Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

ChatGPT now lets you target ads based on specific prompts or any phone number or email address. This is absolutely 100% going to be used for harassment.

https://www.404media.co/how-chatgpt-targets-ads-to-you-based-on-your-prompts-phone-number-and-email/

It's also very frustrating to constantly have my opposition to AI be taken as an opposition to abstraction, or to automation, and a desire to do every little thing by hand. But it's the opposite. For a whole bunch of reasons, AI anti-abstracts. It adversarially creates oceans of duplication to process. It creates a situation where the AI user gets to set the terms of some ecosystem with synthetic productivity but then everyone else needs an AI to figure out what's going on in that new ecosystem.

#Forgejo 17.0.0 was just released!

Repository funding links are supported. Repositories can be migrated from Bitbucket Data Center. LFS support is revamped. Job summaries from Forgejo Actions jobs are displayed.

Check out the blog post at https://forgejo.org/2026-10-release-v17-0/.

#forgejorelease

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I'm sitting in one of the fullest European Parliament hearings I've ever seen: it's about the infamous proposed Cloud and #AI Development Act #CADA and it's a huge "we need to build build build #datacentres", #gigafactories and farring #unicorns. And I'm like 😭

Let's see if I get speaking time. :)

Seeing the damage that "AI" is doing to the Kernel (not just in Slop code being integrated that will bite us later but in making becoming a new kernel developer even harder than it is at a time where we should really be thinking about how to fill that pipeline) is super painful.

I think that - like Wikipedia - Linux as an alternative platform for computing was one of the new wonders of the world, something that showed that a better world is possible. And we're just pissing it away because Linus doesn't want to talk to people who he needs to mentor.

"I suggest the social action: shame. Shame these people. Their actions are shameful. AI bros hate being shamed and they try to make rules against shaming — because shame works.

None of these people doing shameful things deserve a place in polite company. They should be shamed for their shameful choices.

The AI industry is also running a PR push to redefine common word usage. The word “slop” is also super effective — so the bros really hate “slop” and try to define it to mean slop they don’t like.

But all AI output is slop. It’s social spam. That’s what it’s for. It’s slop! Say “slop” every time."

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/14/linux-kernel-goes-full-ai-slop-code-hides-chatbot-commits/

Citizen Lab says governments are abusing online ads to hack people with ‘zero-click’ spyware - https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/15/citizen-lab-says-governments-are-abusing-online-ads-to-hack-people-with-zero-click-spyware/

Satellite Images Show Extent of Trump Admin’s Tree-Felling at DC Golf Course, Despite 'Furious' Judge’s Order - https://www.bellingcat.com/news/us-canada/2026/10/15/satellite-images-show-extent-of-trump-admins-tree-felling-at-dc-golf-course-despite-furious-judges-order/

the transformation of slightly abusive rebel fleet fuck-you-Nvidia socialist commander Torvalds to corporate middle-manager centrist dad thank-you-Meta Torvalds has been a sad thing to behold...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9ARF2KcDgc

RE: https://social.coop/@coopcloud/117419482171545159

Join us this evening when members of Co-op Cloud give a reintroduction to the project and the community. Hope to see you in the call.

This is 21 CEST for our Central European and German followers. :)

I discussed this in my talk* on Friday: this is what makes artists unique, they can take a stance.

Your LLM won't choose to be informed and support action with regards to Palestine.

*https://talks.hiddedevries.nl/jA4a36/creativity-cannot-be-computed

You know, it's funny. 20 years ago I started photographing abandoned buildings, as I believed they were a warning sign that America was sliding off the face of a cliff. Years later, that's pretty obvious to just about everyone that we're in freefall. Not really sure what the point of a warning is any more but I still have photos so what the hell, why not post them.

#Israel blocks construction of key Gaza base created by Trump peace board - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/14/israel-trump-peace-board-gaza-base when a person shows you who they are... #gazagenocide

“macOS Golden Gate is a buggy mess”

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/10/5.html

> How does Apple mess up something as fundamental as keyboard focus?

@baldur "are they now vibe-coding MacOS?" Yes, I 100% guarantee it.

“The freedom to read doesn’t exist without the freedom to write — Malinda Lo”

https://www.malindalo.com/blog/2026/10/14/the-freedom-to-read

> The "freedom to read" implies that reading exists completely separately from writing, when in fact there would be nothing to read if authors didn't have the freedom to write.

(Last week was Banned Books Week, and some of the talks are now dropping as blog posts)

"My customers die at a rate of roughly one per 4,000 bags. Four thousand bags at $1.80 buys nets for 1.3 children. Every death on my corner is offset, with a third of a toddler left over"

https://morewrong.lol/?post=overdose-offsets-why-every-bag-of-fentanyl-i-sell-is-net-life-positive