Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

We're not buying what Silicon Valley's selling. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/7/24/800074512/cartoon/silicon-schlock-market/

Attn: Starbucks workers and customers

https://www.prismnews.com/workplace/starbucks/starbucks-workers-raise-alarm-over-silica-in-new-blended

i have put tens of thousands of hours into FLOSS over the years, at least. i have released hundreds of projects under FLOSS licenses, all hand written by me (and sometimes other contributors). I've done the time, I've worn my values on my sleeve and I've learned a thing or two about software development in the process.

I'm even prepared to go out on a limb here and say I care about FLOSS software more than every single one of these shitheads who are telling us we should just embrace the new era of buggy unmaintainable shit.

If they were really on the side of FLOSS, they'd be looking at what happens if the bubble pops. I mean it is going to pop, but they will never accept that, so let's leave it open. What do you do when your FLOSS software has hemorrhaged quality and become unmaintainable junk? And what of the unsettled legal status of generated code and the copyright concerns?

The FLOSS movement has weathered storms before and it will weather this one. But I think it's clear that we've got a lot of work to do building slop free replacements for the shit that's being contaminated in the meantime by the metaphorical asbestos.

I appreciate how helpful these shitty websites are reminding me to delete my account by updating their shitty terms and playing M&A games.

if you have access to debian-vote, please for the love of all gods vote Proposal A to ban the use of LLMs in #Debian packaging tools
https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002

"Misogyny and homophobia are central to the reproduction of violence in radical activist communities. Scratch a misogynist and you’ll find a homophobe. Scratch a little deeper and you might find the makings of a future informant (or someone who just destabilizes movements like informants do). "

Why Misogynists Make Great Informants
How Gender Violence on the Left Enables State Violence in Radical Movements - Courtney Desiree Morris

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/courtney-desiree-morris-why-misogynists-make-great-informants

@eclecticpassions I don't have a more eloquent explanation that Codeberg's own post, but I do have:

- hours spent defending my own server instead of creative pursuits.

- legacy GitHub projects where it's no longer worth sifting through slop to find the genuine PRs.

- the alienation of trying to exchange ideas with other developers and realizing I'm talking to a bot.

FOSS in 2026 is miserable, and Codeberg is taking positive action to fix it.

It's fascinating reading people cry "CENSORSHIP" about Codeberg's LLM policy when the whole thing about #Codeberg is that it's a medium-sized nonprofit forge designed so anyone can host it themselves under free licences.

This is not the State incarcerating you for your opinions, it's an association of people deciding where their limits are.

Do they expect people to open their doors so they can ransack their pantries as well? The Open Source Entitlement Complex runs deeper than I imagined :(

“The Spiral — cobbles”

https://dotart.blog/cobbles/the-spiral

> We know the personality isn't an ally anymore, and perhaps they never really were.

AI in Linux, https://drewdevault.com/blog/AI-in-Linux/.

Can’t agree more.

#linux #ai #llm

Debian has a new general resolution to ban LLM use in Debian packaging: www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002

“Who Is Ed-Tech For?”

https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/who-is-ed-tech-for/

> But here, as with so much of ed-tech (and arguably almost all of “AI”), we can see that this effort really only works for the company itself.

Musk's Tesla modified contracts with customers -- without the customers' permission -- long after they were signed. How does this differ from outright fraud? https://electrek.co/2026/06/03/tesla-retroactively-modified-fsd-contracts-supervised/

RE: https://dair-community.social/@alex/116977123749133116

I was a 911 dispatcher for a decade.

To really understand how absolutely terrible an idea it is to have AI answer 911 calls, I'll present you with a single real-life call:

Upon answer, the caller calmly began ordering a pizza. Large, pepperoni. Side order of chicken wings. To be delivered promptly.

The only sign the caller gave that things were amiss? She rather ignored the first few questions from the calltaker.

Because she was being physically abused, had already been beaten, and her abuser was *IN THE ROOM* listening to her order pizza.

Tell me how your AI is going to read between those lines.

Plexfiltration update: the AI work zone compliance tool has started emailing me thousands of pictures from a (I think) Saudi industrial facility again, to my internaluser.com domain. #infosec

I hold onto the hope that descendents of European colonisers, Native Americans, enslaved Black people and immigrant cultures can find a way to live in peace and justice. Where and how we do this is still an open question. Moving our society towards that future, in whatever way we can, is the responsibility of everyone who calls themself American.

📚 Culture doesn’t have to be censored to disappear. 🕳️

Sometimes all it takes is an expired license. 📼💿

In THE POLITICAL THREATS OF VANISHING CULTURE AND THE NEED TO PROTECT OUR FUTURE MEMORY, Michael Menna and Lila Bailey argue that preserving our shared memory has become one of the defining political challenges of the digital age. 🏛️

📖 Read or download the paper ⬇️
https://journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/article/id/9287/

#VanishingCulture #memoryhole

New, by me: The Justice Department is prosecuting an American for allegedly providing U.S. border agents with a "duress" passcode that wiped the contents of his phone when they entered it. We've confirmed the phone was running GrapheneOS.

Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/us-accuses-american-of-allegedly-wiping-his-phone-using-a-duress-password-during-border-search/

Bypass for ad-blockers: https://web.archive.org/web/20260724175443/https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/us-accuses-american-of-allegedly-wiping-his-phone-using-a-duress-password-during-border-search/

if you don't like crypto you're transphobic is the new if you don't like plagiarism machines you're ableist

or the other way, perhaps: i'm sure i've heard that one from crypto grifters before crypto collapsed.