Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

free software is important, but it is only the beginning. it is less than the bare minimum

all software must, at the very minimum, be free software, plus:
- code of conduct that bans transphobia, homophobia, racism, ableism, gen-ai, ... (not an exhaustive list, as there are many problematic things i'm not even thinking of right now)
- contribution policy banning gen-ai
- once it grows: have a resilient community around it that won't succumb to the nazi bar effect
- be immune to corporate takeover

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/117582291834400512

Here’s a thought worth saying out loud.

…and of course I think immediately if TeX, whose version number does not just increase forever but instead asymptotically approaches pi, on the principle that software should •converge• rather than •grow•.

(The software dates from 1978. The latest release is version 3.141592653, released in 2021.)

The myth that software needs constant updates has utterly undermined the principles of free software and immensely empowered sloppers and other bad actors.

The whole idea was supposed to be that, once you get something released as free software, you have it forever, and don't have to care about the people who made it selling out and betraying you.

That was like the whole distinction from proprietary software, where we knew it would always end that way.

And somehow we let the worst people in out spaces convince us that we have to accept the same from free software.

So I boosted a slopped cartoon about chess pieces cuddling. Turns out that account is just a constant stream of slop and one of them just happened to go a bit viral.

The OG artist of the chess carton makes a lot more wholesome and cute comics.

It makes me angry that the slop version is getting spread so far and wide while the originals aren't.

Go take a break from your and enjoy these: https://www.wawawiwacomics.com/comics

@Gargron @sstephenson The reply is illuminating.

"i went back and read the gnu manifesto and the sections on philosophy at the fsf website, something i haven't done for quite some time. i was convinced I would find something to support the idea that the fsf's mission, while focused on software, is in support of the greater mission of human liberty. but you are right. i was gravely mistaken."

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2026-11/msg00197.html

TIL that Chuck Schumer's daughter is a lead lobbiest for Open AI. (Gee, I wonder why they hired her?)

That man does not deserve to be in leadership.

Why OpenAI Hired Chuck Schumer’s Daughter Away From Amazon - The American Prospect
https://prospect.org/2026/09/11/openai-chuck-schumer-daughter-amazon/

Help in testing the release candidates is much appreciated: https://dev.phosh.mobi/docs/releases/testing/

This is simple on @mobian  and @nura as nightly builds are available for these distros via separate repositories.
These distributions also usually contain the release candidates early in their #unstable and #edge distribution channels as well.

Ofc our BengalOS images contain the changes as well as they always pick up latest Phosh.

If you tested something, hit a problem and don't know where to put the issue, please add a comment to https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/meta-phosh/-/work_items/51

Reports of successful tests are super useful too as they give us confidence in the release.

#phosh #ReleaseTesting #BengalOS #ReleaseTesting

“A year after the 100% AI mandate nobody understands our code : r/ClaudeCode”

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xq2n3t/a_year_after_the_100_ai_mandate_nobody/

Am i allowed to say "I old you so" now? Because I told you so.

When you pay full price for select titles thru 11/20/26, we’ll donate 40% of each sale to legal aid for the MN15 and the Prairieland defendants. Let’s show up for them. Shop all titles and benefit merch and donate to all the defendants at the link in our bio.

#MartinLutherKing #MLK #Trump #America #NakedPastor

I’m not interested in roleplaying with you that there are threats to FOSS and that those theoretical threats make what I’m proposing impossible

there are real threats to FOSS, right now. they’re in the house with us. the men who told us they’d protect us from threats to FOSS all failed to defend FOSS from anything other than the thought experiments they came up with to manipulate us.

those men took those thought experiments so seriously that now emacs, my editor, has an official maintainer who is proudly pro-slavery. that’s how hard those men ignored real threats to play in a fantasy land where good slavers exist and they must have software freedom.

those men and their organizations have all failed.

at this point, I see no reason to continue to pretend that any pro-slavery, pro-LLM, pro-war, pro-bigotry variant of the GPL is recognizably the GPL

GNU and the FSF can feel free to make their own license under a different name, to make it clear that theirs is a proprietary software license that does not protect the freedoms of users or contributors, and which is incompatible with the GPL

my code will be licensed under version 3 of the GPL, not that I have any choice

my code will be incompatible with any corrupted variants of the GPL, including the one being perpetuated by GNU and the FSF. I said what I said.

if these fuckers want a schism, we can give them a fucking schism

So @protonprivacy has been in and deleted the top upvoted customer comments about how to improve. “That idea has been deleted.”

