Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Congress is long overdue to enact a strong comprehensive consumer data privacy law. But the SECURE Data Act is not it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/secure-data-act-not-serious-piece-privacy-legislation

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Our @fediforum@mastodon.social demo is up! 🔥

We showed off Bonfire Mosaic and our ongoing work on federated groups and new publisher tools we’ve been co-designing with jacobin.de, including federated discussion threads that can be embedded on their existing website.

Built on our modular framework for community-governed digital spaces.

Watch 👉 spectra.video/w/hV9wzGzsXvNj...

When all of this is over, I want all the companies that allowed (or, worse yet, pushed) slop liquidated, and all their property given to the people, not the state, the people! We can do this! We can fucking do this!

Do not let them continue operating like Siemens, Dr. Oetker, Bayer... were allowed to continue operating! Liquidate them!

#AI #noAI #LLM #LLMs #technofascism #bigtech

@drmorrisj @hannorein @daisy in my experience in teaching in higher education, it makes a big difference how easy cheating is. LLMs made cheating easy enough that it went from maybe 20% of participants in a first semester lecture to something like 50%. Those additional 30% of students would have learned something before, but are near guaranteed not to learn anything now.

Genuinely one of the worst things for me about the vibe coding apocalypse is that it is steadily eroding my patience in code review.

It used to be that if you identified issues with someone’s code, you could explain why, and help your coworker learn and grow as a professional. And sometimes they’d respond by explaining why they did it that way, and then you get to learn and grow as well.

Now a lot of the time when I do code review, I feel like I’m not actually investing my time in learning, just giving them something to copy paste into an AI chatbot without engaging with either the code or the feedback.

"India orders infosec red alert in case Mythos sparks crime spree"

One thing I find annoying by this hype is the presumption that the current state is that IT infrastructure is generally secure, which is just not true

Most companies/governments don't want to spend money on it, and often very little consequences for failing

Its mostly just a way to grift money by gifting these contracts thru nepotism to complete rudimentary checklists and don't have any consequences for failure either

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116528112554618172

VACCINATE YOUR KIDS! FFS

Can you tell the time on an analogue clock?

Boost for my sanity

Opus 4.7 fails to produce a usable anagram about 20% of the time it seems. Yeah; this will produce safe production-ready code. Ship it!

Investment in low-carbon tech to diversify, global study finds - https://www.pinsentmasons.com/Out-Law/News/Low-carbon-investment-diversify

How rooftop solar and home batteries became “kryptonite” to big coal and the fossil fuel industry https://reneweconomy.com.au/how-rooftop-solar-and-home-batteries-became-kryptonite-to-big-coal-and-the-fossil-fuel-industry/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-rooftop-solar-and-home-batteries-became-kryptonite-to-big-coal-and-the-fossil-fuel-industry

Hello, people who do #SysAdmin 👋🏼
I want to get better at this, and more confident at hosting my own services on my own servers (homelab or VPS). Can you point me to any good resources to learn? I feel like I have a decent handle on the basics, but don't know what I don't know.

Here's where I'm currently at:
I self-host (via Docker on Linux) Nextcloud, Immich, Vaultwarden, Home Assistant, Anubis, Forgejo, Readeck, a couple containers for personal “APIs”, and a few static sites. (mostly on the same server)

I can configure UFW, set SSH to be no password/key only, have Fail2Ban kicking IPs off, and have BorgBackup doing offsite rolling backups. Uptime Kuma monitors the high level services, but I don't have other monitoring.

What don't I know here, or should I dig into more than the basics?

Feel free to boost, my circles may not reach far enough.

#Linux #InfoSec

It has been an honor and delight getting to know @Tzipporah and @Yehuda over the past few months.

If you haven’t met them, they’re the grandfather & grandkid duo that co-admin #TurtleIsland, a server focused on building community with Native/Indigenous people, other BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) people, and allies. To me, their story perfectly encapsulates the best thing about the fediverse and Mastodon: People coming together to build a place for themselves.

Read their beautiful story: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/05/community-spotlight-tzipporah-and-yehuda-of-turtle-island-social/

#Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialWeb

Marc Andreessen prompts his chatbot by using the pointy end of his head to push the power button.

Fellow Magic the Gathering artists, workers at Wizards' MTG Arena team need our solidarity and support.

Join me in signing this open letter to Wizards to pressure them into making the right decision and recognize the union voluntarily.

Which side are you on?

https://actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcletter

new blog post from me! https://jacqueline.id.au/agentic-ai/

really happy to have discovered something hiding in plain sight for several years: robyn & rand miller's original Myst pitch document from 1991.

it's a succinct work of art in itself. i'm surprised at how much of the world design was already on paper.

as all of the copies found elsewhere online are heavily compressed webp/jpeg, i've uploaded the robyn's original PNGs to IA here:

https://archive.org/details/myst_proposal

originally from robyn's site:

http://www.robynmiller.net/video-games-films

#digiPres #softwarePreservation #archival #gamedev #myst #cyan

It's less that atom/RSS is "dead", and more that its "done".

The protocol is finished. It works well. It's stable and unremarkable as opposed to trendy.

And to capitalists, that's "dead".

Nothing to hype, no wealth to extract.