Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

hello all,

Are any of you involved in meet.coop or aware about it being down right now? I'm just looking for ideas about if/when/how we'll be able to use it again.

I searched here a little bit but easily could have missed a thread in case I'm asking a question that's been answered.

Thanks!

I have been using an ultrawide monitor for a while - I got seduced into the idea of "hey, this really big monitor can replace your two monitor setup, you'll use less electricity and it'll save space." And I think both those points are true, but I also think I've lost some utility. Two separate monitors are essentially two separate desktop environments joined together, and that has a lot of advantages with the things I do. What do you think? Two monitors functionally better than one ultrawide?

New comics up at In These Times on taking Minnesota and Greenland by force.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/welcome-to-the-new-season-of-keeping-up-with-the-broligarchs

I got all my Nobel Prizes when the previous winner left a little bit of the next one sticking out of the machine and I kept pulling.

Age verification is spreading like cancer.

First they came for adults site and social media; now they are already discussing about putting VPNs and app stores behind #AgeVerfication 🇬🇧🇦🇺

What’s sold as “online safety” means #surveillance via IDs checks or face scans.

Privacy & anonymity protect journalists, whistleblowers & activists.

We must fight against age verification - or the free web dies!

👉 More: https://tuta.com/blog/age-verification-kills-anonymity

There was a small snafu with the Git repository of GTK which required rewriting the history of the main development branch to drop a large file that was committed by mistake; if you have a local clone, you may need to force an update. Nothing else should have changed, and the latest commit is: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/commit/fa4998735c56dfa538cde7211aa2d60e6ef6c8c1

What a life https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/world/africa/renfrew-christie-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ElA.l_uO.quxTSV0lHbGV&smid=url-share

TIL: The earliest use of the word "terrorism" identified by the Oxford English Dictionary is a 1795 reference to tyrannical state behavior, the "reign of terrorism" in France."

The term was coined to describe the actions of the state during the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, where agents of the Committee of Public Safety, referred to as "Terrorists," enforced the government's policies with violence against perceived enemies.

people seem to be mightily riled up by the idea that an awful person received the Nobel Peace Prize, and this confuses me because they gave it to Henry fucking Kissenger. as if that prize had the slightest semblance of meaning remaining.

Update. Two welcome developments on recording #ICE:

1. "Gov. Tim Walz encourages Minnesotans to film ICE agents for future prosecutions."
https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/14/gov-tim-walz-encourages-minnesotans-to-film-ice-agents-for-future-prosecutions/

2. "How One Guy Crowdsourced More Than 500 Dashcams for Minneapolis to Film ICE."
https://archive.is/ZBjKV

#FirstAmendment #LittleBrother #Minnesota #Trump #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics

Just FYI for all of you that used Interrail: looks like they had a breach including customer and reservation info. They also apparently took down the Ticket Inspection API during investigation today which apparently caused some issues in the UK, because UK apps still cannot actually read the barcodes properly...

https://www.interrail.eu/en/about-us/press-room/interrail-news/data-security-incident

#interrail #bahnbubble

RE: https://climatejustice.social/@terminaltilt/115896899179047548

The whole reason the PC revolution was a "revolution" is because everyone was tired of renting processing space on mainframes. And like almost every revolution in human history, the revolution was followed by a bunch of rich people trying to recreate the previous regime. The cloud in practice is not much different from you leasing cycles on someone else's mainframe, but they try real hard to get you to ignore that part.

Senator Susan Collins killed the amendment to protect the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) -- perhaps the world's premier research center for work on #weather, #climate, models, and remote sensing. Remember that.

In Mesa, AZ for CactusCon? 🌵 Come hang out with us at Petal Haus Brewery! More info here: https://www.eff.org/event/eff-speakeasy-mesa-2026

Over the last week or so I've been learning about the gold mining exploration in Sam's Creek, above the Cobb Valley in Golden Bay, and part of the Kahurangi National Park;

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/542511/siren-gold-mining-company-drilling-at-sams-creek-golden-bay

If you've been to any of the music festivals held in the Cobb since The Gathering moved there for their 2000-01 event, you'll know this is a beautiful, wild area. Rich in biodiversity, and far too beautiful to ruin by mining it for short term mineral profits.

#mining #CobbValley #SamsCreek

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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