Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Software selection checklist:

- does it do the thing?
- is it secure?
- is it user friendly and accessible?
- is the project secretly hiring a violent serial abuser or openly employing a creep?
- do they have fascists on the payroll?
- do they funnel money to or from fascists?

seriously people, fill out that “about us” page and if your team is anonymous, abide by a contributor covenant/code of conduct and say so!

Announcing https://keepitfree.ai

Many things happened since August 26, 2026, when the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) at the US Department of the Treasury included us in their list of “Specially Designated Global Terrorists” (SDGT). This is just the beginning.

We have now created a dedicated space to document what has been unfolding since August 26, to empower our unpredictable, chaotic and magnificent solidarity network by keeping it up to date with the consequences of the US government designation and our responses.

Read the full announcement on https://keepitfree.ai/announcements/announcing-https/keepitfree.ai/

#KeepItFree #AutisticiInventati

"The community must be the author of its own world."

In the latest from our speculative essay series, Adio envisions a future in which a Zimbabwean community rejects an AI surveillance program and instead designs a cattle-tracking system, drawing upon the relational data governance it has practiced for generations.

https://dair-institute.org/blog/whose-categories-whose-ai/

The thing to remember about Proton repeatedly making terrible choices is that it has been entirely unforced; they could have just quietly accumulated users, focused on building a sustainable business, and so forth.

But no, Andy Yen had to have more, and here we are, with them sponsoring far-right YouTubers.

Please stop giving them new business, and reconsider your own usage.

https://chaos.social/@slothrop/116704333247257385

See also this thread;

https://ngmx.com/@sindarina/116180933465739491

And this post;

https://ngmx.com/@sindarina/115195928506761246

There's plenty of evidence for them being a terrible choice, at this point. Stop recommending them as a viable alternative.

RE: https://ngmx.com/@sindarina/116709031951218795

Since the Proton fanbois are out in force again after 1Password's latest problematic decision, a reminder that they have an even longer documented history of bad decisions.

Find something that isn't Proton, when looking for alternatives, and skip that Medium post the apologists like to link to.

#1Password #Drop1Password

The path to a murderous eugenicist in charge of your health department starts, very often, with innocuous-seeming posts about scary "chemicals" and preferring "natural" and therefore inherently "healthy" ingredients in food and medicine.

It inevitably ends with ceding the definition of "natural" to someone who will twist it to explain that certain people don't deserve to live or thrive since they can only do so with "artificial" or "chemical" help. This is what RFK, Jr. is doing in the US right now, and EU friends, if this is what one of your official accounts is posting, you are in urgent danger of it happening to you, too.

Brian Krebs found his own driver's license for sale on a Russian crime forum this week. The timestamp on the scan matched the day he rented a car to attend a family funeral. His mom's license was there too, scanned a few seconds after his.

The service is called Nexus. It claims over 153 million driver's licenses from the US and Canada, and the count grew by nearly 400,000 in a single day. Krebs traced the scans back to an identity verification vendor that checks IDs for rental car companies, big retailers, and over 1,000 marijuana dispensaries. The FBI opened an investigation on Tuesday.

Most of the people in that database never dealt with the vendor. They handed a license to a clerk at a counter. The clerk ran it through a scanner. Nobody mentioned that the scanner belonged to a different company, or that a copy might stick around long enough to get stolen. If your company scans customer IDs, you own the risk of how your vendor uses those images, whether the contract says so or not.

Two things worth thinking about:

- Every new "show us your ID" rule, including the ones sold as protecting kids online, pushes more license scans into more vendors. Each one is another place to lose them.

- A driver's license is still what banks use to open credit. A scan with the photo, front and back, in infrared and ultraviolet, is close to a master key.

I would love to see ID scans deleted the moment a check is done. Until then, ask whether your license will be scanned or just looked at before you hand it over. And freeze your credit at all three bureaus. It's free. It takes about ten minutes.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses/

#Cybersecurity #Privacy #IdentityTheft #security #privacy #cloud #infosec

I lost my Mom to pancreatic cancer.

It’s insidious, painful and almost always diagnosed far too late.

This new drug offers much needed hope to patients and families… but almost no one can afford a half million dollar price tag

Shameful.

Survival shouldn’t be for the rich only

https://finance.yahoo.com/personal-finance/banking/article/fda-approves-breakthrough-pancreatic-cancer-pill-daraxonrasib-what-will-it-cost-141353695.html

#uspol #capitalism #cancer #disability #pancreaticcancer

awful.systems, the anti-AI lemmy instance I help administrate, now has a slop-free jobs board: https://awful.systems/c/jobs

there aren’t any jobs yet and the instance keeps going down due to today’s attack from aggressive scrapers, but come submit some jobs (see the rules thread) and we’ll post ‘em!

There’s a certain … cassandra-esque irony in people getting frustrated with LLMs not “doing what they tell them”, and are now, undestanding-by-fire why domain-specific formal languages were developed in the first place.

If you want to skip straight to the part where the computer does (mostly) exactly what you tell it to do, might I recommend a programming language.

There were ppl interested in #immutable #Debian #OSImages for servers, clients and phones. We have an irc channel /matrix room for that now: https://matrix.to/#/#debian-immutable:matrix.debian.social .

Join us if you're interested in that topic.

Wiki page: https://wiki.debian.org/immutable

#minidebconfch

Two important state actions have dealt a big blow to automated license plate reader (ALPR) networks. This is just the latest proof of the growing tide of public opposition to mass surveillance. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/texas-and-florida-step-back-alprs

Many people are misunderstanding something important about the administration's efforts to block vote-by-mail ("VBM"). The plan isn't to stop completed ballots being RETURNED by mail; it's to stop BLANK ballots being DELIVERED TO VOTERS by mail.

Please think about what that means. If we weren't allowed to cast our ballots by mail, no big deal; we could simply drop our completed ballots in the dropboxes already scattered throughout most (all?) VBM states. But the ban on mailing BLANK ballots TO voters means that states like Oregon, in just over two months, would need to set up in-person voting in hundreds of locations, or at least in-person ballot distribution locations so that people could pick up their ballots and then drop them off again once they're completed. Even setting aside the impact on the elderly, the disabled, etc. and the *increased* risk of fraud, just creating that infrastructure in that timeframe is a Herculean, possibly impossible, task. If the state can't get your ballot to you, how can you vote?

TL;DR: they're not trying to stop vote by mail. They're trying to stop many blue states from voting altogether.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/us/politics/whistle-blower-voting-by-mail.html?unlocked_article_code=1.91A.kwS3.DUcieRYbgOZw&smid=nytcore-ios-share
^@davidho

Democrats are offering an abundance of midterm messaging. https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

I want to fight for the user, but the user just wants to chug slop.

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Obama Center's First Amendment fail: The erroneous quiz answers may have children thinking that free speech is easily curtailed, priming them to accept censorship as normal and reasonable.

Read FPF’s Seth Stern's op-ed in Chicago Sun-Times:

https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2026/09/02/obama-center-first-amendment-journalism-press-freedom-speech-trump-seth-stern

🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug

"For once, Donald Trump is right. The names of the important geographic sites of this great nation are antiquated"

Brought to you by the Inner Hive, including long-time member Monica Le and new member Wolfman III, patreon.com/rubenbolling/membership

READ IT HERE👇