Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I wrote on Boing Boing about the cool new exhibit at NYC's Society of Illustrators on the show poster king, Mike King.
https://boingboing.net/2026/02/16/from-punk-rocker-to-poster-king-mike-kings-5-decade-journey.html

Celebrate Presidents Day with President Deals' Discount Prescriptions! https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2026/02/16

AI productivity gains are being to show up in economic metrics.

According to the Financial Times, US productivity increased of 2.7% for 2025. This is a nearly doubling the 1.4% annual average that characterised the past decade.

TL;DR The job market is shrinking while GDP is going up. The K-shaped economy is accelerating.

https://www.ft.com/content/4b51d0b4-bbfe-4f05-b50a-1d485d419dc5

Hey newbies: (english below)
Ihr wollt allen Bands / Accounts vom @FediPunkGuide in auf eurer Mastodon/Pixelfed/Friendica Instanz folgen und habt keine Ahnung wie?

Dann geht mal auf https://fedi.punk.guide/faq.php , da ist jetzt alles für euch erklärt!

Danke an den @FediPunkGuide dafür <3
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Hey newbies:
Want to follow all bands/accounts from @FediPunkGuide on your Mastodon/Pixelfed/Friendica instance but don't know how?

Then go to https://fedi.punk.guide/faq.php , where everything is explained for you!

Thanks to @FediPunkGuide for that <3

New post:

"A newbie's guide to self-hosting with #YunoHost. Part 4: backups"

🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost-part-4-backups/

Or: this is how newbies do it.

Dear sysadmins, you have all my respect and admiration, truly. One day I will learn how to do incremental backups with Borg, I promise.

#blog #sysadmin #selfhosting

"In a world in which lies replace truth and black becomes white, we need something to hang on to. A line that we do not cross. And that line, if it’s anything, is surely the rape and abuse of children? In Europe, at least, that line is holding. The revelations in these documents have caused political noise and heat and actual consequences."

~ Carole Cadwalladr

#Epstein #Trump #EconomicElites #pedophiles #coverup #media
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https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-us-coup-one-year-on

I started an art project, and here’s a write-up I did on experimentation I did for the project. https://manchicken.com/2026/02/15/welding-rubber-chickens-lessons-learned/

Roblox, Reddit and Discord users must use biometric #ageverification tool backed by Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel

@JamesBaker says:

“People are worried, and angry, about having to hand over biometric scans of their face to overseas companies just to access online platforms. This includes children.

“Users deserve to know who is behind these systems, how their data is being used, and to have a real choice about who verifies their identity online.”

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/roblox-reddit-and-discord-users-compelled-to-use-biometric-id-system-backed-by-palantir-co-founder-peter-thiel/

Western Digital has recently announced that it sold all of the year's hard-drive inventory to AI companies.

In other words, prepare for huge SSD price surges.

https://wccftech.com/western-digital-has-no-more-hdd-capacity-left-out/

The idea that Donald Trump was a temporary anomaly in American politics that will go back to normal when he’s gone is sadly mistaken. He is a symptom, not the cause.

He recognized that 40% of the electorate loves white supremacy and if you throw in homophobia/transphobia and low taxes, you could get up to 50%.

Now the masks are off and they aren’t going back on.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/12/elon-musk-posts-january-white-supremacists

Back in the 90s we had a great term for stuff like “building AI satellite factories on the Moon” and “we’ll just envelop the solar system with a Dyson Sphere”.

It’s pretty technical and I forgive you if you’ve never heard of it, the term is “investment scam”.

New video about. This one's about:

-The 20ish% of US farmers who aren't right-wing

-Why we'll probably stay a minority

-And what our existence can tell us about deep-red politics.

the 20ish% of farmers who aren't right-wing. Why we'll probably stay a minority. And what our existence can tell us about deep-red politics.

Happy #ilovefs #ilovefreesoftwareday!

Switching to #opensource is the best thing you can gift your organization, your colleagues, your users, and us, the citizens.

This is a hard work, but necessary work. You're not just migrating software - you're building democracy and freedom for future generations.

In case you would like to learn more about leading change from closed source to FOSS, I shared my best practices recently with the audience at #fosdem https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/7YMJST-how-to-lead-change-to-open-source/

So many evil aspects of the Trump regime, but normalizing sexual abuse of minors by rich white men has to be near the top.

After action report: Done (for you)
After action report for the client: Almost done.

I want to thank @deviantollam and @tinker for their help, guidance and tips along the way. You made this happen. It is thanks to you that the client is crying in their coffee now.

https://m4iler.cloud/posts/lets-get-physical/

Let's do drugs. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2026/2/13/2368482/-Cartoon-New-from-Trump-RX

Meta adding face recognition technology to its smart glasses would violate the privacy rights of millions of people and cost the company billions of dollars in legal battles. It should abandon its plans. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/seven-billion-reasons-facebook-abandon-its-face-recognition-plans

If your glasses are recording me I feel that gives me the right to punch them off your face.

This story shows that Pete Hegseth is as qualified to be defense secretary as I am to be a neurosurgeon.

“It was the first known domestic use of the weapon by federal officials outside of a controlled environment, according to two people with knowledge of the technology, and it was done without the F.A.A.’s approval, in a possible violation of the law.”

(Gift link)

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/us/politics/el-paso-airspace-closure-faa-pentagon.html?unlocked_article_code=1.MFA.Zuy_.4Ijl9nL_AI1S&smid=nytcore-ios-share

This study is over 6 months old but it still resonates. AI tools can feel more productive but devs tend to ignore the time spent prompting, waiting for results and refining.

Claude Code took 10 minutes to summarize my unread chats and email today. It would have been faster by hand.

https://www.techradar.com/pro/using-ai-might-actually-slow-down-experienced-devs