Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@DopeGhoti/116751891754949897

We will give you a high tech visual aid for free if you spy for us.

Connecticut passed a law requiring Trump's secret police thugs to show their faces. Their response: Up yours.

Do state officials have a spine or not? Stay tuned.

https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/ice-arrests-danbury-hartford-video-mask-22301159.php

Sea surface temperatures in a key monitoring region for El Niño continue already at record high levels for this time of year. This is due to the long-term warming of the tropics (human-caused climate change), as well as the growing +ENSO event.

Learn more in my upcoming briefing on Tuesday: https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-briefings.

Data from NOAA OISSTv2.1: https://psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/data.noaa.oisst.v2.highres.html.

Nah, the Bible still has more translations.
https://mastodon.social/@readit/116743510259195167

There's no doubt that America's two-party system has directly enabled the rise and persistence of reactionary extremism.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/14/uk-us-trump-starmer-elections-00960828

Conservatives have a different ideology than reactionaries, but in a two-party system, their fear of change makes them much more likely to back ideologues who hate democracy.

This dynamic exists in multi-party systems, however their construction dilutes reactionary power.

On this day in Anarchist History, we remember the establishment of the Oaxaca Commune.

https://kolektiva.media/w/omsRf8NFetPRLwbfNknuWY

How #Brexit has made #Britain poorer – in charts | Brexit | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/14/how-uk-economy-changed-since-brexit-vote-charts

#UK #Politics

How to make good open source project:
- plaster pride flags everywhere (keeps bigots away)
- swear constantly (keeps ai away)
- sex (keeps corporations away)

This week's comic on the enshittification of flying

#corporations #consumers #transportation #travel

Pride Without Politics is Just a Parade. Get 40% off all gender and sexuality titles with code BEGAY thru 7/1 here: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_list&c=46&sortby=num_sold:desc

@baldur We're trying to change that - we now have a UX design site where we track UX issues, request user feedback, and try to make more thoughtful design decisions after discussion and testing.

If you're interested in contributing your thoughts (or just want to see the reported issues thus far), more information is here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/GIMP/Design/gimp-ux/-/work_items

We're also starting to document design decisions for future review: https://testing.developer.gimp.org/core/specifications/

“What We're No Longer Seeing: AI and the Invisible Newcomer in Open Source”

https://blog.stdlib.io/ai-and-the-invisible-newcomer-in-open-source/

> Organic traffic to community spaces was down roughly 30 percent, traceable to question-and-answer behavior moving to LLMs.

The post is a little too optimistic overall, which is counterproductive (too much optimism leads you waste effort on solutions that will never work), but outlines a core part of the problem well

“Feedback loops require real feedback. AI drives it underground.”

https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/feedback-loops-require-real-feedback-ai-drives-it-underground

> The methods we take for granted have load-bearing requirements that have already gone extinct in many organizations.

I genuinely try these tools, I use them with all the recommended usage patterns, I try to do all the magic context management tricks, they sometimes hit the slot machine jackpot and get something right, but the rest of the time they just make doing what I know should be done 10x as expensive and confusing.

There is a new brand of post in the anthropic subreddit, people being amazed at how good the advice fable gave them. The reason they cite is that fable pushed back on them heavily and arrived at some Socratic solution. But if you ask them "OK so was the advice actually good" (e.g. did investing advice make you money, did relationship advice save your relationship, etc.) The answer is crickets. The new pattern for convincing people of model efficacy seems to just be negging them, and it also seems to be an effective enough product change to sell through the IPO

Dear fedizens

I'm getting into secure resilient decentralised mesh p2p/p4p communication networks.
(Wow, that's a mouthful)

Could y'all give me some advice about relevant tech and hardware?

My primary use case is getting a few thousand people securely connected (messaging, preferably some web services as well) in a large area (hundreds of km²) with rugged terrain.
Eventually the use case will become fairly similar to "neighbourhood-first software", with 100k people across a few thousand km²: https://tv.lumbung.space/w/nzuB248U2LQA1LCn7vYmER

I've watched and read some stuff about #meshtastic, #meshcore and #reticulum, like
this blog post https://www.jonaharagon.com/posts/im-getting-into-mesh-networks-meshtastic-meshcore-and-reticulum
this glorious video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_F4rEaRduk
and #p4panda in this blog post https://lores.tech/blog/example-chat-app/

I'm leaning in favour of reticulum with p4panda on top, but can be convinced otherwise.

What sorta hardware is suitable?
Is #microreticulum functional?
Do you know of any decent guides?

Boosts welcome, cheers!

#fedihelp #fediask #mesh #networking #p2p #p4p #anarchism #digitalAutonomy #localResilienceTech #decentralization #decentralisation #neighbourhoodFirstSoftware

Huh. Turns out that one of the best things about solar farms is... bees! Fascinating. https://www.ecoportal.net/en/solar-farm-built-electricity-beneath/23775/

https://kolektiva.media/w/1SmNbTkJ3SMTK4J4p339TU

On This Day in Anarchist History, we remember The Vinegar Revolt, when a transit hike in São Paulo, sparked a nation-wide uprising in so-called Brazil.

A few years ago, lawmakers insisted that age-gating laws were intended only to keep young people from accessing porn. Now, they’re threatening to ban youth from all social media. This dramatic shift of the Overton window towards mass censorship should concern all of us. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/how-and-why-fight-back-against-social-media-bans

Screw, screw worms, these are the real threats. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/6/12/800053761/cartoon/americas-pest-threats/

We made website-making harder, to show that we can do a thing that's very hard and that normal people can't do.

Elitism. But, like, very very petty elitism.

Making a website should be the easiest fucking thing in the world by now. There should be a program that you can use to spit out a website as easy as Word spits out words on paper, and we - us fucking foss nerds or whoever - should've made it.

It probably would've made shit HTML code soup but so long as it worked, it wouldn't matter, nobody would care, just like nobody cared that Frontpage put out shit HTML code soup.

Well, nobody cared except the likes of us, and look where that got us.