Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

On the heels of @demo_fest we are announcing another project:

January 2026 is Fediverse Punk Month!!

We encourage all hardcore punk underground DIY adherents to try spending January on the Fediverse with us. If you've been dabbling, try doubling-down. If you are already confident here, then spread the word and bring your friends. Let's get some collective momentum going!

https://allpunkspleaseleavemeta.com has the pitch, info, and physical and digital flyers to share.

Sharing this around the Fediverse is great, but we really hope you will share this with people off the Fediverse! Post on other social media, and/or print out the physical flyers and distribute to local punks.

The distance between #Dublin and #London is 464 miles, #asthecrowflies.

But as #GretaThunberg learnt today, it's about a million miles in politics.

In Dublin, #PresidentConnolly regards the #genocide in #Gaza as a horror. But in London, the #CityOfLondonPolice treat opposition to genocide as #Terrorism. So #Greta went from a presidential welcome in #Ireland to arrest in #England/#UK.

#aTaleOfTwoCities #iepol #ukpol

I offer Cassandra's Complete Class Theorem¹.

All "good use cases for AI" break down into one of four categories:

I. Bad use case.
II. Good use case, but not something AI can do.
III Good use case, but it's already been done without AI.
IV. Not AI in the LLMs and GANs sense, but in the sense of machine learning, statistical inference, or other similarly valid things AI boosters use to shield from critique.

https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/115766140296237983

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¹Not actually a theorem.

I wrote a bit about the "one good use of LLMs" (namely, a bunch of different "one good uses") I keep seeing and why those aren't good, actually.

https://alextheward.com/blog/llms_are_a_cognitohazard/

A lot of this boils down to "if you care about accuracy and learning, you shouldn't be using an LLM for anything".

"I came across this information using my Spotify which has also been hacked into and
would love your help hacking out of Spotify. Also, I have yet to figure out how to unhack the hackers from my Instagram"

"Please keep in mind that Facebook owns Instagram and these are big companies that you likely don’t want to have a trail of evidence that you are a part of an Instagram and Spotify hacking ring. Also, Spotify is a major partner of Spotify so you are likely familiar with the coding for all of these illegally developed third party apps."

https://daniel.haxx.se/email/2016-01-19.html

From the apt-list-changes for util-linux in Debian 13:

« The mesg(1) and write(1) programs are no longer provided. It is believed chatting between users is nowadays done using more secure facilities. »

A little sad, but very cute.

Migrating a large accretion of complex blog post content between platforms is a draining demoralising experience. It turns out that we, as web developers, are capable of creating byzantine platforms which give diligent blog writers the ability to create hours and hours of unrewarding work that is so cryptically & diversely broken that no script can be written to make sense of the mess.

Enjoy your holidays if you're in a cultural context where that sort of thing happens right now.

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RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115768059949620435

And if you want to help make sure this actually happens, and doesn't just stay a laundry list of wishes, come join us at the European Rail Passengers Union where we are bringing passengers together to advocate for the trains we all need and deserve: https://erpu.eu/

I shouldn’t have to say this, but please don’t post direct links to the elementary OS ISO, especially on release day. This is my only form of income and I really don’t make a lot of it. I want to keep making elementary OS as my job, but when you bypass our pay-what-you-can ask it cuts directly into the revenue I rely on to pay rent and buy food. The vast majority of people already pay nothing when they download. Please don’t take away the biggest opportunity I have for folks to support my work

kinda wonder if people are scared to post the 60 minutes video on bsky because oh noes they might woose their fowwowers or get their account shutdown.

they do have videos now right? just kidding i don't care lol 💀

Remember kids, it's absolutely illegal to create an archive of the Spotify library, but it's totally OK for big tech to scrape the vast majority of created content on the internet to train LLMs...

Canadians are the BEST neighbors! Here they've gone ahead and leaked the #CBS #60Minutes CECOT segment that Bari Weiss pulled for Trump. Enjoy!!!
#uspol #uspolitics #TangerineTyrant #FreeSpeech #journalism

https://archive.org/details/60-minutes-inside-cecot

I see some musicians going all "Metallica vs. Napster" about the Anna's Archive thing, and I feel the need to remind folks that corporations and the music industry have done more to ruin things for us than piracy ever could.

What's the difference between the kbd project data and xkbcommon key mappings?

$ rpm -qf /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/xkb/de-us.map.gz
kbd-misc-2.6.4

$ rpm -qf /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/eu
xkeyboard-config-2.42

If I want to make a custom #keyboard layout, do I have to edit both?

#linux

My newest opinion piece just published.

"Trump is manipulating national security to stop energy projects he doesn’t like"

https://thebulletin.org/2025/12/trump-is-manipulating-national-security-to-stop-energy-projects-he-doesnt-like

"Ultra-processed food" is a term invented by meat companies to scaremonger about vegan diets! Processing is everything done to food, and there is no unambiguous definition of "ultra-processed". Pasteurised milk is less harmful than unpasteurised. Sure, many misinformed (to not use a harsher word) advocate for unpasteurised milk, but ask them if they would rather eat fugu with tetrodotoxin containing organs removed or unprocessed fugu.

Nixtamalized maize is healthier than unprocessed maize (milling is also processing, so flour is processed grains). Salt with iodine and fluoride added make up for dietary deficiencies in the general population (those are not added for vegans only). Everyone over the age of 50, regardless of their diet, should take a B12 supplement, therefore food with added B12 is better than the same food without added B12. Food with extra apple (or whichever) fibre added is better than without (unless you have a sensitivity or intolerance). Check the nutrient table, not only the ingredient list.

Long or unpronounceable names don't mean something is dangerous. We are full of 1,2,3-propanetriol. We are 100% chemicals.

So called "organic" agriculture does allow pesticides, but only inorganic pesticides, and of the organic ones only toxins.

#food #vegan

Watching a video in Swedish about how unhealthy red meat is while playing 2048. 4 minutes and 45 seconds in I hear the word "mye" instead of "mycket" and realise it's been in Norwegian all along.

Anyway, Norwegians have a saying: "There is only 1 Scandinavian language, but Swedes do not know how to write it, and Danes do not know how to speak it" 😅

#Norwegian

We have a massive customer service and hospitality problem in the US. As the hospitality industry has consolidated and enshittified, inclusive of transportation and vehicle rentals and all, the customer experience has really suffered.

We can only solve this by hiring people and paying them fair wages. AI can’t fix this, more computers won’t make it better, only people are capable of making people feel welcome, especially as prices are higher than ever before.

I posted on Boing Boing about Stephen Colbert's special cartoon, "Colbert's Canceled Christmas"
https://boingboing.net/2025/12/22/cartoon-colberts-canceled-christmas.html