Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Hello World!

I just spoke with a #US #Senator office about the #fediverse . They're asking for more information to help spread around #Capital #Hill in small bite sized easy to understand pieces. I'm obviously going to give them @elena beautiful #movie on the #fedi (with some light editing which she's agreed to).

I'll of course show them https://fediverse.info/ and https://fedi.tips/ which are great websites. I figured I'd give them examples of amazing #AP projects such as #mastodon , #pixelfed , #peertube , #bandwagon , and #bonfire ; even things like @admin .

I'd love to know from folks any EASY to understand projects that best encompass the Fediverse and explanations of it.

What are some projects you'd hand to your friends and family that would explain and display to them what we are?

I'll say this isn't going to happen over night. There's lot of questions around regulations, trust & safety, etc. But I feel it's pertinent to at least get the conversation going, especially considering the current state of disdain for big social media and the impending legislation around these things.

I'll finally state if there's anyone in this list that does NOT want to be involved with this, that's totally fine and I understand and I can exclude you from the materials I give to them.

#boost #boostplease #government #laws #activityPub

@benpate @peertube @bonfire
@stefano @dansup @Mastodon

Totally disgusts me that both Democratic California senators joined the pro-corruption Republicans and helped pass legislation that will benefit the crooked and dangerous (to everyone's economic well-being) cryptocurrency "industry".

I'll vote against them in the future. https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00318.htm

Americans are so thirsty for even a whiff of journalism that Tucker Carlson asks 3 basic questions and we act like he is the second coming.

It's sad.

We're just not used to seeing any form of journalism. We're so used to journalistic sycophancy, and abdication of duty in order to maintain access.

The sad part is, Tucker Carlson could have been doing this for years, on all topics, and not just when convenient for his benefactors.

People forget that at the early days of Tucker's villain arc, Jon Stewart called him on this. Tucker has always known better. But he chooses to play this character.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GooQwKDMqcI

Exhibit 60,440 of Trump regime flagrantly breaking the law, with impunity: https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/18/ice-nadler-goldman-federal-detention-manhattan/

If you are anywhere within a couple hour drive of Sacramento this Saturday please consider coming out to this emergency fundraiser for our comrades at NorCal Resist! This Dance Party fundraiser is needed during these dark days!

Join us for our fifth annual Filmmakers Digital Security Clinic, hosted with Field of Vision.

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I've seen leftists talk about the need for leftists to embrace LLMs, and it's another example of a failing of the left, in accepting capitalist ideology and insisting it's brave and visionary to do so.

LLMs aren't just automation. They're a direct attack on human dignity.

Technology is not neutral.

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Anyone with a #ThinkPad X250 or X240, does your touchpad show as a USB device?

#askfedi #computers

What are non-scam repositories to find #popular #piano #sheetmusic ? Does not need to be free, I am happy to pay. I just want to find my way out of this crazy jungle of scammy sheet music websites and simply be able to download #notes as #PDF.

#Forgejo 11.0.2 was just released!

We recommend that all installations are upgraded to the latest version.

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

Luigi is charged as a terrorist for tagging a CEO, but a man who targeted 3 individuals, including 2 senators, is not charged as a terrorist.

Do you guys see it now? Yet?

SLC Tribune - The Colorado county sheriff’s office whose deputy pulled over a student during a traffic stop — and let her go with a warning — has discovered its info was secretly shared with ICE, leading to the student’s federal detainment just minutes later. https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2025/06/17/ice-detains-utah-student-after/

Hey #xmpp fans.
I want to write a #bot which passes presence events around.

When I log in, I get presence events for my contacts.

Except when the contacts are offline.

How am I supposed to distinguish between a contact being unavailable and the presence being slow to come? Must I have a timeout?

I tried sending probes, but my version of #ejabberd doesn't respond for offline contacts :/

#jabber #programming #chat

US Customs and Border Protection kidnapped cooperative colleague — news via the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives:

USFWC member co-op in Vermont, New Frameworks Natural Build/Design, worker-owner Jose Ignacio “Nacho” De La Cruz of was violently detained by Border Patrol on June 14.

He was driving with his stepdaughter, Heidi, when agents pulled them over, smashed their car window, and violently detained both community leaders.

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/free-nacho-free-heidy-not-one-more-deportation

#MPs vote to #decriminalise #abortion in step forward for #ReproductiveRights | #Politics | The Guardian

Finally, #England and #Wales may be edging towards moving abortion laws from the 19th century to the 21st. This should have been done decades ago but at least it’s happening. (For those of you wondering why this excludes other parts of the #UK, namely #Scotland and #NorthernIreland, they have their own legislatures to decide these matters.)

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/17/decriminalisation-abortion-vote-mps

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…but happy the shell/console would just be a single touch away and that the system is introspectable without any hackery.

Day out with #phosh and the #OP6

- Woke up with #gnomeClocks ⏰
- Looked up the address of the 🍟 via #Firefox and its mobile config
- picked my way via #puremap's offline map feature
- Send #SMS via #Chatty
- Replied a toot via #tuba
- Listened to 🎵 via #gapless
- Looked up the appointment time on #phosh's lockscreen 📆 plugin backed by #eds
- Checked 💗 pulse via a simple pacer up using #phosh's lancher plugin for the short 🚶

No console needed.

#LinuxMobile

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