Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

We are able to follow up last year's success of financing important audio improvements in postmarketOS and the wider Linux Mobile ecosystem with another project this year, this time tackling q6voice(d).

Thanks to everybody who has been donating to postmarketOS, you made this possible!

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2026/05/08/q6voice-project/

#linuxmobile #postmarketos #linux

This is the worst possible time for presidential records to be hidden from the public.

Use our action center to tell Congress: Presidential records are vital parts of the American story, and the Justice Department’s efforts to say otherwise are wrong.

https://freedom.press/action/keep-presidential-records-public/

Let's welcome Marius Mason home!

Real or AI? We want to make sure you always know the answer.

New rules will make it mandatory for AI-generated content to be clearly labelled.

You have the right to know if you're chatting with a bot or looking at a deep fake.

Have your say 👇

https://link.europa.eu/hBcvvQ

I am worried that the Democrat Party leadership still doesn't understand that the reason they keep getting trounced is because nobody trusts them to improve material conditions of working people, and that they need to move farther to the left rather than placating the right.

Now that Trump has demonstrated that everything can be quickly and easily broken, I hope I'm not the only person wondering how we can leverage this new information to build a better world for everybody rather than simply rolling back to the prior version.

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ASLR improves security by randomizing your age, sex, and location

AI slop is killing online communities

Most of the communities I'm in are doing just fine, with healthy discussions, much cheer and joy (and an occassional spiral into doom and gloom, as is the nature of modern humanity). There's no AI slop in there, and it ain't killing them in any shape or form.

The trick? These communities banned AI. Not just AI slop, everything LLMs and what is today known as "AI". They took a hard stance, and it paid off.

Now, the author of this article sees their communities struggle - because like the author, those communities did not take a hard stand. On the contrary! They embraced "AI"! And with that embrace comes the slop.

Want to keep AI slop out of your communities? Enact a hard anti-LLM policy for code and for everything else too, and enforce it. It's that simple.

#algernonReviewsHackerNews

Do you remember the surprise announcement of a new social network in Davos this past January? Something that promised to be the "first" European social network?

Its name is #WSocial and it's a fork of #Bluesky. Its founders have ties with European politicians - but there is no official involvement by the EU.

You wouldn't know any of this from media reports because they all rehashed their talking points. So I wrote a post about it, dispelling some myths:

https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-uncovered-the-reality-behind-the-hype/

#OpenWashing

@freecad Needed to drill a hole through a house wall for an EV charger cable... so used #FreeCAD to get the angle spot on!

Also designed a 17deg angled cover, as the hole isn't perpendicular.

#freecadfriday
Made with #gradia #FOSS

Happy Victory day!

Remember, WW2 wasn't won by talking nicely to nazis!

#fascism #nazism #WW2

this is why we're seeing so much performative slop from those working at big tech

if you ain't in, you're out

https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-for-the-future/

Instead of "don't ask, don't tell" the PR templates should contain "I swear I didn't use any LLM or other so called genAI for this PR, on my honor" and see who removes it!

#AI #noAI #LLM #LLMs #rust #rustlang

RE: https://zirk.us/@ShaulaEvans/116536950302945076

Related question: Can anyone recommend a good alternative to Zoom for hosting webinars A) that doesn't have AI or data harvesting issues (are there any?) and B) that is freely available and easy to use for non-technical people?

#AskFedi #Zoom #GoogleMeet #Webinars

On May 4th 1945, the BBC broadcast news of the German surrender in Denmark. Danes tore down their Nazi-imposed curfew blackout blinds and lit candles in their windows. Every May 4th since, people mark the liberation by putting a candle in their window at dusk. Every year, someone says: that tradition is dying out. Only old people do it now. Every year, the candles in windows and on balconies in our mixed-use, mixed-generation, mixed-age neighbourhood tell a different story.

ICE protesters sue to stop DHS from seizing DNA samples
Lawsuit accuses DHS of plugging DNA database into ICE surveillance machine.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/ice-protesters-sue-to-stop-dhs-from-seizing-dna-samples/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

It’s fun to make fun of Spirit Airlines closing, but thousands of flight attendants are out of work without severance.

Here is their fundraiser, I encourage contributions for mutual aid: https://unionly.io/o/afadrf/relieffund?link_id=13

Brazil's government-run Pix payment system is trouncing Visa and Mastercard by offering instant payments that are mostly free. But Visa and Mastercard have the ear of Donald Trump ...

https://www.elciudadano.com/en/brazils-pix-payment-system-faces-pressure-from-visa-and-mastercard/04/04/

In essence, the case being made by Visa and Mastercard is that socialism should be illegal.

'In September 2025, the Trump administration openly supported Visa and Mastercard, with the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) launching a formal investigation into Pix, claiming it creates an “unfair competitive disadvantage” for U.S. firms in the sector. A White House report from April 2026 once again highlighted Pix as a “detrimental system for global credit card companies”.'