Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I was interviewed a couple weeks ago by a grad student working on a paper about attitudes towards AI in the maker/creative communities. We had a good long discussion and in talking, we realized the divide between pro-AI people and anti-AI people mostly comes down to whether people value the process or the product.

My friend only values the product, so she doesn't understand why someone would want to spend time on the process.

An embargoed security issue in PHP leaked and it is extremely serious: all versions >5.4 are affected. No patches are available yet.

I highly recommend shutting down any PHP services until the patch is available—that's how serious this issue is.

Apache HTTPD users can run

a2dismod php8.2 # any version
a2dissite <affected website configs>
systemctl restart apache2

https://cert.europa.eu/publications/security-advisories/2026-018/

“Atvinnuleysi meðal tölvunarfræðinga aukist um 70% á tveimur árum - RÚV.is”

https://www.ruv.is/frettir/innlent/2026-10-20-atvinnuleysi-medal-tolvunarfraedinga-aukist-um-70-a-tveimur-arum-490122

Bit of Icelandic news. The relevant part is in the headline which translates as "unemployment among those with computer scientist degrees increased by 70% in two years"

These numbers don't include the numerous developers who worked without a CS degree.

Looking for a "Senior Software Engineer"-like position, based in Seattle, WA, remote preferred.

20+ years in role, the majority is in C/C++, but I've done server and Android-hosted Java, Python, Bash Perl, etc.

Outside of work I've led the open source game development project Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead since 2012, I grew it from a single contributor (me) to 50+ active contributors, not including ancillary teams like translation and art production.

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#GetFediHired

Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is still stonewalling UK staff's unionization effort, dragging their feet on negotiations. The Foundation's attempt to reduce the size of the bargaining unit is now heading to arbitration:

https://wikiworkersunited.org/announcements/2026-10-19-uk-bargaining-unit-scope-negotiation-goes-to-arbitration/

well that fucks my schedule https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/php-maintainers-tell-web-devs-to-prepare-themselves-for-critical-security-patches/

removte hole in wordpress

i need to get my new box up IMMEDIATELY then

fuckin

@bvibber from mediawiki posted that it was *that* bad, i'll take brooke's word for it

“Facebook tries to grab all news publisher website content for training for free – Pivot to AI”

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/20/facebook-tries-to-grab-all-news-publisher-website-content-for-training-for-free/

Because of course they're trying

UK approves Jackdaw gasfield in North Sea - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/21/jackdaw-gasfield-in-north-sea-approved stupid and utterly pointless

if investors were willing to give me a chance i will lose at most $1-2B a year

This is what anticapitalist resistance looks like.

Organisers in Barcelona have set up a "strike house" to host talks and workshops in preparation for the general strike on 11th November.

Strikes against property speculation and the cost of living have been confirmed in more than 80 locations.

https://diariosocialista.net/2026/10/20/barcelona-abre-la-casa-de-la-huelga/

#ClassWar #HousingIsAHumanRight

@Remittancegirl absolutely.
I miss my colleague's typo-y emails. I see their copilot nonsense, it's too long and waffly and its devoid of their personality.

People are worried they're not coming across 'right'

Now they're just not coming across at all.

@randahl These claims could easily have been made by trolls and bots trying to undermine confidence in elections in the US.

Remember that elections are run by states in the US, and rigging election machines is incredibly risky to do for vendors, because they will be found separately liable by 50 state courts, and they can’t be pardoned by the president for state crimes.

I want to see actual proof of this happening before spreading these rumors any further.

I'm actually a bit upset about this. 🙁

@RosannaSibora , @_elena and a whole coalition of open source orgs were hoping to organize a track at #FOSDEM27 about Diversity, Equality, Inclusivity and Belonging (DEIB) in #FOSS.

It got rejected.

https://fosstodon.org/@RosannaSibora/117475238625142335

@RosannaSibora and @_elena this is such a shame. I've been going to FOSDEM for about 7 years now and every year it's a sea of white men.

This track could have been an opportunity to include some fresh perspectives and talk about diversity in #FOSS.

We had an awesome group of organizers coming from @nextcloud , @fdroidorg , Red Hat, @SUSE , @drupal , @linuxfoundation EU, and OSPO's.

We were so excited that we had already started designing stickers and organizing funds for speakers, etc ☹️

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@RosannaSibora/117475238625142335

I'm sooo disappointed by this news. I was absolutely convinced the devroom would be accepted: there is always such a lack of diversity at #FOSDEM and this track would have brought a breath of fresh air 🥲

Huge thanks to @RosannaSibora and @Gina for spearheading the initiative. Let's try again in 2028!

Onwards and upwards 🌈

@q it’s fucking literally that one xkcd wtf

Voting good.

New horror just dropped

#AI #deadMall #sanFrancisco

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/downtown-mall-data-center-ai-22480545.php

https://web.archive.org/web/20261019212544/https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/downtown-mall-data-center-ai-22480545.php

truly a wild time to be alive when the cryptography world is split between those worried about quantum computers and those whose private key is “4”

http://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/the-internet-goes-on-high-alert-after-discovery-of-8-compromised-tls-certs/

#eMudhra