Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Another fraud-slop empire thrives -- in part because Google lets it thrive (and profits in the meantime): https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/brown-brothers-media-ai-slop-empire

The AI panic looks like an orchestrated con: The bosses of these rapacious, sleazy, and infinitely sloppy companies are angling for government permission to be a cartel. This would be followed, as certain as day follows night, by the bailout they all know they'll need when their bubble deflates.

Worms, parasites, and other bugs are just extra protein. Eat them up, yum! https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

New blog post:  MCF20: Flatpak support, sorta, kinda

https://linmob.net/mcf20-flatpak-support-sorta-kinda/

#mobileConfigFirefox #Firefox #flatpak #Nova #LinuxMobile #mobileLinux

RE: https://social.coop/@coopcloud/117129278045995157

And, announcing some other upcoming themed kite-flyings! (All in this 19 UTC slot)

Thursday October 1st: What is Co-op Cloud? — a general introduction

Thursday October 29th: How to run a workshop about Co-op Cloud

Thurs November 26th: Trying out some "competitors" to Co-op Cloud

#Cooperatives #OpenSource #LibreSoftware

“Offensively cheap”: #Solar power is looking up - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/offensively-cheap-solar-power-is-looking-up/ " Chinese-made panels on rooftops across the world are changing the facts of life for big utilities. " reasons to be cheerful

25 Years of Mass #Surveillance Is Enough - https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/09/25-years-of-mass-surveillance-is-enough.html "as it becomes increasingly evident that the Trump administration is using mass surveillance to keep itself in power, stifle dissent, and undermine political opponents, these questions are now more urgent than ever."

#Forgejo 16.0.5 and 15.0.9 were just released! They are security releases.

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

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“What kind of Software should we fund?”

https://tante.cc/2026/09/17/what-kind-of-software-should-we-fund/

Separately from what I’m responding to, Tante, though, does a good job of gleaning useful observations from the original post. Read this; don't read the original it's responding to

Giving the vibe-written ideas of an npm founder whose track record is such that, if they found the philosopher’s stone they’d use it to turn gold into lead, any airtime is probably not the most constructive use of anybody’s time

Esp. since said idea is basically “Spotify for OSS libraries”

Spotify being a model FAMOUS for paying artists a liveable wage…

Wait, no. It’s famous for the other thing. The opposite.

opened the iOS 27 mail app yesterday and discovered it had enabled intelligence priority inbox or whatever. Setting aside the fact that I don't get enough email to need it and whatever your feelings are about whether LLMs help with email. The fact that I now don't know for sure whether my phone sent my emails to some server somewhere without me enabling it is a very terrible experience for a "we're all about your personal privacy" company.

This is the first iOS I seriously consider rolling back

RE: https://journa.host/@MillMessenger/117285129052695405

time to move UN from #murica if it can't do its job there...

RE: https://mastodon.green/@alberto_cottica/117284934879064075

this is also the kind of thing that a "malevolent" AI would do, which is the real future threat, not some abstract annihilation...

Epstein had huge cache of child sex pics; victims sue to find out who’s in them - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/lawsuit-trump-doj-notified-very-few-victims-in-epsteins-stash-of-child-sex-images/ " Survivors appalled nobody will tell them if they’re in Epstein’s #CSAM collection. " we need to talk more about #epsteinfiles

#DOGE spent $6.7 billion paying federal workers not to work - https://boingboing.net/2026/09/16/doge-paid-leave-6-7-billion.html efficiency, huh...

Dear Fedi friends,

I want to share a discovery that made my MONTH.

10 days ago, while I was putting together the slides for my presentation at Berlin #FediDay, I noticed a new entry in the @cercle directory (the Mastodon instance set up by the Service Numérique of the French Ministry of Culture):

✨ @MuseeOrsay ✨

Ouiiiiii!

Paris' super prestigious museum - that welcomed 7.3 million visitors last year - is now on the #Fediverse !!!🥳

Let's give Musée d'Orsay a warm welcome ❤️