Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

For everyone relying on the #libcamera softISP for camera support[1] and experiencing camera freezes during video calls in browsers: a fix[2] for a very common issue has now landed in #libwebrtc and is already shipping #firefox nightly as well stable FF packages in #fedora 44 and #postmarketos edge.

So if you previously couldn't do e.g. #jitsi calls - now you probably can.

1. notably newer Intel and QCom laptops and many #linuxMobile devices
2. https://webrtc-review.googlesource.com/c/src/+/491680

Hi blog writers: You don’t have to attach a unique image for every blog post, and you *certainly* don’t need to use #AI to generate an image for every blog post. You may think AI-generated images make your posts more attractive, but you are mistaken; they are doing the opposite: they make your posts more *repulsive* to a good number of potential readers. If I see an AI-generated image in the preview, I won’t click through to read your post, and I certainly won’t read the rest of your blog.

#photography question:
Do #macro converters reduce quality a lot?

Vignetting, blurring, chromatic aberration? I'm kinda weak on #optics this advanced.

I wonder if I should buy one. I already have an extension ring but attaching it is a bother.

Are converters sensitive to optics quality? Used cheapo or 3 times the price for the original #Olympus MCON-P01?

Shame that there's no superzoom lens with macro in #MFT :P

#askfedi

I truly, genuinely hate what Apple is doing to the UX of its platforms. Beyond the ongoing decline of autocomplete, they’ve changed something about how buttons work on iOS so now I regularly trigger button presses when I try to scroll on both the iPad and iPhone.

(Don’t come at me with ‘but Android’. I’ve tried Android. In my experience, their UX is even worse.)

Okay, writers.

If you proudly proclaim that you're using AI in your writing, I will at the very least MUTE you.

If I feel especially grumpy, I will BLOCK you.

I'm not giving time, access and content to people undermining my work.

If you cannot understand that AI is destructive, toxic and fascist, you don't deserve my attention or participation in anything you do.

@davidgerard wanna see all these "FOSS" projects that adopted pro-AI policy lose all of their contributors. also would love to see AI boosters ousted from FOSS spaces, especially since I was ostracized for my anti-LLM stance. only let them back in after a full, sincere apology, and reparative actions for the harm they've done to our communities.

it won't happen, but it would be nice 🤷

RE: https://disabled.social/@3TomatoesShort/117137455673341059

A good basic rule of thumb is that things that are involuntary (disabilities, deformities, natural appearance differences, illnesses, trauma effects ect) should never be the basis of an insult. Focus on the shit things people choose to do

@ChrisMayLA6 except, there's no such thing as unskilled labour. All labour requires a level of skill.

Residents in Gary, Indiana have been without power for nearly two weeks

Many are under a boil water advisory, which is nearly impossible without electricity

Thousands without power or safe water… and it’s barely a blip on the news

The richest country in the world is choosing to let people suffer

Please remember to check on the disabled and elderly … they are the first to die during catastrophic events like this

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/whats-going-on-in-gary-how-residents-are-still-without-power-nearly-two-weeks-later/3978350/?amp=1

#gary #indiana #uspol #disability #poverty #ableism

China joins Europe in scrapping Windows for Linux https://piefed.social/c/technology@piefed.social/p/2303851/china-joins-europe-in-scrapping-windows-for-linux

With #ICC sanctions, Trump wants to make the world safe for war criminals - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/21/icc-sanctions-trump-war-criminals "The US is engaged in a lawless quest to protect American and Israeli officials" #shameful

Aaaaaaa, noAI DuckDuckGo is only letting me block 5 sites per query! And the entire first page is slop!

@moonglum that's why Gerrit is the only correct way to use Git. Thank you, I won't be taking questions.

They really are coming for us, friends. Be aware, be prepared.

https://labornotes.org/2026/08/federal-spies-hunt-minnesota-unions-search-conspiracy-find-solidarity

I may need to unfollow the postmarketOS hashtag due to a weird flood of negative doom posting about it not being ready to fully replace Android yet. I know people are worried about Android locking down app development and such, but don't take that out on one of the few projects trying to remove Google and Apple's dualopoly :( Complaining can't make development faster.

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Bea Lumpkin was already a seasoned labor organizer when she became a teacher at 47.

She was also a mother, mathematician, feminist and lifelong communist.

Stacy Davis Gates remembers a woman whose life was too expansive to fit into any one political label.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/bea-lumpkin-obituary-chicago-ctu-rest-in-power-antifa-antifacism-activist-communism

#AI is making #Africa’s cheapest #smartphones harder to afford - https://techcabal.com/2026/08/20/ai-is-making-africas-cheapest-smartphones-harder-to-afford/ the poor suffer just to make the rich richer...

Is anyone running a matchmaking service to pair recently-retired programmers with open source projects that need maintainers?

the thing is, when companies insist on making software worse and worse and worse, “this makes no sense and i’ve never had to do it before” stops being the first line of defense against low-effort bullshit like this: https://bird.makeup/users/moonlock_com/statuses/2088010016926109872

you know what else companies never insisted on until they did? sharing phone numbers for multi-factor auth. completing at least one motherfucking captcha every time you want to view a website. or, alternatively, watching a strange catgirl fill a progress bar or complain that your browser won’t accept cookies every time you want to view a website. having a microsoft account to install windows. agreeing to have your whole-ass face scanned to, again, view a fucking website. being asked to set up something called a “passkey” even though you just signed in with your fuckin’ pass*word* and a code you retrieved from an app that generates these funny six-digit keys but always makes it so you have enough time to view a key but not enough time to be confident it’s going to be valid when you copy it so you have to wait for the next one to be generated.

“$COMPANY would never ask you to do $STUPID_BULLSHIT” only works if you aren’t living in the era of every company asking the people unfortunate enough to still use their products to constantly do stupid bullshit.