used sails. The Norse who crossed to Iceland and North America did not row there.

@mcfadden They actually enshittified diarrhea jokes. Quite an achievement.