Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Forget a billionaire's algorithms, use RSS. Most sites have them.

Both the Thimbleweed Park Blog and Grumpy Gamer do. Full text feeds.

I've been using and serving RSS since 2005.

All the cool kids are doing it.

https://toolbox.rss.here.now/

@energisch_ I agree. This is why I hesitate to speak of a "bubble" in the first place for reasons @alineblankertz has explained as well:

https://www.structural-integrity.eu/crashing-hard-why-talking-about-bubbles-obscures-the-real-social-cost-of-overinvesting-into-artificial-intelligence/

Trump and Hegseth would be an embarrassment if they didn't have control of weapons of mass destruction. As it is, they're war criminals and need to be held to account. These women are heroes and are entirely legitimate and correct. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/COvmkDsRdUA

One of the ecology postgrads working with me at the moment, Dee Patel, has spent this year doing lots of data curation work, and now stats analysis, on my 23-years of ongoing high frequency bird counts between Ōtautahi-Christchurch city and Lincoln town in Canterbury, NZ. That's where I repeatedly map and count birds while biking and running along 172 km of standard routes about the landscape.

This week Dee got the first preliminary results for all birds and one clear story is worth sharing: of the ~21 species of native and endemic birds that were seen often enough to be able to analyse a trend, *ALL* have increased in numbers over the past two decades.

All of them!!

Many have increased by large amounts, and on average, the NZ endemics are up more than the natives we share with other countries.

Over the same period, the introduced birds (mostly English birds) have mostly stayed about the same, with just a few declines (eg Muscovy duck are down a bit).

It's a strikingly different result from what's been reported in the media from some other parts of the world. I expect it's due to the big increases here in regeneration and planting of native vegetation and mammalian predator control, leading to a resurgence of native species in areas where they'd declined last century. We've also had the agricultural intensification and urban expansion and warming climate seen in most of the world, but those negative effects on birds seem to (so far) have been more than offset by the return of native vegetation and reduction in predators.

Dee's due to complete and submit her thesis early next year so there's still plenty of work to do before we get the details ironed out and figure out all the nuances in the story. Still, the overall result is looking really promising for the city's birds.

#birds #Ōtautahi #Christchurch #nz #ecology #LincolnUniversityNZ

Fun discovery: Firefox can't tolerate two bookmarks with the same URL but different keywords.

If you try to do it, the keyword gets silently removed from one, or your change actually affects the other bookmark.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@rain/117446083340236126

This is why, when people say things like "omg the LLM can generate an embedded kernel for me!!!" I can't help but think

"Yeah, it was trained on _at least_ three of mine, plus immeasurable training load on my webserver serving the docs."

By claiming ownership of the result, or even just claiming to have managed the machine while it spit it out, you're basically just stripping all attribution for the actual work that went into its inputs. You might as well just clone my repo, remove the license, and remove my name. So no, I am not impressed.

Anyway, Anthropic just ripped off a bunch of Rain's work with no attribution, as they do.

dear audio experts of fedi : how can u irl-suppress knocking sounds (of eg people on doors, hammers, etc) ? asking for trauma trigger reasons
boosts appreciated to help get answer

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

🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug
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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. :)