Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

This weekend we are excited to be at the #CablesofResistance conference in Berlin, which brings together various forms of resistance against Big Tech. Read the conference’s manifesto: https://cableresist.de/#manifest and the program: https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/schedule/

We will be participating in the panel “Data Centers Everywhere, Data Justice Nowhere” alongside other activists from across Europe on Saturday, April 11. More info: https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/WMNMGP/

The panels will be livestreamed on the conference website.

A new interview by Freddy Alva on DIY Conspiracy digging into SPAR (Skins & Punks Against Racism) and the late ’80s NYC scene.

Ali Smith, Matt Gard and Brendan SFA share their recollections of pushing back against racism from within.

https://diyconspiracy.net/spar-skins-and-punks-against-racism/

#punk #skinheads #NYC #NYHC #antiracist

📣 IT'S THE TOM THE DANCING BUG JOURNAL OF DEMENTIA AND COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT OF EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS*
*Formerly The Tom the Dancing Bug Review
🥣 Donnie wants his pudding
💻 Amazon' Grace
🐰 The Rabbit Tetraology
🎬 Movie in a Comic!
🤣 Yuks
All this and MORE, for FREE!
https://open.substack.com/pub/tomthedancingbug/p/give-me-my-pudding-you-crazy-bastards

#Forgejo 14.0.4 and 11.0.12 were just released! They are security releases.

We recommend that all installations are upgraded to the latest version as soon as possible.

Check out the release notes and download it at https://forgejo.org/releases/. If you experience any issues with this release, please report to https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues.

#forgejorelease

#Google News Now Prominently Featuring #Polymarket Bets - https://futurism.com/future-society/google-news-polymarket "often appearing as large blocks that contain links to numerous gambling opportunities on the service."

@rhelune @lwriemen @pelle you mean other than incorporating AI and applying downward pressure on wages?

@lwriemen @pelle LLMs can only solve problems that have been solved many times before. The question is, how much of software development is solving new problems at all.

Dad stuck in support nightmare after teen lied about age on Discord
Data dump confirms dad's suspicions that Discord knew teen's age prior to hack.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/dad-stuck-in-support-nightmare-after-teen-lied-about-age-on-discord/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

HEADLINE: "Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation"

ALT HEADLINE: "Once again and as always, unethical Meta uses it's platforms to silence critics and skew public opinion in its favor"

https://www.axios.com/2026/04/09/meta-social-media-addiction-ads

#Melania wants you all to know that she never had anything to do with #Epstein, never been friends with him, never even met the guy. And hasn't even ever met Ghislaine Maxwell.

So please don't boost this photo, as that would make her sad.

#EpsteinFiles #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

#Argentina just ripped up its pioneering #glacier law. What does this mean for millions of people’s drinking water? - https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/apr/10/argentina-just-ripped-up-its-pioneering-glacier-law-what-does-this-mean-for-millions-of-peoples-drinking-water the madman #milei continues to wreck his country

"Everyone is doing it. Projects older than me, and developers who could be seen as role models and important figures in the space are adopting LLMs into their development workflow more readily than anything I'd ever seen. Vim, VLC, gstreamer, Kitty, the Linux Kernel, these are all already actively integrating the lying machine into their workflows.

Am I just being a vegan about it?"

https://racc.at/blog/?id=35

I would argue that we who refuse to use LLMs are more of "AI" antifascists than "AI" vegans. Only one third of voters voted for the nazis. A certain percentage opposed them. But many of those who didn't actively support them turned a blind eye, because they didn't want to make waves, the system benefited them, or at least they had comfortable enough lives under it. It is the same with technofascism*. Until it stops being comfortable/cheap. And then, everyone will always have been against it.

*The percentage might be closer to those of vegans though.

(HT @pelle )

#LLM #LLMs #noAI #AI #vibeCoding

New Book (following on from the podcast and the TV series) - Stuff the British Stole by Marc Fennell https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/1761354671/
'In the days of the British Empire, things were taken that probably shouldn't have been. So how come they're still in museums, galleries and some much stranger places?'
#culture #heritage #IndigenousIP

#OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for #AI-Enabled Mass Deaths or Financial Disasters - https://www.wired.com/story/openai-backs-bill-exempt-ai-firms-model-harm-lawsuits/ they wouldn't do this if they weren't worried it will happen...

@hailey

It would be interesting to see if Coverity found it (and even more interesting to see if Coverity reports were part of the training set).

FreeBSD was given a free Coverity subscription but it generated enormous numbers of reports. I went through the ones for bits of code I’d touched and they were almost all issues causes by not understanding code across complex control flow (particularly things invoked via function pointer). I think one was a real bug, out of dozens I looked at.

Paying someone $20k to go through and triage as many Coverity reports as they could in however long $20K buys of a competent person’s time would almost certainly have found and fixed more bugs.

Got my performance review today.
Positive feedback: literally every member of my team says I'm the best manager they have ever had. I solved multiple long-standing problems the team has been dealing with for years. Team members feel safe to share their struggles, everyone feels empowered, everyone receives valuable feedback.
Negative feedback: I am not enthusiastic enough about AI.
Overall ranking: 3/5.

Anyone hiring for a fully remote team lead?

#GenAI #LLM #GetFediHired #FediHire

The people who don’t view housing as a human right are those who believe they will always have housing.

They can’t fathom becoming disabled, losing their savings or their support network.

They can’t comprehend having everything ripped away from them.

They think they’re the exception.

They’re not.

People don’t plan for homelessness or disability.

It just takes one accident, illness or stroke of bad luck.

We all need and deserve a safety net.

#disability #ableism #poverty #eugenics #chronicillness

The use of “hallucinate” is a stroke of true evil genius in the AI world.

In ANY other context we’d just call them errors & the fail rate would be crystal clear.

Instead, “hallucinate” implies genuine sentience & the *absence* of real error.

Aw, this software isn’t shit! Boo’s just dreaming!

Okay, jokes are allowed but they have to be this good.

#Trump #Iran

“why won’t the AI haters admit claude mythos is good?” when it turns out the exploits it found are utterly overblown (ie the firefox exploit that only works on a custom build with the sandbox disabled amongst many other non-exploitable bugs), were found at extreme expense, and required a ton of human staff to verify (just like with existing non-LLM techniques), why won’t you admit this is a grift? why won’t you admit you’ve been falling for the same grift since 2019?