Example:

https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/945460-general-ideas

All the ones highlighted a few days ago are gone.

They flat out lie to get them built. All of the centers, everywhere, are pitched by ruthless liars.

Lanarkshire AI datacentre to fully rely on National Grid despite renewables claim

DataVita has revised plan for Chapelhall development to be wholly powered by 1GW of renewable energy

Kat Jones, the director of the Edinburgh-based charity Action to Protect Rural Scotland, said DataVita’s apparent change in direction was “emblematic of the hyperbolic claims being made by datacentre developers in Scotland”.

“Hyperscale AI datacentres simply cannot run on renewable power alone, they absolutely need a highly reliable source of grid power,” she said. “It is not surprising that the goalposts have now changed.”

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/nov/07/lanarkshire-ai-datacentre-datavita-chapelhall-national-grid-renewable-energy

#humanemacs #emacs

I've just read a lot of the human emacs thread on the Emacs mail list.

It's seems virtue is lost.

1. To use LLMs is to support techno fascists and proprietary software. This is against the foundational tenets of gnu and free software.
2. Supporting techno fascists supports their anti free software ideology.
3. If gnu/emacs is true to software freedom, it cannot support proprietary software in it's use or creation.
4. Using LLMs creates the strong possibility of dependency which would completely undermine software freedom.
5. Techno fascists and their LLMs are anti freedom.
6. Anti freedom of mind, people and software.

Enough reasons.

"Attack and dethrone god" (ENG: English)

Source: instagram:@churchofsatananarchist

Original: https://gateway.ipfs.anarchiststickersarchive.org/ipfs/bafybeigvxlq5tkwvpfc22xcma5o7qjpti6bhe5oa7ynufefqsieacpo32i

Permalink: https://anarchiststickersarchive.org/stickers/8185

#anarchism #stickers #archive

irregular reminder that if you're on #Codeberg and you need more CI than the hosted offer provides, i might be able to help

RE: https://digipres.club/@alexandra/117576651383899283

llm user: uh just b/c llms cause harms elsewhere, that does not entail they will cause harm in our project

also llm user: I have adopted a moral framework wherein I am compelled to profit from slavery

You know the jokes about "keep your books from before 2021"?

I just got a hard lesson. That is not a joke. Keep your 2021-era textbooks.

Someone asked me to have a look at some online learning materials, "Last Updated : 8 Apr, 2026" because something seemed wrong.

So I read it. The text does not parse as LLM output; there are no telling phrase structures, no em-dashes, no alerting idioms.

But the content? The actual thing to be learned?

It is coherent and completely wrong. The method and maths are right, but the intrinsic meanings of parameters are both completely plausible and utterly wrong.

It's like giving walking directions to someone in a car. Yes, the stairs to the beach are there, and they do get from the parking lot to the water. Yes, cars are things for going places. But if you try to do that - and you can! - you get a car submerging in the surf, not a 50kph-capable vehicle with no stoplights ahead.

And since there's no physically obvious problem, no car filling with water, just a number that does indicate things in other contexts but here is not linked to reality? Then decisions could get made, statements published, if nobody picks up on the extraordinary mis-use.

Keep your textbooks, especially anything with methods or maths!

#LLM #AI #LLMs #slop #knowledge

More evidence for the pile:

> ...[AI] has yielded __zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of the tech industry__. This is the conclusion of an analysis by prominent Danish economist Torsten Sløk, who is a partner and chief economist at Apollo Global Management and has previously held senior positions at organisations including the OECD and the IMF, where he was responsible for the analyses featured in the World Economic Outlook.

https://ing.dk/artikel/leading-economist-shatters-illusion-only-tech-giants-are-profiting-ai