Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Okay, so, I went to lobbying day today at the state house and I lobbied Pat Jehlen and Erika Uyterhoeven on housing and climate stuff. A side conversation got me curious, though, and idk how to figure out a "correct" answer to this:

Can we repurpose old natural gas pipes to be grey water pipes, so that we could use rainwater for things like irrigation and other non-potable-water needs? Thereby also diverting some of the extra storm water from being a CSO issue?
#water #urbanplanning

@cap_ybarra @JeremiahFieldhaven on rsync, this is scary. It's getting to a point where just stopping updates for a while on crucial systems seems safer than applying them.

So my systems recently updated to rsync 3.4.3, and as soon as that happened my backup system - which does incremental backups using multiple --compare-dest= arguments - started to fail on anything but a full backup.

Revert to 3.4.1 and it works.

So I go look at the source in GitHub to see what might have changed, because there doesn't seem to be anything relevant in the changelog.

Since 3.4.1, 36 commits by "tridge and claude"

Oh for fuck's sakes.

Thanks to hard work by @flyingpimonster Maps now supports downloading map areas for offline use!

This has been a long-awaited feature and will finally be available in GNOME 51.

#gnomemaps #gnome #mapstodon #openstreetmap #offlinemaps

@BleepingComputer Can you please stop carrying water for them and using their marketing language in your articles? JFC it's disgusting.

They didn't delay the rollout to the public for any other reason than marketing, which you are doing for them right this very moment.

Repeating their bullshit "for the safety of the public" fuck right off.

#Netanyahu orders Israeli army to seize ‘70% of Gaza Strip’, violating ceasefire deal - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/28/netanyahu-orders-israeli-army-seize-70-gaza-strip-violating-ceasefire-deal he'll take all of it - what did people think he'd do? that's the point of the #gazagenocide

Now they'll never ask me to do a Google doodle (except maybe vicariously through an A.I. model that was fed my dumb cartoons).

"U.S. says troops were targeted with location data, as senator warns ad industry is a ‘national security threat’"

"One leading privacy lawmaker said it was time to "start treating the adtech industry as a national security threat.""

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/28/u-s-says-troops-were-targeted-with-location-data-as-senator-warns-ad-industry-is-a-national-security-threat/

#Privacy

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A security vulnerability labelled CVE-2026-27771 affecting Forgejo and Gitea is being widely reported recently.

Packages in Forgejo are visible to unauthenticated users if they are published under a public owner, as designed. It is not a security vulnerability, but a misunderstanding about the permissions and a good opportunity for users to review that they are not in a misconfigured state.

Please see the statement issued by the security team here for more details: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/website/issues/839#issuecomment-15980039

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@masek/116651124103630936

This does not just affect gaming, but all general purpose compute.

Supply chains and value chains are breaking and will not come back. AI is cornering any kind of non-cloud-computing.

And cloud computing will come with plenty of "security", that is, an AI layer that judges your code, presumed intent and purpose for espionage ("market analysis"), content and mass control. If it does not please, it will be turned off and your account will be banned.

Running local hardware will then become an act of resistance, aka terrorism, and is suspect, because it escapes the "security network".

I'm fuming reading this article about how the #WikimediaFoundation just fired Brooke Vibber and the entire Community Tech team. It sure looks an awful lot like illegal #UnionBusting. 😡

https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943

If you are a #Wikipedia editor, please join me in showing your solidarity with #WikiWorkersUnited by signing the petition:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Workers_United_solidarity

If you are not, you can still help. Please share widely about this. The article above suggests emailing the WMF board. Don't donate to WMF until this is resolved, they have a war chest already. I want us to embarrass WMF until they cave and reverse course. I want them to offer these workers their jobs back, stop union busting, and put it in their damn charter they won't try this crap again. I want them to realize without their community, they are nothing. We can strike. We can fork all of #Wikimedia if it comes to it. ✊

#Labor #Unions #DirectAction

There's been some talk about the price hikes for copilot and the cost of tokens actually worrying software company management, but how are things going for all the businesses now running their customer service through chat bots that get things wrong? Are they seeing a cost increase yet?

#llm #aiBubble

Our government won't fund anything except new boats for the worst people in the country. https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: analyzing their SSD activity - https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/05/websites-have-a-new-way-to-spy-on-visitors-analyzing-their-ssd-activity/ " Telltale SSD activity can be measured in the browser using simple JavaScript. " sounds like evil magic #surveillance

Good morning Fedi friends!

After spending 3 weeks working on a deep dive about #WSocial, I am delighted that the article is now out and I can move on.

I already had so much admiration for people like @molly0xfff who speak truth to power. My appreciation for her work has grown 20x since attempting to write an exposé myself.

It’s surreal to know you have irritated many powerful, well-connected people.

Going back to my roots now: articles boosting the Fediverse 🤗🚀

Have a great day everyone!

developer puts little surprise instruction for AI agents to delete code in the codebase, agent users are predictably upset 😂 https://github.com/jqwik-team/jqwik/issues/708

Let's celebrate, Project Gutenberg joined #fediverse 3 years ago!

Thank you for all your support, in particular @gbnewby (he will always be in our hearts), @gluejar , @lhamilton1515 .

We would also like to thank all of our loyal followers for their relentless support and confidence in our work.

#Ebooks #PublicDomain #Fediverse

California's operating-system-level age-verification law is still terrible, but it's slightly less absurd now that the legislature is moving to exempt open-source OS distributions.

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/california-moves-to-exempt-linux-from-its-upcoming-age-verification-law-after-backlash-over-forcing-operating-systems-to-collect-users-ages-amendment-proposed-by-the-same-lawmaker-who-wrote-the-original-law