Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

We've successfully deployed Forgejo v14, the downtime was only 4 minutes faster than we expected.

Yesterday we didn't found the time to deploy, we will start doing another rebase of our patches on top of some last fixes and prepare for a deployment now. We are aiming to deploy at 20:00 CET (19:00 UTC)

RIP Punk Planet magazine. Here's their archive:
https://archive.org/details/punkplanet?lang=en&page=2&sort=date
#punk #zines #1990s #digitalarchive

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🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug
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A BUSY, BUSY ICE ENFORCEMENT OPERATION
with apologies to Richard Scarry
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@pluralistic

Someone I know just said this:

'enshittification on laxatives'

Said in regards to YouTube having ppl pay to fast forward now..

Douglas Adams once said something, answering a question from a fan about whether Arthur Dent was a “hero”, and whether the Hitchhiker stories were “gaily whimsical” or cynical. The whole thing won't fit here (see: https://shreevatsa.net/post/douglas-adams-cultural-divide/) but quoting the main part:

> I suspect there is a cultural divide at work here. In England our heroes tend to be characters who either have, or come to realise that they have, no control over their lives whatsoever – Pilgrim, Gulliver, Hamlet, Paul Pennyfeather (from Decline and Fall), Tony Last (from A Handful of Dust). We celebrate our defeats and our withdrawals – the Battle of Hastings, Dunkirk, almost any given test match. There was a wonderful book published, oh, about twenty years ago I think, by Stephen Pile called the Book of Heroic Failures. It was staggeringly huge bestseller in England and sank with heroic lack of trace in the U.S. Stephen explained this to me by saying that you cannot make jokes about failure in the States. It’s like cancer, it just isn’t funny at any level. In England, though, for some reason it’s the thing we love most. So Arthur may not seem like much of a hero to Americans – he doesn’t have any stock options, he doesn’t have anything to exchange high fives about round the water-cooler. But to the English, he is a hero. Terrible things happen to him, he complains about it a bit quite articulately, so we can really feel it along with him - then calms down and has a cup of tea. My kind of guy!
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> I’ve hit a certain amount of difficulty over the years in explaining this in Hollywood. I’m often asked ‘Yes, but what are his goals?’ to which I can only respond, well, I think he’d just like all this to stop, really. It’s been a hard sell.

#Forgejo 14.0.0 was just released!

Issues search now has inline filters. Web file editor was replaced with CodeMirror. CSRF protection is now stateless. Forgejo actions gained new features and better trust management. Foreign keys are now supported to ensure database consistency.

Check out the blog post at https://forgejo.org/2026-01-release-v14-0/

#forgejorelease

when i was about 15 they called us into the school assembly. “theres this new thing, called cyberbullying. its bad. so if youre thinking about being cyberbullied — don’t!” and then a guy from the National Campaign Against Cyberbullying gave us leaflets titled “don’t be bullied - it’s a crime”. the week after that, someone from the National Campaign Against Poverty gave us these little bracelet things. if we all wore them, it would make poverty history. i think maybe only some of us wore them

"Even as new polling fielded after the fatal Jan. 7 shooting of Renee Good shows that a plurality of voters back ICE’s elimination, top Democrats on Capitol Hill are seeking to restrain the agency under Trump’s leadership — not disband it."

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/01/democrats-react-minnesota-ice-trump-frey-omar-schumer.html

Thank you #FOSDEM Graphics track organizers for accepting my proposal! I'm excited to tell where I (re-)took this #Wayland project I started back in 2018!

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/MVVELP-wayland_input_method_wrap_up/

Curse you FOSDEM organizers for accepting my proposal! Now I have to prepare it :P

If our authorities exist for the protection of the people, then the laws should exist for the protection of the people, not the protection of authorities. If the law exists for the protection of authorities, then the authorities do not exist for the protection of the people.

It is important that the achievements of Schengen, of free movement in Europe without border control are emphasised. German EU law professor Werner Schroeder decided to sue Germany over illegal controls https://euobserver.com/rule-of-law/ar0dff2b9e

I'm helping an elderly person with a patient portal, and wow, there are about 4 different problems ranging from unclear instructions to pages that don't work well when the phone is zoomed in enough for an older person to actually read the text.

Plus, the iPhone keeps popping up unhelpful gunk.

This person isn't particularly afraid of technology either, but they literally can't do it.

I now think every web developer should be forced to walk through their processes with an 85-year-old.

I made a map of all the public transit in Vermont! It's the map I always wish I had when I plan travel there. My goal is that someone sees this map, learns about a bus near them, and then takes the bus because of it.

Hi-res version at https://codeberg.org/skyqrose/vt-transit-map

#Vermont #PublicTransit #TransitMap #Amtrak #Greyhound #Inkscape

Hooray for Santa Cruz #California. More communities can live without #surveillance.

Santa Cruz the First in California to Terminate Its Contract With Flock Safety | KQED
https://www.kqed.org/news/12069705/santa-cruz-the-first-in-california-to-terminate-its-contract-with-flock-safety

Governor Walz addresses the Trump regime's attack on Minnesota. He implores people to show solidarity with their neighbors -- by, among other things, documenting the federal thugs' violent attacks on unarmed people so that, someday, the criminals will face justice.

https://youtu.be/fGTsYXBWQgU?si=SnfGVrNwe9paGv27

Only one week after the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good, The NYT confirming that federal agents have shot an immigrant in the leg at a protest in Minneapolis.

During the George Floyd protests in 2020, Trump asked Secretary of Defence Mark Esper if they could “shoot protesters in the leg”.

He was worried the protests made the country look weak.

He wanted a show of force.

Esper refused.

This time around, no one says “No” to Trump.

It’s costing lives.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/us/minneapolis-federal-agent-shooting-immigration.html

#uspol #ice #abolishice #fascism #minneapolis #minnesota

US Big Tech is conspiring with European (and American) fascists to wreck the EU's ability to even modestly regulate this rogue industry, which has unparalleled -- and growing -- power over people's lives.

Fascism and tech are an unholy, and maybe unstoppable, alliance.

https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1916422/us-tech-giants-allying-with-european-far-right-to-strip-back-eu-rules

In case it somehow wasn't already obvious how completely repellent the administration's legal harassment of Becca Good (Renee Good's widow) is, *six* senior career prosecutors in the local US Attorney's office resigned today because they wanted no part of it.

SIX.