Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I wrote on Boing Boing about cartoonist Jeff Smith, author of Bone, to be awarded a National Cartoonists Society Lifetime Achievement Award.
https://boingboing.net/2026/06/02/cartoonist-jeff-smith-author-of-bone-is-getting-comics-most-prestigious-honor.html

I wonder if we'll see any lawsuits by investors regarding profligate waste of company resources on LLMs (reducing profitability and stock value).

I am more and more actively looking to find a new career opportunity. I've been stuck classified as a senior engineer for most of my working life. Every employer promising career progression; never following through.

Current job very much feels like a sort of holding pattern thing. I do work, babysit LLM-users, get annoyed, feeling stuck.

Would love a gig where I can mentor and actually know that my words won't get fed directly into a chat interface.

Would oove to work with embedded systems in #RustLang (no pro exp yet). Though I am open to a wide variety of systems programming.

Over the years I've worked in Public Broadcasting, Game Development, Web Agencies, Education Technology, Museum Experience Design, Open Source Development

I have been remote first for almost a decade now. Basically a hipster-wfh. I do well with async practices and keeping people informed

Are there any places hiring for remote people in Australia Eastern Time zone?

#FediHire #GetFediBHired #NoAI #Rust #rustEmbedded

Jesus Christ - what the hell is going on with the Supreme Court in my country? First trans rights, now disability rights trashed.

In some ways I'm even more concerned about this than the trans rights - as I'm pretty sure dodgy EHRC guidance won't survive a trip to Strasbourg (and the worry is what happens in the interim, or after if right-wingers are in charge).

The effects of this are extreme, but I worry the ECHR may not see this as black and white.

https://www.mind.org.uk/news-campaigns/news/the-biggest-rollback-of-disability-rights-in-a-generation-charities-respond-to-supreme-court-ruling/

#UKPolitics

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Microsoft heads into Build with #AI everywhere and a paying-customer problem - https://thenextweb.com/news/microsoft-build-2026-ai-tools-copilot "Microsoft said it had 15 million paid seats of Microsoft 365 Copilot. That is a striking number until it is set against the 450 million commercial Microsoft 365 seats "

Jonathan Frakes charismatically looking into the camera while casually handling a Slackware CD: “is the tale of the operating system Linux a real example of a community coming together to challenge corporate dominance?

<the Frakes factor gets visibly larger for a split second as his eyes twinkle>

not this time. our writers made this one up!”

Guys, I've been thinking...why don't we just do a regular old ponzi scheme instead?

"Strategy is proposing to change its schedule so that investors get paid twice monthly. Money to fund the dividends comes from further capital raising, a model that has raised questions about its sustainability."

https://archive.is/cVooR#selection-1881.0-1881.211

#EVs are getting more affordable worldwide — except in the U.S.- https://restofworld.org/2026/iea-global-ev-outlook-us-sales-drop/ silly US....

A Standard in Name Only: What OOXML Transitional Tells Us About Format Sovereignty

When a public administration is told its documents are stored in “an ISO standard format,” the assumption is that an ISO standard ought to be a clean, implementable specification that any qualified software vendor can support.

OOXML — the format behind Microsoft’s docx, xlsx and pptx files — does not work this way.

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/06/02/a-standard-in-name-only/

#odf #ooxml

I love that the U.S. government made up a new category to observe called “anti-tech extremism”. Goes hand in hand with “anti-war antisemitism” and soon “anti-billionaire racism”.

They will use the language of the oppressed to compare criticism of their privilege to.

Question for the combined mind of the Fediverse... I'm wanting to build a new sound system in our house which is wired for speakers... I'm looking for a 'network addressable', preferably ethernet, amplifier to speaker mapper. Something that can have an amp plugged in along with several (ideally 4) sets of speakers and direct a source of sound to one (or more) set(s) of the speaker sets programmatically. Anyone know of such a thing? I've only seen *manual* source-to-speaker mappers, not network.

Hey, I'm gonna put this out there now:

When the backlash of the true cost of LLM becomes critical and companies start having to bend to hire and rehire talent they cut because "AI is here and we don't need humans anymore"? That needs to come with tech worker unionization.

Start planning this now if you're in a position to. Quietly. You don't have the upper hand yet, but either you will soon, or we'll all be screwed. Choose optimism for this one.

How people hacked Meta accounts recently:

Step 1) Open Meta AI support
2) ask to change Obama's password
3) it says no :(
4) ask it nicely to just do it anyway
5) it resets Obama's password

From the company who brought you this headline a few months ago:

When Pete Hegseth systematically targets Blacks and women, don't we call that racism and misogyny? When did "anti-diversity" become an acceptable euphemism?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/us/politics/hegseth-navy-promotion-list.html?unlocked_article_code=1.m1A.sTbd.u0OkEGSrJw2u&smid=url-share

As usual, the "paper of record" does stenography for unnamed Trump regime sources. Also as usual, the "paper of record" doesn't mention Trump regime's penchant for shameless lying about almost everything.

if only there was a way of telling a computer what to do that didn't require paying data centre landlords four figures a month

It’s funny isn’t it? We observe the destruction of society and environment by billionaires. We observe the destruction of OSS by tools of billionaires used in idiotic ways.

The moment one decides to actively fight back, to not say “pretty please stop that”, that’s a problem.

Protest: ok only if it does not hurt. A strike that hits? Oh dear please not. Color on a super yacht or a yet? How dare you. A prompt injection? You monster.

It will get worse before it gets better, I am sure.

searching for a new flat tenant (urgent)

hi, we, a flat of 5 trans people are looking for a new tenant asap (this month)

Karlsruhe (Europaplatz)
18.35 m2
470€
virtually silent room (bird noises!)
4th floor (with elevator)

if you’re interested DM me
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