Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Penny Wong says she believes Israeli soldiers sexually assaulted and abused Australian women after #Gaza flotilla - https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/04/gaza-flotilla-australian-women-assaulted-abused-israeli-detention-penny-wong-ntwnfb "Wong said the treatment of the Australian women was “unacceptable”, and the allegations they had subsequently made were “distressing”."

RE: https://oldbytes.space/@feoh/116687129039392818

Advice I was given in my youth:

Print your slide on a full piece of paper. Put the paper on the ground. Stand on a chair.

If you can’t easily read your slide, neither can the person at the back of the room.

It flummoxes me that 30 years into using computers to show slides, tiny fonts in slide is *still* widespread practice.

To our dismay, the artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away.

As she wrote, ordinary Americans and Iranians have more in common with each other than we do with either of our governments, which have far too much in common with each other.

We honor her memory and oppose the war.

#ElonMusk did it on a whim!
He didn't take the time to look at the evidence, the consequences, he just said fuck it and did it.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-elon-musk-killed-hundreds-of-thousands-of-people

UN warns AI could use more water than all the people on Earth need to drink
https://www.the-independent.com/tech/ai-water-land-un-report-b2989429.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Tech News @tech-news-Independent

within the past 24 hours I’ve watched two people claim there was nuance to the rsync story that made tridge right, and after not too much discussion they admitted they didn’t know rsync’s slop code only got noticed after a severe breakage occurred, or that people have evaluated the slop commits and found them to be of extraordinarily poor quality (including rendering rsync’s test suite ineffective by translating it from bash into broken python). the story they heard is that someone saw Claude in the commit log and freaked out and directed harassment towards tridge. they seemed to be under the false impression that rsync still worked fine.

how is it that the members of the supposed angry mob are doing deeper analysis than the people claiming nuance?

Rsync opens the slopgates, regressions and bugs ensue

Andrew Tridgell, developer of rsync, has published a blog post addressing the massive surge in "AI" code submissions and the string of regressions supposedly caused by them. He explains rsync was flooded with "AI"-generated security reports, and he couldn't handle the volumes anymore.

As this flood started to get mo

https://www.osnews.com/story/145198/rsync-opens-the-slopgates-regressions-and-bugs-ensue/

#GeneralDevelopment

@ludicity it was interesting to see this in my timeline along with https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/academics/failing-grades-soar-as-professors-see-greater-ai-usage-dwindling-math-skills-in-uc-berkeley/article_16fad0bf-02cb-4b8c-8d88-888ffd9f8608.html .

The kids are slowly getting stupid, and they aren't even aware of it. How many alleged "grown-ups" had to have failed them to get to this point?

It was extremely obvious from some questions that they're learning absolutely nothing, the faculty have totally phoned it in (they've actually had NO teaching staff for two weeks -- the lecturer quit mid-semester with no replacement), and it's all just a fucking disaster.

On the bright side, I guess my work is safe indefinitely.

Holy moly, one of my cousins (8 weeks into undergraduate computer science) asked me for help on a university assignment. I was surprised because he's very switched on.

It's a group assignment and it was extremely obvious that every other student has logged into a parent's corporate LLM and written all the code via prompt with no understanding.

When I asked how they're getting away with it, he said that the lecturers have just given up on all policing. (University is RMIT in Melbourne.)

Good morning Fedi friends!

I'm excited to travel to Amsterdam later today for #PubConf2026.

I'll be on a panel tomorrow at 2pm alongside @bjoernsta @cubicgarden @michael and Sherif Elsayed-Ali of Eurosky on the topic "Strengthening European Democracy with a ‘Euro Social Stack’"

🔗 : https://conference.publicspaces.net/en/session/strength-through-diversity-1

Hope to see some of you there! ❤️

"The values described in Claude’s constitution sound very nice, but that hardly matters; it’s dishonest to suggest that Claude is capable of moral reasoning, because it’s not."

-Ted Chiang, No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious
https://www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2026/06/no-artificial-intelligence-is-not-conscious/687378/

There’s an awesome queer bookstore in my city that does a ton of events and the like and is overall pretty awesome. But the only social media they are on is Instagram and TikTok, which both require accounts to view. So I decided to send them an email asking if they’d be interested in joining Mastodon, and I was able to pull from folks and resources across the fedi to send to them.

I sent a wonderful article from @_elena that put the benefits of federation into words better than I ever could.

I used @FediGarden’s server list to find a good server to reccomend them (ended up with lgbtqia.space).

And I sent the awesome @firestorm to show another bookstore already on Mastodon!

It was really cool being able to use all of these awesome resources and seeing the community that has been created here and being able to invite a business I care about to join us. This was a fun experience and something that wouldn’t have been possible anywhere else. For all its problems, Mastodon and the fediverse are special, and I hope it stays that way as we keep moving forwards.

US House passes war powers resolution to curb #Trump’s authority in #Iran - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/03/house-passes-war-power-resolution-trump-iran "Stunning rebuke to president as lawmakers vote 215-208 for measure forcing him to seek congressional approval"

Finally got Jackson, MS caught up with the rest of the punk world:

https://jxndiy.fyi/

A few years ago every big tech company besides Apple assumed COVID lockdowns would last forever then overhired assuming infinite demand for online services and has been doing layoffs since 2022.

Now every big tech company besides Apple believes a few .md files and Claude Code means they no longer need workers. Curious to see how this plays out.

Happy Pride Month!

Rainbow Railroad is an organization which helps LGBTQ+ people flee dangerous regimes.

They’ve had a surge in requests from Americans looking to escape Trump.

No one is “safe” under fascism.

The tyrants start with the most marginalized.

They don’t stop there.

The next heat wave they should leave him in the White House without rolling the windows down.

This is not how it works. If judges closed hearings anytime parties to a case wanted them closed, there would be no open hearings.

Requests for secret court proceedings should be met with extreme constitutional scrutiny, not rubber stamps.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/03/luigi-mangione-secret-sealed-hearing