Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Due to a typo, evangelicals have been more concerned with stopping an Auntie Christ this whole time.

Happy birthday to Ben Fletcher, former head of Philadelphia Local 8 and one of the greatest heroes of the American working class.
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Good morning hackers, good day pirates.

My week starts with a request: "I need a server to deploy to production, but the devs have no idea how to do it. They don't know how to use the terminal, they don’t know how to handle certificates, nothing. They need to be able to click a few buttons and deploy directly to production. They're Vibe Coding experts."

Welcome to 2026.

#SysAdmin #IT

Impeachment and the 25th amendment are off the table, but Congress has other tools at their disposal. https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2026/04/13

"The problem is that #LLMs inherently lack the virtue of laziness." - https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/13/bryan-cantrill/ #ai #economics

totally serious notes on Skill Issues:
https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-04-13T05:35Z/

anyway, happy Monday!

@miss_rodent in general, a lot of what officials do is victim-blaming. they constantly substitute "how should minors be allowed to behave" for the real question, "what do minors need to be protected from", because once it's regulating the kids' behavior then it's much easier, the kids are much more vulnerable, much easier to restrict. and once you start asking what minors need to be protected from it turns out that it's the same predatory shit we ALL need protection from

2. This danger / toxicity is not a necessary, intrinsic property of social media; it happened by •design•. Social interaction doesn’t suddenly become a new kind of psychologically toxic just because it happens on a screen. That happens when huge amounts of investment money pour into exploiting the human vulnerability of humans, weaponing our own psychology to turn our social needs into a money pump, sucking us dry for profit. It’s a business model in the same category as casinos and diet pills. “Screen time” is a misleading concept. Let’s talk about “billionaires manipulate your brain” time.

@cykonot We don't use infixes much? Challenge accepted: my favorite is -fucking-

I have been using email for 40 years. It used to work.

As an (independent) academic researcher, I need to contact new people, primarily in universities, to ask questions.

I refuse to use Google, Microsoft or the other American IT giants.

But they are increasingly preventing refuseniks from sending email at all.

I know what RFC, DNS, MX, SPF and DMARC mean. My email goes through small British companies with intelligent, friendly and helpful staff.

mxtoolbox.com says that I must have DMARC to send email to M$. So I set it up. I now get a dozen copies of the same report from G or M$ for each email that I send out.

They show that my email gets to G and M$ sites, but then it is marked as spam.

The stupid senior management of numerous universities has surrendered their staff email to M$.

Web searches and AIs preach about spam. I don't send spam - I want to contact my colleagues.

Rumour has it that previously unknown senders are treated with suspicion and their emails are sent to spam. In other words, it is impossible to **initiate** communication with someone.

Let's be blunt about this. They are a mafia that is enforcing an **oligopoly**. It's got nothing to do with reducing spam --- I have no doubt that they let through emails from "trusted partners", ie companies that bribe them enough to send their spam.

The result of this is that it will only be possible to send emails by paying M$ to do it, and then it will only be allowed to express "approved" opinions.

What can we do about this?

At the very least, those of you with senior positions in universities can tell your management to revert to competent standards-based email systems hosted on Linux systems.

Yeah, Orbán lost. Woohoo and all that, but let's not pretend for more than 3,2 seconds Magyar is much better; he was a Fidesz (far-right) fuckwit for quite some time.

Magyar (Tizsa 60%) is a ring-winger, Orbán (Fidesz 35%) far-right, and the Our Homeland party is extreme-right (5%). There are no viable left parties; not even Liberals in the strictest sense.

Well done, Hungary. Orbán is out. You now have to work to be rid of those constitutional changes, the local feifdoms run by party ideologues, and regain the trust of your young, your women, your queers, your neighbours, and your once-friends.

#Hungary #Magyar #Magyarország #FarRight #Elections #EUpol

@flancian Opt out? I think it's clear that people here strongly support the idea that opt out is not a legitimate basis for introducing this kind of tool.

@mkwadee

Hopefully Europe has seen the shit show in the US and realised far-right governments normally go very bad for people.

#Hungary #election: #ViktorOrbán #Concedes with opposition on course for #landslide election win - follow live - BBC News

First bit of good news in a while. It’s very early but perhaps the #FarRight hold on #Europe may be receding but we’ll have to wait and see. Oh, and thank you #JDVance, (sarc.) your help was very useful.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2d8zw2d3rkt

#Europe #EU

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/116089628488517165

🔮🧙🏿‍♂️Blackstradamus remains undefeated!

Y'all don't like what I say. I get it. I don't like what I say either.

I don't say it because I want it to be true. I say it because it is true.

51% of US white folk see the ICE raids and the detention centers and Alex Pretti and Renee Good, and say good job!

Stop lying to yourselves and saying things like, "They didn't know that Trump would do this!🤡"

Or "They don't know what's happening!🤡"

Or "They're only normies! They are like newborn babes, without knowledge of what is happening in their names!🤡"

None of that is true.

They know. They approve.

This is somewhat of an "experiment" to see if we can use the official Mastodon account to motivate others to contribute (in a productive manner :D).

If you're looking for help / need to coordinate or would otherwise take a look at what other types of projects has to offer, here's a link: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Contributing/wiki/Projects#codeberg-projects

(We're pretty busy folk; although we try to be responsive, we may still miss your message.) ~n