Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

California may let Linux bypass age check - https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/05/26/california-may-let-linux-bypass-age-check/5246575 "Exemption in amendment offers relief to open source software makers"

Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for #Wikipedia - https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943 this is crazy

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A deep dive into #WSocial with some fascinating findings: candid statements about their motives, a Greta Thunberg connection, potential AI plans (!!!)

Why write about it again? I still had so many questions after publishing my first article.

I spent 3 weeks watching every interview I could find and connecting the dots.

I hope you'll enjoy this piece:

🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-untold-story-about-w-social-unconventional-beginnings-strategic-pitches-conflicting-signals/

#blog #longread #privacy #DataMining #Europe

Last year, I shared an article from a friend about "Artificial Innovation", where they wrote about an extremely embarrassing AI startup pitch competition, where most of the products were transparently fake to the professional eye: https://4u.lol/writing/artificial-innovation

They're running the same event this year, and it's being livestreamed in 15 minutes, and if it's like last year you can blast panelists with awkward questions if you catch them lying:

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/2026-ai-for-good-innovation-factory-australia-tickets-1988481328181

Godspeed, friends.

"Dear passengers, the German border police are now starting passport checks"

I'm being prevented, from sleeping in a night train within the fucking Schengen Zone, at a border which had the sloppiest of border checks even back in the 198P's before Austria even joined the EC.

What the fuck is this security theater supposed to achieve? Do they notice just how hard they are giving the finger to one of the EU's biggest achievements?

if you had the power to ban children under 16 from one thing and one thing only what are you going for?

#UKPol #Poll #BoostsWelcome

You might have noticed that SSH connections are no longer being served at the moment.

As part of our investigation into the most recent slowness of Codeberg (which usually results in 504s being given), we have temporarily stopped those. This confirms a suspicion of ours that SSH connections have become, for whatever reason, heavy on the CPU.

We will resume serving SSH connections with a smaller queue to preserve the availability of Codeberg.

Identifying People Using Wi-Fi Routers - https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/05/identifying-people-using-wi-fi-routers.html "Not identifying people based on their use of Wi-Fi routers, but identifying people using Wi-Fi signals." #privacy #surveillance

The Netherlands blocks the takeover of key IT infrastructure by a US company.

https://www.politico.eu/article/netherlands-blocks-us-takeover-vital-digital-supplier/

'In a letter to the national parliament published on Tuesday, State Secretary for Digital Economy Willemijn Aerdts said the national authority charged with screening investments had advised the government to block the acquisition. The purchase was seen as posing "a possible risk to the public interest."

The government on Monday decided to adopt the advice and block the acquisition, Aerdts said.'

Trying to force the entire federal government to adopt the Trump organization’s aggressive use of NDAs won’t make anybody safer and won’t improve agency processes.

Its sole intent would be to protect the administration from the leak of embarrassing, politically damaging, or unlawful information.

https://freedom.press/the-classifieds/trumps-government-wide-nda-seeks-to-silence-whistleblowers/

The U.S. is striking Iran again, even as officials call it “self-defense.”

Phyllis Bennis writes that what’s at issue here is not just escalation, but the collapse of any serious commitment to the rule of law.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/iran-war-united-states-israel-trump-illegal

South-Western France went over 40 degrees ....

... in May

A woman in Toulouse has died from heatstroke

.... in May

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Staggering dip in #US #tourism is a troubling sign for the future - https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/25/travel/analysis-tourism-fewer-international-visitors-2025-vis oh dear, how sad etc etc

Everyone was wondering what Stephen Colbert would do after his Late Show on CBS ended.
I wrote on Boing Boing about the answer:
He hosted a local cable access TV show in Monroe, Michigan, "Only in Monroe."
https://boingboing.net/2026/05/25/stephen-colbert-follows-up-late-show-finale-by-hosting-michigan-public-access-program.html

California and Colorado legislated that Linux distributions, being free and open-source, are exempt from the age verification in operating systems, unless they are proprietary like SteamOS (and Windows).

Too bad the systemd developers already complied with fascism in advance before the bills were even finalized.

Will Lennart Poettering and his followers now please remove the birthDate field from systemd?

P.S.: If you reply with any variation of "You need to calm down," I will block you.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/colorado-and-california-age-verification-bills-exempt-open-source-operating-systems/

#fascism #surveillance #Linux #systemd

Good friends and neighbors stand up for working people, their organizations, and their interests.

"Every city in the Midwest has a half-finished canal in it."

I love canals, so this makes me want to do a tour of midwest US cities and its half-finished canals - and a boat tour of its *finished* canals. But I'm in Scotland so... let me do it online.

First up: Indianapolis!

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You know your product is bad if you need to send lobbyists to the #Pope.

#AI #Vatican #BigTech #lobbying

A virtual museum runs 570 operating systems in your browser - https://boingboing.net/2026/05/20/a-virtual-museum-runs-570-operating-systems-in-your-browser.html