Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I am gonna be honest, I have a really hard time seeing how the status quo of the mid 2000s and before of small time proprietary software shops was “worse” than what we have now. What has “open source” amounted to? Well…

1. Free labor for corporations. In web-based apps, you can simply use even GPL-based code for free without reciprocal releases.

2. Grist for the LLM training mill

3. Killing the ability of small time software developers to make money on their own

fail2ban doesn't work, anubis is about to stop working, and the companies doing this are more likely to be fly-by-night Chinese operations than OpenAI or Anthropic. (That's not to say that OpenAI or Anthropic are not doing scummy and criminal things in search of data, but they're not doing _this_.) Which means that the financial collapse of the US AI bubble is unlikely to make a dent, even if it happens soon.

A _lot_ of websites are about to go dark.

ya know i was specifically wondering what joey hess would make of this debian LLM bullshit, his response is what i expected

https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/Debian_and_the_sirens/

“Come Up to the Lab and See What's on the Slab”

https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/come-up-to-the-lab-and-see-whats-on-the-slab/

> We’re never going to support a human-centered education if we’re all so busy centering machines as the mission of our efforts.

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Rabies is 100% fatal if untreated.

Please help spread the word about the exposure at the Farm Adventures mobile petting zoo in North Carolina.

The vaccine is incredibly effective and will save your life.

Also…. Rabies at a petting zoo!?!?

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/four-baby-goats-mobile-petting-zoo-north-carolina-test-positive-rabies-rcna594981

#rabies #publichealth #uspol #northcarolina #vaccines

@alpinefolk Yes. It’s also sad to think that the local councils had built a plan during the last government's term to connect up these towns with light rail connected to hubs with frequent bus services.

“The design phase was set to begin later in 2024, if it gets government approval”

Then NZ went backwards to cars, cars, cars again.

https://www.odt.co.nz/canterbury/christchurch/canterbury-councils-team-up-to-secure-rapid-public-transport-qvjy0vvi

Bad news: Orbiting mirrors could wreak havoc on circadian rhythms, animal navigation and entire ecosystems.

Good news: Your company’s midnight retreat will be unforgettable.

Jen Sorenson illustrates the possibilities.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/selling-the-sun-comic-capitalism-subscription-jen-sorensen

If you are cooler than your moist surroundings you may be entitled to condensation.

Being aware of any potential privacy risks is an important part of the decision to use any software, and that includes AI tools. https://ssd.eff.org/module/privacy-considerations-with-ai-tools

This week's comic on the folly of triangulating with oligarchs

#comic #cartoon #voting #uspol #oligarchy #democrats #elections #authoritarianism #corruption

The year is 2027, I am sitting in a high-security prison because I made art.

Maybe folks will stop asking me why I don’t shop at Target anymore?

https://people.com/target-pulls-clown-halloween-costume-after-backlash-says-we-got-this-wrong-in-apology-note-12067080

"Friggin Go Away Nazi Freaks"
Covering up fash propaganda in Penrith, NSW

These are all jokes, but so are the Democrats running against Hasan Piker instead of actual fascist Republicans. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/8/28/800090062/cartoon/democrats-midterm-messaging/

A crawler wanted to know who talks to whom on our server

https://www.martinmuc.de/blog/crawler-who-follows-whom/

it sure is weird how having anyone associated with Palantir or Anduril or any of the companies whose purpose is making software that kills (“are you ok with your software being used to kill people” is a standard Palantir interview question, no I’m not kidding) in an open source project always leads to control over key parts of the project being yielded to untalented right-wing stooges, an exodus of core maintainers due directly to the actions of the Palantir/whoever plants, and a barely functioning project overall

there’s lots and lots and lots of nontechnical reasons to not allow fascists who write software for murder in your project, but uhhh the technical end ain’t looking good

if you don’t believe me you can look at Rust, NixOS, and neovim

no I won’t just tell you what happened to these projects. what happened was public and loud, and you weren’t paying attention. it’s time for you to learn what a fascist takeover looks like and what happens when it works.

@mirabilos @ska @lanodan Wow.

As I read this (please correct me if I'm wrong) the Debian project secretary Kurt Roeckx is an AI pusher, accepted late slop-generated options to the ballot, and accepted slop code into the voting software. All during a vote on whether to accept slop.

Bonkers level of corruption/conflict-of-interest.

“Six Problems With Talking About the “Ethical” or “Responsible” Use of “AI” • Buttondown”

https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/six-problems-with-talking-about-the-ethical-or/

> Part of what makes that middle ground untenable and uncomfortable is that it requires carrying water for these clearly bad actors.

RE: https://mas.to/@gabrielesvelto/115870600113381144

Re-boosting this now that xAI is being taken to court by victims whose images have been used for training and they've got proof they're keeping them in their training set.

This isn't just Grok, it's just the worst of them because they decided it was OK to have pedophiles for customers.

This is all image generators. No wonder they don't disclose what's in their training sets. They don't care how many times they're going to re-victimize a survivor as long as they can profit from it.